Janek Guerrini | Institut Jean Nicod

I am a PhD student in linguistics and philosophy at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, working under the supervision of Benjamin Spector. 

I am enroled in the PhD program in Cognitive Science, funded by Frontiers in Cognition. I am also a member of LINGUAE, a research group at Institut Jean-Nicod. 

My work is in formal semantics of natural language and philosophy of language.

My main research interests are non-intersective modification and genericity. Here’s why I think they’re interesting: both of these phenomena have posed a long-standing challenge to semantic theory, and both seem to be particularly sensitive to the structure of our conceptual, non-linguistic representations. This makes for a domain where the study of language can both inform and be informed by broader questions in cognitive science.