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)

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)

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)