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
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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