Haas Foundations Professor of Linguistics

Research Interests

Semantics, the Syntax/Semantics mapping, Pragmatics,

Philosophy of Language, The interface of Semantics with Language

Development, Language Pathology, and Language Processing.

Representative Publications

Dynamics of meaning.  Anaphora, Presupposition and the

Theory of Grammar, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and

London, 1995, pp. xv, 270.

"Reference to Kinds across Languages", Natural Language

Semantics, Kluwer, 6, 1998, 339-405.

"Backwards vs.  Forward Anaphora:  Reconstruction in Child

Language", Language Acquisition, 8.2:129-170. 1999/2000. 

With M. T. Guasti.

"Scalar Implicatures, Polarity Phenomena and the

Syntax/Pragmatics Interface" in A. Belletti (ed) Structures and

Beyond, Oxford University Press, 2004.

"(In)Definites, Locality, and Intentional Identity" in G. Carlson

and F. J. Pelletier (eds) Reference and Quantification:  The

Partee Effect, CSLI, Stanford, 2006.

Mailing Address

Department of Linguistics

316 Boylston Hall

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA 02138

Office Telephone:  617-495-8181

E-mail:  chierch@fas.harvard.edu