Publications

Teaching

Resources

Postdoctoral fellow Laboratory for Computational Linguistics Department of Computer Science Technion---Israel Institute of Technology 32000 Haifa, Israel Email: artstein@cs.technion.ac.il Office phone: + 972 4 829 5527

Research interests: formal semantics and semantics-prosody interaction; compositional semantics below the word level; focus; coordination; temporal quantification.

Ph.D. (2002) in Linguistics with a certificate in Cognitive Science from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.

B.A. (1995) in Linguistics and Arabic Language and Literature from Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Publications

New Manuscript

• Quantificational arguments in temporal adjunct clauses, revised June 2004. (46 pp.) Abstract, PDF (156K), PostScript (280K)

Dissertation

• Parts of Words: Compositional Semantics for Prosodic Constituents.

Papers

• Coordination of parts of words. Lingua, in press. Abstract, official preprint from ScienceDirect (look under "articles in press"), unofficial preprint in PDF (146K), PostScript (233K)
• Focus below the word level. Natural Language Semantics 12(1): 1-22, 2004. Abstract
• (with Nissim Francez) Plural times and temporal modification. In Paul Dekker and Robert van Rooy (eds.), Proceedings of the Fourteenth Amsterdam Colloquium, pp. 63-68. ILLC, University of Amsterdam, 2003. Abstract, PDF (103K), PostScript (225K)
• A focus semantics for echo questions. In Ágnes Bende-Farkas and Arndt Riester (eds.), Workshop on Information Structure in Context, pp. 98-107. IMS, University of Stuttgart, 2002. Abstract, PDF (88K), PostScript (112K)
• Coordination of word parts: a surface level account. In Graham Katz, Sabine Reinhard and Philip Reuter (eds.), Sinn und Bedeutung 6: Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Semantik, pp. 1-15. Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, 2002. Abstract, PDF (126K)
• Conjunction weakening and morphological plurality. In Karine Megerdoomian and Leora A. Bar-el (eds), WCCFL 20 Proceedings, pp. 29-42. Cascadilla Press, Somerville, MA, 2001. PDF (68K), PostScript (72K)
• Person, animacy and null subjects. In Tina Cambier-Langeveld, Anikó Lipták, Michael Redford and Erik Jan van der Torre (eds.), Proceedings of Console VII, pp. 1-15. SOLE, Leiden, 1999. Abstract, PDF (75K)
• The incompatibility of underspecification and markedness in Optimality Theory. In Ron Artstein and Madeline Holler (eds.), RuLing Papers 1: Working Papers from Rutgers University, pp. 7-13. Rutgers University Department of Linguistics, New Brunswick, NJ, 1998. Abstract, PDF (25K)
• Group events as means for representing collectivity. In Benjamin Bruening (ed.), MITWPL 31: Proceedings of the Eighth Student Conference in Linguistics , pp. 41-51. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Cambridge, MA, 1997. Abstract, PDF (37K), PostScript (128K)

Book Review

• Review of Kadmon (2001), Formal Pragmatics. Research in Language 1: 197-202, 2003 (Lodz University Press, Lodz, Poland). PDF (24K), PostScript (44K)

Older Unpublished Manuscripts

• Case constraints and empty categories in Optimality Theory parsing, April 2000. (24 pp.) PDF (139K), PostScript (114K)
• Hierarchies, May 1998. (22 pp.) PDF (135K), PostScript (113K)
• Antecedent-contained deletion within NPs, December 1997. (5 pp.) PDF (19K), PostScript (24K)

Teaching

I will teach a course on Temporality and Quantification at ESSLLI 2004 - The 16th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information

I do not teach at the Technion. The following links point to the web sites of courses I taught at Rutgers.

• Language and Context (Ling 350, fall 2001)
• Introduction to the Study of Language (Ling 101, spring 2002)
  (also taught summer 2000, fall 2000, spring 2001)

Resources

• Natural Language Semantics: nals.bst
• Lingua: lingua.bst

Modified June 1, 2004; maintained by Ron Artstein artstein@cs.technion.ac.il