My research focuses largely on two matters: how context intrudes into or guides the interpretive process and how perspective is grammatically represented. These are manifested by my interest in the de re/de se/de dicto contrasts, the nature of subjectivity in evaluative and epistemic predication, and the structure of indexical shift.
Current Projects
  • the structure of narrative texts
  • evidential restrictions and subjective language
  • the syntax-semantics interface in sluicing
Selected Papers
Anand, Pranav, Maziar Toosarvandani (2022) ‘Narrative and point of view’ Linguistics meets Philosophy, Daniel Altshuler ed., Cambridge University Press
Anand, Pranav, Natasha Korotkova (2022) ‘How to theorize about subjective language: a lesson from \'de re\'’ Linguistics and Philosophy 45:619-681
Nguyen, Allison, Tom Roberts, Pranav Anand, Jean Fox Tree (2022) ‘Look, Dude: How hyperpartisan and non-hyperpartisan speech differ in online commentary’ Discourse and Society, 33(3):371-390
Anand, Pranav, Maziar Toosarvandani (2021) ‘Embedded presents and the structure of narratives’ Proceedings of SALT 30, 801-20
Anand, Pranav, Natasha Korotkova (2021) ‘Find, must and conflicting evidence’ Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25, 515-532
Anand, Pranav, Dan Hardt, Jim McCloskey (2021) ‘The Santa Cruz sluicing data set’ Language 97(1), e68-88
Zhou, Hongwei, Pranav Anand, Oskar Elek, Angus G. Forbes (2020) ‘Bio-inspired Structure Identification in Language Embeddings’ Proceedings of IEEE 5th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities (VIS4DH)
Anand, Pranav, Jane Grimshaw, Valentine Hacquard (2019) ‘Speech Act Predicates and their Subjects’ Tokens of Meaning: A Festschrift for Lauri Kartunnen. UChicago Press
Anand, Pranav, Maziar Toosarvandani (2019) ‘Now and then: Perspectives on positional variance in temporal demonstratives’ Proceedings of SuB 23, 19-36
Wu, Jiaqi, Ryan Compton, Geetanjai Rakshit, Pranav Anand, Marilyn Walker, Steve Whittaker (2019) ‘CruzAffect at AffCon 2019 Shared Task: A feature-rich approach to characterize happiness’ Proceedings of AffCon219
Wu, Jiaqi, Pranav Anand, Marilyn Walker, Steve Whittaker (2019) ‘Linguistic Reflexes of Well Being and Happiness in ECHO’ Proceedings of WASSA 8
Anand, Pranav, Natasha Korotkova (2018) ‘Acquaintance content and obviation’ Proceedings of SuB 22
Anand, Pranav, Maziar Toosarvandani (2018) ‘No explanation for the historical present: Temporal sequencing and discourse’ Proceedings of SuB 22
Anand, Pranav, Maziar Toosarvandani (2017) ‘Unifying the canonical, historical, and play-by-play present’ Proceedings of SuB 21
Reed, Lena, Shereen Oraby, Jiaqi Wu, Pranav Anand, Marilyn Walker (2017) ‘Learning Lexical-Functional Patterns for First-Person Affect’ Proceedings of ACL 2017
Lukin, Stephanie, Pranav Anand, Steve Whittaker, Marilyn Walker (2017) ‘Argument Strength is in the Eye of the Beholder: Audience Effects in Persuasion’ Proceedings of EACL 2017
Rahimtoroghi, Elah, Jiaqi Wu, Ruimin Wang, Pranav Anand, Marilyn Walker (2017) ‘Modelling Protagonist Goals and Desires in First Person Narrative’ Proceedings of SIGDIAL 2017
Misra, Amita, Shereen Oraby, Shubhangi Tandon, Pranav Anand, Marilyn Walker (2017) ‘Summarizing Dialogic Arguments from Social Media’ Proceedings of SEMDIAL 2017
Anand, Pranav, Dan Hardt (2016) ‘Antecedent Selection for Sluicing: Structure and Content’ Proceedings of EMNLP 2016
Abbott, Rob, Brian Ecker, Pranav Anand, Marilyn Walker (2016) ‘Internet Argument Corpus 2.0: An SQL schema for Dialogic Social Media and the Corpora to go with it’ Proceedings of LREC 2016
Anand, Pranav, Jim McCloskey (2015) ‘Annotating the Implicit Content of Sluicing’ Proceedings of LAW 9, NAACL 2015
Misra, Amita, Pranav Anand, Jean Fox Tree, Marilyn Walker (2015) ‘Using Summarization to Discover Argument Facets in Online Ideological Dialog’ Proceedings of NAACL 2015
Anand, Pranav, Valentine Hacquard (2014) ‘Factivity, Belief and Discourse’ The Art and Craft of Semantics: A Festschrift for Irene Heim. MITWPL
Anand, Pranav and Valentine Hacquard (2013) ‘Epistemics and attitudes’ Semantics and Pragmatics 6(8): 1-59
Walker, Marilyn A., Pranav Anand, Jean E. Fox Tree, Rob Abbott, Joseph King (2012) ‘A Corpus for Research on Deliberation and Debate’ Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2012
Walker, Marilyn A. Pranav Anand, Rob Abbott, Ricky Grant (2012) ‘Stance Classification using Dialogic Properties of Persuasion’ Proceedings of ACL-HLT 2012
