Dr. Sarah Murray

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Sarah Murray is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Cornell University. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of semantics, pragmatics, and natural language processing, focusing on the formal representations required to analyze a variety of linguistic structures in grammatically diverse languages. Murray’s work investigates topics such as evidentiality, modality, plurality, connectives, sentential mood, and speech acts. She combines formal theories of meaning and discourse with documentation and analysis of understudied languages. Additionally, she has a strong interest in language documentation, elicitation methodology, community-based language work, and collaboration on language revitalization and reclamation projects. Notably, she has worked with the Cheyenne community in Southeastern Montana on various language projects since 2006. Murray is also the director of the Cornell Language Documentation Lab.

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