Kajsa Djärv
Teaching Fellow in Semantics
- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Room 1.04, Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Background
I work on topics in formal semantics and pragmatics, and their interfaces with syntax and morphology.
I received my PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019.
In 2020-2022, I was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Konstanz.
In 2019-2020, I did a postdoc at the University of Konstanz as part of the DFG-funded Questions at the Interfaces project.
Undergraduate teaching
During 2023-24, I will be teaching on the following courses:
LASC10110: Semantic Theory (Hons) (Course Organiser and Instructor)
LASC08023: Linguistics and English Language 1B (Pre-Hons)
LASC10112: Guided Research - tbd (Hons)
Postgraduate teaching
During 2023-24, I will be teaching on the following courses:
LASC10110: Semantic Theory (MSc) (Course Organiser and Instructor)
LASC10112: Guided Research - tbd
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
I am happy to receive applications for PhD and MSc supervision on a number of topics in formal semantics and pragmatics, as well as on topics relating to the meaning-grammar interface.
Research summary
My work looks at how different dimensions of meaning interact and are represented in the grammar and lexicon. When we construct and interpret a complex sentence, how do lexical, grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic factors interact and give rise to the global inferences and particular form-meaning mappings that we find in natural language, and how do languages differ in terms of the semantic, pragmatic, and grammatical strategies they employ to express different kinds of meanings.
Areas of research
attitude reports ∙ clausal complementation ∙ factivity ∙ nominals with propositional interpretations ∙ speech acts∙presupposition ∙ embedded main clause phenomena (e.g. embedded declaratives and interrogatives with main clause word order) ∙ copular sentences ∙ argument structure ∙ island effects ∙ exhaustivity ∙ semantic composition below the word level
I'm also interested in how experimental and quantitative methods can be used to inform theoretical and empirical questions about structure and meaning in language.
Publications
Please see my website for a full list of publications.