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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Teaching

Research
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


Papers in progress

Triggering Verbal Presuppositions (to be presented at SALT20 in Vancouver;  Riga Symposium )

Quasi-presuppositions are focus effects

Wh-islands in Degree Questions


Downloadable Papers

Presuppositional and Negative Islands: A Semantic Account (accepted, Natural Language Semantics)                                                                                                                                                                                                        ( 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)  

                  In: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13, Stuttgart

A Semantic Analysis of Negative Islands with Manner Questions ( pdf)

                   In: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 12, Oslo

Even and Free Choice Any in Hungarian  (pdf)

                    In: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11, Barcelona

Underspecified Precedence Relation and Vowel-Zero Alternations in Hungarian (pdf)

                    In: Proceedings of BLS 31


PhD Dissertation

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

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