Curriculum Vitae Lynsey Kay Wolter Department of English 105 Garfield Ave. University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire Eau Claire, WI 54702 wolterlk@uwec.edu http://people.uwec.edu/wolterlk/ Additional contact information available on request. Academic Positions Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Fall 2008- present. Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Language Sciences, University of Rochester. 2006-2008. 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
Lynsey Wolter 2 Awards and Honors National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2002 2005 Dean s Fellowship, UCSC, 2001 2002 Mellon Fellowship, 2000 2001 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. 2008 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 18. 2007 Situation variables and licensing by modification in opaque demonstratives. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11. 2006 Definite determiners and domain restriction. In Proceedings of NELS 36. Chris Davis, Amy Rose Deal, and Youri Zabbal, eds. Amherst, MA: GLSA. 2004 Demonstratives, definiteness and determined reference. In Proceedings of NELS 34. Keir Moulton and Matthew Wolf, eds. Amherst, MA: GLSA. 2003 Fall-rise, topic and speaker noncommitment. In Proceedings of WECOL 2002. University of British Columbia.
Lynsey Wolter 3 Invited Talks 2007 Comments on Complex demonstratives, by Jeff King. Cornell University Workshop on Complex Demonstratives, April 28. 2006 That s that: The semantics and pragmatics of demonstrative noun phrases. University of Rochester, May 22; Cornell University, October 19. 2005 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 3. 2007 That is Rosa: Identificational sentences as intensional predication. With Daphna Heller. Sinn und Bedeutung 12, Oslo, September 20. 2006 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.
Lynsey Wolter 4 2005 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 7. 2004 On the nonuniqueness implication of demonstratives. Southern New England Workship on Semantics (SNEWS), Brown University, October 16. 2003 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 10. 2002 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 2008. Instructor. Introduction to Grammatical Systems. Undergraduate syntax course, Spring 2007. 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 2005. 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 2003. Teaching Assistant. Syntax 1. Primary instructor: Judith Aissen. Writing intensive course. Assisted in grading, led weekly discussion sections, held office hours. Winter 2004. 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.
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 2006. Service Editor, University of Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences, 2007 2008. 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) 2006. Graduate student representative to Linguistics Board, UCSC, Fall 2003. Member of SLUG Pubs, publisher of UCSC Linguistics Ph.D. dissertations, 2002 2006. Member of WCCFL 21 abstract committee, UCSC, 2001. Member of Linguistics Colloquium Committee, UCSC, 2001 2002. 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. 1156 High St. Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 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 270096 Meliora Hall, Box 270268 Rochester, NY 14627 Rochester, NY 14627 carlson@ling.rochester.edu mtan@bcs.rochester.edu