Meaning and Grammar Research Group

Syntax, semantics, pragmatics, morphology and their interfaces

The meaning and grammar group conducts research in a wide range of core areas of linguistic theory, including syntax, semantics, pragmatics, morphology and the interface between those areas. Members of the group work as individuals, in collaboration with each other, and in partnership with other researchers in Edinburgh and at other universities.

The research group provides a regular forum for presentation of original research in this area being carried out by group members, and scholars from outside Edinburgh. It also constitutes a grouping for planning and organising collaborative research.

Meaning & Grammar Research Group Seminars

The meaning and grammar group meets roughly every two weeks, to discuss theoretical issues of common interest, work in progress or published papers. There are also occasional informal presentations by invited speakers from outside Edinburgh.

To contact the MGRG organizers, email synsem-request@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk. 

To subscribe to the group's mailing list and hear about future events, go to the mailing lists service and click on 'subscribe'.

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Upcoming meetings

Upcoming events are listed on the LEL events page

If you'd like more information on dates and venues this semester, or if you'd like to present, please subscribe to our mailing list (see above).

People

Staff who work in this area include:

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Research interests
Peter AckemaTheoretical syntax and morphology; interaction between morphology and syntax; lexical integrity effects; phrasal derivation
András BáránySyntax and morphosyntax of languages of the world; language variation
Chris CumminsExperimental semantics and pragmatics; quantity expressions; implicature; presupposition; dialogue modelling
Nikolas GisborneSyntax, particularly dependency theory and word grammar; events and event structure; lexical semantics; language change
Caroline HeycockSyntactic theory; syntactic variation and change; Germanic; Japanese
Itamar KastnerMorphology; syntax; argument structure; lexical semantics; morphophonology; interfaces between grammatical modules; computational modelling; lexical processing
Catherine LaiSpeech prosody, spoken language understanding, affective computing, semantics, pragmatics, information structure

Alex Lascarides

(Informatics)

Theoretical and computational linguistics; semantics; pragmatics; logic and knowledge representation
Dan LassiterSemantics, pragmatics, reasoning, causal language and cognition, philosophy of language, linguistic applications of probability and decision theory
Hannah RohdeExperimental pragmatics; information structure; coherence; coreference; social reasoning; rational models of communication
Wolfgang SchwarzStructure and interpretation of probability in science, the status of laws, and selected topics in philosophy of physics and cognitive science
Antonella SoraceLanguage development in child and adult bilinguals; bilingualism and general cognition; gradience at the lexicon-syntax interface

Mark Steedman

(Informatics)

Computational linguistics; spoken intonation; spoken language processing
Rob TruswellSyntax; semantics; language change; diachronic typology; locality; event structure
Wataru UegakiSemantics, Syntax, Pragmatics and their interfaces. Especially, clausal complementation, questions, the semantics of attitudinal predicates and constraints on lexical denotations

Postgraduate study

For further information about postgraduate study in meaning and grammar, contact Professor Nikolas Gisborne.

Nikolas Gisborne

 

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