Curt Anderson, Ph.D.

About Me

Hi, I'm Curt Anderson, a Linguist and consultant-in-training at Gap International. I was formerly a Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toronto Scarborough, affiliated with the Department of Language Studies. Before that, I did a stint as a postdoctoral researcher with German Science Foundation (DFG) Collaborative Research Center 991 at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, from 2016 until 2020.

My linguistics interests orbit around the representation of linguistic meaning and its interfaces with syntax, the lexicon, and conceptual structure. Much of my work has been centered around the semantics of modification and modifiers. My most recent projects have involved examining interactions between the lexical semantics of adjectives and the nouns they modify. Other work of mine on attributive adjectives has focused on the representation of relational adjectives, how they differ from property adjectives, and how some relational adjectives have meanings that are related to roles. I'm also interested in natural language ontology, the syntax and semantics of numerals, and children's understanding of aspect.

I completed my PhD in Linguistics at Michigan State University in May 2016. In my dissertation I examined intensification and attenuation in English through the lens of exclamatives, approximation, and slack regulation.

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Research

Papers

Conference Presentations and Posters

Papers supercede their presentations, but if you are interested in the presented version, please contact me.

Dissertation

Manuscripts

Teaching

I've taught the following courses at various space-time locations: