about
Emma Cunningham is a second-year graduate student in the Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University, where she works under the advisement of Polly Jacobson on issues concerning natural language semantics. Her research interests include: direct compositionality, binding theory, polarity, theories of discourse, and, of course, variable-free semantics.
(Breaking out of third person because it’s obnoxious :-P)
My undergraduate degree in Linguistics was completed at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles; my interest in formal semantics was cultivated there under the generous guidance and support of Barry Schein and Elena Guerzoni. I spent a year studying at Humboldt Universität in Berlin, Germany where I had the pleasure of working with Uli Sauerland.
A born and raised Southern Californian, I’m trying to learn to love the schizophrenic weather of the east, as well as the lack of avocados and horchata.