Yael Sharvit

Yael Sharvit is an American linguist who is Professor of Linguistics at UCLA. She specializes in semantics and the syntax-semantics interface.

Career

Sharvit received her PhD in linguistics from Rutgers University in 1997; she was the third person to graduate from the program. Her dissertation title is "The Syntax and Semantics of Functional Relative Clauses."
She joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut in 1999, leaving in 2011 to take up a position at UCLA.

Research

Sharvit is known for her work on tense, including embedded tense, or bound tense, tense in free indirect discourse and cross-linguistic typologies of tense. She has also contributed to the semantics of questions, relative clauses, attitude reports, negative polarity items, resumptive pronouns, and superlatives.

Honors and distinctions

She is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Semantics. She also serves as co-editor-in-chief of the journal Linguistics and Philosophy.

Selected publications

Alxatib, Sam; Sharvit, Yael. Bound tense in relative clauses: Evidence from VP-ellipsis. Linguistic Inquiry 48: 697-711. doi:10.1162/LING_a_00259