Eytan Zweig
Lecturer

Profile

Biography

Eytan Zweig is a semanticist with an interest in formal semantics and in the application of psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic methods to theoretical linguistics. He obtained his first degree in English at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and his PhD in Linguistics at New York University.

Career

• Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  BA in English, literature and linguistics (1998 - 2002)
• New York University
  PhD in Linguistics (2002 - 2008)
• University of York 
  Lecturer (2007 - )

Departmental roles

• Careers and skills liason officer
• Chair of Ethics Committee

Research

Overview

• Semantics
• Neurolinguistics

Main research interests are formal semantics and neurolinguistics. In semantics, he focuses on how different types of quantification interact with each other. His recent dissertation from New York University deals with disentangling the semantic and pragmatic contributions of noun plurality to sentence meaning. Recent work in neurolinguistics involves the use of neuroimaging techniques to further the understanding of morphological processing during reading.

Projects

• Syntax and semantics of quotative "be-like"
  Together with Bill Haddican, using both sociolinguistic, experimental and theoretical methods to investigating the syntactic and semantic consequences of a lexical innovation in English.
• A neural correlate for scalar calculation
  This study uses neuroimaging techniques (MEG) to test whether there is any neural activity associated with under informative scalar terms like “some”.

Research group(s)

• Syntax and semantics research group
• Psycholinguistics research group

Grants

• Research
  I have a pump-priming grant “A neural Correlate for scalar calculation” (2009-2010)

Collaborators

• George Tsoulas
• Bill Haddican

Supervision

• Upsorn Tawilapakul
  PhD student (October 2009)

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Introduction to semantics (L12C)
• Neurolinguistics: language and the brain (L35H)

Postgraduate

• Semantics (L23M)
• Language and the brain (L60M)

External activities

Invited talks and conferences

• ZAS Berlin
  Berlin, February 2010
• New York University
  New York, November 2009
• Manchester University
  Manchester, November 2008
• Hebrew University
  Jerusalem, June 2008
• Newcastle University
  Newcastle, May 2008
• Queen Mary College
  London, January 2008