Visiting Scholars

Biography

Julian Grove is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Florida. Prior to his current position, he was a post-doctoral researcher in the FACTS.lab, directed by Aaron White, at the University of Rochester. Before that, he was affiliated with the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability at the University of Gothenburg.

Grove is interested in type-theoretic approaches to natural language semantics, which he aims to connect with Bayesian computational models of human behavior. He tries to do this in a way that preserves the tools, like λ-calculus, that semanticists are typically used to. Ideally, such tools can be preserved end-to-end, and entire (computational-level) theories of semantic and pragmatic competence can be couched in the language of type theory. Getting this to happen means that accounts of human behavior—for example, in formal linguistics experiments—can be integrated with traditional Montagovian approaches to meaning fairly seamlessly.

Some of his recent work has also focused on the semantics of presupposition and anaphora, and he's been investigating approaches to presupposition triggers that view them as scope-taking devices. He's also done experimental work focusing on ellipsis, and he was affiliated with the University of Chicago’s Language Processing Lab, directed by Ming Xiang.