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Elena Guerzoni

Assistant Professor of Linguistics

Contact Information
Office: GFS 353
Phone: (213)740-4462
E-mail: guerzoni@email.usc.edu

 

Education

Ph.D. Semantics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests

My research interests include Natural Language formal semantics, formal pragmatics, and their interaction with syntax. Primarily, my work investigates topics in four main empirical domains across languages: Negation, Questions, Presuppositions and Focus Particles.
 

Research Specialties

Formal Semantics, formal Pragmatics and the interactions between Semantics and Pragmatics and between Syntax and Semantics
 
 
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