University Assistant
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Curriculum Vitae
BARBARA H. PARTEE
Department of Linguistics 50 Hobart Lane
South College Amherst, MA 01002
University of Massachusetts +1-413-***-****
Amherst, MA 01003-9274 and
413-***-**** Tallinskaja 2, #258
Fax: 413-***-**** Moscow 123458, Russia
e-mail: abozg8@r.postjobfree.com +7-495-***-****
website: http://people.umass.edu/partee/
Born: June 23, 1940, Englewood, New Jersey
Education
1957 graduated from Towson High School, Towson, MD
1961 B.A. in Mathematics with High Honors, Swarthmore College
Minors in Russian and Philosophy
1965 Ph.D. in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation (Barbara C. Hall): Subject and Object in Modern English
Dissertation advisor: Noam Chomsky
Positions
1965-69 Assistant Professor of Linguistics, UCLA
1969-71 Associate Professor of Linguistics, UCLA
1971-72 Associate Professor of Linguistics & Philosophy, UCLA
1972-73 Associate Professor of Linguistics & Philosophy, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
1973-90 Professor of Linguistics & Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1987-93 Head, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1990- 2003 Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, University
of
Massachusetts, Amherst
2004- Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy Emerita,
University
of Massachusetts, Amherst
1995- (Honorary) Permanent Guest Professor, Charles University, Prague.
Other Experience
LSA Linguistic Institute l966, UCLA, taught one seminar (mathematical linguistics)
LSA California Linguistics Institute l972, UC Santa Cruz, taught one seminar (Montague
grammar)
LSA Linguistic Institute l974, UMass, helped plan curriculum, taught one seminar
(Montague
grammar), directed an MSSB workshop Semantics of Non-Extensional Constructions .
University of Texas, Austin, Summer Linguistics Program, l979, co-taught one seminar
(Montague grammar) with Emmon Bach.
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LSA Linguistic Institute l987, Stanford, taught one seminar (current issues in formal
semantics)
LSA Linguistic Institute, Summer l989, University of Arizona, taught one seminar (Cross-
Linguistic Quantification) and co-directed workshop on quantification with Emmon Bach
El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, Spring 1990, taught one seminar (Temas Actuales en
SemAntica) (in Spanish)
LSA Linguistic Institute, Summer 1991, University of California at Santa Cruz, Sapir
Professor: taught one seminar (Quantification and Semantic Typology)
Mathesius Institute, Charles University, Prague: taught 1-week courses in 1994, 1995,
1996
(2), 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004; these were joint with Vladimir Borschev in 1996 (1),
1998, 2002, 2004.
Moscow State University, Moscow, Fall 1996: Visiting Professor, Department of Theoretical
and Applied Linguistics. Taught one course: Formal Semantics and the Lexicon.
Russian State Humanities University, Spring 1998: Visiting Professor, Faculty of
Theoretical
and Applied Linguistics. Co-taught one course with Vladimir Borschev: Formal
Semantics.
Russian State Humanities University, Spring 1999: Visiting Professor, Faculty of
Theoretical
and Applied Linguistics. Taught one short-course: Formal Semantics and the Lexicon.
University of Leipzig, Spring-Summer 1999: Leibniz Professor, Center for Advanced
Studies.
Taught undergraduate course, Introduction to Formal Semantics, and graduate seminar,
Formal and Lexical Semantics.
Russian State Humanities University, Spring 2000: Visiting Fulbright Professor, Faculty
of
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. Two courses: Formal Semantics and the Lexicon,
Research Seminar on Formal Semantics and Slavic.
Russian State Humanities University, Spring 2001: Visiting Professor, Faculty of
Theoretical
and Applied Linguistics. One advanced course: Quantification and Semantic Typology.
Russian State Humanities University, Spring 2003: Visiting Professor, Faculty of
Theoretical
and Applied Linguistics. One course: Formal Semantics.
