New York University
Department of Linguistics
10 Washington Place, room 511
New York, NY 10003
U.S.A.
email: smasc [at] nyu [dot] edu
phone: 212-992-8615
Research Interests
I am a second-year
Ph.D.
candidate at NYU Linguistics, working primarily on natural language
semantics. At a broad level, I'm interested in how a theory
of meaning
in natural languages can be developed using the tools of formal logic.
In particular, I am interested in, and have worked on,
- the semantics of natural language questions and erotetic logics;
- dialog coherence in the pragmatics of questions and answers;
- dynamic semantics for anaphora and presupposition;
- choice-functional indefinites.
I have also worked on phonology—vowel height alternations in the
European Portuguese verbal system—and syntax—specifically
double-complementizer structures.
Finally, I'm very interested in theoretical linguistics, a fancy way to refer to the search for a sense in what we linguists do. In the pursuit of that holy grail, I often find myself reading on philosophy of language and cognitive science.
Finally, I'm very interested in theoretical linguistics, a fancy way to refer to the search for a sense in what we linguists do. In the pursuit of that holy grail, I often find myself reading on philosophy of language and cognitive science.
Below is a list of
publications, manuscripts and talks I've given, with links
to full .pdf
versions of papers or slides whenever possible.
- 2009 (September). Inquisitive Semantics and Logic.
MSc in Logic thesis. Amsterdam: Institute for Logic,
Language and Computation. [will be available soon]
- 2008 (January). Inquisitive Semantics, an
overview. Unpublished manuscript. Amsterdam: ILLC. [.pdf]
- 2007. Complementizer doubling in European Portuguese. Unpublished manuscript. Amsterdam: ILLC. [.pdf]
- 2006. Notes on sentential connections
(predominantly) in Portuguese. With João Andrade
Peres. Journal
of Portuguese Linguistics, vol 5.1: 113-169.
- 2005. Exceptions as reanalysis in
Portuguese vowel height alternations.
With Andrew Nevins and Ashtamurthy Killimangalam.
Talk
given at the XXI Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Linguistics
(APL). Porto, Portugal.