Pragmatics


Linguistics Faculty

David R Dowty, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
(Appointed 1972; Chair of the Department of Linguistics, 1979-85) B.A., (Music), Austin College, 1968 Ph.D., (Linguistics), University of Texas at Austin, 1972
Areas of specialization: Syntactic and semantic theory; formal semantics; tense and aspect; lexical semantics.
Javier Jesús Gutiérrez Rexach, Professor of Spanish and Portugese; Adjunct Professor of Linguistics
(Appointed 1997) Ph.D. UCLA, 1997.
Areas of specialization: negative polarity licensing and the syntactic of relative clauses in Spanish. Semantics, generalized quantifiers and event semantics.
Carl J. Pollard, Professor of Linguistics
(Appointed 1990) B.S., (Mathematics), Purdue University, 1970 M.S., (Mathematics), Brown University, 1973 M.A., (East Asian Languages & Cultures), Indiana University, 1978 Ph.D.. (Linguistics), Stanford University, 1984
Areas of specialization: Syntax; semantics; computational linguistics; mathematical formulations of linguistic theory; Chinese linguistics.
Craige Roberts, Associate Professor of Linguistics
(Appointed 1988) A.B., (Linguistics), Indiana University, 1979 Ph.D., (Linguistics), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1987
Areas of specialization: Semantics; the syntax-semantics interface; formal theories of discourse.
Scott Schwenter, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics
(Appointed 1999) M.A., (Linguistics), University of New Mexico, 1993; Ph.D., (Linguistics), Stanford University, 1998.
Areas of specialization: Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Syntactic Variation, Spanish Dialectology.

Donna K. Byron, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Linguistics
(Appointed 2003) B.A., (French), University of Texas at Arlington, 1986.; M.B.A., University of Texas at Arlington, 1987.; M.S.C.S. (Computer Science), University of Texas at Dallas, 1996.; M.S. (Computer Science), University of Rochester, 1998.; Ph.D. (Computer Science), University of Rochester, 2002.
Areas of specialization: Computational treatment of anaphora for spoken dialog interfaces, Understanding situated language in virtual or real environments, Evaluation of Natural Language Processing sytems

Graduate Courses in Pragmatics

680Formal Foundations of Linguistics
681Algebraic Linguistics
780Formal Pragmatics
795.14Pragmatics Study Group
814Seminar in Pragmatics

(see also courses in Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Philosophy, and Psychology.)

Faculty with Related Interests in Other Departments

Steven E. Boer, Prof. of Philosophy (Philosophy of Language, Logic)

Alan Code, Steve R. & Sarah E. O'Donnell Professor of Philosophy (Philosophy of Language)

Diana Raffman, Associate Professor of Philosophy (Philosophy of Language)

William W. Taschek, Associate Professor of Philosophy (Philosophy of Language)

Neil Tennant, Professor of Philosophy, Adjunct Professor of Cognitive Science (Logic, Philosophy of Language)

Related Programs/Centers: 

Center for Cognitive Science 

Special Research Activities 

Pragmaticats 
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