Profile
Biography
Eytan Zweig is a semanticist with an interest in formal semantics and in the application of psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic methods to theoretical linguistics. He obtained his first degree in English at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and his PhD in Linguistics at New York University.
Career
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
BA in English, literature and linguistics (1998 - 2002)
- New York University
PhD in Linguistics (2002 - 2008)
- University of York
Lecturer (2007 - )
Departmental roles
- Careers and skills liason officer
- Chair of Ethics Committee
Research
Overview
- Semantics
- Neurolinguistics
Main research interests are formal semantics and neurolinguistics. In semantics, he focuses on how different types of quantification interact with each other. His recent dissertation from New York University deals with disentangling the semantic and pragmatic contributions of noun plurality to sentence meaning. Recent work in neurolinguistics involves the use of neuroimaging techniques to further the understanding of morphological processing during reading.
Projects
- Syntax and semantics of quotative "be-like"
Together with Bill Haddican, using both sociolinguistic, experimental and theoretical methods to investigating the syntactic and semantic consequences of a lexical innovation in English.
- A neural correlate for scalar calculation
This study uses neuroimaging techniques (MEG) to test whether there is any neural activity associated with under informative scalar terms like “some”.
Research group(s)
Grants
- Research
I have a pump-priming grant “A neural Correlate for scalar calculation” (2009-2010)
Collaborators
Supervision
- Upsorn Tawilapakul
PhD student (October 2009)