SYNTAX & SEMANTICS @ STANFORD




current students in syntax & semantics


Eric Acton
Semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, deixis, social meaning, meaning & function, style
Matt Adams
Syntax-phonology interface, prosody and constituent linearization
Mason Chua
Computational psychosyntax, probabilistic and constraint-based grammar, incremental parsing
James Collins
Syntactic theory, lexical semantics-syntax interface, syntax-morphology interface, Oceanic syntax, ergativity, information structure
Phil Crone
Semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, Semitic languages
Alex Djalali
Semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language. In particular, inference based models of language: natural logic more generally, aristotelean syllogisms and the monotonicity calculus in particular
Timothy Dozat
Experimental syntax, non-transformational approaches to theoretical syntax, computational models of language, the relationship between syntax and intonation
Isla Flores-Bayer
Semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, code-switching, language contact, variation, and change
Lelia Glass
Semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language. how context interacts with meaning, how speakers' goals interact with grammar
Jason Grafmiller
Lexical semantics, morphosyntactic alternation, corpus linguistics and quantitative analysis of semantic and syntactic variation, animacy and agentivity, argument realization, psych-verbs, anaphora
Bonnie Krejci
Morphosyntax, lexical semantics, psycholinguistics, and typology
Sharese King
Experimental syntax, syntactic variation (with a lens on AAE), pragmatics, language acquisition
Masoud Jasbi
Acquisition of syntax and semantics, formal and computational semantics, the syntax of Persian, Indo-Aryan languages
Sven Lauer
Formal semantics and pragmatics (in particular: imperatives and clause types, non-truth-condtional meaning, modality, tense, causation), Formal approaches to the study of pragmatics and discourse (in particular: Game-, Decision- and Optimality-theoretic approaches and dynamic pragmatics), quantitative methods in the investigation of any of the above.
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.
Dasha Popova
Semantics, pragmatics, Finno-Ugric languages
Tania Rojas-Esponda
Formal semantics, pragmatics, rigorous approaches to discourse structure, phonology, logic
Natalia Silveira
Syntax, computational linguistics, mathematical linguistics, Brasilian Portuguese
Jessica Spencer
Creole syntax and semantics, English sentence processing