GENOVEVA PUSKAS NERIMA
MAITRE D'ENSEIGNEMENT ET DE RECHERCHE
Contact
E-mail : Genoveva.Puskas@lettres.unige.ch
Snail-mail :Office : L 705 (Landolt, 7th floor)
Office hours : Friday, 10-12 a.m
Phone :
Office: 022 379 73 58
Secretariat: 022 379 70 30 (Eva Capitao)
Fax:
022 379 79 31
Teaching 2004-2005
English Linguistics
SEMANTICS (AB2, C2, AB4)
H - Thu 10-12, Phil 006A
The objective of this class is the acquisition
of the basics of semantics, that is the first tools and the methodology
of semantic analysis. The class is divided into six sections. The first
three introduce concepts such as 'meaning', 'sense', 'reference' and
their articulation in a semantic theory. The last three sections deal
with word meaning, with an
introduction to logics and and to the basic tools we need to handle the
meaning of sentences.
SYNTAX II (AB2, C2, AB4)
Research Interests
o syntax of Hungarian, especially the left peripheral domain, which includes hierarchically determined positions for Focus, Topic, wh-phrases and negation.
o syntax-semantics interface issues, mainly the interpretation of quantifiers and relation between the interpretation and the syntactic positions, in Hungarian and in other languages.
o negation
o interactions between quantification and negation.
o currently supervisor of a Fonds
National Suisse de la Recherche Sscientifique project on the
interaction between quantification and negation, with collaborators
Lena Baunaz and Andrea Cattaneo, focussing on English, French,
Bellinzonese and Hungarian.
Recent Publications
Puskás G, to appear a.. (ed) Negation in Finno-Ugric Languages. Lingua
Thematic Issue.
Puskás G. to appear b.. "Negation in
Finno-Ugric: an introduction". In G. Puskas (ed) Negation in Finno-Ugric Languages. Lingua.
Puskás G. to appear c. "Double negation and
information structure: somewhere between old and new". In V.
Molnár & S. Winkler (eds) The
Architecture of Focus.
Puskás, G. 2003. "Floating Quantifiers: what
they
can tell us about the syntax and semantics of quantifiers". In Ch.
Laenzlinger & S. Durrleman (eds) Generative
Grammar in Geneva 3:
105-128.
Puskás, G. 2002. "On negative licensing contexts and the role of
n-words". In Approaches to Hungarian, I. Kenesei, K. E-Kiss
and P. Siptár (eds), vol. 8: 81-106. Budapest: Akadémiai
Kiadó.
Puskás, G. 2000a. Word Order in Hungarian: the Syntax of A'-positions. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Puskás, G. 2000b. "Quantification in the left periphery: a syntactic argument for ‘split’ domains". In The proceedings from the Main Session of the Chicago Linguistics Society’s Thirty-sixth Meeting, Arika Okrent & John Boyle (eds), 36-1: 355-368. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
Puskás,
G. 1999. "Negation and n-words in Hungarian". In Proceedings of the
Twenty-eighth Western Conference on Linguistics, Nancy M.
Antrim, Grant Goodall, Martha
Shulte-Nafeh and Vida Samiian
(eds), 11 (Wecol 99): 443-456. Fresno: California State University.
Puskás, G. 1998a. "On the Neg-criterion in
Hungarian" Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 45, 1-2: 167-213.
Puskás, G. 1998b. "A Split-CP approach: evidence from Hungarian" in I. Kenesei (ed) Papers from the Amsterdan Conference. Approaches to Hungarian, vol.6. JATE: Szeged.
Puskás, G. 1997a. "Focus and the CP domain" in L. Haegeman (ed) The new Comparative Syntax. London: Longman.
Puskás, G. 1997b. "Verb Focusing" . Geneva Generative Papers 5,2:1-12.
Ihsane T. & G. Puskás, 2001. "Specific is not Definite. Generative Grammar in Geneva 2.