Lucas Champollion August 2, 2016
Contact NYU Department of Linguistics 10 Washington Place, room 412 New York, NY 10003
United States
Office phone: +1 (212) 998-8692
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/champollion [email protected]
Google Scholar profile: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nP8gRTwAAAAJ Summary I am specialized in model-theoretic linguistic semantics. Within this field, my recent interests include event semantics and conjunction. I am also interested in distributiv- ity, aspect and measurement, which I mainly study from the point of view of algebraic semantics and mereology. I have worked on quantification, negation, definite descrip- tions, temporal dependencies, and donkey pronouns. I have a dual linguistics/computer science background. My research in natural language processing has focused on investi- gating Tree-adjoining Grammar from different angles, such as treebanking, dependency parsing, and computational complexity.
Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor (tenure track), since September 1, 2012 Department of Linguistics, New York University
Postdoctoral researcher, 2010 – 2012
T¨ubinger Zentrum f¨ur Linguistik, University of T¨ubingen Sponsors: Sigrid Beck, Gerhard J¨ager
Education Ph.D., Linguistics, December 2010
Advisor: Cleo Condoravdi (Palo Alto Research Center / Stanford University) Committee chair: Aravind K. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania)
Thesis: Parts of a whole — Distributivity as a bridge between aspect and measurement University of Pennsylvania
Exchange Scholar, 2009 – 2010
Stanford University, Department of Linguistics
Master of Science in Engineering, Computer and Information Science, 2007 Advisor: Mitchell P. Marcus
University of Pennsylvania
Zwischenpr¨ufung zum Magister (comparable to B.A.), 2003 Subjects: English, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics Albert-Ludwigs-Universit¨at Freiburg, Germany
Grants, Awards and Honors
2015: Grant-in-Aid in support of book publication, New York University.
2015: University Research Challenge Fund (URCF), New York University.
2014: Team-Teaching Stipend (with Jim Pryor), New York University.
2013: Curricular Development Challenge Fund (CDCF) award for continuing develop- ment of the Lambda Calculator, New York University.
2009 – 2010: Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
2007: NAACL/ACL Fellowship for the Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America
2006 and 2007: University of Pennsylvania SAS technology grants for development of the Lambda Calculator (with Maribel Romero and Josh Tauberer)
2005: LSA Fellowship for the Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America 2005 – 2009: Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
2004: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) one-year exchange scholarship (University of Pennsylvania)
2004: Admission to the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Aca- demic Foundation), Germany’s largest sponsor of intellectually outstanding stu- dents (admission rate in 2004: 0.7% of German student population)
Book (under contract)
Lucas Champollion, “Parts of a whole: Distributivity as a bridge between aspect and measurement.” Revision of the dissertation, accepted for publication at Oxford Univer- sity Press. Estimated publication date: March 2017
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Lucas Champollion (2016), “Covert distributivity in algebraic event semantics”. Seman- tics and Pragmatics. 9(15): 1-66. Open access at http://doi.org/10.3765/sp.9.15.
Lucas Champollion (2016), “Overt distributivity in algebraic event semantics”. Seman- tics and Pragmatics. 9(16): 1-65. Open access at http://doi.org/10.3765/sp.9.16.
Lucas Champollion (2015), “Stratified reference: the common core of distributivity, aspect and measurement” (target article). Theoretical Linguistics, 41(3-4): 109-149.
http://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2015-0008.
Lucas Champollion (2015), “Refining stratified reference” (replies to commentaries).
Theoretical Linguistics, 41(3-4): 223-240. http://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2015-0015.
Lucas Champollion (published online July 31, 2015), “Ten men and women got mar- ried today: noun coordination and the intersective theory of conjunction”. Journal of Semantics. 62 pages. http://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffv008.
Lucas Champollion (2015), “The interaction of compositional semantics and event se- mantics”. Linguistics and Philosophy, 38(1): 31-66. Published online 23 Dec 2014.
Open access at http://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-014-9162-8.
Lucas Champollion (2011), “Lexicalized non-local MCTAG with dominance links is NP-complete.” Journal of Logic, Language, and Information, 20(3): 343-359. http:
//doi.org/10.1007/s10849-011-9133-1
Libin Shen, Lucas Champollion, and Aravind K. Joshi (2008), “LTAG-Spinal and the Treebank: A new resource for incremental, dependency and semantic parsing.” Lan- guage Resources and Evaluation, 42(1):1-19.
http://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-007-9043-7 Handbook
Articles
Lucas Champollion (to appear): Distributivity, collectivity and cumulativity. In prepa- ration for: L. Matthewson, C. Meier, H. Rullmann, and T. E. Zimmermann (eds), Companion to Semantics. Wiley. Draft: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002133.
Lucas Champollion and Manfred Krifka (in press). Mereology. In preparation for: P.
Dekker and M. Aloni (eds), Cambridge Handbook of Semantics. Cambridge University Press. Draft: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002099.
Conference Proceedings
Lucas Champollion (in preparation). “Homogeneity in donkey sentences.” To appear in the Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory.
Lucas Champollion, Ivano Ciardelli and Linmin Zhang (in preparation): “Breaking de Morgan’s law in counterfactual antecedents.” To appear in the Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory. http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/
003085
Lucas Champollion (in preparation). “Linking the collective-distributive opposition and the telic-atelic opposition.” To appear in the Proceedings of the 46thannual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS).
