User:MalignantMouse/Louise McNally
Louise McNally | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Cruz (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | William Ladusaw |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguistics |
| Sub-discipline | Semantics, Pragmatics, Syntax |
| Website | UPF faculty page |
Louise McNally is a linguist and professor in the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She researches semantics and pragmatics and their interfaces with syntax, in particular on areas including natural semantic ontology, scales, and reference.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]McNally earned her PhD in linguistics at UC Santa Cruz in 1992 with a dissertation entitled, "A Semantics for the English Existential Construction."[3] She worked at Indiana University Bloomington from 1992 until 1994, briefly at The Ohio State University and UC San Diego, and has been employed at UPF since 1995.[1][4]
Awards
[edit]In 2017, McNally was awarded the Humboldt Prize.[4] In 2022, McNally was elected to the Academia Europaea.[5]
Selected publications
[edit]- Kennedy, Christopher; McNally, Louise (2005). "Scale Structure, Degree Modification, and the Semantics of Gradable Predicates". Language. 81 (2): 345–381. ISSN 0097-8507. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- McNally, Louise (1997). A Semantics for the English Existential Construction. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-8153-2557-4. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- Culicover, Peter; McNally, Louise (1997). "The Limits of Syntax". The Limits of Syntax. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-37316-7.
- McNally, Louise (1998). "Existential Sentences without Existential Quantification". Linguistics and Philosophy. 21 (4): 353–392. ISSN 0165-0157. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "ORCID - Louise McNally". orcid.org. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- ^ "Louise McNally - Research". Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- ^ "Louise McNally - Publications and manuscripts". Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
- ^ a b "La catedràtica Louise McNally, premiada amb el Humboldt Research Award per la seva carrera investigadora". Universitat Pampeu Fabra News.
- ^ "Academy of Europe: McNally Louise". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 19 May 2023.