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The semantics of human languages involves complex representations and operations over those representations. The goal of my research is to design logics in which one can define representations and operations over those representations that closely mimic what is observed in human languages. This allows us to then model how people interpret the meanings of arbitrary expressions in the languages they speak.
To understand how meaning in human languages works in general, we need evidence from a large variety of languages. For this reason my research has a strong empirical component. I have done primary fieldwork on a number of Mayan languages spoken in Guatemala. I work to describe, document, and analyze these languages in their own right, while also discovering what they can tell us about how human languages work in general.Show Less
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Courses
- AILAmerican Indian Languages
- IFSIntroduction to Formal Semantics
- IMALIntroduction to Mathematical Approaches to Language
- FSFormal Semantics
- FFLFormal Foundations of Linguistics
Grants
- Comparative Morphosemantics of Plurality
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$449.0K
Active - Collaborative Research: Investigations into Tone and Stress in a Complex Prosodic Systems
Principal Investigator (PI)
2016
$166.9K
Publications (59)
Recent
- Tonal variability and marginal contrast: Lexical pitch accent in Uspanteko
2022
- The phonetics and phonology of Uspanteko (Mayan)
2022
- Xoqoneb’: una historia uspanteka de las tierras altas centrales de Guatemala
2022
- Dependent pluractionality in Piipaash (Yuman)
2022
- Dependent numerals in Kaqchikel
2021
- A corpus of K’iche’ annotated for morphosyntactic structure
2021
- Social meaning in repeated interactions
2020
- Proposing to ignore discourse updates in Colloquial Singaporean English (CSE)
2020
- Pluractionality and distributivity on the edge of Mesoamerica
2020
- Towards functional, agent-based models of dogwhistle communication
2020
- Signaling without Saying: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Dogwhistles
2019
- Dogwhistles, Trust, and Ideology
2019
- Dogwhistles, trust and ideology
2019
- Dogwhistles and the at-issue/non-at-issue distinction
2019
- Pluractionality and distributivity
2019
- Basic K'ichee'Grammar: 38 Lessons Revised Edition
2019
- Contrasting code-switching theories: insights from Kaqchikel-Spanish code-switched nominal constructions
2019
- The roots of measurement
2018
- Expressive updates, much?
2018
- Donkeys under discussion
2018
- How dogwhistles work
2018
- Nasal hardening and aspect allomorphy in Kaqchikel
2018
- Adverbs and variability in Kaqchikel agent focus: A reply to Erlewine (2016)
2018
- The composition of stativity in Chuj
2018
- Prosodic smothering in Macedonian and Kaqchikel
2018
- Pluractionality in mayan
2017
- Compositional semantics: An introduction to the syntax/semantics interface by Pauline Jacobson
2017
- A demonstration-based account of (pluractional) ideophones
2016
- Mayan Semantics
2016
- Variation in dependent indefinites
2016
- Introduction to Mayan Linguistics
2016
- Swarms: Spatiotemporal Grouping Across Domains
2016
- Expressive, much?
2015
- Linguistically establishing discourse context: Two case studies from Mayan languages
2015
- At-issue proposals and appositive impositions in discourse
2015
- AN OVERVIEW OF MAYAN PHONOLOGY, SYNTAX, AND SEMANTICS
2015
- More than words: Towards a development-based approach to language revitalization
2014
- Dependent indefinites and their post-suppositions
2014
- The prosodic structure of inflection in Kaqchikel (Mayan)
2014
- Quantizing scalar change
2013
- Accent in Uspanteko
2013
- Language revitalization and the problem of development in Guatemala: Case studies from health care
2012
- Ways of pluralizing events
2012
- The pragmatics of quantifier scope: A corpus study
2012
- A scalar account of Mayan positional roots
2012
- Morphological alternations at the intonational phrase edge
2012
- Pluractional distributivity and dependence
2011
- Agent focus morphology without a focused agent: restrictions on objects in Kaqchikel
2011
- Crossing the appositive/at-issue meaning boundary
2011
- So that we don’t lose words: reconstructing a Kaqchikel medical lexicon
2011
- Two binding puzzles in Mayan
2011
- Latest insertion in K’ichee’
2010
- Non-defeasible Counterfactuality Blocks Epistemic Inference: Evidence from" If not for" Counterfactuals
2010
- if not for” counterfactuals: negating causality in natural language
2010
- A case-agreement split in Kaqchikel
2009
- Varieties of Distributivity:'One by One'vs' Each'
2009
- Allomorphy and K’ichee’prosodic structure. Ms., UC Santa Cruz
2008
- Observations on the syntax of adjunct extraction in Kaqchikel
2007
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