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Meredith Landman
Curriculum Vitae
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://pages.pomona.edu/~ml054747
Employment
2009-pres.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Pomona College
2005-2009
Postdoctoral Researcher
Département de linguistique, Université du Québec à Montréal
2006-2009
Part-time Faculty
Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, Concordia University
2004-2005
Lecturer
Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University
Education
2006
PhD in Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dissertation: Variables in Natural Language
Committee: Barbara H. Partee (chair), Angelika Kratzer, Kyle Johnson,
Lisa Matthewson, Bob Rothstein (outside member)
1997
BA in Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Honors in the Major, College Honors
Fellowships and Awards
1998-2002
1996
NSF Graduate Student Research Fellowship
UC Santa Cruz Undergraduate Research Award in the Humanities
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Research
2015
2007
2003
2003
2000
With Rodrigo Ranero. Focus Marking in Kuria. Under review.
With Anna Maria Di Sciullo. On Morphological Compositionality. In L.
A. Pagani, Ed., Revista Letras (73), Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on
Formal Linguistics. Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba.
With Marcin Morzycki. Event-Kinds and the Representation of Manner.
In N. Mae Antrim, G. Goodall, M. Schulte-Nafeh and V. Samiian, Eds.,
Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) 2002.
California State University, Fresno. (Held at the University of British
Columbia.)
Morphological Contiguity. In A. Carpenter, A. Coetzee and P. de Lacy,
Eds., Papers in Optimality Theory II: University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Occasional Papers in Linguistics 26. GLSA, Amherst.
Adjectival Modification Restricted. Ms., UMass Amherst.
Presentations
2015
2014
2009
2008
2007
2007
2006
2006
2004
2003
2002
1999
1997
Quantification in Logoori. The 46th Annual Conference on African
Linguistics, University of Oregon.
With Rodrigo Ranero. Focus Marking in Kuria. The 45th Annual
Conference on African Linguistics, University of Kansas.
Variables in natural language. Invited talk, Reed College.
On semantic universals. Invited talk, Concordia University.
Possible and impossible variables. Invited talk, Carleton College.
Possible and impossible variables. Invited talk, Oakland University.
Variables in natural language. Invited talk, McGill University.
With Anna Maria Di Sciullo. Morphological compositionality.
Workshop on Formal Linguistics, U. Federal de Santa Catarina.
Variables in natural language. Invited talk, Rutgers University.
With Marcin Morzycki. Event-kinds and the representation of manner.
Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Atlanta, GA.
The semantics of such as- and like- relatives. The Annual MIT-UMassUConn Semantics Workshop, MIT.
Morphological contiguity. The Annual Rutgers-UMass Joint Class Meeting,
Rutgers University.
People deletion revisited. The Annual Undergraduate Linguistics Research
Colloquium, UCSC.
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Teaching
2009-pres.
At Pomona College:
Introduction to Linguistics, Semantics, Historical Linguistics, Syntax,
Topics in Phonology, Pragmatics (with Jesse Harris)
2006-2009
At Concordia University:
Introduction to Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Syntactic Typology, Phonology
2004-2005
At Rutgers University:
Introduction to Linguistics, Semantics, Graduate Seminar in Semantics
2001-2004
At the University of Massachusetts, Amherst:
Intro to Linguistics, People and Their Language (T.A. to John McCarthy)
Advising
At Pomona College:
2014-2015
2013-2014
2013
2011
2010-2011
2010-2011
2010
Thesis Reader for Shalina Omar and Kaya LeGrand.
Thesis Advisor for Rodrigo Ranero, The syntax and semantics of Kuria ne.
Thesis Advisor for Rebekah Cramerus, Russian serial verb constructions.
Thesis Co-advisor (with Jesse Harris) for Joel Fishbein, The integration of
contextual information in the lexical access of polysemes.
Thesis Advisor for Andrea Gottstein, Is syntax responsible for wide-scope
indefinites? Evidence from a self-paced reading study.
Thesis Reader for Abigail Granberry, The effects of the language death
process on tone systems, emphasis on East African Bantu languages.
Independent Study Supervisor for Helen Highberger, Statistical learning
and Universal Grammar.
At Rutgers University:
2004-2005
2004-2005
2005
Syntax Qualifying Paper Committee Member for Slavica Kochovska.
Semantics Qualifying Paper Committee Member for Xiao Li.
Independent Study Supervisor for Yoon Hwang (Language acquisition).
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Service
Ad-hoc reviewing:
Journals:
Conferences:
Linguistics & Philosophy, Natural Language Semantics
Semantics and Linguistic Theory
At the University of Massachusetts Amherst:
2001
2000-2001
1999
1998-1999
1999
1998
Student Representative to the Semantics Search Committee
Student Co-organizer for the Semantics Reading Group
Student Representative to the Semantics Search Committee
Student Representative to the Faculty
Student Co-organizer for the Linguistics Department Open House
Graduate Student Senate Representative