Mandy Simons | |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | Cornell University (PhD) |
Doctoral advisor | Sally McConnell-Ginet |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguistics |
Sub-discipline | Semantics,Pragmatics |
Website | CMU faculty page |
Mandy Simons is a linguist and professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). She researches semantics and pragmatics,in particular phenomena like presupposition and projection. [1]
Simons earned her PhD in linguistics at Cornell in 1998 with a dissertation entitled,"Or:Issues in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Disjunction." [2] She joined the faculty at CMU in 1998,and also holds an adjunct position at the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Linguistics. [3] [4]
In 2013,her paper,"Toward a taxonomy of projective content," coauthored with Judith Tonhauser,David Beaver,and Craige Roberts won the 2013 Best Paper in Language (journal) Award from the Linguistic Society of America. [5]