Curriculum Vitae. Lynsey Kay Wolter. Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Fall present.

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1 Curriculum Vitae Lynsey Kay Wolter Department of English 105 Garfield Ave. University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire Eau Claire, WI Additional contact information available on request. Academic Positions Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Fall present. Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Language Sciences, University of Rochester Education Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz, June 2006 Dissertation: That s That: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Demonstrative Noun Phrases Dissertation committee: Donka F. Farkas (chair), William A. Ladusaw, and James Mc- Closkey Additional coursework at UCSC: Writing 203, Teaching Writing, Spring 2005 Visiting Graduate Student, Department of Linguistics, UMass Amherst, Fall 2004 Faculty sponsor: Angelika Kratzer B.A. with High Honors in Linguistics, minor in Psychology, Swarthmore College, 2000 Honors thesis: The case of predicates: Questions of control and binding Thesis advisors: Donna Jo Napoli and Theodore B. Fernald Russian State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg, Russia, Spring 1999 ACTR Education Abroad Program

2 Lynsey Wolter 2 Awards and Honors National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Dean s Fellowship, UCSC, Mellon Fellowship, Phi Beta Kappa, Swarthmore College, 2000 Honorable Mention, University of Maryland Undergraduate Essay Prize in Linguistics, 2000 National Merit Scholarship, 1996 Papers to appear Demonstratives ; Domain restriction. In Encyclopedia of Pragmatics, Louise Cummings, ed. Routledge That is Rosa: Identificational sentences as intensional predication. With Daphna Heller. Forthcoming in Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 12. Identity and indeterminacy in -ever free relatives. With Daphna Heller. In Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory Situation variables and licensing by modification in opaque demonstratives. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung Definite determiners and domain restriction. In Proceedings of NELS 36. Chris Davis, Amy Rose Deal, and Youri Zabbal, eds. Amherst, MA: GLSA Demonstratives, definiteness and determined reference. In Proceedings of NELS 34. Keir Moulton and Matthew Wolf, eds. Amherst, MA: GLSA Fall-rise, topic and speaker noncommitment. In Proceedings of WECOL University of British Columbia.

3 Lynsey Wolter 3 Invited Talks 2007 Comments on Complex demonstratives, by Jeff King. Cornell University Workshop on Complex Demonstratives, April That s that: The semantics and pragmatics of demonstrative noun phrases. University of Rochester, May 22; Cornell University, October More remarks on this and that. UC Berkeley Syntax/Semantics Circle, November 14. Conference Presentations 2008 Unbelievable! With Christine Gunlogson. UC-Santa Cruz Linguistics Alumni Conference, Santa Cruz, CA, September 14. Identity and indeterminacy in -ever free relatives. With Daphna Heller. Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT), UMass-Amherst, March 21. I can t believe it!: Expressive meaning in belief reports. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, IL, January That is Rosa: Identificational sentences as intensional predication. With Daphna Heller. Sinn und Bedeutung 12, Oslo, September Situation variables and licensing by modification in opaque demonstratives. Sinn und Bedeutung 11, Barcelona, September 21. Bridging demonstratives at the semantics-pragmatics interface. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, NM, January 6.

4 Lynsey Wolter Definite determiners and domain restriction. Poster presented at North Eastern Linguistic Society (NELS), UMass-Amherst, October 29. Relative markedness of definite determiners. Workshop on the (In-) Determinacy of Meaning, DGfS, Cologne, Germany, February 24. Nonuniqueness implications in demonstrative descriptions. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, CA, January On the nonuniqueness implication of demonstratives. Southern New England Workship on Semantics (SNEWS), Brown University, October Demonstratives, definiteness and determined reference. North Eastern Linguistic Society (NELS), Stony Brook University, November 7. Vowel length, weight and stress in K ichee. With James Isaacs. Tri-Lateral Phonology Weekend (TREND), University of California, Santa Cruz, May Fall-rise, topic and speaker noncommitment. Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), University of British Columbia, November 2. Teaching Experience University of Rochester Department of Linguistics Co-Instructor (with Jeff Runner). Introduction to Grammatical Systems. Undergraduate syntax course, Spring Instructor. Introduction to Grammatical Systems. Undergraduate syntax course, Spring UC Santa Cruz Department of Linguistics Teaching Fellow. Pragmatics. Full responsibility for course, including teaching lectures, designing and grading homework, coordinating with teaching assistant, holding office hours, and writing narrative evaluations. Fall Teaching Assistant. Semantics 1. Primary instructors: Donka F. Farkas; William A. Ladusaw. Assisted in grading homework and exams, led weekly discussion sections, held office hours. Winter 2005; Winter Teaching Assistant. Syntax 1. Primary instructor: Judith Aissen. Writing intensive course. Assisted in grading, led weekly discussion sections, held office hours. Winter UC Santa Cruz Summer Session Instructor. Semantics 1. Full responsibility for course, including teaching four lectures a week, designing and grading homework and exams, holding office hours, and writing narrative evaluations. Summer 2004.

5 Lynsey Wolter 5 UC Santa Cruz Writing Program Teaching Fellow. Writing 1: Composition and Rhetoric. Full responsibility for course, including conducting class meetings, designing and grading homework, holding office hours, and writing narrative evaluations. Spring Service Editor, University of Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences, Ad hoc reviewer for Natural Language Semantics and Blackwell. Abstract reviewer for the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) 2007, 2008 and the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) Graduate student representative to Linguistics Board, UCSC, Fall Member of SLUG Pubs, publisher of UCSC Linguistics Ph.D. dissertations, Member of WCCFL 21 abstract committee, UCSC, Member of Linguistics Colloquium Committee, UCSC, Professional Societies Linguistic Society of America Languages English (native), Russian (intermediate reading/speaking proficiency). References Prof. Donka Farkas Prof. William A. Ladusaw University of California University of California 1156 High St High St. Santa Cruz, CA Santa Cruz, CA farkas@ucsc.edu ladusaw@ucsc.edu Prof. Gregory N. Carlson Prof. Michael Tanenhaus Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences University of Rochester University of Rochester Lattimore Hall, Box Meliora Hall, Box Rochester, NY Rochester, NY carlson@ling.rochester.edu mtan@bcs.rochester.edu