Maura O'Leary

Semanticist, Field Researcher, & Teacher

I am a graduate student and teaching assistant at UCLA. My dissertation provides a formal model of nominal evaluation times, including nominal lexical aspect, interaction with scopal tense, interactions with the evaluation times of nominal modifiers, and the dynamic effects of novelty on evaluation times. I additionally do both morphosyntactic and revitalization work with the critically endangered Alaskan Dene (Athabaskan) language Hän. Recently, I have also been working on effective pedagogical methods for teaching and evaluation in university-level linguistics courses.

Get in touch at mauraoleary@g.ucla.edu