Contact Information |
Department of Linguistics
619 Williams Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
(215) 898-8183 (office)
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~nathanla/
nathanla@ling.upenn.edu
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Areas of Interest |
Formal semantics (concealed questions, question complements, tense);
Theoretic models (Primitive Optimality Theory, direct compositionality)
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Selected Papers |
(Links lead to abstracts and papers, or see the full list)
On the interpretation of concealed questions, 2005.
The interpretation and meaning of concealed questions, 2004.
Constraint Conjunction and OTP, 2001 version.
Either: Negative Polarity meets Focus Sensitivity, 1999.
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Employment |
- Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania (January 2007 - )
- LING 255: Formal Semantics and Cognitive Science (undergraduate), Spring 2008
- LING 553: Formal Semantics I (graduate), Spring 2008
- LING 106: Introduction to Formal Linguistics (undergraduate), Fall 2007
- LING 653: The Perfect (graduate seminar), Fall 2007
- LING 255: Formal Semantics and Cognitive Science (undergraduate), Spring 2007
- LING 590: Pragmatics I (graduate), Spring 2007
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Education |
- Graduate (September 1999 - November 2005)
- PhD, Department of Linguistics, MIT
- Undergraduate (May 1999)
- Brown University
- A.B., linguistics (with honors)
- A.B., mathematics
- Magna cum laude
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Academic Honors |
- June 2000 - June 2003
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- Spring 1999
- Phi Beta Kappa induction
- September 1998 - May 1999
- Faculty Scholar, Brown University
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