Lynsey Wolter
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Meliora Hall, Box 270268
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
Department of Linguistics
Lattimore Hall, Box 270096
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
E-mail: lwolter AT ling DOT rochester DOT edu
Office: Lattimore 510, x5-4084
Research Interests
- Semantics and pragmatics of definiteness
- Semantics-pragmatics interface; formal pragmatics
- Interaction of nominal interpretation with modality
- Experimental investigation of reference resolution
Papers
2007. Situation variables and licensing by modification in opaque demonstratives. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11. [pdf]
2006. Definite determiners and domain restriction. Proceedings of NELS 36 [pdf]
2004. Demonstratives, definiteness and determined reference. Short version, Proceedings of NELS 34 [pdf], or long version, ms., UCSC [pdf]
2003. Syncope in K'ichee'. Ms., UCSC. [pdf]
2002. Fall-rise, topic, and speaker noncommitment. Proceedings of WECOL 2002. [pdf]
Handouts
2007. Comments on Jeff King's paper on complex demonstratives. Cornell Workshop on Complex Demonstratives. [pdf]
2007. With Daphna Heller. That is Rosa: Identificational sentences as intensional predication. Sinn und Bedeutung 12. [pdf]
2006. Bridging demonstratives at the semantics-pragmatics interface. LSA Annual Meeting, Albuquerque. [pdf]
2005. Nonuniqueness implications in demonstrative descriptions. LSA Annual Meeting, Oakland. [pdf]
Teaching
Spring 2008: Introduction to Grammatical Systems, with Jeff Runner
Spring 2007: Introduction to Grammatical Systems, University of Rochester Linguistics Dept. (syllabus)
Fall 2005: Pragmatics, UCSC Linguistics Dept. (syllabus)
Spring 2006: Writing 1/Writing 2: Thinking and Writing about Language, UCSC Writing Program (syllabus)