Mandy Simons is a linguist and professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). She researches semantics and pragmatics, in particular phenomena like presupposition and projection.^[1]

Biography

Simons earned her PhD in linguistics at Cornell in 1998 with a dissertation entitled, "Or: Issues in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Disjunction."^[2] She joined the faculty at CMU in 1998, and also holds an adjunct position at the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Linguistics.^[3][4]

Awards

In 2013, her paper, "Toward a taxonomy of projective content," coauthored with Judith Tonhauser, David Beaver, and Craige Roberts won the 2013 Best Paper in Language (journal) Award from the Linguistic Society of America.^[5]

Selected publications

• Simons, Mandy (1 June 2007). "Observations on embedding verbs, evidentiality, and presupposition". Lingua. 117 (6): 1034–1056. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2006.05.006. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
• Simons, Mandy; Tonhauser, Judith; Beaver, David; Roberts, Craige (14 August 2010). "What projects and why". Semantics and Linguistic Theory. 20: 309–327. doi:10.3765/salt.v20i0.2584. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
• Tonhauser, Judith; Beaver, David; Roberts, Craige; Simons, Mandy (2013). "Toward a Taxonomy of Projective Content". Language. 89 (1): 66–109. doi:10.1353/lan.2013.0001. S2CID 50243. Retrieved 11 March 2022.