Dr. Igor Yanovich

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsGeneral and Applied Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages,Historical Linguistics
KeywordsFormal semantics of modality, Meaning change, Corpus linguistics, Automatic detection of meaning, Understudied languages

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityCambridge
InstitutionMassachusetts Institute of Technology
InstituteDepartment of Linguistics and Philosophy

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Gerhard JägerSeminar für Sprachwissenschaft - Allgemeine und Theoretische Sprachwissenschaft, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen
Start of initial sponsorship01/02/2014

Program(s)

2013Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2021Daniel J. Lawson, Vinesh Solanki, Igor Yanovich, Johannes Dellert, Damian Ruck and Phillip Endicott: CLARITY: comparing heterogeneous data using dissimilarity. In: Royal Society Open Science, 8, 2021, 202182
2018Igor Yanovich: The effect of dictionary omissions on phylogenies computationally inferred from lexical data. In: Language Dynamics and Change, 2018, 78-107
2017Igor Yanovich: Analyzing imperfective games. In: Semantics and Pragmatics, 2017, 1-23
2017Igor Yanovich: May under verbs of hoping: Evolution of the modal system in the complements of hoping verbs in Early Modern English. In: Ana Arregui, Mari?a Luisa Rivero, Andre?s Pablo Salanova, Modality across Syntactic Categories. Oxford University Press, 2017. 132-153
2016Igor Yanovich: Old English *motan, variable-force modality, and the presupposition of inevitable actualization. In: Language, 2016, 489-521
2015Donca Steriade, Igor Yanovich: Accentual allomorphs in East Slavic: an argument for inflection dependence. In: Eula?lia Bonet, Maria-Rosa Lloret, Joan Mascaro?, Understanding Allomorphy. Equinox, 2015. 254-314
2015Igor Yanovich: Expressive power of 'now' and 'then' operators. In: Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 2015, 65-93
2014Igor Yanovich: Handling equivalence classes of Optimality-Theoretic comparative tableaux. In: Journal of Language Modelling, 2014, 285-306
2013Igor Yanovich: Invariantist 'might' and modal meaning change. In: Linguistics and Philosophy, 2013, 175-180
2013Igor Yanovich: Standard contextualism strikes back. In: Journal of Semantics, 2013, 67-114
2012Igor Yanovich: Certain presuppositions and some intermediate readings, and vice versa. In: Cornelia Ebert, Stefan Hinterwimmer, Different kinds of specificity across languages. Springer, 2012. 105-122