Welcome, gentle traveller of the web. You have come, by some happy accident or deliberate wandering, upon a small clearing devoted to language and the quiet architectures of meaning.

I am Lorenzo Pinton, a fifth year PhD student at MIT Linguistics and my interests center on formal semantics and its interface with syntax. 

I study the inferences licensed by natural language - what they betray of human cognition and how logical systems may be used to model the computation of meaning. I work on a handful of puzzles: Hurford disjunction, plurals, free choice, and ellipsis. Alongside these topics, I'm also very interested in visual perception and shape parsing.

My dissertation (in progress) aims at showing the centrality of the mereological notion of no-overlap to license a wide range of semantic structures.

Linger here, should you wish, for as long as the hour is kind.