Luvell Anderson
(Philosophy, 2011)
Communicating Offense: The Sordid Life of Language Use
Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn State
Gabriel Greenberg
(Philosophy, 2011)
The Semiotic Spectrum
Assistant Professor, UCLA
Michael
Johnson
(Philosophy, 2011)
Harlequin Semantics
Visiting Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University
Karen Lewis
(Philosophy, 2011)
Understanding Dynamic Discourse
Assistant Professor, USC
Daniel Altshuler
(Linguistics, 2010)
Temporal Interpretation in Narrative Discourse and Event Internal
Reference
Visiting Assistant Professor, Swarthmore
Sarah Murray
(Linguistics, 2010)
Evidentiality and the Structure of Speech Acts
Assistant Professor, Cornell
William Starr
(Philosophy, 2010)
Conditionals, Meaning and Mood
Assistant Professor, Cornell
David DeVault
(Computer Science, 2008)
Contribution Tracking:
Participating in Task-Oriented Dialogue
under Uncertainty
Research Assistant Professor
Institute for Creative Technologies, USC
Jessica Rett
(Linguistics, 2008)
Degree Modification in Natural Language
Assistant Professor, UCLA
Sam Cumming
(Philosophy, 2007)
Proper Nouns
Assistant Professor, UCLA
Kevan Edwards
(Philosophy, 2006)
Referentialism Without Compromise
Assistant Professor, Syracuse University
Angel Pinillos
(Philosophy, 2006)
On Referring to the Same Thing
Assistant Professor, Arizona State
Adam Sennet
(Philosophy, 2006)
Arguments, Adjuncts, Slopes and Binding
Assistant Professor, UC Davis
Adrian Brasoveanu
(Linguistics, 2006)
Structured Nominal and Modal Reference
Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz
We are a unique community working together to develop an intuitively satisfying, formally explicit account of meaning in natural language—a scientific theory of communication that can explain our singularly human ability to connect with and learn from one another, and can pave the way for meaningful interaction with machines.
Our work embraces critical analysis, emprical study, formal methods and computational modeling—all pursued within a supportive and challenging environment shaped by the rich interconnections among our ideas and the overlapping topics of our investigations. The distinctive breadth and depth of Rutgers semantics PhDs establishes them as ideal candidates for appointments that reaffirm the centrality of meaning in bridging approaches to language from science, the humanities, and engineering.
Semantics at Rutgers builds on our strengths at the Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS). RuCCS provides specialized training so that graduate students can easily master the technical prerequisites, perspectives and vocabulary needed to participate in interdisciplinary teams and cultivates a broad perspective on language, thought, learning and representation in the science of mind.