Scott AnderBois
Visiting Assistant Professor, Linguistics and Center for Language Sciences
Contact
Linguistics Office: 514 Lattimore Hall,
(585) 275-4258
E-mail: firstname.lastname@rochester.edu (firstname = scott, lastname = anderbois)
Courses
Fall 2012
- LIN 225/425 Introduction to Semantic Analysis (w/ Greg Carlson)
- LIN 266/466 Formal Pragmatics
Spring 2013
- LIN 110 Intro to Linguistic Analysis
- LIN 535 Graduate Pragmatics
Research Interests
My research uses a variety of empirical methods, including primary fieldwork on Yucatec Maya — an indigenous language of Mexico — to address questions in semantics, pragmatics, and its interfaces with other areas, especially syntax.
One broad theme in much of this work is the investigation of the ways in which compositional semantics contributes to the raising and resolving of issues in discourse, as well as on linguistic constructions which explicitly avoid raising and resolving the issue at-hand. Specific topics in these areas include: appositives, attitude reports, bias in polar questions, conditionals and other clausal adjuncts, disjunctions, evidentials, indefinites, negation, questions, sluicing and other ellipsis processes, unconditionals, and verum focus.
Publications and Presentations
See personal website for recent publications:
https://sites.google.com/site/anderbois2/Research