Donka Farkas
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Donka Farkas (born April 3, 1952) is a Romanian-American linguist, Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[1]
Donka Farkas | |
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| Alma mater | University of Bucharest, The University of Chicago |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Linguistics, Semantics, Pragmatics |
| Institutions | UCSC |
| Thesis | Intensional Descriptions and the Romance Subjunctive Mood |
| Doctoral advisor | James D. McCawley |
Donka Farkas received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago in 1981.[2][3] Her dissertation, titled Intensional Descriptions and the Romance Subjunctive Mood, was supervised by James D. McCawley.
She joined the linguistics faculty of University of California-Santa Cruz in 1991, where she remained until her retirement in 2019. Over the course of her career, she supervised the PhDs of several students who went on to have distinguished careers of their own.[4]
She specializes in formal semantics and pragmatics, and her widely-cited work is often grounded in data from Romance languages and Hungarian.[5] She has made particularly important contributions to the semantics of (in)definiteness (Brasoveanu & Farkas 2011); specificity (Farkas 2002); subjunctive mood (Farkas 1985); and sentence types, including relationships between questions and their answers (Farkas & Kim 2010; Farkas & Roelofsen 2017).