New York Institute, St. Petersburg, summer 2003: Co-taught two one-week courses with V.
Borschev.
Russian State Humanities University, Spring 2004: Visiting Professor, Faculty of
Theoretic al
and Applied Linguistics. One course: Formal Semantics.
Russian State Humanities University, Spring 2005: Visiting Fulbright Professor, Faculty
of
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. One course: Formal Semantics
Moscow State University, Spring 2005: Visiting Fulbright Professor, Faculty of
Theoretical
and Applied Linguistics. One course: Formal Semantics and Current Issues in Semantics
New York Institute, St. Petersburg, summer 2005: Co-taught a two-week course with V.
Borschev: Formal and Lexical Semantics and Ontology.
Canterbury University, Christchurch, NZ, Feb-June 2006: Visiting Erskine Fellow, one
course: LING 310: Special Topic: The Structure of Meaning.
Moscow State University, Spring 2007: Visiting Professor, Faculty of Theoretical and
Applied Linguistics. One course: Topics in Formal Semantics
Russian State Humanities University, Spring 2008: Visiting Professor, Faculty of
Theoretical
and Applied Linguistics. One course: Formal Semantics and Anaphora
Moscow State University, Spring 2009: Visiting Professor, Faculty of Theoretical and
Applied Linguistics. One course: Formal Semantics and Formal Pragmatics
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Fall 2009: post-retirement teaching: Linguistics
720,
Semantics Proseminar. Topic: Implicit Arguments (and other implicit content)
Russian State Humanities University, Spring 2010: Visiting Professor, Faculty of
Theoretical
and Applied Linguistics. One course: Formal Semantics and Issues in the Semantics of
Noun Phrases.
Moscow State University, Spring 2011: Visiting Professor, Faculty of Theoretical and
Applied Linguistics. One course: Formal Semantics and Semantic Universals.
Russian State Humanities University, Spring 2010: Visiting Professor, Faculty of
Theoretical
and Applied Linguistics. One course: History of Formal Semantics.
Honors, Awards, and Grants
National Merit Scholar, 1957 (declined)
General Motors Scholar, 1957-61
Oak Leaf Award, Swarthmore College, 1961
Woodrow Wilson Honorary Fellowship, 1961
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1961-65
Goodwin Medal (outstanding Teaching Assistant), MIT, 1965
Humanities Institute award (sabbatical salary supplement) for 1969-70
Fulbright-Hays Award to lecture at University College, London 1971-72 (declined)
NSF Grant GS39752: Formal Syntax and Semantics for Natural Languages, 9/73-8/75 with
Terence Parsons, Department of Philosophy
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1976-77
Chancellor's Medal, University of Massachusetts, November 1977
Co-P.I. on Sloan Foundation grant: Language and Information Processing, 1978-80
NSF Grant BNS 78-19309: Computer Implementation for Generalized Categorial Grammars,
1/79-5/81 with Emmon Bach, Dept. of Linguistics
Co-P.I. Sloan Foundation Grant in Cognitive Science, 1980-85
Visiting Fellow (short-term), Council of the Humanities, Princeton University, 2/81
Co-director, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, Semantics and the Logical
Structure of Natural Language, 1981, with Emmon Bach
Faculty Fellowship, University of Massachusetts, 1981-82
Visiting Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, 7/82-
8/83.
NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 9/82-8/83
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 1984
Principal Investigator, System Development Foundation grant: Formal Foundations of
Semantics, 1984-87
Vice-President (1985) and President (1986), Linguistic Society of America; Executive
Committee (ex officio) l985-87, Budget Committee l986-87
Honorary Doctor of Science degree, Swarthmore College, June l989
IREX Fellowship for Research in Czechoslovakia,
Sept. 89-January 90
Honorary Doctor of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, November 19923
Max Planck Research Award, jointly awarded to Partee and Prof. Hans Kamp of the
University of Stuttgart, November 1992 in recognition of past research. 100,000 DM over
3 years for unrestricted joint research. Awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation and the Max Planck Society, Germany.
