Notes on Contributors
Curt Anderson received his PhD in 2016 from Michigan State University, and his research focuses on issues related to scalarity, modification, and the syntax-semantics interface. He is currently a visiting assistant professor in the Centre for French and Linguistics at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and previously was a postdoctoral researcher with Collaborative Research Center 991 at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
Alan Bale is an Associate Professor in the Linguistics Program at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. His work concentrates on the grammar of measurement, comparison, and number, especially as it relates to the mass-count distinction and language acquisition.
Rajesh Bhatt is Professor of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is interested in the comparative syntax of the Modern Indo-Aryan languages and the syntax-semantic interface.
Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten received her PhD in linguistics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2016. Her research considers issues in semantics from the perspective of understudied languages—in particular Navajo (Diné Bizaad)—and includes work on adjectival meaning, comparative and superlative constructions, attitude verbs, modality, and relative clauses.
Elizabeth Coppock is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Boston University and a researcher at the University of Gothenburg. Her work deals with the semantics of phenomena such as reference, gradability, and quantification in diverse languages using a variety of methodologies.
Haley Farkas holds MA s in linguistics from Northwestern University and the University of Southern California. Her research interests lie in formal semantics, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition, primarily focused on topics in event semantics and theories of quantification.
Nicholas Fleisher is Associate Professor of linguistics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. His research is focused on the syntax–semantics interface, particularly issues involving gradability and comparison, scope and quantification, and binding and ellipsis.
Peter Hallman is a researcher at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence. He has published in the areas of morphology, syntax and semantics and currently leads a research project on degree semantics in Arabic and other Semitic languages.
Vincent Homer is Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research investigates various phenomena at the syntax-semantics interface in English and Romance.
Jessica Rett is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on degree semantics as well as the semantics-pragmatics interface, including the study of exclamatives, evaluativity, evidentials, and equatives.
Roger Schwarzschild is a Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His specialty is natural language semantics. He has published work on plurals, intonation, degree constructions and expressions of measurement.
Barbara Tomaszewicz-Özakın received a PhD in linguistics from the University of Southern California in 2015. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Cologne. Her main interests are the syntax-semantics interface and psycholinguistics. To test theoretical predictions she uses experimental methods such as rating questionnaires, self-paced reading, eye-tracking and ERP s.
Alexis Wellwood is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Southern California, where she directs the USC Dornsife Meaning Lab. Her research in semantics and psycholinguistics emphasizes interdisciplinary connections between linguistics, philosophy of language and mind, and cognitive psychology. Topically, she focuses on issues related to degrees, events, and pluralities.
Linmin Zhang received her PhD in linguistics from New York University in 2016. She is now a post-doctoral fellow at New York University Shanghai. Her research focuses on theoretical and experimental semantics. Among her research topics are degree semantics, dynamic semantics, numerals, functional adjectives, counterfactuals, attitude reports, discourse particles, and the neural basis of semantic representation and compositionality.