Louise McNally (born 1965) is a linguist and professor in the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). She researches semantics and pragmatics and their interfaces with syntax, in particular on areas including natural semantic ontology, scales, and reference.[1][2][3]
Louise McNally | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Cruz (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | William Ladusaw |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguistics |
| Sub-discipline | Semantics, Pragmatics, Syntax |
| Website | UPF faculty page |
Biography edit
McNally earned her PhD in linguistics at UC Santa Cruz in 1992 with a dissertation entitled, "A Semantics for the English Existential Construction,"[4] which was published in Garland's Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series in 1997 (and republished by Routledge/Taylor Francis in 2016).
She worked at Indiana University Bloomington from 1992 until 1994, and then briefly at The Ohio State University and UC San Diego, before taking up her current position at UPF in 1995.[1][5]
Awards and honors edit
In 2017, McNally was awarded the Humboldt Prize.[5]
In 2022, McNally was elected to the Academia Europaea.[6]
McNally serves as co-Editor-in-Chief with Kjell Johan Sæbø of the Linguistic Society of America's open access journal Semantics and Pragmatics (S&P).[7]
Selected publications edit
- Kennedy, Christopher; McNally, Louise (2005). "Scale Structure, Degree Modification, and the Semantics of Gradable Predicates". Language. 81 (2): 345–381. doi:10.1353/lan.2005.0071. hdl:10230/23158. ISSN 0097-8507. JSTOR 4489896. S2CID 16677059. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- McNally, Louise (1997). A Semantics for the English Existential Construction. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-8153-2557-4. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- Culicover, Peter; McNally, Louise (1997). The Limits of Syntax. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-37316-7.
- McNally, Louise (1998). "Existential Sentences without Existential Quantification". Linguistics and Philosophy. 21 (4): 353–392. doi:10.1023/A:1005389330615. hdl:10230/23159. ISSN 0165-0157. JSTOR 25001712. S2CID 60578021. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
References edit
- ^ a b "ORCID – Louise McNally". orcid.org. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- ^ "Louise McNally – Research". Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- ^ "Louise McNally". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
- ^ "PhD Alumni". linguistics.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
- ^ a b "La catedràtica Louise McNally, premiada amb el Humboldt Research Award per la seva carrera investigadora". Universitat Pampeu Fabra News.
- ^ "Academy of Europe: McNally Louise". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- ^ "Editorial Team, Semantics and Pragmatics". semprag.org. Retrieved 2023-05-19.