Robert Truswell
Professor
- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 651 5511
- Email: rob.truswell@ed.ac.uk
- Web: http://robtruswell.com
Address
- Street
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Room 1.12, Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Undergraduate teaching
In 2015-16, I teach LASC11090 "MSc Introduction to Semantics", and contribute to LASC08015 "Linguistics and English Language 1", LASC08017 "LEL2A: Linguistic Theory and the Structure of English", LASC08019 "LEL2C: English in Time and Space", LASC08020 "LEL2D: Cross-linguistic Variation: Limits and Theories", and PPLS08002 "Introduction to Cognitive Science". I am also co-director (with Hannah Rohde) of the MSc in Cognition in Science and Society.
Office hours:
By appointment
Current PhD students supervised
Research summary
Syntax, semantics, language change, diachronic typology, locality, event structure, quantifier scope, binding