Walker, Marilyn A. Pranav Anand, Rob Abbott, Jean E. Fox Tree, Craig Martell, Joseph King (2012) ‘That\'s your evidence?: Classifying stance in online political debate’ Decision Support Sciencesi 53(4):719–729
Anand, Pranav and Craig Martell (2012) ‘Annotating the Focus of Negation in terms of Questions Under Discussion’ Proceedings of Extra-propositional aspects of meaning in computational linguistics (ExPromM 2012), ACL-HLT 2012
Reschke, Kevin and Pranav Anand (2012) ‘POLITICAL-ADS: An annotated corpus of event-level evaluativity’ Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis,ACL-HLT 2012
Anand, Pranav, Henry Escuadro, Ralucca Gera, Stephen G. Hartke, and Derrick Stolee (2012) ‘On the hardness of recognizing triangular line graphs’ Discrete Mathematics
Anand, Pranav, Caroline Andrews, Donka Farkas, and Matthew Wagers (2012) ‘The exclusive interpretation of plurals nouns in quantificational environments’ Proceedings of SALT 21, CLC Publications, Ithaca, NY
Reschke, Kevin and Pranav Anand (2011) ‘Extracting Contextual Evaluativity’ Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics
Rob Abbot, Marilyn Walker, Pranav Anand, Jean E. Fox Tree, Robeson Bowmani, and Joseph King. (2011) ‘How can you say such things?!?:Recognizing Disagreement in Informal Political Argument.’ Proceedings of the Workshop on Language in Social Media (LSM 2011), ACL-HLT 2011
Anand, Pranav, Marilyn Walker, Rob Abbot, Jean E. Fox Tree, Robeson Bowmani, and Michael Minor (2011) ‘Cats Rule and Dogs Drool!: Classifying Stance in Online Debate’ Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis, ACL-HLT 2011
Anand, Pranav, Joseph King, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Earl Wagner, Craig Martell, Doug Oard, and Philip Resnik (2011) ‘Believe Me: We Can Do This!. Annotating Persuasive Acts in Blog Text.’ AAAI-2011 Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument.
Young, Joel, Pranav Anand, Craig Martell, Pedro Ortiz, and H. Tucker Gilbert (2011) ‘A Microtext Corpus for Persuasion Detection in Dialog’ AAAI-2011 Workshop on Analyzing Microtext
Anand, Pranav, Henry Escuadro, Ralucca Gera and Craig Martell (2011) ‘Triangular line graphs and word sense disambiguation’ Discrete Applied Mathematics
Anand, Pranav, and Adrian Brasoveanu (2010) ‘Modal Concord as Modal Modification’ Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 14
Anand, Pranav, and Valentine Hacquard (2010) ‘The role of the Imperfect in Romance Counterfactuals’ Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 14
Gehrke, Grant, Craig Martell, Andrew Schein, and Pranav Anand (2010) ‘Projecting Away the Class Imbalance Problem in Author Attribution’ International Journal of Semantic Computing 3(3), 365-382
Anand, Pranav (2009) ‘Kinds of Taste’ ms, UCSC
Anand, Pranav, and Valentine Hacquard (2009) ‘Epistemics with Attitude’ Proceedings of SALT 18, CLC Publications, Ithaca, NY
Anand, Pranav (2008) ‘Dream Report Pronouns, Local Binding, and Attitudes De Se’ Proceedings of SALT 17, CLC Publications, Ithaca, NY
Anand, Pranav (2008) ‘Re-expressing Judgment’ Theoretical Linguistics 33(2), 199-208.
Anand, Pranav (2007) ‘Long-distance Indexicals’ Proceedings of NELS 36.
Anand, Pranav and Valentine Hacquard (2007) ‘When the Present is all in the Past’ Recent advances in the syntax and semantics of tense, mood and aspect, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.
Anand, Pranav and Andrew Nevins (2007) ‘The Locus of Ergative Case Assignment: Evidence from Scope’ Ergativity: Emerging Issues, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Anand, Pranav and Feng-fan Hsieh (2005) ‘Long-distance reflexives in perspective’ Proceedings of WCCFL 24, Cascadilla, Somerville, MA.
Anand, Pranav and Danni Tang (2004) ‘Redistributing \'dou\': Cleaving Exhaustivity from Distributivity’ Proceedings of WCCFL 23, Cascadilla, Somerville, MA.
Anand, Pranav and Andrew Nevins (2004) ‘Shifty Indexicals in Changing Contexts’ Proceedings of SALT 14, CLC Publication.
Nevins, Andrew and Pranav Anand (2003) ‘Some AGREEment Matters’ Proceedings of WCCFL 22, Cascadilla, Somerville, MA.
David Anderson, John Burger, John Griffith, Marc Light, Scott Mardix, Alex Morgan, and Pranav Anand (2001) ‘Qanda and the Catalyst Architecture’ Proceedings of TREC 2.
Breck, Eric, Marc Light, Gideon S. Mann, Ellen Riloff, Brianne Brown, Pranav Anand, Mats Rooth, and Michael Thelen (2001) ‘Looking Under the Hood: Tools for Diagnosing your Question Answering Engine’ Proceedings of the Workshop on Open-Domain Question Answering.
Courses
Winter 2024
Ling 119: Narratives

