| Mandy Simons | |
|---|---|
| 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.
Biography
Simons earned her PhD in linguistics at Cornell in 1998 with a dissertation entitled, "Or: Issues in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Disjunction." She joined the faculty at CMU in 1998, and also holds an adjunct position at the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Linguistics.
Awards
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.
Selected publications
- Simons, Mandy (1 June 2007). "Observations on embedding verbs, evidentiality, and presupposition". Lingua. 117 (6): 1034–1056. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2006.05.006. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- Simons, Mandy; Tonhauser, Judith; Beaver, David; Roberts, Craige (14 August 2010). "What projects and why". Semantics and Linguistic Theory. 20: 309–327. doi:10.3765/salt.v20i0.2584. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- Tonhauser, Judith; Beaver, David; Roberts, Craige; Simons, Mandy (2013). "Toward a Taxonomy of Projective Content". Language. 89 (1): 66–109. doi:10.1353/lan.2013.0001. S2CID 50243. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
References
- "Mandy Simons". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
- "Alumni | Department of Linguistics". linguistics.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
- University, Carnegie Mellon. "Mandy Simons - Department of Philosophy - Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Carnegie Mellon University". www.cmu.edu.
- "Mandy Simons | Linguistics | University of Pittsburgh". www.linguistics.pitt.edu. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- "Best Paper in Language Award Announced for 2013 | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
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