Ana Arregui is a linguist and professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.^[1][2] Her research in formal semantics addresses phenomena including modality, tense, aspect, pronouns and indefinites.^[3]

Biography

Arregui graduated from UMass Amherst in 2005 with a dissertation titled "On the accessibility of possible worlds: the role of tense and aspect". Her committee was chaired by Angelika Kratzer.^[4] Arregui joined UMass Amherst in 2019 as faculty in semantics.^[5] Before that, she was on the faculty of the University of Ottawa.

In 2023, Arregui was Co-Director of the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute along with Kyle Johnson.^[6][7][8]

Awards

In 2024, Arregui was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.^[9]

Selected publications

• Arregui, Ana (1 June 2009). "On similarity in counterfactuals". Linguistics and Philosophy. 32 (3): 245–278. doi:10.1007/s10988-009-9060-7. ISSN 1573-0549. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
• Arregui, Ana; Rivero, María Luisa; Salanova, Andrés (1 May 2014). "Cross-linguistic variation in imperfectivity". Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 32 (2): 307–362. doi:10.1007/s11049-013-9226-4. ISSN 1573-0859. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
• Arregui, Ana (1 September 2007). "When aspect matters: the case of would-conditionals". Natural Language Semantics. 15 (3): 221–264. doi:10.1007/s11050-007-9019-6. ISSN 1572-865X.
• Arregui, Ana; Clifton, Charles; Frazier, Lyn; Moulton, Keir (1 August 2006). "Processing elided verb phrases with flawed antecedents: The recycling hypothesis". Journal of Memory and Language. 55 (2): 232–246. doi:10.1016/J.JML.2006.02.005. PMC 1948839.