Our research in semantics and pragmatics covers a wide range of topics and languages.
Our approach is broadly in the tradition of formal semantics as a branch of generative linguistics, built on foundational insights from the philosophy of language and logic. We especially value integrating theoretically-informed analysis with careful empirical description. Many of our students and faculty pursue semantic fieldwork as a methodology.
Topics we have worked on include (alphabetically) adverbial modification, complementation, degree semantics, discourse particles, evidentials, exclusive particles, expressive meaning, focus particles, (in)definiteness, lexical categories, metalinguistic phenomena, mood and modality, negation and polarity, nonrestrictive modification, noun incorporation, presupposition, pronouns, quantification, questions, and tense and aspect.