Amy Rose Deal is associate professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. She works in the areas of syntax, semantics and morphology, on topics including agreement, indexical shift, ergativity, the person-case constraint, the mass/count distinction, and relative clauses. She has worked extensively on the grammar of the Sahaptin language Nez Perce.[1] Deal is Editor-in-Chief of Natural Language Semantics,[2][3] a major journal in the field.[4][5]
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| Website | https://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~ardeal/ |
Education and career
editDeal earned her B.A. from Brandeis University in 2005 and her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2010, writing a dissertation under the supervision of Angelika Kratzer and Rajesh Bhatt.
Her book A Theory of Indexical Shift: Meaning, Grammar, and Crosslinguistic Variation was published in 2020 by the MIT Press.[6] In 2022, she received the Linguistic Society of America Early Career Award for her "influential research" and her status as "a leader in the subfield of cross-linguistic semantics".[7][8]
References
edit- ^ "Amy Rose Deal". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-09.
- ^ "Natural Language Semantics". Springer. Retrieved 2022-02-09.
- ^ Heim, Irene; Kratzer, Angelika (2021-12-01). "Farewell and Welcome". Natural Language Semantics. 29 (4): 507. doi:10.1007/s11050-021-09185-z. ISSN 1572-865X. S2CID 244082945.
- ^ Crnič, Luka; Pesetsky, David; Sauerland, Uli (2014). "Introduction" (PDF). In Crnič, Luka; Sauerland, Uli (eds.). The Art and Craft of Semantics: A Festschrift for Irene Heim. Cambridge, MA: MIT. ISBN 9781502857477.
In 1993, Heim and Kratzer also founded the journal Natural Language Semantics, which they edit to this day as a profound ongoing service to theoretical linguistics. Almost immediately, their journal became one of the most important and respected in the field
- ^ Partee, Barbara (2005). "Reflections of a formal semanticist as of Feb 2005" (PDF).
After fifteen years in which Linguistics and Philosophy, founded in 1977, was the preeminent journal for formal semantics, a new journal conceived and edited by Irene Heim and Angelika Kratzer was launched in 1992... Natural Language Semantics
- ^ "A Theory of Indexical Shift". MIT Press. Archived from the original on 2023-01-04.
- ^ "LSA Announces Additional Awards for 2022 | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2022-02-09.
- ^ "LSA Honors and Awards | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2022-02-09.
External links
edit- Faculty page at the University of California, Berkeley. http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~ardeal/
- Amy Rose Deal publications indexed by Google Scholar
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