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Barbara H. Partee
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Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Linguistics and Philosophy
Department of Linguistics , University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-1100 USA
Email: partee@linguist.umass.edu
Office: N408 Integrative Learning Center, 650 North Pleasant Street
Phone: (413) 545-0889, Fax: (413) 545-2792
Remembering Bill Hagamen (November 4, 1924 – March 26, 2007) with links to our works about his work, and our unfinished joint work.
Remembering Petr Sgall (May 27, 1926 -- May 28, 2019)
For those who speak Russian, I gave a
non-technical talk in Russian on April 19, 2012, on the
birth of formal semantics from linguistics and philosophy. It's for
non-specialists, in the polit.ru public lectures series. There was about an hour of questions and answers after the talk.
"Формальная семантика как порождение лингвистики и философии"
Information, video, and photos here: http://polit.ru/article/2012/03/28/anons_partee/
Video plus transcript, with different photos: http://polit.ru/article/2012/05/18/Partee/
Partee, Barbara H. In press. A brief history of the syntax-semantics interface in Western formal linguistics. Semantics-Syntax Interface. [PDF]
Partee, Barbara H. 2013. Portrait of a semanticist as a young man: Gennaro Chierchia 1979-1988. In From Grammar to Meaning: The Spontaneous Logicality of Language, eds. Ivano Caponigro and Carlo Cecchetto, 13-37. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [PDF]
Partee, Barbara H.,
Borschev, Vladimir, Paducheva, Elena V., Testelets, Yakov G., and
Yanovich, Igor. In press. Genitive of negation, genitive of
intensionality, and subjunctive in Russian. Journal of Language and
Verbal Behavior - Jazyk i Rečevaja Dejatel'nost'.
Partee, Barbara H. 2013. On
the history of the question of whether natural language is “illogical”.
In History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences (Blog), ed. James
McElvenny. [LINK]
Partee, Barbara H. In press. The starring role of quantifiers in the history of formal semantics. In The Logica Yearbook 2012, eds. Vit Punčochár and Petr Svarny. London: College Publications. [PDF]
Partee, Barbara H. 2013. Montague’s “linguistic” work: Motivations,
trajectory, attitudes. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 17,
September 8-10 2012, eds. Emmanuel Chemla, Vincent Homer and Grégoire
Winterstein, 427-453. Paris: ENS. [PDF]
Partee, Barbara H. 2012. Appreciating functions: Ed Keenan in the early history of formal semantics. In Theories of Everything: In Honor of Ed Keenan.
UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics 17, eds. Thomas Graf, Denis Paperno,
Anna Szabolcsi and Jos Tellings, 330-336. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA
Linguistics Dept. [PDF]
Partee, Barbara H. 2012.
Remembering Aleksandr Evgenevich Kibrik. In Aleksandr Evgen'evich
Kibrik. In Memoriam. Materialy nauchno-memorial'nyx chtenij pamjati
A.E. Kibrika 9 dekabrja 2012 g., eds. V.I. Belikov et al., 104-105.
Moscow: OTiPL, Philological Faculty, MGU imeni M.V.Lomonosova.
Partee, Barbara H., and
Borschev, Vladimir. 2012. Dva stakana moloka: Substances and
containers in Genitive of Measure constructions in Russian. Russkij jazyk v naučnom osveščenii 24.2:140-166. [PDF]
Partee, Barbara H., and
Borschev, Vladimir. 2012. Sortal, relational, and functional
interpretations of nouns and Russian container constructions. Journal
of Semantics. [PDF]
Borschev, Vladimir, and
Partee, Barbara H. 2011. Genitiv mery v russkom jazyke, tipy i sorta
[The genitive of measure in Russian, Types and sorts]. In Slovo i
jazyk. Sbornik statej k 80-letiju akademika Ju.D.Apresjana [Word and
Language. A Collection of Articles for the 80th Birthday of Academician
Ju.D. Apresjan], eds. I.M. Boguslavsky, L.L. Iomdin and L.P. Krysin,
95-137. Moscow: Jazyki slavjanskix kultur'. Prepub version with some
misprints: [PDF]
Partee, Barbara H.,
Borschev, Vladimir, Paducheva, Elena V., Testelets, Yakov, and
Yanovich, Igor. 2012. The Role of verb semantics in genitive
alternations: Genitive of Negation and Genitive of Intensionality. In
The Russian Verb. Oslo Studies in Language 4(1). eds. A. Grřnn and A.
