Gennaro Chierchia

Haas Foundations Professor of Linguistics, Chair of Department

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316 Boylston Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

 

 

 

 

 

Research Interests

 

Semantics, the Syntax/Semantics mapping, Pragmatics, Philosophy of Language, The interface of Semantics with Language Development, Language Pathology, and Language Processing.

 

Representative Publications

 

Dynamics of meaning. Anaphora, Presupposition and the Theory of Grammar, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1995, pp. xv, 270.

 

"Reference to Kinds across Languages", Natural Language Semantics, Kluwer, 6, 1998, 339-405.

 

"Backwards vs. Forward Anaphora: Reconstruction in Child Language", Language Acquisition, 8.2:129-170. 1999/2000. With M. T. Guasti.

 

"Scalar Implicatures, Polarity Phenomena and the Syntax/Pragmatics Interface" in A. Belletti (ed) Structures and Beyond, Oxford University Press, 2004.

 

"(In)Definites, Locality, and Intentional Identity" in G. Carlson and F. J. Pelletier (eds) Reference and Quantification: The Partee Effect, CSLI, Stanford, 2006.