Anna Szabolcsi

Department of Linguistics
New York University
726 Broadway, Rm. 717
New York, NY 10003

Email: anna.szabolcsi@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-998-7956
Fax: 212-995-4707

Areas of research: formal semantics; Hungarian syntax; syntax/semantics interface.

Selected Publications ......... Downloadable Papers ......... Links ......... ESSLLI 2007 Course

Workshops on Polarity and Proof theory at the syntax/semantics interface and Structure of Hungarian

Degrees:

PhD. 1987 (Linguistics), Hungarian Academy of Sciences;
M.A. 1978 (Linguistics), Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest;
B.A. 1976 (English and Linguistics), Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

Previous academic appointments:

Department of Linguistics, UCLA, 1990-1998.
Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1978-1990.

Service/Grants/Fellowships/Honors:

Associate Editor, Journal of Semantics, 2005-Present.
Associate Editor, Linguistics and Philosophy, 1997-2003.
Semantics Section Editor for Language and Linguistics Compass, Blackwell, 2006/07.
Editorial Board, Linguistics and Philosophy, Natural Language Semantics, Journal of Language, Logic, and Information, Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax, 1993-Present.
Chair, Linguistics, NYU, 2001-2006.
Director of Graduate Studies, Linguistics, NYU, 1999-2001.
Department Head, Research Institute for Linguistics, HAS, 1989-1990.
Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1999.
National Science Foundation, Model Theoretic Semantics, Proof Theoretic Semantics, Semantically Flavored Syntactic Features (w/ Ed Stabler), 2005.
National Science Foundation, Weak Islands and Scope, 1993-95.
Faculty, European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) 1991, 2007.
Faculty, Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute, 1993.
Zoltán Gombocz Medal, Linguistic Society of Hungary, 1989.
Visiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1997.
Visiting Fellow, Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh, 1988.
A.P.Sloan Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984/85.
Visiting Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 1983.

Recent student work supervised:

Eytan Zweig, Dependent Plurals and Plural Meaning. PhD, 2007. pdf
Keith Fernandes, On the Significance of Speech. PhD (co-chair: Gary Marcus), 2007. abstr
Jason Shaw, Generalizing BUT: Exceptive and Conjunction. Qualifying Paper, 2006.
Andrea Cattaneo, Interpreting Italian Null Objects. QP, 2006. nels37
Rahul Balusu, Distributive Reduplication in Telugu. QP, 2005. nels36
Eytan Zweig, The Implications of Dependent Plurals. QP, 2005. nels36
Oana Ciucivara, Oarecare Indefinites Are Not Just Any Indefinites. QP, 2004. pdf
Laura Rimell, Habitual Sentences and Generic Quantification. QP, 2004. wccfl23
Thomas Leu, Donkey Pronouns Are Abstract Animals. QP (co-chair Elbourne), 2004. nels35
Erez Levon, Inversion in Hebrew. QP, 2002. console10
Vladislav Rapoport, Structure and Interpretation of Russian Quantifier Phrases. QP, 2000.
Ken Lacy, An Antisymmetry Approach to Wh-movement in Japanese. QP, 2000.
Martin Honcoop, Dynamic Excursions on Weak Islands. PhD, Leiden University, 1998. pdf
Mary Baltazani, Focus in Greek, MA, UCLA, 1998. ps
Filippo Beghelli, The Phrase Structure of Quantifier Scope. PhD, UCLA, 1995.order

Courses taught at NYU:

Undergraduate

Graduate

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