Pazel'skaya. [PDF] (This version is a somewhat expanded version of Borschev et al (2011).
Partee, Barbara H.,
Borschev, Vladimir, Paducheva, Elena V., Testelets, Yakov, and
Yanovich, Igor. 2011. Russian Genitive of Negation alternations: The
role of verb semantics. Scando-Slavica 57.2:135-159. [PDF]
Borschev, Vladimir, and
Partee, Barbara H. 2011. Genitiv mery v russkom jazyke, tipy i sorta
[The genitive of measure in Russian, Types and sorts]. In Slovo i
jazyk. Sbornik statej k 80-letiju akademika Ju.D.Apresjana [Word and
Language. A Collection of Articles for the 80th Birthday of Academician
Ju.D. Apresjan], eds. I.M. Boguslavsky, L.L. Iomdin and L.P. Krysin,
95-137. Moscow: Jazyki slavjanskix kultur'.
Partee, Barbara H. 2011. Formal semantics: Origins, issues, early impact. In Formal Semantics and Pragmatics. Discourse, Context, and Models. The Baltic Yearbook of Cognition, Logic, and Communication. Vol. 6 (2010), eds. B.H. Partee, M. Glanzberg and J. Skilters, 1-52. Lawrence, KS: New Prairie Press. [PDF]
Partee, Barbara H. 2011. The History of Formal Semantics, with special attention to quantification. Presentation in Angelika Kratzer's Linguistics 720 proseminar, September 6, 2011. (unpublished talk). [Power point slide show] [4-up PDF handout]
Partee, Barbara H. 2011. The Semantics Adventure. Ms., MIT 150th Symposium Panel May 3: The Golden Age – a look at the original roots of AI, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Linguistics. Cambridge, MA. (unpublished talk) [PDF]
Partee, Barbara H. 2011. Teaching formal semantics. In Teaching Linguistics: Reflections on Practice, ed. Koenraad Kuiper, 40-50. London: Equinox Publishing. [PDF]
Borschev,
V., Paducheva, E.V., Partee, B.H., Testelets, Y.G., and Yanovich, I.S.
2010. On semantic bleaching and compositionality: Subtraction or
addition? (On the bleaching of "lexical verbs" in Russian negated
existential sentences). In Proceedings of Israel Association for
Theoretical Linguistics 26, Bar Ilan University (IATL 26), ed. Yehuda
N. Falk. Jerusalem. [PDF]
Video: April 2010, Riga:
“Is This a Good Time for Formal Semantics?”: a video in the “Is This a
Good Time?” series, put together by two young journalism scholars in
Riga. You aren’t told what the question is until you come to the
interview, then you have 5 minutes to think, and then the cameras start
rolling! And there are no pauses or second takes – it is what it
is. Video is here: http://vimeo.com/isthisagoodtime/barbarapartee or http://vimeo.com/20664367 .
A number of my older papers have now been turned into PDF form and put onto the Semantics Archive. For specific links, see Research page.
Partee, Barbara H. 2005. Reflections of a formal semanticist as of Feb 2005. Ms. (longer version of introductory essay in 2004 book) [PDF version]
Partee, Barbara H. 2004. Compositionality in Formal Semantics: Selected Papers of Barbara Partee. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Retirement party Sept 18 2004
Barbara Partee
Doctoral Guidance Genealogy by Chris Potts [as of 2004; needs to be updated]
Second youngest grandchild: (Links to
more pictures on Personal Page)
My research and teaching interests
center on formal semantics and its connections with syntax, pragmatics, and
logic, and on related issues in the philosophy of language and in cognitive
science.