U.S.-Czechoslovakia Science and Technology Grant, joint with Professor Eva Hajicova of
Charles University, Prague, Dec.1992- Oct. 1995, for Research on the Semantics of
English and Czech Sentence Structure and Word Order: Contributions to a Theory of
Formal Semantics and Information Structure. 846000 Czech crowns and $29000.
Whitney J. Oates Short-Term Fellow of the Council of the Humanities and of the Program in
Linguistics, Princeton University, Feb. 15-25, 1993.
IREX Fellowship for Research in Czech Republic, Jan - July 1995.
Honorary member, Prague Linguistics Circle, from July 1995.
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected 1996.
COBASE Grant, National Research Council, for collaborative research with V. Borschev,
"Towards an integration of formal and lexical semantics: Meaning postulates and fine-
grained sortal structures", Jan-July 1997, $13,500
NSF Grant BCS-9905748: Integration of Lexical & Compositional Semantics: Genitives in
English and Russian, 9/99 8/02, $241,270 . No-cost extension to 8/03. Joint (starting
in
2000) with Vladimir Borschev.
Fulbright Senior Lecturing Award, Russian State Humanities University, Moscow, 1/00-6/00.
Honorary Doctorate, Russian State Humanities University, Moscow, February 2001.
Foreign Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected April 2002.
NSF Grant BCS-0418311: The Russian Genitive of Negation: Integration of Lexical &
Compositional Semantics, 9/04 8/08, $225,932, with Vladimir Borschev.
Fulbright Senior Lecturing Award, Russian State Humanities University and Moscow State
University, Moscow, 1/05-6/05.
Honorary Doctorate, Copenhagen Business School, March 2005.
Linguistic Society of America Fellow, part of first class of Fellows: 2005
Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, Feb-June, 2006
Fellow, Massachusetts Academy of Sciences, selected in its first year, 2008.
Other Activities
Past member of editorial boards for Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Semantikos, Linguistics
&
Philosophy (inception to 1982), The Linguistic Review, Theoretical Linguistics,
Grammars, Revista di Linguistica, Natural Language Semantics (1992-2006)
Current member of editorial boards for: Linguistics and Philosophy (from 1998), Academic
Press Syntax and Semantics series (with Emerald Publishers 2011- ).
Honorary editorial board, Natural Language Semantics, 2007 -
Advisory Board, Journal of Semantics, 2009 -
Secretary-Treasurer of (non-profit) Linguistics & Philosophy Associates, Inc., 1982-1992;
Vice-President 1992-97 (parent organization for journal Linguistics & Philosophy)
Member Linguistic Society of America, American Philosophical Association, Association for
Computational Linguistics
Co-director, Cognitive Science Program, University of Massachusetts, 1980-82; director
1983-84, co-director, 1984-1987.
Visiting Committee member, MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, l974-1991.
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Advisory Panel member, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, 1983-
1989
NSF Linguistics Panel member, l977-79
CIES (Fulbright) Linguistics Panel member, l983-86, chair, l985-86.
Advisory Committee to the Program Committee, Eastern Division APA, l986-88
Regional Selection Committee, Mellon Fellowship Program, l985-1988
Board of Managers, Swarthmore College, 1990-2001; Student Life Committee: Vice-chair
1991-1994, Chair 1995- 1997; Executive Committee 1995- 1997; Instruction and
Libraries Committee Vice-Chair 1998-1999.
Advisory Board member, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of
Pennsylvania, 1992-1998
Chair, Anthropology Section, National Academy of Sciences, 1993-96.
Co-founder and Vice-Chair, LSA Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics, 1994-96.
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Vilem Mathesius Institute, Prague, 1994-2004
Member, Advisory Board, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT), 1994-2004;
Chair, 1997-2004.
