People

OMAR AGHA

Assistant professor (Linguistics)

Interests: QUDs, relevance, focus, aspect, event semantics, plurals, modals

YUNHUI BAI

1st year PhD student (Philosophy)

Interests: modals, attitude verbs, imperatives and not-at-issue content

SARAH BOUKENDOUR

2nd year PhD student (Linguistics)

Interests: modals, conditionals, metaethics, reasoning

FABRIZIO CARIANI

Full professor (Philosophy)

Interests: uncertainty, agency, modality, collective attitudes, the open future, explanation, chance, mathematics, decisions, rationality, among others

JINGYI CHEN

3rd year PhD student (Linguistics)

Interests: imperatives, modals, conditionals

FEDYA GOLOSOV

3rd year PhD student (Linguistics)

Interests: aspect, number, argument structure

VALENTINE HACQUARD

Full professor (Linguistics)

Interests: modal auxiliaries, attitude verbs, speech acts, acquisition of semantics

ARON HIRSCH

Assistant professor (Linguistics)

Interests: focus, questions, coordination, presupposition, scalar implicatures, syntax-semantics interface

PAOLO SANTORIO

Associate professor (Philosophy)

Interests: modal language, causal reasoning, expressivism, intentionality, variables, future-oriented talk, scalar implicatures, among others

MAL SHAH

2nd year PhD student (Linguistics)

Interests: Polysemy, theories of reference, argument and event structure

UTKU TURK

2nd year PhD student (Linguistics)

Interests: Conditionals, degree semantics, de re/de dicto problems

ALEXANDER WILLIAMS

Associate professor (Linguistics/Philosophy)

Interests: verbs, events, thematic relations, implicit arguments, epistemic modals, argument structure, complex predicates, acquisition and processing of argument relations and anaphora

ALUMNI

JÉSSICA MENDES

24' PhD  (Linguistics)

Interests: modality, mood, aspect, tense, future reference, negation, polarity-sensitivity, scalar implicatures, indefinites, attitude verbs, among others

CALEB KENDRICK

24' PhD (Philosophy)

Interests: modality, aspect, tense, anaphora, scalar implicatures

DAN GOODHUE

18'- 22' postdoctoral associate | Now postdoctoral fellow at Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS)

Interests: intonational meaning, speech acts, epistemic modality

CASEY ENOS

21' PhD (Philosophy) | Now visiting professor at Georgia Southern University

Interests: theory of mind, artificial intelligence, metaphysics, ethics, classical philosophy, and the philosophy of science

MICHAEL McCOURT

21' PhD (Philosophy) 

Interests: lexical semantics/pragmatics, meaning and modularity, implicit arguments, anaphora, pejoratives

YU'AN YANG

22' PhD (Linguistics) | Now Language Engineer at Amazon

Interests: the interaction between clause types (e.g. declaratives, interrogatives) and speech acts (e.g. assertions, questions), and how they are acquired

YICHI (RAVEN) ZHANG

22' PhD (Philosophy) | Now postdoctoral fellow at Düsseldorf

Interests: logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics