Jamie Y. Findlay

Jamie Y. Findlay

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Semantics

Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies

University of Oslo

About me

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Semantics at the University of Oslo, where I am part of the Universal Natural Language Understanding project [ ]. The main focus of my work is on using computational and mathematical tools to explore syntax and semantics (I don’t think the two can be meaningfully studied in isolation*). But I am interested in all areas of grammatical theory (including meta-theory), and in all areas of linguistics more broadly: as well as syntax and semantics, my research has touched on sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and cognitive linguistics.

Areas of expertise
  • Syntax/semantics
    • Multiword expressions
    • Argument structure & mapping theory
    • Prepositional verbs and their passives
    • Metaphor & analogy
    • Lexical Functional Grammar
    • Glue Semantics
    • Tree Adjoining Grammar
    • Construction Grammar
    • Universal Dependencies
    • Discourse Representation Theory
  • Computational linguistics
    • Corpus linguistics
    • Semantic parsing & annotation
    • Grammar engineering (XLE)
  • Sociolinguistics
    • Language and gender
    • Language and sexuality
    • (Critical) discourse analysis
Education
  • DPhil in General Linguistics, 2019

    University of Oxford

  • MPhil in General Linguistics, 2014

    University of Oxford

  • MA in French & Linguistics, 2011

    University of Oxford

Recent Publications

(2023). Rule-based semantic interpretation for Universal Dependencies. Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023).

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(2023). Argument structure and Mapping Theory. The handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar.

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(2023). Formal semantics for Dependency Grammar. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling 2023).

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(2023). Lexical Functional Grammar as a Construction Grammar. Journal of Language Modelling.

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(2023). LFG and Tree-Adjoining Grammar. The handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar.

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