SYNTAX & SEMANTICS @ STANFORD

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