M. RYAN BOCHNAK

 
 

My full CV (pdf)


Education


University of Chicago, PhD, Linguistics (in progress)

Dissertation topic: “Cross-linguistic variation in the semantics of comparatives”

Advisor: Chris Kennedy


York University (Glendon College), B.A., French Studies and Mathematics


Selected Papers (link to my papers on Semantics Archive)


The non-universal status of degrees: Evidence from Washo. 2012. To appear in Proceedings of NELS.


Limited noun incorporation in Washo. 2012. (with Alice Rhomieux) To appear in International Journal of

        American Linguistics.


Two sources of scalarity within the verb phrase. 2011. To appear in Boban Arsenijević, Berit Gehrke and

        Rafael Marín (eds.), Subatomic Semantics of Event Predicates. Dordrecht: Springer.


Copula agreement and the stage-level/individual-level distinction in Washo. 2011. (with Timothy Grinsell

        and Alan Yu) In Alexis Black and Meagan Louie (eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on the Structure and 

        Constituency of Languages of the Americas, 1-10. Vancouver: UBCWPL.


Quantity and gradability across categories. 2010. In Nan Li and David Lutz (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics

        and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 20, 251-268. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications.


Promiscuous modification and cross-categorial scale structure. 2010. In Iksoo Kwon, Hannah Pritchett and

        Justin Spence (eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 25-36.

        Berkeley: BLS.


Links


Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago

BLING - U of C Blog in Linguistics

Workshop in Semantics and Philosophy of Language

Chicago Linguistic Society

Ph.D. Candidate

Department of Linguistics

University of Chicago

1010 E. 59th St.

Chicago, IL 60637


bochnak at uchicago dot edu

NEWS:

    Slides and handouts from 2012 LSA special session: Methodology in Semantic Fieldwork


    ☞ NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant:

            “Degree semantics in Washo and cross-linguistic variation”


    ☞ Presentation at WSCLA 17


    ☞ CLS volume 45 now published! (CLS website)