Márta Abrusán
 
Keresés a webhelyen

Post-doc, Institut Jean Nicod,

Ecole Normale Supérieure
29, rue d’Ulm,
75005 Paris, France

mylastname AT alum.mit.edu

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) ( paper 53pages)

A shorter version of this paper has appeared in the Proceedings of SALT 18  (proceedings paper18pages)


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

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

On Wh-Islands (paper, 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, to be published by MITWPL. Some chapters have been superceded by the papers above)



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

Topics in the Semantics of Interrogative Clauses (with Benjamin Spector)  ESSLLI, Bordeaux July 20-31, 2009

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

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

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