Mary Moroney
she/her/hers
Visiting Scholar
Visiting Assistant Professor, 2022-2026
PhD, Cornell University, 2021
- Office Location
- 511 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Biography
Mary Moroney graduated with her 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
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