Prof. Dr. Louise McNally

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsGeneral and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
Keywordssemantics, pragmatics, syntax-semantics interface

Current contact address

CountrySpain
CityBarcelona
InstitutionUniversitat Pompeu Fabra
InstituteDepartament de Traduccio i Ciencies del Llenguatge

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Artemis AlexiadouInstitut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2018

Programme(s)

2017Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor McNally is an internationally renowned scholar, who has made groundbreaking contributions to linguistic theory in general and semantics and its interfaces in particular. Her work has been pioneering in reaching a better understanding of the interactions between the semantic contributions that different words in a phrase or sentence make to the meaning of that phrase or sentence as a whole. In Germany, she plans to collaborate with linguists working on the syntax-morphology interface.