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Mereology & no-overlap
My dissertation investigates how the mereological notion of no-overlap constrains the licensing of a broad range of semantic structures.
01 / Research
My work focuses on formal semantics and its interfaces.
I am researching what rules govern the interplay between entailment and grammaticality, with a special interest in understanding what logical system is best suitable to model such rules. I work on a handful of puzzles: Hurford disjunction, plurals, free choice, and ellipsis. Alongside these topics, I'm also very interested in visual perception and shape parsing.
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Disjunction & free choice
The inferences licensed by disjunction, with particular attention to Hurford configurations and free-choice effects.
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Plurality
Plural predication, numerous-like expressions, genericity, maximality, and the architecture of plural meaning.
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Ellipsis & syntax
How unpronounced material is interpreted, and what VP-ellipsis and parasitic gaps reveal about structural parallelism.