(January 2012)
Academic position
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2006- Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University
Invited academic positions
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2013 Faculty, Linguistic Institute (Linguistic Society of America) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Course on Semantic fieldwork methods 2012 'Semantics guru' (Visiting professor in semantics), University of Massachusetts at Amherst, March 28 - April 7. 2011 Faculty, European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), Ljubljana, Slovenia. 2009 Faculty, Linguistic Institute (Linguistic Society of America) at the University of California, Berkeley. Course on Semantics of tense cross-linguistically
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 Computational 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
Award
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2005 Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, Stanford University
Grants
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2010-2012 National Science Foundation Grant "Collaborative Research: Semantics and Pragmatics of Projective Meaning across Languages" (co-PI with David Beaver (UT Austin), Mandy Simons (CMU) and Craige Roberts (OSU)) 2008 Grant from the Office of International Affairs at OSU for a phonetic and semantic study of focus in Paraguayan Guaraní (with Cynthia Clopper and Joseph Marulli) 2006 Course development grant from the Center for Latin American Studies at the OSU for the development of Ling307 "Introduction to American indigenous languages"
Publications
Please see publications page.
Presentations
Please see presentations page.
Fieldwork
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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
- Jungmee Lee (advisor), 2011, title: Evidentiality and its Interaction with Temporality: Evidence from Korean
- Anastasia Smirnova (co-advisor with Brian Joseph), 2011,
title: Evidentiality and Mood: Grammatical Expressions of Epistemic Committment in Bulgarian - Deborah Morton (co-advisor with Dave Odden)
- Pilar Chamorro (co-advisor with Scott Schwenter)
- Lauren Ressue (co-advisor with Andrea Sims)
Teaching
Please see teaching page.
Service
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Since 2007 Member of the Editorial Board of Semantics and Pragmatics. - Ad hoc reviewer for the National Science Foundation, book
publishers (CSLI publications, Blackwell Publications),
journals (International Journal of American Linguistics, Journal of Semantics, Journal of Pidgins and Creole Languages,
Lingua, Studies in African Languages, Linguistics & Philosophy, Language, Language and Linguistics Compass,
The Linguistic Review, Journal of Greek Linguistics) and conferences (WCCFL 26, 27, 28, 29; ConSOLE 16; SALT 18, 20, 21;
Sinn und Bedeutung 12, 13, 14; Formal approaches to Mayan linguistics; 2008 LSA summer meeting at OSU).
2007- Graduate Program Committee (chair in Spring 2010), Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University 2008- Curriculum Review Committee (chair in Winter 2010), Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University 2006-2008 Development and Outreach Committee, Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University 2006-2007 Diversity Committee, Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University
Languages
- German (native)
English (near native)
Spanish (fluent speaking, reading, and writing)
French (intermediate reading knowledge, basic speaking)
Guaraní (research knowledge)
Yucatec Maya (research knowledge)