NYU LINGUISTICS

I am a second-year graduate student. I am interested in Semantics, particularly tense and aspect, negative polarity items, and the broad realm of quantification. My advisors are Anna Szabolcsi and Maria Gouskova.

NYU Department of Linguistics

726 Broadway 7th Floor Rm 702

New York, NY 10003

Current Courses (Fall 2007):

Seminar in Semantics, Szabolcsi

Seminar in Syntax, Collins

Sociolinguistics, Sanchez

Teaching:

Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Semantics, taught by Professor Chris Barker.

Fall 2007

Some recent work:

-Here is my MA Thesis on the interpretation of past tense markers in Spanish. But it is in Spanish. (2007)

-Here is a paper I wrote with Txuss Martin about NPIs in Catalan and Spanish. (2007)

-Here there will be a little paper I wrote about NPIs licensed by ‘rarely’.

Links to sites I love:

http://www.walkjogrun.net/

http://www.newyorktango.com/

http://www.urbandictionary.com/

http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/devils/

http://chavezpquintanar.wetpaint.com/

Education:

MA in Hispanic Linguistics

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

BA in Linguistics

National School of Anthropology and History, Mexico.