Lynsey Kay Wolter: Curriculum Vitae

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

lwolter AT ling DOT rochester DOT edu

phone numbers available on request

Academic Positions

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Language Sciences, University of Rochester. Fall 2006--present.

Education

Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz, June 2006
Dissertation: A Compositional Semantics of Demonstrative Descriptions
Dissertation committee: Donka F. Farkas (chair), William A. Ladusaw, and James McCloskey

Additional coursework at UCSC: Writing 203, Teaching Writing, Spring 2005

Visiting Graduate Student, Department of Linguistics, UMass--Amherst, Fall 2004
Faculty sponsor: Angelika Kratzer

B.A. with High Honors in Linguistics, minor in Psychology, Swarthmore College, 2000.
Honors thesis: The case of predicates: questions of control and binding
Thesis advisors: Donna Jo Napoli and Theodore B. Fernald

Russian State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg, Russia, Spring 1999
ACTR Education Abroad Program

Awards and Honors

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2002--2005

Dean's Fellowship, UCSC, 2001--2002

Mellon Fellowship, 2000--2001

Phi Beta Kappa, Swarthmore College, 2000

Honorable Mention, University of Maryland Undergraduate Essay Prize in Linguistics, 2000

National Merit Scholarship, 1996

Papers

in prep.	Attributive and opaque demonstratives. Under revision for Natural Language Semantics.
	That is Rosa: Identificational sentences as intensional predication. With Daphna Heller. Forthcoming in Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 12.
	Demonstratives; Domain restriction. To appear in Encyclopedia of Pragmatics, Louise Cummings, ed. Routledge.
2007	Situation variables and licensing by modification in opaque demonstratives. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11.
	Demonstrative determiners. Submitted for review to Linguistics and Philosophy.
2006	Definite determiners and domain restriction. In Proceedings of NELS 36. Chris Davis, Amy Rose Deal, and Youri Zabbal, eds. Amherst, MA: GLSA.
2004	Demonstratives, definiteness and determined reference. In Proceedings of NELS 34. Keir Moulton and Matthew Wolf, eds. Amherst, MA: GLSA.
2003	Fall-rise, topic and speaker noncommitment. In Proceedings of WECOL 2002. University of British Columbia.

Invited Talks

2007	Comments on ''Complex demonstratives,'' by Jeff King. Cornell University Workshop on Complex Demonstratives, April 28.
2006	That's that: The semantics and pragmatics of demonstrative noun phrases. University of Rochester, May 22; Cornell University, October 19.
2005	More remarks on this and that. UC Berkeley Syntax and Semantics Circle, November 14.

Conference Presentations

2008	I can't believe it!: Expressive meaning in belief reports. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, IL, January 3.
2007	with Daphna Heller. That is Rosa: Identificational sentences as intensional predication. Sinn und Bedeutung 12, Oslo, September 20.
2006	Situation variables and licensing by modification in opaque demonstratives. Sinn und Bedeutung 11, Barcelona, September 21.
	Bridging demonstratives at the semantics-pragmatics interface. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, NM, January 6.
2005	Definite determiners and domain restriction. Poster presented at North Eastern Linguistic Society (NELS), UMass-Amherst, October 29.
	Relative markedness of definite determiners. Workshop on the (In-)Determinacy of Meaning, DGfS, Cologne, Germany, February 23-25.
	Nonuniqueness implications in demonstrative descriptions. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, CA, January 6-9.
2004	On the nonuniqueness implication of demonstratives. Southern New England Workship on Semantics (SNEWS), Brown University, October 16.
2003	Demonstratives, definiteness and determined reference. North Eastern Linguistic Society (NELS), Stony Brook University, November 7.
	Vowel length, weight and stress in K'ichee'. With James Isaacs. Tri-Lateral Phonology Weekend (TREND), University of California, Santa Cruz, May 10.
2002	Fall-rise, topic and speaker noncommitment. Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), University of British Columbia, November 2.

Teaching Experience

University of Rochester Department of Linguistics

Co-Instructor (with Jeff Runner). Introduction to Grammatical Systems. Undergraduate syntax course, to be taught in Spring 2008.

Instructor. Introduction to Grammatical Systems. Spring 2007.

UC Santa Cruz Department of Linguistics

Teaching Fellow. Pragmatics. Full responsibility for course, including teaching lectures, designing and grading homework, coordinating with teaching assistant, holding office hours, and writing narrative evaluations. Fall 2005.

Teaching Assistant. Semantics 1. Primary instructor: Donka F. Farkas; William A. Ladusaw. Assisted in grading homework and exams, led weekly discussion sections, and held office hours. Winter 2005; Winter 2003.

Teaching Assistant. Syntax 1. Primary instructor: Judith Aissen. Writing intensive course. Assisted in grading homework and exams, led weekly discussion sections, and held office hours.

UC Santa Cruz Summer Session

Instructor. Semantics 1. Full responsibility for courrse, including teaching four lectures a week, designing and grading homework and exams, holding office hours, and writing narrative evaluations. Summer 2004.

UC Santa Cruz Writing Program

Teaching Fellow. Writing 1: Composition and Rhetoric. Full responsibility for course, including conducting class meetings, designing and grading homework, holding office hours, and writing narrative evaluations. To be taught in Spring 2006.

Service

Editor, University of Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences, Spring 2007-present.

Ad hoc reviewer for Natural Language Semantics and Blackwell.

Abstract reviewer for the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) 2007 and the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 2006.

Graduate student representative to Linguistics Board, UCSC, Fall 2003.

Member of SLUG Pubs, publisher of UCSC Linguistics Ph.D. dissertations, 2002--2006.

Member of WCCFL 21 abstract committee, UCSC, 2001.

Member of Linguistics Colloquium Committee, UCSC, 2001--2002.

Professional Societies

Linguistic Society of America

Languages

English (native), Russian (intermediate reading/speaking proficiency).

References

Prof. Donka Farkas	Prof. William A. Ladusaw	Prof. Gregory N. Carlson	Prof. Michael Tanenhaus
Dept. of Linguistics	Dept. of Linguistics	Dept. of Linguistics	Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
University of California	University of California	University of Rochester	University of Rochester
1156 High Street	1156 High Street	Lattimore Hall, Box 270096	Meliora Hall, Box 270268
Santa Cruz, CA 95064	Santa Cruz, CA 95064	Rochester, NY 14627	Rochester, NY 14627
farkas at ucsc dot edu	ladusaw at ucsc dot edu	carlson at ling dot rochester dot edu	mtan at bcs dot rochester dot edu

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