Dr. Elizabeth Coppock

Associate Professor

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Biography

Elizabeth Coppock is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Boston University. Her work is primarily focused on foundational topics in truth, reference, quantification, and measurement within natural language semantics. She directs the Linguistic Semantics Lab, where she investigates specific empirical puzzles and phenomena such as object agreement in Hungarian and the use of superlative modifiers like 'at least'. Her research also delves into opinion statements, definiteness-marking, and special adjectives like 'only', particularly within the context of Germanic languages. Furthermore, she studies cross-linguistic variation, syntactic and semantic universals, and the grammatical encoding of quantitative concepts, including her recent focus on the operations of multiplication and division of quantities. Her scholarly contributions have been published in top-tier journals including Natural Language Semantics, Journal Semantics, Pragmatics, and Linguistics and Philosophy.

Research Interests

Requirements for Boston University

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.88
TOEFL
Total
Required:100
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
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