Yael Sharvit
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Yael Sharvit's Degrees
- Bachelors Linguistics Tel Aviv University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Yael Sharvit is an American linguist who is Professor of Linguistics at UCLA. She specializes in semantics and the syntax-semantics interface. Education Sharvit received her PhD in linguistics from Rutgers University in 1997; she was the third person to graduate from the program. Her dissertation title was "The Syntax and Semantics of Functional Relative Clauses."
Yael Sharvit's Published Works
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Published Works
- The puzzle of free indirect discourse (2008) (129)
- A question of strength: on NPIs in interrogative clauses (2007) (116)
- Superlative Expressions, Context, and Focus (2002) (107)
- Connectivity in Specificational Sentences (1999) (107)
- Functional Relative Clauses (1999) (86)
- Resumptive Pronouns in Relative Clauses (1999) (81)
- Emedded Questions and ‘De Dicto’ Readings (2002) (58)
- Pluralities of Questions (2002) (52)
- Definite and Nondefinite Superlatives and NPI Licensing (2006) (50)
- Embedded Tense and Universal Grammar (2003) (42)
- The syntax and semantics of functional relative clauses (1997) (39)
- Bound 'de re' pronouns and the LFs of attitude reports (2014) (37)
- Free Indirect Discourse and 'De Re' Pronouns (2004) (34)
- On the Universal Principles of Tense Embedding: The Lesson from Before (2014) (30)
- Trying to be Progressive: the Extensionality of Try (2003) (29)
- Covaluation and Unexpected BT Effects (2011) (25)
- In defense of the grammatical approach to local implicatures (2012) (24)
- Plural Superlatives and Distributivity (2008) (22)
- A note on (Strawson) entailment (2017) (17)
- On the Calculation of Local Implicatures (2008) (17)
- Individual Concepts and Attitude Reports (1998) (14)
- Tense and Identity in Copular Constructions (2003) (12)
- Functional Dependencies and Indirect Binding (1996) (10)
- Edinburgh Research Explorer Towards a Dynamic Account of BE in English (2017) (9)
- Against 'Long' Movement of the Superlative Operator (2000) (9)
- The Onliest NP: Non-definite Definites (2015) (8)
- Sequence of Tense: Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics (2018) (7)
- Reconstruction and Its Problems (2003) (7)
- Fragment Functional Answers (2017) (6)
- Issues in the phonology and morphology of the Modern Hebrew Verbal System: Alignment constraints in (1994) (5)
- A Note on Intensional Superlatives (2005) (4)
- Coreference and Self-ascription (2007) (4)
- Qualities and translations (2020) (4)
- Infinitival Superlatives: English vs. Modern Hebrew (2010) (3)
- De re anaphors (2009) (3)
- Bound Tense in Relative Clauses: Evidence from VP-Ellipsis (2017) (2)
- Tense in Copular Constructions: Identifying Three Types of Copular Sentences (2000) (2)
- Faithfulness and De Se (2016) (2)
- Embedded Quantifiers in 'Which'- and 'Whether'-Questions (2002) (2)
- Some Remarks on Quantificational Variability and Question-Embedding Predicates (U. Lahiri, Questions and Answers in Embedded Contexts) (2004) (2)
- Cross-linguistic variation in 'before'-clauses (2011) (1)
- On the presuppositional strength of interrogative clauses (2021) (1)
- Revisiting Connectivity in Copular Sentences (2009) (1)
- Alternative interrogatives and Negative Polarity Items (2020) (1)
- On the semantics ofasand be. A neo-Carlsonian account (2001) (1)
- Qualities and translations (2019) (0)
- Functional and Pair-List Embedded Questions (1997) (0)
- TENSE AND IDENTITY IN (2003) (0)
- Sequence of Tense (2020) (0)
- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Alternative Disjunctions in Egyptian Arabic A thesis submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts (2012) (0)
- Against 'Lo ng' Movement of the Superlat ive Oper ato r (2000) (0)
- [Part III. Semantics, pragmatics and discourse, Bare minimizers] (2008) (0)
- Negative Polarity Items in Definite Superlatives (2020) (0)
- In defense of the grammatical approach to local implicatures (2011) (0)
- Belief or consequences (2022) (0)
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