Adrian Brasoveanu

Assistant Professor, Linguistics Department, UC Santa Cruz
Linguistics, UCSC, Stevenson Faculty Services,
1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
 email: abrsvn at gmail.com
web page: http://abrsvn.googlepages.com/index.html

CV (pdf)

Research Interests (follow the links for papers & selected presentations):

    • anaphoric and quantificational parallels between the individual, temporal, modal and degree domains
e.g.: parallels between quantificational and modal subordination and between correlative structures in the individual and degree domains, interactions between discourse particles like therefore and quantificational and modal subordination, singular and plural donkey anaphora
    • ways of integrating different semantic and pragmatic frameworks
e.g.:  various strands of Montagovian and dynamic semantics
    • the cross-linguistic semantics (and syntax) of various constructions
e.g.: measure expressions and nominal phrases containing them (in Romanian, English etc.), uniqueness effects in donkey sentences and Hindi, Romanian etc. correlatives, types of indefinites and their scopal behavior, attitude and speech act reports etc.
  • Optimality Theory: the logic of ranking arguments; learnability theory; syntax
  • Romanian, Romance and Balkan Languages
  • Cognitive Science

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Dissertation: Structured Nominal and Modal Reference

Committee: Maria Bittner (chairperson), Hans Kamp (external member), Roger Schwarzschild and Matthew Stone

Teaching: Spring 2008