Judith Tonhauser Explained

Judith Tonhauser
Employer:	University of Stuttgart
Education:	Ph.D in Linguistics
Known For:	work on Paraguayan Guaraní, cross-linguistic variation in semantics/pragmatics, nominal tense and anaphora presupposition projection

Judith Tonhauser is a Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart.^[1]

Education and career

Tonhauser received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University in 2006. Her dissertation was titled The Temporal Semantics of Noun Phrases: Evidence from Guaraní.^[2] From 2006 to 2020, she was on the faculty of the Linguistics department at The Ohio State University. Since 2020 she has been Professor and Chair of English Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart.^[3]

Tonhauser's research interests include Presupposition projection, Prosody and Meaning, Temporal Anaphora and Reference, and empirical methods in Semantics and Pragmatics. She is known for her work in theoretical semantics and pragmatics, specifically on cross-linguistic semantic/pragmatic variation. To this end, she has investigated languages which are under-represented in linguistic theory like the Paraguayan Guarani language, a Tupí Guaraní language spoken in Paraguay and surrounding countries.^[4]

Awards and distinctions

Tonhauser is the recipient of the 2016 Early Career Award from the Linguistic Society of America.^{[5] [6]} The award recognizes scholars early in their career who have made outstanding contributions to the field of linguistics.

Tonhauser's 2013 paper, "Toward a taxonomy of projective content," coauthored with David Beaver, Craige Roberts, and Mandy Simons, won the 2013 Best Paper in Language (journal) Award from the Linguistic Society of America.^[7]

In 2013, she was awarded an ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars for her project Content and Context in the Study of Meaning Variation.^[8]

She is an Associate Editor of Semantics and Pragmatics, a journal of the Linguistic Society of America.^[9]

Selected publications

• Language. 83. 4. 831–869. 40070967. Tonhauser. Judith. Nominal Tense? The Meaning of Guaraní Nominal Temporal Markers. 2007. 10.1353/lan.2008.0037. 50797962 .
• Defining crosslinguistic categories: The case of nominal tense (Reply to Nordlinger and Sadler)*. Language. 2008-01-01. 1535-0665. 332–342. 84. 2. 10.1353/lan.0.0017. Judith. Tonhauser. 144511555 .
• Temporal Interpretation without Tense: Korean and Japanese Coordination Constructions. . 2010-08-01. 0167-5133. 307–341. 27. 3. 10.1093/jos/ffq005. en. Jungmee. Lee. Judith. Tonhauser.
• International Journal of American Linguistics. 76. 2. 255–288. 10.1086/652267. 10.1086/652267. Tonhauser. Judith. Word Order in Paraguayan Guaraní. Colijn. Erika. 2010. 73554080 .
• Temporal reference in Paraguayan Guaraní, a tenseless language. Linguistics and Philosophy. 2011-11-03. 0165-0157. 257–303. 34. 3. 10.1007/s10988-011-9097-2. en. Judith. Tonhauser. 62125736 .
• The synchrony and diachrony of differential object marking in Paraguayan Guaraní. Language Variation and Change. 2010-10-01. 1469-8021. 321–346. 22. 3. 10.1017/S0954394510000153. Cory. Shain. Judith. Tonhauser. 146152550 .
• Toward a Taxonomy of Projective Content. Language. 2013-01-01. 1535-0665. 66–109. 89. 1. 10.1353/lan.2013.0001. Judith. Tonhauser. David. Beaver. Craige. Roberts. Mandy. Simons. 50243 .
• International Journal of American Linguistics. 79. 2. 219–251. 10.1086/669629. 10.1086/669629. Clopper. Cynthia G.. The Prosody of Focus in Paraguayan Guaraní. Tonhauser. Judith. 2013. 143244853 .
• Turnbull . Rory . Burdin . Rachel Steindel . Clopper . Cynthia G. . Tonhauser . Judith . Contextual predictability and the prosodic realisation of focus: a cross-linguistic comparison . Language, Cognition and Neuroscience . 5 August 2015 . 30 . 9 . 1061–1076 . 10.1080/23273798.2015.1071856. 145386394 .
• Variation in the prosody of focus in head- and head/edge-prominence languages. Lingua. 2015-10-01. 254–276. 165, Part B. Prosody and Information Status in Typological Perspective. 10.1016/j.lingua.2014.10.001. Rachel Steindel. Burdin. Sara. Phillips-Bourass. Rory. Turnbull. Murat. Yasavul. Cynthia G.. Clopper. Judith. Tonhauser.
• Cross-Linguistic Temporal Reference. Annual Review of Linguistics. 2015-01-01. 129–154. 1. 1. 10.1146/annurev-linguist-030514-124923. Judith. Tonhauser. free.
• Are 'informative presuppositions' presuppositions?. Language and Linguistics Compass. 2015-02-01. 1749-818X. 77–101. 9. 2. 10.1111/lnc3.12119. en. Judith. Tonhauser.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tonhauser. www.uni-stuttgart.de. University of Stuttgart. en-US. 2020-10-13.
2. Web site: Ph.D. Alumni Department of Linguistics. linguistics.stanford.edu. 2016-01-08.
3. Web site: Short curriculum vitae . 2022-03-14 . Prof. Dr. Judith Tonhauser . en.
4. Web site: Judith Tonhauser . 2022-03-14 . scholar.google.com.
5. Web site: Announcing the winners of five LSA Awards Linguistic Society of America. www.linguisticsociety.org. 2016-01-08.
6. Web site: Judith Tonhauser wins Early Career Award from LSA Department of Linguistics. linguistics.stanford.edu. 6 November 2015 . 2016-01-08.
7. Web site: Best Paper in Language Award Announced for 2013 Linguistic Society of America. www.linguisticsociety.org. 2016-01-08.
8. Web site: ACLS. American Council of Learned Societies. 2016-01-08.
9. Web site: Editorial Team . 2019-04-12 . semprag.org . Semantics and Pragmatics . en-US.