Marc Authier

(Ph.D. University of Southern California)

Associate Professor of French and Linguistics

The Pennsylvania State University

Research Interests:

My main interest is in formal treatments of natural language. Specifically, my research has focused on the syntax and semantics of various linguistic phenomena including anaphora and quantification in such languages as English, French, KiNande (Bantu), Mandarin Chinese, Tamil (Dravidian), and Thai. I also have broader interests in formal logic, mathematical linguistics, and the philosophy of language.

Recent Publications:

(with Lisa Reed) 'Quantifier Scope and the Structure of Faire-par ,' Romance Linguistics: Theory and Acquisition , A.T. Perez-Leroux and Y. Roberge (eds.), John Benjamins, Amsterdam & Philadelphia , to appear.
'Semantics and the Generative Enterprise,'The Second Glot International State-of-the-article Book , L. Cheng and R. Sybesma (eds.) Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin & New York, 25-46, 2003.
(with Lisa Reed) 'Syntactically-Triggered Presuppositions,' Linguistic Analysis, 30.3-4: 295-317, 2002.
(with Lisa Reed) 'On Some Syntactic Conditions on Presuppositions,' Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Linguistics , 1999.
'On the Issue of Syntactic Primacy: Evidence from French,' Probus , 11.2, 1999.
(with Barbara Bullock and Lisa Reed) Formal Perspectives on Romance Linguistics , John Benjamins , Amsterdam & Philadelphia, 1999.
(with Lisa Reed) Structure and Interpretation in Natural Language , LINCOM EUROPA , Munich, 1999.
'When Syntax Overrules Semantics,'Proceedings of NELS 28 , P.N. Tamanji and K. Kusumoto (eds.) GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst , 1998.
'On Presuppositions and (Non)coreference,' Studia Linguistica 52.3, 1998.
(with Lisa Reed) 'On Some Split Binding Paradigms,' Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 15.3, 1997.
(with Lisa Reed) From LF to Logical Form: Generative Syntax Meets Model-Theoretic Semantics , Research report distributed by the Research Group in Mathematical Linguistics and Language Engineering (GRLMC) , Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain, 1997.
'Focus, Binding, and their Implications for Minimalist Theory,' Actas del XII Congreso de Lenguajes Naturales y Lenguajes Formales , Barcelona, Spain: Promociones y Publicaciones Universitarias, 1996.
(with Lisa Reed) 'On the Canadian French Middle,' Linguistic Inquiry 27.3, 1996.

Contact Information
Office: Room 329, South Burrowes Building E-mail: jma11@psu.edu Phone: (814) 863-9661 (messages at 865-1492) Fax: (814) 863-1103	Mailing Address: Department of French and Program in Linguistics & Applied Language Studies The Pennsylvania State University 211 Burrowes Building University Park, PA 16802-6203 USA

Marc Authier

(Ph.D. University of Southern California)

Associate Professor of French and Linguistics

The Pennsylvania State University

Research Interests:

Recent Publications:

Contact Information