Dr. Ezra Keshet

Biography

Ezra Keshet, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan, primarily focuses on theoretical semantics, exploring the formal study of meaning in language. His early research addressed intensionality and how language encodes ideas and situations. His current work emphasizes how various parts of an utterance can alter the structure of meaning. His specific areas of interest include conditional conjunctions and the meanings of pronouns, with ongoing projects in dynamic semantics. Professor Keshet regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate introductions to semantics, specifically LING 111: Introduction to Language, and has officially supervised 35 students on project topics related to tense, discourse structure, and prosody. He is also affiliated with the Philosophy department as a faculty affiliate, and his research spans formal semantics and pragmatics.

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