Anna Szabolcsi
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Anna Szabolcsi is a linguist whose research has focused on semantics
, syntax
, and the syntax-semantics interface. She was born and educated in Hungary. She has been a research fellow at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
, Budapest, professor at UCLA, and is currently professor at New York University
.
Szabolcsi was one of the first to propose the determiner phrase
hypothesis and alongside Mark Steedman
and others initiated research in combinatory categorial grammar
. More recently she has worked on verbal complexes, quantification, islands, polarity, and overt subjects in infinitival complements.
Semantics
Semantics is the study of meaning. It focuses on the relation between signifiers, such as words, phrases, signs and symbols, and what they stand for, their denotata....
, syntax
Syntax
In linguistics, syntax is the study of the principles and rules for constructing phrases and sentences in natural languages....
, and the syntax-semantics interface. She was born and educated in Hungary. She has been a research fellow at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was created in 1949, is under supervision of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 1951...
, Budapest, professor at UCLA, and is currently professor at New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
.
Szabolcsi was one of the first to propose the determiner phrase
Determiner phrase
In linguistics, a determiner phrase is a syntactic category, a phrase headed by a determiner. The noun phrase is strictly speaking a determiner phrase, and NP designates a constituent of the noun phrase, taken to be the complement of the determiner. This is opposed to the traditional view that...
hypothesis and alongside Mark Steedman
Mark Steedman
Mark Jerome Steedman, FBA, FRSE is a computational linguist and cognitive scientist.Steedman graduated from the University of Sussex in 1968, with a B.Sc in Experimental Psychology, and from the University of Edinburgh in 1973, with a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence Mark Jerome Steedman, FBA,...
and others initiated research in combinatory categorial grammar
Combinatory categorial grammar
Combinatory categorial grammar is an efficiently parseable, yet linguistically expressive grammar formalism. It has a transparent interface between surface syntax and underlying semantic representation, including predicate-argument structure, quantification and information structure.CCG relies on...
. More recently she has worked on verbal complexes, quantification, islands, polarity, and overt subjects in infinitival complements.