David Dowty
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David Dowty's Degrees
- PhD Linguistics University of Texas at Austin
- Masters Linguistics University of Texas at Austin
- Bachelors Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Roach Dowty is a linguist known primarily for his work in semantic and syntactic theory, and especially in Montague grammar and Categorial grammar. Dowty is a professor emeritus of linguistics at the Ohio State University, and his research interests mainly lie in Semantic and Syntactic Theory, Lexical semantics and Thematic roles, Categorial grammar, and Semantics of Tense and Aspect.
David Dowty's Published Works
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Published Works
- Thematic proto-roles and argument selection (1991) (3168)
- Word Meaning and Montague Grammar (1979) (2468)
- Introduction to Montague semantics (1980) (915)
- On the Semantic Content of the Notion of ‘Thematic Role’ (1989) (447)
- The effects of aspectual class on the temporal structure of discourse: semantics or pragmatics? (1986) (344)
- Natural Language Parsing: Psychological, Computational, and Theoretical Perspectives (1985) (285)
- Toward a semantic analysis of verb aspect and the English ‘imperfective’ progressive (1977) (284)
- Type Raising, Functional Composition, and Non-Constituent Conjunction (1988) (205)
- Grammatical Relations and Montague Grammar (1982) (196)
- Indexicality and Deixis* (1993) (151)
- Tenses, time adverbs, and compositional semantic theory (1982) (142)
- Natural Language Parsing (2005) (121)
- On recent analyses of the semantics of control (1985) (111)
- To ward a Minimalist Theory of Syntactic Structure (1992) (109)
- The Role of Negative Polarity and Concord Marking in Natural Language Reasoning (1994) (104)
- The Dual Analysis of Adjuncts/Complements in Categorial Grammar (2000) (104)
- Studies in the logic of verb aspect and time reference in English (1972) (102)
- Compositionality as an Empirical Problem (2006) (79)
- Non-verbal thematic proto-roles. (1993) (68)
- Toward a Nongrammatical Account of Thematic Roles (1988) (62)
- MONTAGUE GRAMMAR AND THE LEXICAL DECOMPOSITION OF CAUSATIVE VERBS (1976) (33)
- Non-Constituent Coordination, Wrapping, and Multimodal Categorial Grammars (1997) (27)
- Thematic Roles and Semantics (1986) (22)
- A guide to Montague's PTQ (1978) (16)
- SALT II: Proceedings from the Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory (2nd, Columbus, Ohio, May 1-3, 1992). Working Papers in Linguistics No. 40. (1992) (13)
- 5 Dative 'Movement' and Thomason's Extensions of Montague Grammar (1979) (10)
- The semantic assymmetry of 'argument alternations' (and why it matters) (2001) (8)
- The Semantics of Aspectual Classes of Verbs in English (1991) (6)
- The Role of Negative Polarity and ConcordMarking in Natural Language (1994) (5)
- Natural language parsing: Contributors (1985) (5)
- On NP-coordination (3)
- SALT II: Proceedings of the Second Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory. (Ohio State University, May 1-3, 1992) (1992) (3)
- Nominal Thematic Proto-Roles (1993) (2)
- First-Order Predicate Logic (2017) (2)
- Temporally Restrictive Adjectives (1972) (2)
- Interval Semantics and the Progressive Tense (1991) (1)
- SALT II : proceedings from the Second Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory, held at the Ohio State University, May 1-3, 1992 (1992) (1)
- Lexical Decomposition in Montague Grammar (1991) (1)
- The Syntax and Semantics of Tense and Time Adverbials in English: An English Fragment (1991) (0)
- An Annotated Bibliography of Further Work in Montague Semantics (1981) (0)
- A Higher-Order Type-Theoretic Language (1981) (0)
- Intensions and Psychological Reality (1991) (0)
- The Syntax and Semantics of Two Simple Languages (1981) (0)
- Linguistic Society of America Thematic Proto-Roles and Argument Selection (2007) (0)
- Preface (1986) (0)
- Montague’s General Semiotic Program (1981) (0)
- Montague’s Intensional Logic (1981) (0)
- Tense and Modal Operators (1981) (0)
- Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 2, Ohio State University (1992) (0)
- More on the Categorial Ana]ysis of Grammatical Relations (2007) (0)
- Linguistic Evidence for the Two Strategies of Lexical Decomposition (1991) (0)
- Book Reviews (1908) (0)
- Advertisements (1871) (0)
- Varia. Working Papers in Linguistics No. 47. (1995) (0)
- Montague’s General Theory of Languages and Linguistic Theories of Syntax and Semantics (1991) (0)
- The Grammar of PTQ (1981) (0)
- Papers in phonology (1996) (0)
- Foreword and Index (1992) (0)
- Advertisements (2003) (0)
- The Syntax and Semantics of Word Formation: Lexical Rules (1991) (0)
- Papers in Phonology. Working Papers in Linguistics No. 48. (1996) (0)
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