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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
(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)
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