SYNTAX & SEMANTICS @ STANFORD




current students in syntax & semantics


Eric Acton
semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, social meaning, language and power
Matt Adams
HPSG, construction grammar, Irish syntax
David Clausen
Alex Djalali
Isla Flores-Bayer
Scott Grimm
argument structure, case, complementation (raising/control); semantics of agency, modality; typology; general formal and lexical semantics
Alex Jaker
LFG, ye/we alternation in Athabaskan, intonational evidence for constituent structure in Athabaskan
Anubha Kothari
semantics and pragmatics (especially events, tense, and aspect), discourse, the role of context in understanding, computational psycholinguistics, South Asian languages
Sven Lauer
Formal semantics (in particular: questions and other non-assertive speech acts, non-truth-condtional meaning, modality, tense), Syntax, Formal approaches to the study of pragmatics and discourse (in particular: Game-, Decision- and Optimality-theoretic approaches), quantitative methods in the investigation of any of the above.
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
Robin Melnick
formal analysis of syntactic variation and empirical research into its predictors, psycholinguistic and information theoretic models of cognition, interfaces among syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
Melanie Owens
serial verbs and complex predication more generally, distributivity, reciprocals, Austronesian languages, event semantics
Jessica Spencer
Nola Stephens
lexical semantics, syntax/semantics/pragmatics interface, argument realization, language acquisition
Hal Tily
acquisition, processing and evolution of syntax
Laura Whitton
syntax and information structure, formal pragmatics, diachronic syntax, acquisition of syntax, semantics and pragmatics, lexical and formal semantics