Anna Szabolcsi is a linguist. She was born and educated in Hungary. She has been a research fellow at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, professor at UCLA, and is currently professor at New York University.
She was one of the first to propose the determiner phrase hypothesis and alongside Mark Steedman, Richard Oehrle, Pauline Jacobson, David Dowty, and others initiated research in combinatory categorial grammar. More recently she has worked on verbal complexes, [1] quantification,[2] islands,[3] and polarity.[4]
References
- ^ Koopman, H. and A. Szabolcsi (2000) Verbal Complexes. The MIT Press.
- ^ Szabolcsi, A. ed. (1997) Ways of Scope Taking. Kluwer.
- ^ Szabolcsi, A. (2006) Strong and weak islands. In Everaert and van Riemsdijk, eds., The Blackwell Companion to Syntax, vol. 4, 479-532
- ^ Szabolcsi, A. (2004) Positive polarity—negative polarity. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 22, 409-452.
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