Kyle Rawlins
Cognitive Science Department
Johns Hopkins University
Room 237 Krieger Hall
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD, 21218
Office: Krieger 149
Office phone: 410-516-5330
Office hours: by appointment only (Summer 2011)
rawlins at cogsci dot jhu dot edu (or rawlins at gmail dot com)
Status
| 2010– : | Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science Department, JHU |
| 2008–2010: | Visiting Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science Department, JHU |
| 2003–2008: | PhD student in the Linguistics department at UC Santa Cruz |
For more details, see my CV.
Interests
Areas of interest: Formal semantics, pragmatics, syntax, and the interfaces of these fields, mathematical linguistics, philosophy of language (mainly
philosophical semantics), computational semantics.
Empirical domains of particular interest: conditionals (clausal adjuncts more generally), adverbs, interrogatives/questions (and other non-declaratives), question-answer discourse, regular polysemy, definiteness, anaphora (donkey anaphora in particular), Iroquoian phonology.
There is also a more detailed overview of my research interests, with downloadable papers. If you are wondering what linguistics/semantics/etc. is, this page (an informal overview to my research, for non-specialists) might be of interest to you.
Teaching
| Fall 2011: | Semantics I Research seminar in semantics. This will be a seminar co-taught with Geraldine Legendre, on projective meanings in child and adult grammars. More details soon. |
| Spring 2011: | teaching relief, lab meeting only |
| Past: | Go here. |
I compiled and sporadically update a list of resources on computational semantics. (currently very out of date)
Non-linguistic: sometimes I create music; see my music website and my soundcloud page.