Judith Tonhauser

LSA 128: Semantics of tense cross-linguistically

Judith Tonhauser is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Ohio State University. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2006. Her research focuses on the syntax and semantics of indigenous languages of the Americas, and she current works on the temporal interpretation of noun phrases, the relation between future time reference and modality, and the morpho-syntactic encoding of information structural properties in Yucatec Maya. She has conducted fieldwork on Yucatec Maya (in Mexico) and on Guarani (in Paraguay) since 2002.

External website: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~judith/