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Paul Portner is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. He received his undergraduate degree in Philosophy at Princeton, and received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1992 with a dissertation on the comparative semantics of gerunds, infinitives, subjunctives, and infinitives. Since then he has worked on mood and modality, tense and aspect, information structure, and (in collaboration with Raffaella Zanuttini) clause types. In all of this research, he has been especially interested in the interface of compositional semantics with pragmatics/discourse semantics on the one hand, and with syntax on the other. Representative publications are “The Semantics of Mood, Complementation, and Conversational Force,” in Natural Language Semantics; “The Temporal Semantics and Modal Pragmatics of the Perfect,” in Linguistics and Philosophy; and (with Raffaella Zanuttini) “Exclamative Clauses: At the Syntax-Semantics Interface,” in Language.

Clause Typing: From Syntax to Discourse Semantics | LSA.203
with Raffaella Zanuttini
MW 1:00-2:40
Three Week Course | Second Session