I am a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at UC San Diego. I direct one of the department's Computational Linguistics Labs, although in actuality the lab is highly interdisplinary, focused primarily (but not only) on pragmatics and discourse interpretation, studied from the perspectives of theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics. Explore the links above and below to find out more about me.

My current students are Joshua Wampler and Milad Mayel.

On the stack (and recently off):

  • Clare Patterson, Petra B. Schumacher, Bruno Nicenboim, Johannes Hagen, and Andrew Kehler. A Bayesian Approach to German Personal and Demonstrative Pronouns. Frontiers in Communication, To Appear.
  • Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. Ellipsis and the QUD: Sluicing with Nominal Antecedents. Information Structure and Discourse in Generative Grammar: Mechanisms and Processes, edited by Andreas Konietzko and Susanne Winkler, De Gruyter Mouton. To Appear.
  • Andrew Kehler. Asymmetric anaphoric dependencies determine available readings for VP-ellipsis. Modular Design of Grammar, edited by I. Wayan Arka, Ash Asudeh, and Tracy Holloway King, Oxford University Press. To Appear.
  • Andrew Kehler. Coherence Establishment as a Source of Explanation in Linguistic Theory. Annual Review of Linguistics, 8:123-42, 2022.
  • Jet Hoek, Andrew Kehler, and Hannah Rohde. Pronominalization and expectations for re-mention: Modeling coreference in contexts with three referents. Frontiers in Communication, 2021.
  • Jonathan Cohen and Andrew Kehler. Conversational Eliciture. Philosophers' Imprint, 21(12):1–26, 2021.
  • Invited Speaker, The Construction of Meaning: The Dynamics and Adaptivity of Linguistic Structures, Universität Tübingen, March 4-5, 2021.
  • Shiva Upadhye, Leon Bergen, and Andrew Kehler. Predicting Reference: What do Language Models Learn about Discourse Models?, in the Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2020).
  • Meilin Zhan, Roger Levy and Andrew Kehler. Pronoun Interpretation in Mandarin Chinese follows principles of Bayesian inference. PLoS One 15(8):1–42, 2020.
  • Clare Patterson, Johannes Hagen, Andrew Kehler, and Petra Schumacher. A Bayesian approach to modelling German personal and demonstrative pronouns. Poster presented at AMLaP 2020. University of Potsdam, Germany. 03­–05 September.
  • Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. Anything can be Elided if you Know How: Sluicing, Voice Mismatch, and Tough Movement. Workshop on Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis, 16th July 2020.
  • Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. Anything can be Elided if you Know How: Sluicing, Voice Mismatch, and Tought Movement. The 33rd Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, 21st March 2020, Amherst, MA.
  • Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. Inferential Ellipsis Resolution: Sluicing, Nominal Antecedents, and the Question under Discussion. 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, 5th January 2020, New Orleans, LA.
  • Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. Reconsidering asymmetries in voice-mismatched VP-ellipsis. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 4(1), 60, 2019.
  • Invited Speaker, Information Structure and Ambiguity: The Process of Integrating Sentences into Discourse, Universität Tübingen, October 7-8, 2019.
  • Jet Hoek, Andrew Kehler, and Hannah Rohde. Modeling coreference in contexts with three referents. Talk presented at Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS). Saarbrücken, Germany. 2019.
  • Jet Hoek, Andrew Kehler, and Hannah Rohde. Pronominalization and expectations for re-mention: Evidence from benefactives. Poster presented at DETEC 2019. Berlin, Germany. 2019.
  • Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. Ellipsis and the QuD: Evidence from Sluicing with Nominal Antecedents. California Meeting on Psycholinguistics, 26th October 2019, Santa Cruz, CA.
  • Senior Area Chair (Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics), EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019.
  • Senior Area Chair (Discourse and Pragmatics), ACL 2019.
  • Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. "Sluicing inferred propositions", poster to be presented at the 8th Biennial Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG 2019), University of Edinburgh, June 19-21, 2019.
  • Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. "Sluicing inferred propositions", poster to be presented at Sluicing and Ellipsis at 50, University of Chicago, April 12-13, 2019.
  • Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. "Ellipsis and the QuD: evidence from sluicing with nominal antecedents", poster to be presented at the 32nd Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Colorado, March 29-31, 2019.
  • Andrew Kehler. "Ellipsis and Discourse". Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis, edited by Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Tanja Temmerman, Oxford University Press, 2019.
  • Colloquium Speaker, Department of Computer Science, Pomona College, February 7, 2019.
  • Invited Speaker, Information Structure in Spoken Language Corpora 3: Discourse and Information Structure, Universität Münster, December 7-8, 2018.
  • Invited Speaker, Making Sense of Discourse workshop, Utrecht, September 20-21, 2018.
  • Andrew Kehler and Hannah Rohde. "Prominence and Coherence in a Bayesian Theory of Pronoun Interpretation", Journal of Pragmatics, to appear.
  • Invited Speaker, Prominence in Language 2018, Cologne, Germany, July 11-13, 2018.
  • Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. "Asymmetries in voice-mismatched VP-ellipsis", talk presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, April 26-28, 2018.
  • Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. "Reconsidering asymmetries in voice-mismatched verb phrase ellipsis", poster presented at the 31st Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, March 15-17, 2018.
  • Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. "Overcoming the Identity Crisis: Novel Evidence for a Referential Theory of Verb Phrase Ellipsis", to appear in the Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, May 25-27, 2017.
  • Invited Speaker, Joint SEMdial and SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialog, Saarbrücken, Germany, August 15-17, 2017.
  • Invited Speaker, Workshop on Experimental and Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis, 2017 LSA Institute, University of Kentucky, July 29, 2017.
  • Till Poppels and Andrew Kehler. "Verb Phrase Ellipsis is Discourse Reference: Novel Evidence from Dialogue", poster to be presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 22, Potsdam, September 7-10, 2017.
  • Andrew Kehler and Jonathan Cohen. "On Convention and Coherence". To appear in Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics, edited by Gerhard Preyer, Oxford University Press.
  • Andrew Kehler. "Coherence Relations". To appear in the Oxford Handbook of Event Structure, edited by Robert Truswell, Oxford University Press.
  • Quoted in Bloomberg View story "Interruptology Explains the Presidential Debates" by Faye Flam, picked up by the Chicago Tribune and various other news outlets.
  • Quoted in Bloomberg View story "Forget Facts. Check the Candidates' Innuendo" by Faye Flam, picked up by the Chicago Tribune and various other news outlets.

  • Course announcements:

  • I'm teaching Lign 17 (Making and Breaking Codes) during Winter 2022. My office hours are Mondays 1-2 and Fridays 2-3:30. Contact me for Zoom info if you want to come by while we're remote.