Judith Tonhauser
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Judith Tonhauser is a Professor of English Linguistics and Vice Rector for Early Career Researchers and Diversity at the University of Stuttgart.cite-ref-1[1]
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Education and career
Tonhauser received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University in 2006. Her dissertation was titled The Temporal Semantics of Noun Phrases: Evidence from Guaraní.cite-ref-2[2] From 2006 to 2020, she was on the faculty of the Linguistics department at The Ohio State University. Since 2020 she has been Professor and Chair of English Linguistics and since 2024 a Vice Rector at the University of Stuttgart.cite-ref-3[3]
Tonhauser's research interests include Presupposition projection, Prosody and Meaning, Temporal Anaphora and Reference, and empirical methods in Semantics and Pragmatics. She is known for her work in theoretical semantics and pragmatics, specifically on cross-linguistic semantic/pragmatic variation. To this end, she has investigated languages which are under-represented in linguistic theory like the Paraguayan Guarani language, a Tupí Guaraní language spoken in Paraguay and surrounding countries.cite-ref-4[4]
Awards and distinctions
Tonhauser is the recipient of the 2016 Early Career Award from the Linguistic Society of America.cite-ref-5[5]cite-ref-6[6] The award recognizes scholars early in their career who have made outstanding contributions to the field of linguistics.
Tonhauser's 2013 paper, "Toward a taxonomy of projective content," coauthored with David Beaver, Craige Roberts, and Mandy Simons, won the 2013 Best Paper in Language (journal) Award from the Linguistic Society of America.cite-ref-7[7]
She is an Associate Editor of Semantics and Pragmatics, a journal of the Linguistic Society of America.cite-ref-9[9]
Selected publications
• citerefleetonhauser2010Lee, Jungmee; Tonhauser, Judith (2010-08-01). "Temporal Interpretation without Tense: Korean and Japanese Coordination Constructions". Journal of Semantics. 27 (3): 307–341. doi:10.1093/jos/ffq005. ISSN 0167-5133.
• citerefturnbullburdincloppertonhauser2015Turnbull, Rory; Burdin, Rachel Steindel; Clopper, Cynthia G.; Tonhauser, Judith (5 August 2015). "Contextual predictability and the prosodic realisation of focus: a cross-linguistic comparison". Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 30 (9): 1061–1076. doi:10.1080/23273798.2015.1071856. S2CID 145386394.
• citerefburdinphillips-bourassturnbullyasavul2015Burdin, Rachel Steindel; Phillips-Bourass, Sara; Turnbull, Rory; Yasavul, Murat; Clopper, Cynthia G.; Tonhauser, Judith (2015-10-01). "Variation in the prosody of focus in head- and head/edge-prominence languages". Lingua. Prosody and Information Status in Typological Perspective. 165, Part B: 254–276. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2014.10.001.
• citereftonhauser2015Tonhauser, Judith (2015-01-01). "Cross-Linguistic Temporal Reference". Annual Review of Linguistics. 1 (1): 129–154. doi:10.1146/annurev-linguist-030514-124923.
References
cite-note-11. ↑ "Vice Rector for Early Career Researchers and Diversity". www.uni-stuttgart.de. University of Stuttgart. Retrieved 2025-01-05.
cite-note-22. ↑ "Ph.D. Alumni | Department of Linguistics". linguistics.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
cite-note-33. ↑ "Short curriculum vitae". Prof. Dr. Judith Tonhauser. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
cite-note-44. ↑ "Judith Tonhauser". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
cite-note-55. ↑ "Announcing the winners of five LSA Awards | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
cite-note-66. ↑ "Judith Tonhauser wins Early Career Award from LSA | Department of Linguistics". linguistics.stanford.edu. 6 November 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
cite-note-77. ↑ "Best Paper in Language Award Announced for 2013 | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
cite-note-88. ↑ "ACLS". American Council of Learned Societies. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
cite-note-99. ↑ "Editorial Team". semprag.org. Semantics and Pragmatics. Retrieved 2019-04-12.