Yael Sharvit

Yael Sharvit
Alma mater	Rutgers University
Scientific career
Fields	Linguistics,
Institutions	University of Connecticut, UCLA
Thesis	(1997)
Doctoral advisor	Veneeta Dayal

Yael Sharvit is an American linguist who is Professor of Linguistics at UCLA. ^[1] She specializes in semantics and the syntax-semantics interface. ^[2]

Career

Sharvit received her PhD in linguistics from Rutgers University in 1997; she was the third person to graduate from the program. ^[3] Her dissertation title is "The Syntax and Semantics of Functional Relative Clauses."

She joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut in 1999, leaving in 2011 to take up a position at UCLA. ^[4]

Research

Sharvit is known for her work on tense, including embedded tense (Sharvit 1999), or bound tense (Alxatib & Sharvit 2017), tense in free indirect discourse (Sharvit 2008) and cross-linguistic typologies of tense. She has also contributed to the semantics of questions (Sharvit 2002), relative clauses (Sharvit 1997), attitude reports (Charlow & Sharvit 2014), negative polarity items (Guerzoni & Sharvit 2007), resumptive pronouns (Sharvit 1999), and superlatives (Sharvit & Stateva 2002, Bumford & Sharvit 2022). ^[5]

Honors and distinctions

She is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Semantics . ^[6] She also serves as co-editor-in-chief of the journal Linguistics and Philosophy . ^[7]

Selected publications

• Sharvit, Yael (1999). "Connectivity in specificational sentences". Natural Language Semantics. 7 (3): 299–339. doi:10.1023/A:1008390623435. S2CID   117847989.
• Sharvit, Yael (1999). "Functional Relative Clauses" . Linguistics and Philosophy. 22 (5): 447–478. doi:10.1023/A:1005411720444. ISSN   0165-0157. JSTOR   25001753. S2CID   58725382.
• Sharvit, Yael (August 1, 1999). "Resumptive Pronouns in Relative Clauses" . Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 17 (3): 587–612. doi:10.1023/A:1006226031821. ISSN   1573-0859. S2CID   169736813.
• Sharvit, Yael (2002). "Embedded Questions and 'De Dicto' Readings" . Natural Language Semantics. 10 (2): 97–123. doi:10.1023/A:1016573907314. ISSN   0925-854X. JSTOR   23748701. S2CID   117802759.
• Sharvit, Yael; Stateva, Penka (2002). "Superlative Expressions, Context, and Focus" . Linguistics and Philosophy. 25 (4): 453–504. doi:10.1023/A:1020875809794. ISSN   0165-0157. JSTOR   25001857. S2CID   60715693.
• Guerzoni, Elena; Sharvit, Yael (2007). "A question of strength: on NPIs in interrogative clauses". Linguistics and Philosophy. 30 (3): 361–391. doi:10.1007/s10988-007-9014-x. S2CID   60878758.
• Sharvit, Yael (2008). "The Puzzle of Free Indirect Discourse" . Linguistics and Philosophy. 31 (3): 353–395. doi:10.1007/s10988-008-9039-9. ISSN   0165-0157. JSTOR   40270140. S2CID   62735532.
• Alxatib, Sam; Sharvit, Yael (2017). Bound tense in relative clauses: Evidence from VP-ellipsis. Linguistic Inquiry 48: 697-711. doi:10.1162/LING_a_00259

References

1. "Faculty: Yael Sharvit". Department of Linguistics - UCLA. Retrieved April 22, 2022.
2. "Google Scholar citations - Yael Sharvit". scholar.google.com. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
3. Braver, Aaron. "Alumnx". ling.rutgers.edu. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
4. "Sharvit joins UCLA faculty". SNARL | Rutgers Linguistics. September 23, 2011. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
5. "Yael Sharvit - Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
6. "Editorial Board". Oxford Academic. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
7. "Linguistics and Philosophy". SpringerLink. Retrieved March 9, 2024.