[Complete CV in PDF format available on request]
Academic positions
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2019- Professor, Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University 2018-2020 Visiting Professor, Department of English Linguistics, University of Stuttgart 2012-2019 Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University 2014-2015 Fellow, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin 2013-2014 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University 2006-2012 Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University
Education
2006 Ph.D in Linguistics, Stanford University Dissertation: The Temporal Semantics of Noun Phrases: Evidence from Guaraní Committee: David Beaver (chair), Cleo Condoravdi, Paul Kiparsky, Beth Levin 2000 Diploma in Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, Germany Thesis: Dynamic Semantics and the Temporal Interpretation of Noun Phrases Advisor: Hans Kamp 1997-1998 Fulbright Visiting Student at Stanford University Studies in linguistics, psychology and philosphy
Fellowships and awards
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2016 Early Career award, Linguistic Society of America. 2014 Best paper in Language award, Linguistic Society of America. 2013 Alexander von Humboldt Forschungsstipendium für Erfahrene Wissenschaftler, for residence during 2014/15 at the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin. 2013 Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars, American Council of Learned Societies, for residence during 2013/14 at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. 2005 Centennial teaching assistant award, Stanford University. 1997/98 Fulbright fellowship, for studies at Stanford University.
Major external grants
2015-20 Collaborative Research: What's the question? A cross-linguistic investigation into com- positional and pragmatic constraints on the question under discussion. Craige Roberts and Judith Tonhauser (with David Beaver at UT Austin and Mandy Simons at CMU), National Science Foundation BCS-1452674. 2010-15 Collaborative Research: Projective meanings across languages. Craige Roberts and Judith Tonhauser (with David Beaver at UT Austin and Mandy Simons at CMU), National Science Foundation BCS-0952571.
Extra-mural teaching (** by invitation)
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2020 Projective content, ESSLLI, Utrecht University, August 10-14. 2019** Fieldwork methods, DGfS/XPRAG summer school on 'Experimental Pragmatics: Theory, Methods and Interfaces', Berlin, Germany, August 5-16. 2018** Research methods in semantics/pragmatics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 21-22. 2017** Semantic fieldwork methods, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, August 2-4. 2016 Questions under discussion, at NASSLLI, Rutgers University, with David Beaver, Craige Roberts and Mandy Simons, July 8-16. 2015** Semantic fieldwork methods, University of Georgia, Athens, October 15-16. 2015** Semantic fieldwork methods, Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, University of Chicago, July 20-31. 2013** Semantic fieldwork methods, Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 24-July 19. 2011 Projective meanings, with Craige Roberts, at ESSLLI, Ljubljana, Slovenia,, August 1-12. 2009** Faculty, Linguistic Institute (Linguistic Society of America) at the University of California, Berkeley. Course on Semantics of tense cross-linguistically, July 6 - 23.
Editorial positions
2018 - now Editorial board, Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 2013 - now Associate editor, Semantics and Pragmatics
Publications
Please see publications page.
Fieldwork
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2016 Guaraní, Paraguay, 2 weeks 2015 Guaraní, Paraguay, 2 weeks 2014 Guaraní, Paraguay, 2 weeks 2013 Guaraní, Paraguay, 3 weeks 2012 Guaraní, Paraguay, 2 weeks 2011 Guaraní, Paraguay, 4 weeks 2010 Guaraní, Paraguay, 4 weeks 2009 Guaraní, Paraguay, 6 weeks; Yucatec Maya, San Francisco, 1 week 2008 Guaraní, Paraguay, 6 weeks 2007 Guaraní, Paraguay, 6 weeks; Yucatec Maya, San Francisco, 1 week 2005 Guaraní, Paraguay, 11 weeks 2004 Guaraní, Paraguay, 8 weeks 2003 Yucatec Maya, Mexico, 11 weeks 2002 Yucatec Maya, Mexico, 9 weeks
PhD Students
- Agata Renans
Dissertation title: Exhaustivity: On Exclusive Particles, Clefts and Progressive Aspect in Ga (Kwa)
Postdoctoral researcher, University of Ulster - Jefferson Barlew
Dissertation title: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Perspectival Expressions in English and Bulu: The Case of Deictic Motion Verbs - Murat Yasavul
Dissertation title: Questions and Answers in K'iche' - Lauren Ressue
Dissertation title: Reciprocity in Russian: An Investigation of the Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Interfaces - Deborah Morton
Dissertation title: The Temporal and Aspectual Semantics and Verbal Tonology of Gisida Anii
Visiting Assistant Professor, Penn State University - Pilar Chamorro
Dissertation title: Pluractionality and Aspectual Structure in the Galician Spanish tener-Perfect
Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Program in Linguistics - Anastasia Smirnova
Dissertation title: Evidentiality and Mood: Grammatical Expressions of Epistemic Committment in Bulgarian
Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University - Jungmee Lee
Dissertation title: Evidentiality and its Interaction with Temporality: Evidence from Korean
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Seoul National University of Science and Technology
Languages
- German (native)
English (near native)
Spanish (fluent speaking and reading)
French (intermediate reading knowledge, basic speaking)
Paraguayan Guaraní (research knowledge)
Yucatec Maya (research knowledge)
Last updated: November 2019