Anna Szabolcsi

Professor Of Linguistics

Education

Ph.D. 1987 (Linguistics), Hungarian Academy of Sciences; M.A. 1978 (Linguistics), Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest; B.A. 1976 (English and Linguistics), Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest.

Areas of Research/Interest

Formal semantics; Hungarian syntax; syntax/semantics interface.

Fellowships/Honors

Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2019; National Science Foundation grant, 2005; Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1999; Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1997; National Science Foundation grant, 1993-1995; Faculty at the Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, 1993.

Publications

Obviation in Hungarian: what is its scope, and is it due to competition? Glossa 6(1). 2021.

Two types of quantifier particles: Quantifier-phrase internal vs. heads on the clausal spine. Glossa 3(1), 69. 2018.

What do quantifier particles do? Linguistics and Philosophy 38:159-204. 2015.

Compositionality without word boundaries: (the) more and (the) most. Semantics and Linguistic Theory 22: 1-25. 2012.

Quantification. Cambridge University Press. 2010.

Overt nominative subjects in infinitival complements in Hungarian. In Approaches to Hungarian 11, ed. by den Dikken and Vago. pp. 251-276. John Benjamins. 2009.

Optionality, scope, and licensing: An application of partially ordered categories (with Raffaella Bernardi). Journal of Logic, Language, and Information 17/3: 237-283. 2008.

The effect of negative polarity items on inference verification (with Lewis Bott and Brian McElree). Journal of Semantics 25/4: 411-450 . 2008.

Strong vs. weak islands. The Blackwell Companion to Syntax, ed. by Everaert and van Riemsdijk. vol.4, pp. 479-532. Blackwell. 2006.

Positive polarity--negative polarity. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 22/2: 409-452. 2004.

Verbal Complexes, with H. Koopman. M.I.T. Press. 2000.

Ways of Scope Taking, editor and contributor. Kluwer. 1997.

The noun phrase. In The Syntactic Structure of Hungarian, ed. by Kiefer and Kiss. pp. 179-275. Academic Press. 1994.

Combinatory grammar and projection from the lexicon. In Lexical Matters, ed. by Sag and Szabolcsi. pp. 241-269. CSLI, Stanford. 1992.