Adrian Brasoveanu
Linguistics, UCSC, Stevenson Faculty Services,
1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
 email: abrsvn at gmail.com
webpage: http://people.ucsc.edu/~abrsvn

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Research

    • the grammar and processing of quantification, plurality and comparison
      • e.g., relations between quantifiers and adjectives of comparison like same and different, ontological vs. evaluation pluralities, distributive vs. cumulative vs. collective readings
    • the cross-linguistic semantics and syntax of various constructions
      • e.g., polarity particles, n-words, modified numerals, correlatives, pseudo-partitives
    • anaphoric and quantificational parallels between the individual, temporal, modal and degree domains
    • ways of integrating different semantic and pragmatic frameworks
    • ways of integrating formal semantics, modern methods of data analysis and cognitive models of learning and processing semantic representations
    • applications to the logic of ranking arguments and logical structure of constraints in Optimality Theory
    • overarching goal: establish and solidify connections between (i) highly structured formal semantics theories and (ii) modern methods of data analysis and cognitive models of learning and processing rich abstract semantic representations

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