Semantics


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, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portugese; Adjunct Assistant 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.

Graduate Courses in Semantics

680Formal Foundations of Linguistics
681Algebraic Linguistics
683.01Semantics I
683.02Semantics II
812Seminar in Semantics

(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)

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 
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