User:MalignantMouse/Mandy Simons
Mandy Simons | |
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| Alma mater | Cornell University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Linguistics |
| Website | CMU faculty page |
Mandy Simons is a linguist and professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University. She studies semantics and pragmatics, in particular phenomena like presupposition and projection.
Biography
[edit]Simons joined the faculty at CMU in 1998, and also holds an adjunct position at the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Linguistics.[1][2]
Awards
[edit]In 2013, her paper, "Toward a taxonomy of projective content," coauthored with Judith Tonhauser, David Beaver, and Craige Roberts won the 2013 Best Paper in Language (journal) Award from the Linguistic Society of America.[3]
Selected Publications
[edit]- Simons, Mandy (1 June 2007). "Observations on embedding verbs, evidentiality, and presupposition". Lingua. 117 (6): 1034–1056. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2006.05.006. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- Simons, Mandy; Tonhauser, Judith; Beaver, David; Roberts, Craige (14 August 2010). "What projects and why". Semantics and Linguistic Theory. 20 (0): 309–327. doi:10.3765/salt.v20i0.2584. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- Tonhauser, Judith; Beaver, David; Roberts, Craige; Simons, Mandy (2013). "Toward a Taxonomy of Projective Content". Language. 89 (1): 66–109. doi:10.1353/lan.2013.0001. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
References
[edit]- ^ University, Carnegie Mellon. "Mandy Simons - Department of Philosophy - Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Carnegie Mellon University". www.cmu.edu.
- ^ "Mandy Simons | Linguistics | University of Pittsburgh". www.linguistics.pitt.edu. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- ^ "Best Paper in Language Award Announced for 2013 | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 11 March 2022.