Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
PhD, 1995
New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Language
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    Knowledge of Meaning: An Introduction to Semantic Theory
    with Richard Larson and Gabriel Segal
    Philosophical Review 106 (1): 122. 1997.
    To the best of my knowledge, no one in recent decades has written a book of this magnitude about the semantics of natural language. Certainly, nothing available today matches this volume in depth, precision, and coherence. The authors present classical and recent results of linguistic semantics within the framework of interpretative T-theories and defend the philosophical foundations of their approach by showing how it fits into the larger enterprise of cognitive linguistics. The book also inclu…Read more