Anna Szabolcsi () is a linguist whose research has focused on semantics, syntax, and the syntax–semantics interface. She was born and educated in Hungary, and received her Ph.D. from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.
She is currently a professor of linguistics at New York University. She has been a research fellow at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, and a professor at UCLA.
Szabolcsi was one of the first to propose that noun phrases are structurally parallel to clausesAnna Szabolcsi, The Noun Phrase, 1994. In Kayne, Leu and Zanuttini, eds., (2014) An Annotated Syntax Reader: Lasting Insights and Questions. Wiley-Blackwell, 347-364. and alongside Mark Steedman and others initiated research in combinatory categorial grammar. Szabolcsi, A. (1989) Bound variables in syntax (are there any?). In Bartsch, van Benthem, and van Emde Boas, eds., Semantics and Contextual Expression, Foris, Dordrecht. 294-318. Szabolcsi, A. (2003) Binding on the fly: Cross-sentential anaphora in variable-free semantics. In Kruijff and Oehrle, eds., Resource-sensitivity, Binding, and Anaphora, Kluwer. 215-229. More recently she has worked on quantification,Szabolcsi, A. ed. (1997) Ways of Scope Taking. Kluwer. Szabolcsi, A. (2010) Quantification. Cambridge University Press. Szabolcsi, A. (2015) What do quantifier particles do? Linguistics and Philosophy 38: 159-204. Szabolcsi, A. (2019) Unconditionals and free choice unified. SALT 29 Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v29i0.4616 islands,Szabolcsi, A. (2006) Strong and weak islands. In Everaert and van Riemsdijk, eds., The Blackwell Companion to Syntax, vol. 4, 479-532. polarity,Szabolcsi, A. (2004) Positive polarity—negative polarity. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 22, 409-452. verbal complexes,Koopman, H. and A. Szabolcsi (2000) Verbal Complexes. The MIT Press. overt nominative subjects in infinitival complements,Szabolcsi, A. (2009) Overt nominative subjects in infinitival complements in Hungarian. In den Dikken and Vago, eds., Approaches to Hungarian 11. John Benjamins, pp. 251-276, and cross-linguistic semantics.Szabolcsi, A. (2024) Cross-linguistic insights in the theory of semantics and its interface with syntax. Theoretical Linguistics 50(1/2): 125-133.
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