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pritty.patel-grosz@iln.uio.no
prittypatelgrosz@gmail.com
New and upcoming activities
New and upcoming activities
New publication to appear (with Patrick Georg Grosz, Ragnhild Solberg Torvanger, Jonah Katz, Alexander Refsum Jensenius): An outline of the narrative grammar of Electronic Dance Music. Musicae Scientiae.
New publication to appear: The primate gestural meaning continuum. Gabriel Dupre, Kate Hazel Stanton, Ryan Nefdt (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Linguistics.
Plenary presentation: Protolang 9 2025
Panel presentation on 'Emoji meaning: stability and variation', as part of 'The Emoji Workshop', University of Oslo, organised by the project “Semantics and Pragmatics of Emojis in Digital Communication (EmDiCom)” (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG)
Pritty Patel-Grosz is Professor of Linguistics and director of the Super Linguistics Research Group at the University of Oslo. She was educated at University College London, and obtained a PhD in Linguistics from MIT. Her early interests include the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface and psycholinguistics. She has conducted research on individual variables, agreement and anaphoric presuppositions. In recent work, P. Patel-Grosz advocates for the emerging field of Super Linguistics, whose goal is to expand the traditional boundaries of language and linguistics, by applying linguistic methodology (broadly inspired) to non-standard objects beyond language. P. Patel-Grosz’s current research investigates the behavoural repertoire of body movement in human and non-human primates.
Interests
Gesture semanticsPrimate linguisticsDance cognitionImperative semanticsDiscourse managementCross-linguistic pronominal typologyContext dependent variables at the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface Interests
Education
June 2015: Habilitation in General and English Linguistics, Tuebingen (Sigrid Beck)Education
Sept 2012: PhD in Linguistics, MIT (Noam Chomsky, Sabine Iatridou)
Employment
October 2016-present: Professor of General Linguistics, University of OsloEmployment
May 2016: Associate Professor of General Linguistics, University of Oslo
2012-2016: Postdoctoral researcher and teaching fellow, SFB 833, Uni-Tuebingen
Current Positions of Trust
Current Positions of Trust
2025: Editorial fellow, Paris Institute for Advance Study
2024: Secretary, The Association of Logic, Language and Information
2023: Associate editor, Journal of Semantics
2022: Scientific advisory board member, Van Riemsdijk Foundation
2022: Scientific advisory conseil, Paris Graduate School of Linguistics
2018: Editorial board member: Journal of South Asian Linguistics
Membership
2019- : Young Academy of EuropeMembership
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