Mandy Simons Explained

Mandy Simons
Alma Mater:	Cornell University (PhD)
Discipline:	Linguistics
Sub Discipline:	Semantics, Pragmatics
Doctoral Advisor:	Sally McConnell-Ginet
Website:	CMU faculty page

Mandy Simons is a linguist and professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). She researches semantics and pragmatics, in particular phenomena like presupposition and projection.^[1]

Biography

Simons earned her PhD in linguistics at Cornell in 1998 with a dissertation entitled, "Or: Issues in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Disjunction."^[2] She joined the faculty at CMU in 1998, and also holds an adjunct position at the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Linguistics.^{[3] [4]}

Awards

In 2013, her paper, "Toward a taxonomy of projective content," coauthored with Judith Tonhauser, David Beaver, and Craige Roberts won the 2013 Best Paper in Language (journal) Award from the Linguistic Society of America.^[5]

Selected publications

• Simons . Mandy . Observations on embedding verbs, evidentiality, and presupposition . Lingua . 1 June 2007 . 117 . 6 . 1034–1056 . 10.1016/j.lingua.2006.05.006 . 11 March 2022.
• Simons . Mandy . Tonhauser . Judith . Beaver . David . Roberts . Craige . What projects and why . Semantics and Linguistic Theory . 14 August 2010 . 20 . 309–327 . 10.3765/salt.v20i0.2584 . 11 March 2022. free .
• Tonhauser . Judith . Beaver . David . Roberts . Craige . Simons . Mandy . Toward a Taxonomy of Projective Content . Language . 2013 . 89 . 1 . 66–109 . 10.1353/lan.2013.0001 . 50243 . 11 March 2022.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mandy Simons . 2022-03-12 . scholar.google.com.
2. Web site: Alumni Department of Linguistics . 2022-03-12 . linguistics.cornell.edu . en.
3. Web site: University . Carnegie Mellon . Mandy Simons - Department of Philosophy - Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Carnegie Mellon University . www.cmu.edu . en.
4. Web site: Mandy Simons Linguistics University of Pittsburgh . www.linguistics.pitt.edu . 11 March 2022.
5. Web site: Best Paper in Language Award Announced for 2013 Linguistic Society of America . www.linguisticsociety.org . 11 March 2022.