Member, Advisory Board, Computational Linguistics Department, Copenhagen Business
School, 2002- .
Chair, LSA Committee on Honorary Members, 2002.
Am. Assn. for the Advancement of Science, Chair of Nominating Comm., Section Z, 2003 -04
National Academy of Sciences, Chair, Temporary Nominating Group for Foreign Associates
from under-represented countries in Europe, Middle East, and Eurasia, 2004-7
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Evaluation Committee 2005-8 for KNAW
Academy Professorships Programme
National Academy of Sciences, Chair, Temporary Nominating Group for Foreign Associates
from under-represented countries for Class V (Behavioral and Social Sciences), 2007-10,
2010-2013.
Board member, Center for the Cognitive Sciences and Semantics, University of Latvia,
2009
National Academy of Sciences, Member, Nominating Committee for Academy Officers and
Council, 2009.
Member, Standing Committee for Tbilisi Symposia on Language, Logic and Computation,
2010-.
Principal Research Interests
Formal semantics and its connections with syntax, pragmatics, logic; related issues in
philosophy of language and in cognitive science. Recent past: research on cross-
linguistic
quantification and more generally on issues of universality and typology in semantics;
research on interaction of topic-focus structure, quantification-relevant structure, and
various
aspects of context-dependence in semantic interpretation; cooperative research with
colleagues in Prague aimed at integrating HajicovA and Sgall's contemporary Prague school
approach with work in formal semantics; cooperative research with Hans Kamp on
foundational issues concerning context-dependence in semantics. Philosophical interests
include the relation between model-theoretic and psychologistic approaches to the
foundations of semantics; and more generally on various logic-oriented and linguistics-
oriented approaches to issues in natural language semantics and problems of
compositionality.
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Recent areas of research interest: interaction of noun phrase semantics with verbal
aspect;
joint research with Russian colleagues aimed at integration of Russian lexical semantics
(and
some western lexical semantics) with formal semantics, sortal structures and sort-
shifting,
interface of lexical and compositional semantics. NSF grant 1999- 2003 with Borschev on
the
integration of formal and lexical semantics and the semantics of genitives. NSF grant
2004 -08
with Borschev on Genitive of Negation in Russian and the integration of formal and
lexical
semantics. Currently working on a book project on the history of formal semantics.
Ph.D. Dissertations supervised:
At UCLA: In Linguistics: Kalon Kelley 1967, John McKay 1969, Peter Menzel 1969, Frank
Heny 1970, Marmo Soemarmo 1970, Steven Smith 1970, Jeremy Brigstocke 1971,
Jacquelyn DeMeire Schachter 1971, Lawrence Horn 1972, Donald Burquest 1973,
Andrew Rogers 1974.
In Philosophy: co-chaired (with David Kaplan) Michael Bennett 1974 and Enrique Delacruz
1974.
At UMass: In Linguistics: Robin Cooper 1975, Muffy Siegel 1976, Greg Carlson 1977, Paul
Hirschbuhler 1978, Elisabet Engdahl 1980, Michael Flynn 1981, Ken Ross 1981, Irene
Heim 1982, Gennaro Chierchia 1984, Mats Rooth 1985, Jonathan Mitchell 1986, Craige
Roberts 1987, Nirit Kadmon 1987, Jae-Woong Choe 1987, Allesandro Zucchi 1989,
Karina Wilkinson 1991, Paul Portner 1992, Virginia Brennan 1993, Hotze Rullmann
1995, J. Michael Terry, 2004, Ji-Yung Kim, 2004, Meredith Landman, 2006.
In Philosophy: Dorit Abusch 1984, Arnold Chien 1987, Mark Aronszajn 1991.
Publications:
Books:
Stockwell, R.P, P. Schachter, and B.H. Partee, The Major Syntactic Structures of English.
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972.
Montague Grammar, edited, Academic Press, 1976.