One lifelong interest is quantification. An
NSF-supported project with Emmon Bach and Angelika Kratzer dealt with
cross-linguistic quantification and semantic typology. Another project in
collaboration with Eva Hajicova and Petr Sgall of Charles University, Prague,
concerned topic-focus structure and quantification, integrating the contemporary
Prague school approach with work in formal semantics.
Photo: Sgall, Partee,
and Hajicova at work in Amherst, with coffee, fall 1993. Photo taken by
Christine Bartels.
All of the teaching materials for my formal semantics courses in Moscow since 2003 are online on my Teaching page, as are a number of my UMass courses in mathematics for linguists (some of those taught jointly with Vladimir Borschev) and a few of my UMass semantics seminars.
WHISC: What's Happening in
South College. (News from the UMass Linguistics Department)
Computational Semantics:
Compiled by Kyle Rawlins.
Resources for
Research on Genitives/Possessives and Beyond: Compiled by Ji-yung Kim for Barbara H. Partee.
: An
archive "for exchanging papers of interest to natural language semanticists".
Semantics Web
Resources: Compiled by Kai von Fintel.
Linguist List
Language Log
Education
B.A. 1961 in Mathematics with High Honors, Swarthmore
College. Minors in Russian and Philosophy.
Ph.D. 1965, MIT, linguistics,
minor in mathematics. Dissertation: Subject and Object in Modern English.
Dissertation advisor: Noam Chomsky.
Professional
Taught at UCLA 1965-1972, first Linguistics, then
Linguistics and Philosophy.
Joined UMass Amherst faculty in 1972. Professor
since 1973, department head 1987-93. Emerita as of January 2004.
Taught at
1966, 1974, 1987, 1989, and 1991 LSA Summer Institutes.
Visiting
Professorships at El Colegio de Mexico; Charles University, Prague;
Moscow State University, Russian State Humanities University, Higher
School of Economics, Moscow; University of Leipzig; University of
Canterbury, Christchurch.
Board of Managers, Swarthmore College, 1990-2002.
Honors and Awards, Editorial boards and positions
Woodrow Wilson Fellow (Hon. '61), NSF Fellow
(1961-65)
NSF grants, Co-P.I. or P.I., 1973-75, 1979-81, 1988-92, 1989-90,
1999-2003, 2004-08.
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences, 1976-77
Chancellor's Medal, University of Massachusetts, 1977
Faculty Fellowship, University of Massachusetts, 1981-82
NEH Fellowship
1982-83, IREX Fellowships 1989, 1995, Fulbright Senior Lectureship 2000, 2005
President of Linguistic Society of America, 1986
Member (= Fellow), American
Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1984), National Academy of Sciences
(elected 1989)
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (elected
1996), Linguistic Society of America (2005), Massachusetts Academy of Sciences (2008), Cognitive Science Society (2012)
Max Planck Research Award jointly with Hans Kamp 1992-95
Foreign Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 2002
Honorary doctorates: Swarthmore College (1989), Charles University
(1992), Russian State Humanities University (2001), Copenhagen Business School
(2005)
Past member of editorial boards for Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Semantikos, Linguistics & Philosophy (inception to 1982), The Linguistic Review, Theoretical Linguistics, Grammars, Revista di Linguistica, Natural Language Semantics (1992-2006)
Current member of editorial boards for: Linguistics and Philosophy (1998 -), Language and Linguistics Compass (2010 -), Academic Press Syntax and Semantics series (2011- ), Semantics-Syntax Interface (2013 - ); Honorary editorial board, Natural Language Semantics (2007 -); Advisory Board, Journal of Semantics (2009 -)
Inaugural co-editor (with Mark Liberman) of new journal Annual Review of Linguistics (2012 - )
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Web page created by Barbara H. Partee, with help from John McCarthy, Paul de
Lacy, Ji-Yung Kim, Florian Schwarz.