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in the Linguistics
Department at the University
of California San Diego. My main interest as a teacher
and a researcher is the study of how different languages assemble
words to form sentences (syntax) and how sentences can be
used to convey meaning (semantics and pragmatics). If you
like linguistic jargon, I'm a linguist who is interested in
crosslinguistic formal semantics and its
interfaces with formal pragmatics and formal syntax.
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber
muß man schweigen. 'What we cannot speak about we
must pass over in silence.' or 'Whereof one
cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.' -
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-philosophicus, Prop.
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Richard Montague (1930-1971) |
I'm currently working on an intellectual and personal
biography of Richard Montague (1930-1971), a brilliant
philosopher and logician, who, among other achievements, fathered
formal semantics of natural languages just a few years before
he was murdered. I have been conducting archival researches
and interviews since 2013. I have been awarded an APS
Research Grant, an NEH
Summer Stipend Award, an ACLS
Fellowship and a CASBS
Fellowship at Stanford University to work on this project.
The biography is under contract with Oxford University Press.
Some preliminary findings, including photos, video clips,
and audio clips are available at the project
web page. |
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Headless Relative Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages |
 I've
lead a project a project on the morpho-syntax and semantics
of Headless Relative Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages
together with Harold
Torrence and Roberto
Zavala Maldonado. The project is supported by grants from
UC MEXUS-CONACYT, UC San Diego Social Sciences, and UCLA Academic
Senate. A book by Oxford University Press with the results
of our investigation was published in 2020 (Publisher's
book webpage). Final drafts of Front
Matter and Chapter
1, the introductory chapter I wrote, can be accessed freely
on the book
webpage within the project
website, which also cointains detailed information about
the project and video clips with interviews to each of the
participants. |
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S-Babble
I co-organize Syntax
and Semantics Babble (S-Babble), a weekly informal
discussion group at UC San Diego on theoretical and experimental
aspects of syntax and semantics and their interfaces with
morphology, pragmatics, and philosophy of language. |
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