Laurence R. Horn
laurence.horn(at)yale.edu
203-432-2457
370 Temple Street 208
Professor of Linguistics
Director of Undergraduate Studies
PhD (Linguistics) UCLA
Specialisation
Pragmatics, semantics, syntax, language & gender.
Research Interests
He received his doctorate in 1972 from UCLA. His dissertation, On the Semantic Properties of Logical Operators in English, directed by Barbara H. Partee, was distributed by the Indiana University Linguistics Club in 1976.
His primary research program lies in the union (if not the intersection) of classical logic, lexical semantics, and neo-Gricean pragmatic theory. He has been particularly concerned with the exploration of natural language negation and its relation to other operators.
The structure of every sentence is a lesson in logic. - John Stuart Mill
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