David R. Dowty, Ph.D.

Affiliations: 
Linguistics Ohio State University, Columbus, Columbus, OH 
Area:
semantics
Website:
http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~dowty/
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Dissertation: Studies in the Logic of Verb Aspect and Time Reference in English

Parents

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Emmon W. Bach grad student 1972 UT Austin
 (Acknowledgments in Dowty's thesis list Robert Wall as "chairman" and Emmon Bach as "co-chairman" of his committee.)
Robert Wall grad student 1972 UT Austin

Children

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Ying-yü Sheu grad student Ohio State
Uma Subramanian grad student Ohio State
Neal P. Whitman grad student Ohio State
Marion Rose Johnson grad student 1977 Ohio State
Gregory T. Stump grad student 1976-1981 Ohio State
John Nerbonne grad student 1984 Ohio State
Erhard Walter Hinrichs grad student 1985 Ohio State
Peter N. Lasersohn grad student 1982-1988 Ohio State
Philip N. Whitman grad student 2002 Ohio State
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Dowty DR. (2008) Toward a Semantic Analysis of Verb Aspect and the English "Imperfective" Progressive Formal Semantics: the Essential Readings. 261-288
Dowty D. (1994) The Role of Negative Polarity and Concord Marking in Natural Language Reasoning Semantics and Linguistic Theory. 4: 114-144
Dowty D. (1991) Thematic proto-roles and argument selection Language. 67: 547-619
Dowty DR. (1986) The effects of aspectual class on the temporal structure of discourse: semantics or pragmatics? Linguistics and Philosophy. 9: 37-61
Dowty DR, Karttunen L, Zwicky AM. (1985) Natural Language Parsing: Psychological, Computational, and Theoretical Perspectives Language. 63: 170
Dowty DR. (1985) On recent analyses of the semantics of control Linguistics and Philosophy. 8: 291-331
Dowty DR. (1982) Tenses, time adverbs, and compositional semantic theory Linguistics and Philosophy. 5: 23-55
Parsons T, Dowty DR. (1979) Word Meaning and Montague Grammar The Philosophical Review. 91: 290
Dowty DR. (1977) Toward a semantic analysis of verb aspect and the English 'imperfective' progressive Linguistics and Philosophy. 1: 45-77
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