papers

2025

1. The or That? Evaluating Language Models’ Sensitivity to Discourse Structure in Anaphora

   Jennifer Hu^*, Ankana Saha^*, and Kathryn Davidson

   In Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Models Workshop at the Conference on Language Modeling, 2025

   Spotlight talk

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   @inproceedings{hu2025orthat,
     author = {{Hu}, Jennifer and {Saha}, Ankana and Davidson, Kathryn},
     title = {The or That? Evaluating Language Models' Sensitivity to Discourse Structure in Anaphora},
     booktitle = {Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Models Workshop at the Conference on Language Modeling},
     year = {2025},
     address = {Montreal, Canada},
     note = {Spotlight talk},
   }

2. Demonstrative descriptions and anti-uniqueness

   Ankana Saha

   In Sinn und Bedeutung, 2025

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   @inproceedings{saha2025demonstrative,
     title = {Demonstrative descriptions and anti-uniqueness},
     author = {Saha, Ankana},
     booktitle = {Sinn und Bedeutung},
     volume = {29},
     pages = {1383--1401},
     year = {2025},
   }

3. Anaphoric demonstratives in Mandarin

   Ankana Saha, Yağmur Sağ, Jian Cui, and Kathryn Davidson

   In Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2025

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   @inproceedings{saha2025anaphoric,
     title = {Anaphoric demonstratives in Mandarin},
     author = {Saha, Ankana and Sa{\u{g}}, Ya{\u{g}}mur and Cui, Jian and Davidson, Kathryn},
     booktitle = {Semantics and Linguistic Theory},
     pages = {213--232},
     year = {2025},
   }

2024

1. Focus on demonstratives: Experiments in English and Turkish

   Ankana Saha, Yağmur Sağ, and Kathryn Davidson

   In Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2024

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   @inproceedings{saha2024focus,
     title = {Focus on demonstratives: Experiments in English and Turkish},
     author = {Saha, Ankana and Sa{\u{g}}, Ya{\u{g}}mur and Davidson, Kathryn},
     booktitle = {Semantics and Linguistic Theory},
     pages = {460--479},
     year = {2024},
   }

2023

1. Reference to kinds: the perspective from Bangla

   Ankana Saha

   In West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 41), 2023

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   @inproceedings{saha2023reference,
     title = {Reference to kinds: the perspective from Bangla},
     author = {Saha, Ankana},
     booktitle = {West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 41)},
     year = {2023},
   }

2021

1. Positively polar plurals: Theory and predictions

   Dorothy Ahn, Ankana Saha, and Uli Sauerland

   In Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2021

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   @inproceedings{ahn2021positively,
     title = {Positively polar plurals: Theory and predictions},
     author = {Ahn, Dorothy and Saha, Ankana and Sauerland, Uli},
     booktitle = {Semantics and Linguistic Theory},
     pages = {450--463},
     year = {2021},
   }