Hi! I’m Emma (Tsujimoto Cunningham if you wanted my full name). I live in Providence, Rhode Island.
I am a first second third fourth-year graduate student in the Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University. I work with Polly Jacobson on issues concerning natural language semantics (and some syntax). My research interests include: direct compositionality, binding theory, polarity, theories of discourse, questions and answers, presuppositions, polymorphism, and, of course, variable-free semantics. I’m mostly a dilettante!
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 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 (who is largely responsible for introducing me to the wonderful world of all things Binding Theory!).
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. I love data. Everything you have heard is true; I really do type using the Dvorak keyboard layout. I play the flute and I love my bicycle. Rhode Island is the birthplace of my fondness for all things yeast-related, bread baking and beer brewing. I prefer emacs to vi, Scheme to Ruby, LaTeX to Word.
I also like to garden.
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