Last updated – October 2009

 

Galit W. Sassoon

ILLC / University of Amsterdam

galitadar@gmail.com

 

 

Research topics and manuscripts in progress

 

• The degree functions of negative adjectives

• Vagueness pertaining to degree constructions

• Evaluativity (norm-relatedness)

• Semantics with clusters of properties

• A typology of adjectives, Corpus-based studies

• A word class distinction: Adjectives, Nouns and more

• Lexical Acquisition through Acquisition order

 

 

Publications

 

 

In progress, The inhabitants of vagueness models.

 

In progress, Restricted quantification over tastes, Maria Aloni, Paul Dekker and Katrin Schultz (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventeenth Amsterdam Colloquium, Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), under the FoLLI LNAI subline.

 

In progress, Multidimensional adjectives versus nouns, Falk, Yehuda (Ed.), Proceedings of the Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics 25, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.

 

 

2009 (to appear), Measurement theory in linguistics, Synthese, a special issue on Vagueness, edited by Robert van Rooij.

 

2009, Graded Individuals, Vague Discourse Entities, Falk, Yehuda (Ed.), Proceedings of the Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics 24, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

 

2009, Semantics with clusters of properties. In: Kissine Mikhail and Philippe De Brabanter (Eds.), Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive models, CRISPI, Emerald group publishing.

 

2009, Vagueness in Degree Constructions. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13, CLC publications.

 

2009, Negative predicates – The quantity metaphor and transformation values. Tova Friedman and Satoshi Ito (Eds.) Proceedings of SALT XVIII, CLC publications.

 

2008, The Notion of Typicality, in Jean R. Lapaire, Guillaume Desagulier, Jean .B. Guignard (Eds.) Du fait grammatical au fait cognitif. From Gram to Mind: Grammar as Cognition, Vol. II, 217-36. Presses Universitaires De Bordeaux, France.

 

2007, Vagueness, Gradability, and Typicality – A comprehensive semantics analysis, unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Supervisor: Dr. Nirit Kadmon, Tel Aviv University.

  

2007, The Logic of the Typicality Judgments, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11, September 21-23, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.

 

2005, Typicality – An Improved Analysis, Falk, Yehuda (Ed.), Proceedings of the Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics 21, The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.

 

2004, Review: Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader / Aarts et al. (2004), Linguist List 15.3335.

 

2002, Semantics with clusters of properties”, Falk, Yehuda (Ed.), Proceedings of the Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics 18, Bar Ilan University, Israel.

 

2001, Predicate interpretations as intensions restricted along dimensions, unpublished MA Thesis, Supervisor: Prof. Fred Landman, Tel Aviv University.

 

 

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