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Luisa Marti, PhD (UConn)

Luisa

Senior Lecturer in Spanish Linguistics

Email: luisa.marti@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8323
Room Number: Arts One 1.24
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/luisamartiswebsite/
Office Hours: please e-mail for an appointment

Profile

I am a theoretical linguist with a specialization in semantics and its interfaces with morpho-syntax and pragmatics. My current work investigates issues such as the syntax and semantics of grammatical number and of numerals, the nature of natural language quantification, the relationship between the morphology of quantifiers and the possible meanings they can express, and the representation of implicit content in the syntax of natural languages. I study these issues from a theoretical, cross-linguistic and experimental perspective. I work on Imere, Spanish, German, English, Slovenian, Russian and other languages. I've recently held a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant on the scopal and identifiability properties of Russian indefinites with Tania Ionin, from the University of Illinois. I now hold another British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant, together with my colleague Coppe van Urk, to undertake research on Imere, an understudied language spoken in Vanuatu.

 

Research

Research Interests:

Semantics and its interfaces with morpho-syntax and pragmatics

Publications

(2022) “Zero N: Morphology and Semantics”, Natural Language Semantics, 30, 215–237

(2020a) Dual Numbers and the Typology of the Numeral-Noun Construction. Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 19, 159–198.

(2020b) Numerals and the Theory of Number. Semantics and Pragmatics. 13, 3.

(2020c) Inclusive Plurals and the Theory of Number. Linguistic Inquiry, 51, 37-74.

(2019) Wide Scope Indefinites in Russian: an Experimental Investigation. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 4:1, 4 (with Tania Ionin)

(2015a) 'The morphosemantics of Spanish indefinites', Proceedings of SALT 25, 576-594

(2015b) 'Grammar vs. Pragmatics: Carving Nature at the Joints', Mind and Language, 30: 4, 437-473

(2010) 'A Unified Approach to Split Scope', Natural Language Semantics, 18:4, 435-70 (wih Klaus Abels)

(2009) 'Contextual Restrictions on Indefinites: Spanish algunos and unos', in A. Giannakidou and M. Rathert (eds.), Quantification, Definiteness and Nominalization, Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 22 (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 108-132

(2008) 'The Semantics of Plural Indefinites in Spanish and Portuguese', Natural Language Semantics, 16:1, 1-37

(2007) 'Restoring Indefinites to Normalcy: an Experimental Study on the Scope of Spanish algunos', Journal of Semantics, 24:1, 1-25

(2006) 'Unarticulated Constituents Revisited', Linguistics and Philosophy, 29:2, 135-66 (reprinted in A. Kasher (ed.), Pragmatics: Critical Concepts II (London and New York: Routledge, 2011)

(2003) Contextual Variables, MITWPL, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

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