Journal Articles
• (2022). Jeremy Kuhn, David Nicolas & Brian Buccola. Deriving dimensions of comparison. Snippets 43, 1-3. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2021). Brian Buccola, Jeremy Kuhn & David Nicolas. Groups versus covers revisited: structured pluralities and symmetric readings. Natural Language Semantics 29(4), 509–525. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2021). Salvatore Florio & David Nicolas. Plurals and mereology. Journal of Philosophical Logic 50(3), 415–445. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2021). Mixtures and mass terms. Dialectica 75(1), 1–14. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2017). Matière et mélanges. Le Français Moderne 2, 246-260. [Journal][BibTeX]
• (2016). Interprétons-nous de la même manière les expressions 'deux pommes' et 'deux pommes et demie'? Travaux de Linguistique 72, 107-119. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2016). Francis Corblin & David Nicolas. Introduction. Travaux de Linguistique 72, 7-10. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2015). Salvatore Florio & David Nicolas. Plural logic and sensitivity to order. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 93(3), 444-464. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2010). Towards a semantics for mass expressions derived from gradable expressions. Recherches Linguistiques de Vincennes 39, 163-198. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2009). Mereological essentialism, composition, and stuff: a reply to Kristie Miller. Erkenntnis 71(3), 425–429. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2008). Mass nouns and plural logic. Linguistics and Philosophy 31(2), 211–244. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2008). Øystein Linnebo & David Nicolas. Superplurals in English. Analysis 68(3), 186–197. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2004). Is there anything characteristic about the meaning of a count noun? Revue de la Lexicologie 18-19, 125-138. [BibTeX]
• (2003). Florence Lefeuvre & David Nicolas. La phrase averbale existentielle et la distinction aspectuelle télique / atélique. Revue de Sémantique et Pragmatique 14, 157-168. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2003). Damian Justo, Julien Dutant, Benoît Hardy-Vallée, David Nicolas & Benjamin Sylvand. Delegation, subdivision, and modularity: how rich is conceptual structure? Brain and Behavioral Sciences 26(6), 683-684. [Journal] [BibTeX]
Surveys
• (2013; last substantive revision: 2024). The logic of mass expressions. In E. N. Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-massexpress/. [BibTeX]
Books and Special Issues
• (2016). Francis Corblin & David Nicolas (eds). Déterminants et inférences. Special issue of Travaux de Linguistique 72. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2002). La distinction entre noms massifs et noms comptables. Aspects linguistiques et conceptuels. Leuven: Editions Peeters. [Preprint: epub - pdf] [Publisher] [BibTeX]
Proceedings
• (2020). Brian Buccola, Jeremy Kuhn & David Nicolas. Groups vs. covers revisited: evidence from symmetric readings of sentences with plurals. Proceedings of the Workshop on the Cross-Linguistic Semantics of Reciprocals, Uttrecht, Netherlands. [BibTeX]
• (2019). Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde, Alda Mari, David Nicolas & David Blumier. Grammatical mood and ambiguity aversion. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics, 33-36. Lisbon. [BibTeX]
• (2007). Mass nouns and plural logic (extended abstract). In M. Aloni, P. Dekker & F. Roelofsen (eds.), Proceedings of the 16th Amsterdam Colloquium, 163-168. Amsterdam: Palteam. [BibTeX]
• (2005). Patrick Caudal & David Nicolas. Types of degrees and types of event structures. In C. Maienborn & A. Wöllstein (eds.), Event Arguments: Foundations and Applications (proceedings of Event Arguments in Syntax, Semantics and Discourse), 277-300. Tübingen: Niemeyer. [BibTeX]
• (2004). The semantics of nouns derived from gradable adjectives. In C. Meier & M. Weisgerber (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 8, 197-207, http://kops.uni-konstanz.de/handle/123456789/3805. [BibTeX]
Book Chapters and Working Papers
• (2007). Philippe de Brabanter, David Nicolas, Isidora Stojanovic & Neftali Villanueva Fernandez. Les usages déférentiels. In A. Bouvier & B. Conein (eds.), L'épistémologie sociale. Une théorie sociale de la connaissance, 139-162. Paris: Editions de l'EHESS. [BibTeX]
• (2002). La catégorisation des noms communs: massifs et comptables. In J. François et F. Cordier (eds.), Catégorisation et langage, 29-51. Paris: Hermès. [BibTeX]
• (2002). Do mass nouns constitute a semantically uniform class? Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 26, 113-121. [Journal] [BibTeX]
Short Encyclopedia Entries
• (2006). Ambiguïté. In D. Godard, L. Roussarie & F. Corblin (eds.), Sémanticlopédie: dictionnaire de sémantique, CNRS, https://dicosem.llf-paris.fr/wiki/Ambiguïté. [pdf] [BibTeX]
• (2006). Compositionalité: questions philosophiques. In D. Godard, L. Roussarie & F. Corblin (eds.), Sémanticlopédie: dictionnaire de sémantique, CNRS, https://dicosem.llf-paris.fr/wiki/Compositionalité:_questions_philosophiques. [pdf] [BibTeX]
• (2006). Massif / comptable. In D. Godard, L. Roussarie & F. Corblin (eds.), Sémanticlopédie: dictionnaire de sémantique, CNRS, https://dicosem.llf-paris.fr/wiki/Massif_/_comptable. [pdf] [BibTeX]
Book Reviews
• (2014). Review of A. Oliver & T. Smiley (2013) Plural Logic. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/46406-plural-logic/. [pdf] [BibTeX]
• (2011). Review of J. Pelletier (ed.) (2010) Kinds, Things, and Stuff. Language 87(3), 650-652. [Journal] BibTeX]
Manuscripts
• (2011). La comparaison interadjectivale relative.
