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Yael Sharvit
Alma materRutgers University
Scientific career
FieldsLinguistics,
InstitutionsUniversity of Connecticut, UCLA
Thesis (1997)
Doctoral advisorVeneeta 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

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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

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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

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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

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  • 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 (1999-08-01). "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

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  1. ^ "Faculty: Yael Sharvit". Department of Linguistics - UCLA. Retrieved 2022-04-22.
  2. ^ "Google Scholar citations - Yael Sharvit". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
  3. ^ Braver, Aaron. "Alumnx". ling.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
  4. ^ "Sharvit joins UCLA faculty". SNARL | Rutgers Linguistics. 2011-09-23. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
  5. ^ "Yael Sharvit - Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2025-06-03.
  6. ^ "Editorial Board". Oxford Academic. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
  7. ^ "Linguistics and Philosophy". SpringerLink. Retrieved 2024-03-09.


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