Márta Abrusán

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Semantics,  Somerville College

University of Oxford

jointly affiliated with the Faculty of Philosophy  & Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics


Address:

Somerville College
Woodstock Road,
Oxford, OX2 6HD, UK

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Research Interests

  • Semantics-Pragmatics-Syntax Interface: Weak Islands, Semantics of questions, Semantics of degree expressions, Free choice indefinites
  • Pragmatics, Lexical Semantics:  Presupposition Triggering, Types and strengths of presuppositions


Recent papers

 Presuppositional and Negative Islands: A Semantic Account (submitted) ( pdf 53pages)

A shorter version of this paper has appeared in the Proceedings of SALT 18  (pdf 18pages)


(with Benjamin Spector) An Interval Based Semantics for Negative Degree Questions 
                                                                                                                                                                     (submitted)(
pdf, 37pages)

     A shorter version of this paper has appeared in the proceedings of WCCFL 27.UCLA (pdf, 9 pages)

On Wh-Islands (pdf, 16 pages)  

                  In: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13, Stuttgart


PhD Dissertation

Contradiction and Grammar: The Case of Weak Islands   (pdf)

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  September 2007.) Revised version as of May 2008.



Other (selected) papers

A Semantic Analysis of Negative Islands with Manner Questions (Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 12, Oslo ( pdf)

Even and Free Choice Any in Hungarian (Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11)(pdf)

Underspecified Precedence Relation and Vowel-Zero Alternations in Hungarian (Proceedings of BLS 31)(pdf)

 

Teaching

Formal Foundations of Linguistics (with John Coleman) Michaelmas Term 09 weblearn


Introduction to Semantics  (masters course, ENS-DEC, 2008 fall),   teaching assistant for Alain Lecomte.(taught in French)

Topics in the semantics of questions                        (EGG Summer School 2008, Debrecen)   (handouts

Weak Islands, Intervention and Interpretation          (EGG Summer School 2008, Debrecen)   (readings)