Fall 2023
Ling 231: Semantics A

Summer 2023
HUMN 35: Language Technology: Themes Across Cultures and Histories

Summer 2022
Ling 80K: Invented Languages: From Elvish to Esperanto

Spring 2022
Ling 80K: Invented Languages: From Elvish to Esperanto

Winter 2022
NLP 270: Linguistic Models of Syntax and Semantics for Engineers

Fall 2021
Ling 239: Semantics Seminar: Intonational Meaning

Summer 2021
Ling 80K: Invented Languages: From Elvish to Esperanto

Spring 2021
Ling 80K: Invented Languages: From Elvish to Esperanto

Winter 2021
NLP 270: Linguistic Models of Syntax and Semantics for Engineers

Ling 231: Semantics A

Summer 2020
Ling 80K: Invented Languages: From Elvish to Esperanto

Spring 2020
Ling 232: Semantics B

Ling 80K: Invented Languages: From Elvish to Esperanto

Fall 2019
Ling 112: Syntax 1

Summer 2019
Ling 80K: Invented Languages: From Elvish to Esperanto

Spring 2019
Ling 80K: Invented Languages: From Elvish to Esperanto

Winter 2019
Ling 112: Syntax 1

Summer 2018
Ling 80K: Invented Languages: From Elvish to Esperanto

Ling 50: Introduction to Linguistics

Winter 2018
Ling 232: Semantics B

Fall 2017
Ling 80K: Invented Languages: From Elvish to Esperanto

Summer 2017
Ling 50: Introduction to Linguistics

Spring 2017
Ling 118: Semantics 3

Ling 80D: Language and Mind

Winter 2017
Ling 112: Syntax 1

Fall 2016
Ling 231: Semantics A

Spring 2016
Ling 108: Poetry and Language

Winter 2016
Ling 53: Semantics 1

Ling 248: Topics in Computational Methods

Fall 2015
Ling 231: Semantics A

Ling 53: Semantics 1

Winter 2015
Ling 116: Semantics 2

Ling 53: Semantics 1

Fall 2014
Ling 239: Semantics Seminar: Argument Structure

Summer 2014
Ling 53: Semantics 1

Winter 2014
Ling 231: Semantics A

Fall 2013
Ling 144: Computation Methods for Linguists

Summer 2013
Ling 53: Semantics 1

Spring 2013
Winter 2013
Ling 232: Semantics B

Ling 117: Pragmatics

Spring 2012
Ling 117: Pragmatics

Ling 233: Semantics C

Winter 2012
Ling 53: Semantics 1

Ling 290: Research Seminar

Fall 2010
Ling 53: Semantics 1

Ling 231: Semantics A

Spring 2010
Winter 2010
Ling 116: Semantics 2

Fall 2009
Ling 231: Semantics A


Winter 2009
Fall 2008
Ling 53: Semantics 1


Winter 2008
Ling 116: Semantics 2

Fall 2007
Ling 231: Semantics A

Ling 53: Semantics 1

Spring 2007
Ling 116: Semantics 2

Winter 2007
Ling 232: Semantics B

Fall 2006
Ling 239: Semantics Seminar: The Semantics of De Se Expressions