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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.cite-ref-1[1]

• Biography

• Awards

• Selected publications

• References

• External links

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

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.cite-ref-5[5]

• citerefsimons2007Simons, 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.

• citerefsimonstonhauserbeaverroberts2010Simons, 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.

• citereftonhauserbeaverrobertssimons2013Tonhauser, 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.

cite-note-11. ↑ "Mandy Simons". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-03-12.

cite-note-22. ↑ "Alumni | Department of Linguistics". linguistics.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-12.

cite-note-33. ↑ citerefuniversityUniversity, Carnegie Mellon. "Mandy Simons - Department of Philosophy - Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Carnegie Mellon University". www.cmu.edu.

cite-note-44. ↑ "Mandy Simons | Linguistics | University of Pittsburgh". www.linguistics.pitt.edu. Retrieved 11 March 2022.

cite-note-55. ↑ "Best Paper in Language Award Announced for 2013 | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 11 March 2022.

• Faculty page at Carnegie Mellon University

• Mandy Simons publications indexed by Google Scholar