M. RYAN BOCHNAK
M. RYAN BOCHNAK
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
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)