Alexandros Kalomoiros

I am a linguist working on formal semantics, and its interfaces with pragmatics and syntax.

 

Currently, I am a post-doctoral fellow, working on the DFG research grant 'Asymmetries in presupposition projection and the nature of meaning' (PI: Jacopo Romoli), at Heinrich-Heine Universität in Düsseldorf.

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Prior to that, I received my PhD from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania (2023), where I was advised by Florian Schwarz.

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My current research interests focus on whether the fact that speakers interpret language incrementally affects the way they understand sentences (e.g. what they take the presuppositions of a sentence to be). I investigate this topic by combining the rigorous development of formal theories of incremental interpretation with psycholinguistic experimentation, to test the fine-grained predictions of said theories.

 

I also have interests in the syntax-semantics interface, where I have worked on the syntax and semantics of Agreement in Western Armenian and what this phenomenon can tell us about processes of pseudo-incorporation.

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Furthermore, I am affiliated with Florian Schwarz's Experimental Study of Meaning Lab.

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I did my undergraduate degree at the University of Edinburgh, where I studied English Language and Literature.