Judith Tonhauser is a Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart.

Education and career

Tonhauser received her Ph.D. in

Linguistics Linguistics is the science, scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure ...

from Stanford University in 2006. Her dissertation was titled ''The Temporal Semantics of Noun Phrases: Evidence from Guaraní.'' From 2006 to 2020, she was on the faculty of the Linguistics department at The

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...

. Since 2020 she has been Professor and Chair of English Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart. Tonhauser's research interests include Presupposition projection, Prosody and Meaning, Temporal Anaphora and Reference, and

empirical methods Empirical research is research using empirical evidence. It is also a way of gaining knowledge by means of direct and indirect observation or experience. Empiricism values some research more than other kinds. Empirical evidence (the record of o ...

Semantics Semantics (from grc, σημαντικός ''sēmantikós'', "significant") is the study of reference, meaning, or truth. The term can be used to refer to subfields of several distinct disciplines, including philosophy, linguistics and comp ...

and

Pragmatics In linguistics and related fields, pragmatics is the study of how context contributes to meaning. The field of study evaluates how human language is utilized in social interactions, as well as the relationship between the interpreter and the in ...

. She is known for her work in theoretical semantics and pragmatics, specifically on cross-linguistic semantic/pragmatic variation. To this end, she has investigated languages which are under-represented in linguistic theory like the Paraguayan

Guarani language Guaraní (), specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guarani ( "the people's language"), is a South American language that belongs to the Tupi–Guarani family of the Tupian languages. It is one of the official languages of P ...

, a Tupí Guaraní language spoken in

Paraguay Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...

and surrounding countries.

Awards and distinctions

Tonhauser is the recipient of the 2016 Early Career Award from the

Linguistic Society of America The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is a learned society for the field of linguistics. Founded in New York City in 1924, the LSA works to promote the scientific study of language. The society publishes three scholarly journals: ''Language'', ...

. The award recognizes scholars early in their career who have made outstanding contributions to the field of linguistics. Tonhauser's 2013 paper, "Toward a taxonomy of projective content," coauthored with David Beaver, Craige Roberts, and Mandy Simons, won the 2013 Best Paper in ''Language'' (journal) Award from the

. In 2013, she was awarded an ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars for her project ''Content and Context in the Study of Meaning Variation''. She is an Associate Editor of ''

Semantics and Pragmatics The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is a learned society for the field of linguistics. Founded in New York City in 1924, the LSA works to promote the scientific study of language. The society publishes three scholarly journals: ''Language'', ...

'', a journal of the

Selected publications

* * * * * * * * * * * *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tonhauser, Judith Living people Linguists from the United States Women linguists Semanticists Ohio State University faculty Stanford University alumni Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) University of Stuttgart faculty