Yael Sharvit Explained

Yael Sharvit
Fields:	Linguistics,
Workplaces:	University of Connecticut, UCLA
Alma Mater:	Rutgers University
Thesis Year:	1997
Doctoral Advisor:	Veneeta Dayal

Yael Sharvit is an American linguist who is Professor of Linguistics at UCLA.^[1] She specializes in semantics and the syntax-semantics interface.^[2]

Career

Sharvit received her PhD in linguistics from Rutgers University in 1997; she was the third person to graduate from the program.^[3] Her dissertation title is "The Syntax and Semantics of Functional Relative Clauses."

She joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut in 1999, leaving in 2011 to take up a position at UCLA.^[4]

Research

Sharvit is known for her work on tense, including embedded tense (Sharvit 1999), or bound tense (Alxatib & Sharvit 2017), tense in free indirect discourse (Sharvit 2008) and cross-linguistic typologies of tense. She has also contributed to the semantics of questions (Sharvit 2002) and relative clauses, the semantics of attitude verbs, negative polarity items, resumptive pronouns (Sharvit 1999) and superlatives (Sharvit & Stateva 2002).^[5]

Honors and distinctions

She is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Semantics.^[6] She also serves as co-editor-in-chief of the journal, Linguistics and Philosophy.^[7]

Selected publications

• Sharvit. Yael. 1999. Connectivity in specificational sentences. Natural Language Semantics. 7. 3. 299–339. 10.1023/A:1008390623435. 117847989.
• Sharvit . Yael . 1999 . Functional Relative Clauses . Linguistics and Philosophy . 22 . 5 . 447–478 . 10.1023/A:1005411720444 . 25001753 . 58725382 . 0165-0157. subscription .
• Sharvit . Yael . 1999-08-01 . Resumptive Pronouns in Relative Clauses . Natural Language & Linguistic Theory . en . 17 . 3 . 587–612 . 10.1023/A:1006226031821 . 169736813 . 1573-0859. subscription .
• Sharvit . Yael . Embedded Questions and 'De Dicto' Readings . 2002 . Natural Language Semantics . 10 . 2 . 97–123 . 10.1023/A:1016573907314 . 23748701 . 117802759 . 0925-854X.
• Sharvit . Yael . Stateva . Penka . 2002 . Superlative Expressions, Context, and Focus . Linguistics and Philosophy . 25 . 4 . 453–504 . 10.1023/A:1020875809794 . 25001857 . 60715693 . 0165-0157. subscription .
• Guerzoni. Elena . Sharvit. Yael . 2007. A question of strength: on NPIs in interrogative clauses. Linguistics and Philosophy. 30. 3. 361–391. 10.1007/s10988-007-9014-x. 60878758.
• Sharvit . Yael . 2008 . The Puzzle of Free Indirect Discourse . Linguistics and Philosophy . 31 . 3 . 353–395 . 10.1007/s10988-008-9039-9 . 40270140 . 62735532 . 0165-0157. subscription .
• Alxatib, Sam; Sharvit, Yael (2017). Bound tense in relative clauses: Evidence from VP-ellipsis. Linguistic Inquiry 48: 697-711. doi:10.1162/LING_a_00259

Notes and References

1. Web site: Faculty: Yael Sharvit . 2022-04-22 . Department of Linguistics - UCLA . en-US.
2. Web site: Google Scholar citations - Yael Sharvit . 2022-03-14 . scholar.google.com.
3. Web site: Braver . Aaron . Alumnx . 2022-03-11 . ling.rutgers.edu . en-gb.
4. Web site: 2011-09-23 . Sharvit joins UCLA faculty . 2024-03-09 . SNARL Rutgers Linguistics . en.
5. Web site: Yael Sharvit - Google Scholar . 2024-03-09 . scholar.google.com.
6. Web site: Editorial Board . 2022-03-11 . Oxford Academic . en.
7. Web site: Linguistics and Philosophy . 2024-03-09 . SpringerLink . en.