This semester also witnesses the arrival of a contingent of warmly welcomed visitors.<\/p>\n
Visiting Professor<\/strong><\/p>\n Luka Crnic<\/a> (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) :\u00a0I work on semantics and syntax. Some of the topics that I have pursued recently are exceptives and approximatives, degree constructions, and exhaustification.<\/p>\n Visiting Scholars<\/strong><\/p>\n Sascha Alexeyenko<\/a> (University of G\u00f6ttingen) :\u00a0My work lies at the interface of syntax and semantics of natural languages, and I am also interested in linguistic typology. Somewhat more specifically, the domains I have worked on include event semantics, categorial status of adjectives and adverbs, constraints on linearization, semantics of gradability, genericity, morphosyntax and semantics of nominalizations. My current\u00a0semantic\u00a0work concerns quantification in event semantics, looked at from the perspective of\u00a0habituality. And at the\u00a0syntactic front, I am currently\u00a0involved\u00a0in\u00a0a cross-linguistic investigation of the Head Final Filter, a constraint on linearization\u00a0which prohibits intervening material between prenominal modifiers and the\u00a0nouns they modify.<\/p>\n James Fidelholtz<\/a> (Benem\u00e9rita Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Puebla)<\/p>\n Juan Gao (Zhengzhou University of Aeronautics)<\/p>\n Todor Koev<\/a> (Universit\u00e4t Konstanz) :\u00a0My research program is grounded in formal semantics and pragmatics, and is informed by my interests in experimental linguistics, dynamic semantics, formal syntax, and Slavic and Germanic linguistics. Broadly speaking, I am interested in how grammar and discourse structure parameters constrain linguistic meaning and I have worked on topics such as parentheticality, evidentiality, modality, indefiniteness, at-issueness, projection, and adverbial modification. The methodologies I use to gain insights into these topics include traditional and experimental techniques of data collection as well as formal tools from logic and probabilistic reasoning. My far-reaching goal is to establish a reliable and predictive theory of the various factors (operator scope, projectivity, evidence source, information status, etc.) that anchor semantic content, thus refining our understanding of how seemingly independent meaning dimensions are integrated into a coherent whole.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ljiljana Progovac<\/a> (Wayne State University)<\/p>\n