Mandy Simons

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Mandy Simons is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Mandy Simons has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Language and Linguistics, 17 papers in Philosophy and 16 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Mandy Simons's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (20 papers), Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (12 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (9 papers). Mandy Simons is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (20 papers), Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (12 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (9 papers). Mandy Simons collaborates with scholars based in United States and Germany. Mandy Simons's co-authors include Judith Tonhauser, David Beaver, Craige Roberts, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Tessa Warren, Kevin Zollman, Hermann Ney, Sebastián Martín, Caleb Roberts and Chris Dyer and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, The Philosophical Review and The Journal of Philosophy.

In The Last Decade

Mandy Simons

35 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

The CommitmentBank: Investigating projection in naturally... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 25 50 75 100
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The CommitmentBank: Investigating projection in naturally occurring discourse
    2019 113 citations Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Mandy Simons et al. Movebank profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mandy Simons United States 14 719 518 346 331 127 37 1.2k
Hans Kamp Germany 14 838 1.2× 1.0k 2.0× 312 0.9× 478 1.4× 90 0.7× 31 1.6k
Jonathan Ginzburg France 17 881 1.2× 801 1.5× 203 0.6× 434 1.3× 110 0.9× 69 1.4k
Judith Tonhauser United States 14 604 0.8× 373 0.7× 210 0.6× 266 0.8× 87 0.7× 40 893
Louise McNally Spain 19 1.3k 1.8× 739 1.4× 434 1.3× 548 1.7× 140 1.1× 44 1.8k
Ruth Kempson United Kingdom 15 681 0.9× 385 0.7× 117 0.3× 403 1.2× 118 0.9× 69 1000
Rajesh Bhatt United States 16 902 1.3× 636 1.2× 181 0.5× 252 0.8× 88 0.7× 49 1.2k
Chris Barker United States 18 687 1.0× 511 1.0× 296 0.9× 282 0.9× 97 0.8× 42 1.0k
Mats Rooth United States 10 1.2k 1.7× 1.2k 2.4× 218 0.6× 649 2.0× 221 1.7× 33 2.1k
Joost Zwarts Netherlands 15 771 1.1× 372 0.7× 146 0.4× 383 1.2× 102 0.8× 46 1.0k
Michael Franke Germany 16 313 0.4× 401 0.8× 113 0.3× 217 0.7× 132 1.0× 73 872

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mandy Simons

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Simons, Mandy. (2025). Availability without common ground. Linguistics and Philosophy. 48(1). 179–211. 1 indexed citations
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Roberts, Craige & Mandy Simons. (2024). Preconditions and projection: Explaining non-anaphoric presupposition. Linguistics and Philosophy. 47(4). 703–748. 2 indexed citations
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Simons, Mandy & Kevin Zollman. (2019). Natural Conventions and Indirect Speech Acts. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 19(9). 7 indexed citations
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Marneffe, Marie-Catherine de, Mandy Simons, & Judith Tonhauser. (2019). The CommitmentBank: Investigating projection in naturally occurring discourse. Movebank. 23(2). 107–124. 113 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kohlhase, Michael & Mandy Simons. (2018). Interpreting Negatives in Discourse. Research Showcase @ Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon University).
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Simons, Mandy. (2018). On The Felicity Conditions of Disjunctive Sentences. Research Showcase @ Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon University). 1 indexed citations
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Bhatia, Archna, et al.. (2018). A Unified Annotation Scheme for the Semantic/Pragmatic Components of Definiteness. Language Resources and Evaluation. 910–916. 2 indexed citations
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Bhatia, Archna, Chu‐Cheng Lin, Nathan Schneider, et al.. (2018). Automatic Classification of Communicative Functions of Definiteness. Figshare. 1 indexed citations
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Simons, Mandy & Tessa Warren. (2017). A closer look at strengthened readings of scalars. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 71(1). 272–279. 11 indexed citations
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Simons, Mandy, David Beaver, Craige Roberts, & Judith Tonhauser. (2016). The Best Question: Explaining the Projection Behavior of Factives. Discourse Processes. 54(3). 187–206. 45 indexed citations
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Simons, Mandy. (2016). Local pragmatics in a Gricean framework. Inquiry. 60(5). 466–492. 16 indexed citations
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Simons, Mandy, Judith Tonhauser, David Beaver, & Craige Roberts. (2015). What projects and why. Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory. 309–309. 6 indexed citations
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Simons, Mandy. (2015). How Questions and Answers Cohere. 1 indexed citations
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Tonhauser, Judith, David Beaver, Craige Roberts, & Mandy Simons. (2013). Toward a Taxonomy of Projective Content. Language. 89(1). 66–109. 144 indexed citations
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Simons, Mandy, Craige Roberts, Judith Tonhauser, & David Beaver. (2009). Presuppositions, Conventional Implicature, and Beyond: A unified account of projection. 17 indexed citations
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Simons, Mandy. (2006). Presupposition without common ground. 13 indexed citations
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Simons, Mandy. (2006). Observations on embedding verbs, evidentiality, and presupposition. Lingua. 117(6). 1034–1056. 200 indexed citations
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Simons, Mandy. (2001). On the Conversational Basis of Some Presuppositions. Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory. 11. 431–431. 64 indexed citations
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Simons, Mandy. (1996). Disjunction and Anaphora. Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory. 6. 245–245. 7 indexed citations
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Simons, Mandy. (1996). Pronouns and Definite Descriptions: A Critique of Wilson. The Journal of Philosophy. 93(8). 408–420. 1 indexed citations

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