Yoad Vinter Seggev
Department of Languages, Literature and Communication - Ling
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Yoad Winter's work studies the communicative import of natural language, especially logical meaning and its cognitive aspects. He has worked on a variety of topics in theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and natural language processing. Until 2009 Winter was an associate professor of Computer Science at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. In 2010-2014 he was an associate professor at Utrecht University, and the leader of the NWO VICI program “Between language and common sense” (1.5 million Euro’s), which integrates knowledge from cognitive science with state-of-the-art research in formal semantics. In 2014 he was appointed professor in computational semantics and AI at Utrecht University. Winter is in the editorial boards of some principal linguistic journals, including Linguistics and Philosophy, Linguistic Inquiry, Journal of Semantics and Semantics and Pragmatics.
Research Interest
Neuroscience & Cognition Utrecht
Publications
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Vinter Seggev, Y.S. (2015). Proto-predicates and the Lexical Origins of Reciprocity. 11th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris paper presented at the 11th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris (CSSP), October 8-10, 2015..
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Mador-Haim, Sela & Vinter Seggev, Y.S. (2015). Far from obvious: the semantics of locative indefinites. Linguistics and philosophy, 38 (5), (pp. 437-476).
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Vinter Seggev, Y.S. & Scha, Remko (2015). Plurals. In Shalom Lappin & Chris Fox (Eds.), The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory (pp. 77-113). Blackwell-Wiley.
