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 semantics and syntax of sentential negativity, in particular as reflected in the semantics and syntax of polarity particles, n-words, downward entailing items and question tags
    • the cross-linguistic semantics and syntax of various constructions, e.g., 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
    • 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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