Subject and Object in Modern English, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1979
Fundamentals of Mathematics for Linguists, Greylock Publishers, (and D.Reidel,
Dordrecht),
1979.
Properties, Types and Meaning. Vol. I: Foundational Issues; Vol. II: Semantic Issues, G.
Chierchia, B. Partee and R. Turner (eds.), Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989.
Partee, Barbara H., Alice ter Meulen and Robert Wall, Mathematical Methods in
Linguistics,
Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990. Second printing, corrected first edition, 1993.
Bach, Emmon, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer, and Barbara H. Partee, eds.,
Quantification
in Natural Languages, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1995.
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Partee, Barbara H. 2009. Formal semantics, lexical semantics, and compositionality: The
puzzle of privative adjectives. Philologia 7:11-23.
Partee, Barbara H. 2010. Privative adjectives: subsective plus coercion. In
Presuppositions
and Discourse: Essays offered to Hans Kamp, eds. Rainer BAuerle, Uwe Reyle and
Thomas Ede Zimmermann, 273-285. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing.
Partee, Barbara H. 2010. Introduction to Section IV: Discourse structures and discourse
modes. In Text, Time, and Context: Papers by Carlota S. Smith, eds. Helen Aristar Dry
and Richard P. Meier. Dordrecht: Springer.
Partee, Barbara H. 2010. Compositionality, context, and cognition: Comment on Embodied
language, best fit analysis, and formal compositionality by F. Feldman. Physics of Life
Reviews 7:411-413.
Partee, Barbara H. 2010. Specificational copular sentences in Russian and English. In
Russian
in Contrast, Oslo Studies in Language 2(1), eds. Atle GrOnn and Irena Marijanovic, 25-
49. Oslo: University of Oslo (Open source publication).
Partee, Barbara H. 2010. Montague grammar. In The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the
Language Sciences, ed. Patrick Colm Hogan, 511-512. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. (1000 words)
Partee, Barbara H. 2010. Quantification. In The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language
Sciences, ed. Patrick Colm Hogan, 694-695. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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(1000 words)
Partee, Barbara H. 2010. Sentence meaning. In The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language
Sciences, ed. Patrick Colm Hogan, 766-767. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(500 words)
Partee, Barbara H. 2010. Discrete Infinity. In The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language
Sciences, ed. Patrick Colm Hogan, 266. Cambridge Cambridge University Press. (500
words)
Partee, Barbara H. 2010. Formal semantics. In The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language
Sciences, ed. Patrick Colm Hogan, 314-317. Cambridge Cambridge University Press.
(3000 words)
Partee, Barbara H. 2011. Formal semantics: Origins, issues, early impact. In Formal
Semantics and Pragmatics. Discourse, Context, and Models. The Baltic Yearbook of
Cogntion, Logic, and Communication. Vol. 6 (2010), eds. B.H. Partee, M. Glanzberg and
J. Skilters. Lawrence, KS: New Prairie Press.
Partee, Barbara H. 2011. Formal semantics: Origins, issues, early impact. In Formal
Semantics and Pragmatics. Discourse, Context, and Models. The Baltic Yearbook of
Cogntion, Logic, and Communication. Vol. 6 (2010), eds. B.H. Partee, M. Glanzberg and
J. Skilters, 1-52. Lawrence, KS: New Prairie Press.
http://thebalticyearbook.org/journals/baltic/article/view/1580/1228.
Partee, Barbara H., Borschev, Vladimir, Paducheva, Elena V., Testelets, Yakov, and
Yanovich, Igor. 2011. Russian Genitive of Negation alternations: The role of verb
semantics. Scando-Slavica 57.2:135-159.
Partee, Barbara H., Borschev, Vladimir, Paducheva, Elena V., Testelets, Yakov, and
Yanovich, Igor. 2011. The Role of verb semantics in genitive alternations: Genitive of
Negation and Genitive of Intensionality. In The Ru
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