Yael Sharvit
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Yael Sharvit | |
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| Alma mater | Rutgers University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Linguistics, |
| Institutions | University of Connecticut, UCLA |
| Thesis | (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]
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), relative clauses (Sharvit 1997), attitude reports (Charlow & Sharvit 2014), negative polarity items (Guerzoni & Sharvit 2007), resumptive pronouns (Sharvit 1999), and superlatives (Sharvit & Stateva 2002, Bumford & Sharvit 2022).[5]