• (2007). Can mereological sums serve as the semantic values of plurals? https://jeannicod.ccsd.cnrs.fr/ijn_00176868. [BibTeX]
• (2005). Philippe de Brabanter, David Nicolas, Isidora Stojanovic & Neftali Villanueva Fernandez. Deferential utterances. Referring to objects, online workshop on interdisciplines.org.
• (2002). Conversions of count nouns into mass nouns in French: the roles of semantic and pragmatic factors in their interpretations. https://jeannicod.ccsd.cnrs.fr/ijn_00000623. [BibTeX]
• (1996). Attention and auditory perception. Description of an experiment devised at McGill during the second year of McGill's Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology.
• (1995). Dean Sharpe, Jennifer Hitelman, David Nicolas & John Macnamara. Two for one: Learning to count patients differently from persons.
• (1995). The language of vision. Theoretical work on perception accomplished during the first year of McGill's Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology.
Academic theses
• (2015). Massifs et comptables: sémantique, logique et ontologie. Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in Cognitive Science from École Normale Supérieure.
• (1999). La distinction massif / comptable - aspects linguistiques et conceptuels. Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the École Polytechnique.
• (1997). Count nouns, mass nouns and their acquisition. Thesis accepted for validation of the special comprehensive examination held during the third year of McGill's Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology.
• (1994). Du niveau de base au niveau de (p)référence. Étude sur la catégorisation chez les enfants de cinq et huit ans. Master's thesis in Cognitive Science from the Ecole Polytechnique.
• (2022). Jeremy Kuhn, David Nicolas & Brian Buccola. Deriving dimensions of comparison. Snippets 43, 1-3. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2021). Brian Buccola, Jeremy Kuhn & David Nicolas. Groups versus covers revisited: structured pluralities and symmetric readings. Natural Language Semantics 29(4), 509–525. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2021). Salvatore Florio & David Nicolas. Plurals and mereology. Journal of Philosophical Logic 50(3), 415–445. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2021). Mixtures and mass terms. Dialectica 75(1), 1–14. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2017). Matière et mélanges. Le Français Moderne 2, 246-260. [Journal][BibTeX]
• (2016). Interprétons-nous de la même manière les expressions 'deux pommes' et 'deux pommes et demie'? Travaux de Linguistique 72, 107-119. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2016). Francis Corblin & David Nicolas. Introduction. Travaux de Linguistique 72, 7-10. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2015). Salvatore Florio & David Nicolas. Plural logic and sensitivity to order. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 93(3), 444-464. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2010). Towards a semantics for mass expressions derived from gradable expressions. Recherches Linguistiques de Vincennes 39, 163-198. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2009). Mereological essentialism, composition, and stuff: a reply to Kristie Miller. Erkenntnis 71(3), 425–429. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2008). Mass nouns and plural logic. Linguistics and Philosophy 31(2), 211–244. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2008). Øystein Linnebo & David Nicolas. Superplurals in English. Analysis 68(3), 186–197. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2004). Is there anything characteristic about the meaning of a count noun? Revue de la Lexicologie 18-19, 125-138. [BibTeX]
• (2003). Florence Lefeuvre & David Nicolas. La phrase averbale existentielle et la distinction aspectuelle télique / atélique. Revue de Sémantique et Pragmatique 14, 157-168. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2003). Damian Justo, Julien Dutant, Benoît Hardy-Vallée, David Nicolas & Benjamin Sylvand. Delegation, subdivision, and modularity: how rich is conceptual structure? Brain and Behavioral Sciences 26(6), 683-684. [Journal] [BibTeX]
Surveys
• (2013; last substantive revision: 2024). The logic of mass expressions. In E. N. Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-massexpress/. [BibTeX]
Books and Special Issues
• (2016). Francis Corblin & David Nicolas (eds). Déterminants et inférences. Special issue of Travaux de Linguistique 72. [Journal] [BibTeX]
