Ana Arregui is a linguist and professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1][2] Her research in formal semantics addresses phenomena including modality, tense, aspect, pronouns and indefinites.[3]

Ana Arregui
Alma materUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst
Scientific career
FieldsLinguistics
Website[1]

Biography

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Arregui graduated from UMass Amherst in 2005 with a dissertation titled "On the accessibility of possible worlds: the role of tense and aspect". Her committee was chaired by Angelika Kratzer.[4] Arregui joined UMass Amherst in 2019 as faculty in semantics.[5] Before that, she was on the faculty of the University of Ottawa.

In 2023, Arregui was Co-Director of the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute along with Kyle Johnson.[6][7][8]

Awards

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In 2024, Arregui was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.[9]

Selected publications

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  • Arregui, Ana (1 June 2009). "On similarity in counterfactuals". Linguistics and Philosophy. 32 (3): 245–278. doi:10.1007/s10988-009-9060-7. ISSN 1573-0549. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  • Arregui, Ana; Rivero, María Luisa; Salanova, Andrés (1 May 2014). "Cross-linguistic variation in imperfectivity". Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 32 (2): 307–362. doi:10.1007/s11049-013-9226-4. ISSN 1573-0859. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  • Arregui, Ana (1 September 2007). "When aspect matters: the case of would-conditionals". Natural Language Semantics. 15 (3): 221–264. doi:10.1007/s11050-007-9019-6. ISSN 1572-865X.
  • Arregui, Ana; Clifton, Charles; Frazier, Lyn; Moulton, Keir (1 August 2006). "Processing elided verb phrases with flawed antecedents: The recycling hypothesis". Journal of Memory and Language. 55 (2): 232–246. doi:10.1016/J.JML.2006.02.005. PMC 1948839.

References

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  1. ^ "Ana Arregui". Ana Arregui. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Ana Arregui : Department of Linguistics : UMass Amherst". www.umass.edu. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  3. ^ "Ana Arregui | Semantic Scholar". www.semanticscholar.org. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  4. ^ "Alumni | UMass Linguistics". websites.umass.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  5. ^ "Welcome to Ana Arregui and María Biezma | UMass Linguistics". websites.umass.edu. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  6. ^ "2023 Linguistic Institute | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  7. ^ "2023 LSA Institute at UMass Amherst". websites.umass.edu. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  8. ^ "Kyle Johnson : Department of Linguistics : UMass Amherst". www.umass.edu. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  9. ^ "Ana Arregui and Kyle Johnson inducted as Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America | UMass Linguistics". websites.umass.edu. Retrieved 8 March 2024.