Mary Moroney
she/her/hers
- Adjunct Professor
511 Lattimore Hall
mary.moroney@rochester.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Biography
Professor Mary Moroney joined the Department of Linguistics in January 2022. She graduated with his PhD from Cornell University in 2021. Her dissertation, Definiteness and Quantification: Evidence from Shan, was advised by Sarah Murray (Co-Chair), Miloje Despic (Co-Chair), John Whitman, and Keir Moulton. Her research addresses questions about nominal structure and interpretation using data from fieldwork on Shan, an understudied Kra-Dai language.Research Overview
Research Interests
- Semantics
- Syntax
- Definiteness
- Quantification
- Comparatives
- Southeast Asian Languages
- Fieldwork
Courses Offered (subject to change)
- LING 110: Intro to Linguistic Analysis
- LING 225 / 425: Intro to Semantic Analysis
- LING 265 / 465: Formal Semantics
- LING 389: Senior Seminar
- LING 267 / 467: Semantics Seminar
Selected Publications
- To appear. More exceedingly comparative: Adverbial & attributive Exceed comparatives. In Juhyae Kim and Burak Oney(eds.) Semantics and Linguistic Theory 33.
- 2022. Classifiers can be for numerals or nouns: Two strategies for numeral modification. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics 7(1), 1-35. https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.8437 With Carol-Rose Little and Justin Royer.
- 2021. Updating the typology of definiteness: Evidence from bare nouns in Shan. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics 6(1), 1–28. https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.8437