• (2002). La distinction entre noms massifs et noms comptables. Aspects linguistiques et conceptuels. Leuven: Editions Peeters. [Preprint: epub - pdf] [Publisher] [BibTeX]
Proceedings
• (2020). Brian Buccola, Jeremy Kuhn & David Nicolas. Groups vs. covers revisited: evidence from symmetric readings of sentences with plurals. Proceedings of the Workshop on the Cross-Linguistic Semantics of Reciprocals, Uttrecht, Netherlands. [BibTeX]
• (2019). Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde, Alda Mari, David Nicolas & David Blumier. Grammatical mood and ambiguity aversion. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics, 33-36. Lisbon. [BibTeX]
• (2007). Mass nouns and plural logic (extended abstract). In M. Aloni, P. Dekker & F. Roelofsen (eds.), Proceedings of the 16th Amsterdam Colloquium, 163-168. Amsterdam: Palteam. [BibTeX]
• (2005). Patrick Caudal & David Nicolas. Types of degrees and types of event structures. In C. Maienborn & A. Wöllstein (eds.), Event Arguments: Foundations and Applications (proceedings of Event Arguments in Syntax, Semantics and Discourse), 277-300. Tübingen: Niemeyer. [BibTeX]
• (2004). The semantics of nouns derived from gradable adjectives. In C. Meier & M. Weisgerber (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 8, 197-207, http://kops.uni-konstanz.de/handle/123456789/3805. [BibTeX]
Book Chapters and Working Papers
• (2007). Philippe de Brabanter, David Nicolas, Isidora Stojanovic & Neftali Villanueva Fernandez. Les usages déférentiels. In A. Bouvier & B. Conein (eds.), L'épistémologie sociale. Une théorie sociale de la connaissance, 139-162. Paris: Editions de l'EHESS. [BibTeX]
• (2002). La catégorisation des noms communs: massifs et comptables. In J. François et F. Cordier (eds.), Catégorisation et langage, 29-51. Paris: Hermès. [BibTeX]
• (2002). Do mass nouns constitute a semantically uniform class? Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 26, 113-121. [Journal] [BibTeX]
Short Encyclopedia Entries
• (2006). Ambiguïté. In D. Godard, L. Roussarie & F. Corblin (eds.), Sémanticlopédie: dictionnaire de sémantique, CNRS, https://dicosem.llf-paris.fr/wiki/Ambiguïté. [pdf] [BibTeX]
• (2006). Compositionalité: questions philosophiques. In D. Godard, L. Roussarie & F. Corblin (eds.), Sémanticlopédie: dictionnaire de sémantique, CNRS, https://dicosem.llf-paris.fr/wiki/Compositionalité:_questions_philosophiques. [pdf] [BibTeX]
• (2006). Massif / comptable. In D. Godard, L. Roussarie & F. Corblin (eds.), Sémanticlopédie: dictionnaire de sémantique, CNRS, https://dicosem.llf-paris.fr/wiki/Massif_/_comptable. [pdf] [BibTeX]
Book Reviews
• (2014). Review of A. Oliver & T. Smiley (2013) Plural Logic. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/46406-plural-logic/. [pdf] [BibTeX]
• (2011). Review of J. Pelletier (ed.) (2010) Kinds, Things, and Stuff. Language 87(3), 650-652. [Journal] BibTeX]
Manuscripts
• (2011). La comparaison interadjectivale relative.
• (2007). Can mereological sums serve as the semantic values of plurals? https://jeannicod.ccsd.cnrs.fr/ijn_00176868. [BibTeX]
• (2005). Philippe de Brabanter, David Nicolas, Isidora Stojanovic & Neftali Villanueva Fernandez. Deferential utterances. Referring to objects, online workshop on interdisciplines.org.
• (2002). Conversions of count nouns into mass nouns in French: the roles of semantic and pragmatic factors in their interpretations. https://jeannicod.ccsd.cnrs.fr/ijn_00000623. [BibTeX]
• (1996). Attention and auditory perception. Description of an experiment devised at McGill during the second year of McGill's Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology.
• (1995). Dean Sharpe, Jennifer Hitelman, David Nicolas & John Macnamara. Two for one: Learning to count patients differently from persons.
• (1995). The language of vision. Theoretical work on perception accomplished during the first year of McGill's Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology.
Academic theses
• (2015). Massifs et comptables: sémantique, logique et ontologie. Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in Cognitive Science from École Normale Supérieure.
• (1999). La distinction massif / comptable - aspects linguistiques et conceptuels. Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the École Polytechnique.
• (1997). Count nouns, mass nouns and their acquisition. Thesis accepted for validation of the special comprehensive examination held during the third year of McGill's Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology.
• (1994). Du niveau de base au niveau de (p)référence. Étude sur la catégorisation chez les enfants de cinq et huit ans. Master's thesis in Cognitive Science from the Ecole Polytechnique.