I’m a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University. My research uses experimental methods to inform our understanding of human language. Current projects include investigations into the interactions of plurality with number marking and degree semantics, as well as the effects of syntactic complexity on sentence production. I also work on the syntax and semantics of Tagalog, focusing on Linker constructions and polarity.
Gregory Scontras
Department of Linguistics
Harvard University
Boylston Hall, 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
scontras
@
fas.
harvard.
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Papers
Presentations
Jan 2013: LSA Annual Meeting
(with Lauren Eby Clemens & Maria Polinsky) “Resumptive pronouns in English: Speaker oriented coreference tracking”
Jan 2013: LSA Annual Meeting
(with Peter Graff, Tami Forrester & Noah Goodman) “Context Sensitivity in Collective Predication”
Sep 2012: SuB 17
“A unified semantics for number marking, numerals, and nominal structure”
Apr 2011: WCCFL 29
“Stubborn Distributivity and Groups”
Mar 2011: AFLA 18
(with Andreea Nicolae) “Simplifying Semantic Composition: Evidence from Tagalog”
Jan 2011: LSA Annual Meeting
(with Peter Graff & Noah Goodman) “Plural Comparison and Collective Predication”
May 2010: AFLA 17
(with Andreea Nicolae) “What Austronesian Tells Us about Who”
Apr 2010: CLS 46
(with Peter Graff & Noah Goodman) “Comparing Pluralities”
Feb 2010: WCCFL 28
(with Peter Graff) “Metathesis as Asymmetric Perceptual Realignment”
Jan 2010: LSA Annual Meeting
(with Peter Graff) “Metathesis as Asymmetric Perceptual Realignment”
Dec 2009: ConSOLE 18
“Group Comparison: Evidence from Plural Superlatives”
Scontras, Gregory. A unified semantics for number marking, numerals, and nominal structure. To appear in Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 17.
Nicolae, Andreea & Gregory Scontras. How does who compose? To appear in Proceedings of AFLA18.
Scontras, Gregory, Peter Graff & Noah Goodman. 2012. Comparing Pluralities. Cognition 123, 190–197.
Scontras, Gregory & Edward Gibson. 2011. A quantitative investigation of the imperative–and–declarative construction in English. Language 87(4), 817–829.
Scontras, Gregory. 2008. The Semantics of Plural Superlatives. BA Thesis, Boston University.
Teaching
Spring 2012
Instructor for “Experimental Methods in Linguistics” (Ling 97r, sophomore tutorial)
Instructor for “Number Marking” (Ling 97r, sophomore tutorial)
Fall 2011
Teaching fellow for “Psycholinguistics” (Ling 130); instructor: Maria Polinsky
Instructor for “Semantics of Plurality” (Ling 98a, junior tutorial)
Spring 2011
Teaching fellow for “Introduction to Linguistics” (Ling 110); instructor: Amy Rose Deal
Instructor for “Experimental Methods in Linguistics” (Ling 97r, sophomore tutorial)
Fall 2010
Teaching fellow for “Psychosemantics” (Ling 132); instructors: Gennaro Chierchia and Jesse Snedeker
Instructor for “Imperatives” (Ling 98a, junior tutorial)