Yael Sharvit
Alma materRutgers University
Scientific career
FieldsLinguistics,
InstitutionsUniversity of Connecticut, UCLA
Thesis (1997)
Doctoral advisorVeneeta Dayal

Yael Sharvit is an American linguist who is Professor of Linguistics at UCLA.[1] She specializes in semantics and the syntax-semantics interface.[2]

Education

Sharvit received her PhD in linguistics from Rutgers University in 1997; she was the third person to graduate from the program.[3] Her dissertation title was "The Syntax and Semantics of Functional Relative Clauses."

Career and research

Sharvit is known for her work on tense, including embedded tense,[4] or bound tense[5] and tense in free indirect discourse[6] and cross-linguistic typologies of tense. She has also contributed to the semantics of questions,[7] and relative clauses[8] the semantics of attitude verbs,[9] negative polarity items,[10] resumptive pronouns[11] and superlatives.[12]

Honors and distinctions

She is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Semantics.[13]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ "Faculty: Yael Sharvit". Department of Linguistics - UCLA. Retrieved 2022-04-22.
  2. ↑ "Google Scholar citations - Yael Sharvit". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
  3. ↑ Braver, Aaron. "Alumnx". ling.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
  4. ↑ Sharvit, Y. (2014-05-01). "On the Universal Principles of Tense Embedding: The Lesson from Before". Journal of Semantics. 31 (2): 263–313. doi:10.1093/jos/ffs024. ISSN 0167-5133.
  5. ↑ Alxatib, Sam; Sharvit, Yael (2017). "Bound Tense in Relative Clauses: Evidence from VP-Ellipsis". Linguistic Inquiry. 48 (4): 697–711. doi:10.1162/LING_a_00259. ISSN 0024-3892. S2CID 57571994.
  6. ↑ Sharvit, Yael (2008). "The Puzzle of Free Indirect Discourse". Linguistics and Philosophy. 31 (3): 353–395. doi:10.1007/s10988-008-9039-9. ISSN 0165-0157. JSTOR 40270140. S2CID 62735532.
  7. ↑ SHARVIT, YAEL (2002). "Embedded Questions and 'De Dicto' Readings". Natural Language Semantics. 10 (2): 97–123. doi:10.1023/A:1016573907314. ISSN 0925-854X. JSTOR 23748701. S2CID 117802759.
  8. ↑ Sharvit, Yael (1999). "Functional Relative Clauses". Linguistics and Philosophy. 22 (5): 447–478. doi:10.1023/A:1005411720444. ISSN 0165-0157. JSTOR 25001753. S2CID 58725382.
  9. ↑ Charlow, Simon; Sharvit, Yael (2014-03-04). "Bound 'de re' pronouns and the LFs of attitude reports" (PDF). Semantics and Pragmatics. 7: 3–1–43. doi:10.3765/sp.7.3. ISSN 1937-8912.
  10. ↑ Bumford, Dylan; Sharvit, Yael (2021-04-19). "Negative Polarity Items in Definite Superlatives". Linguistic Inquiry. 53 (2): 255–293. doi:10.1162/ling_a_00409. ISSN 0024-3892. S2CID 222110479.
  11. ↑ Sharvit, Yael (1999-08-01). "Resumptive Pronouns in Relative Clauses". Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 17 (3): 587–612. doi:10.1023/A:1006226031821. ISSN 1573-0859. S2CID 169736813.
  12. ↑ Sharvit, Yael; Stateva, Penka (2002). "Superlative Expressions, Context, and Focus". Linguistics and Philosophy. 25 (4): 453–504. doi:10.1023/A:1020875809794. ISSN 0165-0157. JSTOR 25001857. S2CID 60715693.
  13. ↑ "Editorial Board". Oxford Academic. Retrieved 2022-03-11.


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