Symon Stevens-Guille
Contact Information
Doctoral Student
Areas of Expertise
- Syntax/Semantics
- Mathematical Linguistics
- Categorical Grammar
Education
- M.A. Linguistics, University of Toronto, 2016
- B.A. Linguistics and Philosophy, McGill University, 2015
Broadly I am concerned with natural (and formal) language syntax, semantics, and their respective intersections with each other and with phonology. I use tools from type theory and various substructural logics to model linguistic competence. My present research looks at modelling agreement, agreement mismatches, ellipsis, and anaphora in Curryesque Categorial Grammars, a family of categorial grammars in which linear order (pheno-grammar) operates parallel to syntactic selection (tecto-grammar) and semantics. The central ideas of Curryesque Categorial Grammar goes back Haskell Curry, most notably in a short paper titled "Some Logical Aspects of Grammatical Structure"; hence the namesake. A significant research programme has developed at OSU developing these ideas and I'm thrilled to be a part of it. I also maintain a general interest in non-classical logics, especially substructural logics, as well as formal language theory and computational linguistics in general. With respect to the latter I am particularly interested in ethical considerations with respect to NLP.