Irene Heim is professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  She received her Ph.D. in 1982 from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  Her research interests are in formal semantics and its interfaces with syntax and pragmatics, and she has written about topics such as definiteness, donkey anaphora, presupposition projection, reciprocals, and comparatives.  Recent publications include "Predicates or formulas? Evidence from Ellipsis" (SALT 1997), "Semantics in Generative Grammar" (with Angelika Kratzer, Blackwell textbook), and "Degree Operators and Scope" (SALT 2000).

Direct Compositionality: Binding and Ellipsis | LSA.228
with Pauline Jacobson
TR 4:50-6:30
Three Week Course | Second Session