Lucas Champollion (2015). “Back to events: More on the logic of verbal modification.”
Proceedings of the 38thPenn Linguistics Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania Work- ing Papers in Linguistics (Vol. 21.1). http://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol21/
iss1/7/.
Lucas Champollion (2015). “Every boy bought two sausages each: Distributivity and dependent numerals.” Proceedings of the 32nd West Coast Conference on Formal Lin- guistics. Cascadilla Press, March 7, 2014. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/32/
abstract3161.html.
Lucas Champollion (2013). The scope and processing of for -adverbials: A reply to Deo and Pi˜nango. Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory. http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/SALT/
article/view/2680
Lucas Champollion (2013). “Man and woman: the last obstacle for boolean coor- dination.” Proceedings of the 19th Amsterdam Colloquium (December 18-20, 2013).
Maria Aloni, Michael Franke, and Floris Roelofsen (eds.) http://www.illc.uva.nl/
AC/AC2013/Proceedings/
Lucas Champollion (2012). Each vs. jeweils: A cover-based view on distance-distribu- tivity. Proceedings of the 18th Amsterdam Colloquium (December 19-21, 2011), Maria Aloni, Floris Roelofsen, Galit Weidman Sassoon, Katrin Schulz, Vadim Kimmelman and Matthijs Westera (eds.) http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31482-7_26 Lucas Champollion (2011). “Quantification and negation in event semantics.” In: The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, Vol. 6 (2010).
Formal Semantics and Pragmatics: Discourse, Context, and Models, Barbara H. Partee, Michael Glanzberg and Jurgis Skilters (eds.), pages 1-23. Manhattan, KS: New Prairie Press. http://www.newprairiepress.org/biyclc/vol6/iss1/3/
Lucas Champollion (2010). “Cumulative readings of every do not provide evidence for events and thematic roles.” In M. Aloni, H. Bastiaanse, T. de Jager, and K. Schulz (eds.), Logic, Language and Meaning, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 213-222.
Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2010 (Proceedings of the 17th Amsterdam Colloquium, December 16-18, 2009). http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1_22
Lucas Champollion and Uli Sauerland (2010). “Move and accommodate: A solution to Haddock’s puzzle.” Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 8, Olivier Bonami and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (eds.), 2010. http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/eiss8/index.html Lucas Champollion (2009). “A unified account of distributivity, for -adverbials, and pseudopartitives.” Proceedings of the 14th Sinn und Bedeutung conference, pp. 84-100.
Vienna, September 28-30, 2009. http://www.univie.ac.at/sub14/proc/champollion.
Lucas Champollion (2008), “Binding theory in LTAG.” Proceedings of the Ninth In- ternational Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and related formalisms (TAG+9), T¨ubingen, Germany. http://www.nyu.edu/projects/champollion/binding_theory_
in_ltag.pdf
Lucas Champollion, Prashanth Mannem, and Livio Robaldo (2007), “Bidirectional dependency parsing trained on the Turin University Treebank,” Proceedings of the EVALITA 2007 Workshop, Rome, Italy, September 10th, 2007, special issue of In- telligenza Artifiziale, IV(2):48-49. http://www.evalita.it/2007/proceedings Conference
Presentations (Refereed Abstracts)
Lucas Champollion (2016). “Homogeneity in donkey sentences.” Talk to be given at the 26th conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory. Austin, Texas. May 12-15, 2016.
Lucas Champollion, Ivano Ciardelli and Linmin Zhang (2016): “Breaking de Morgan’s law in counterfactual antecedents.” Poster to be presented at the 26th conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory. Austin, Texas. May 12-15, 2016.
Lucas Champollion (2015). “Linking the collective-distributive opposition and the telic-
atelic opposition.” Talk at the 20th Amsterdam Colloquium. December 16-18, 2015.
Lucas Champollion (2015). “Linking the collective-distributive opposition and the telic- atelic opposition.” Poster presentation at the 46th annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS). Montr´eal, Canada. October 16-18, 2015.
Lucas Champollion (2012). “Temporal dependencies: anaphora vs. movement.” Poster presentation at the 35th GLOW colloquium. Potsdam, March 28-30, 2012.
Sveta Krasikova and Lucas Champollion (2011). “Two ‘many’ modifiers.” Presented at the Workshop on Modification With and Without Modifiers (MDF 2011). Madrid, December 15-16, 2011.
Lucas Champollion (2011). “All.” Presented at the 2011 Philosophers’ Rally (Zlot Filozoficzny). June 24-26, 2011. Toru´n, Poland.
Lucas Champollion (2011). “Distributivity and same.” Presented at the 12th Szklarska Poreba workshop, March 12, 2011, Szklarska Poreba, Poland.
Lucas Champollion (2010). “Quantification in event semantics.” Presented at the 6th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication. Formal Semantics and Pragmatics: Discourse, Context, and Models. November 19-21, 2010. Riga, Latvia.
Lucas Champollion (2010). “For -adverbials and the specified quantity generalization.”
Presented at the 34th Penn Linguistics Colloquium. March 19-21, 2010, University of Pennsylvania.
Lucas Champollion and Uli Sauerland (2009). “An inverse linking account of nested definites.” Presentation at the 14th Sinn und Bedeutung conference, September 28-30, 2009, Vienna, Austria. Also presented at the Colloque de Syntaxe et S´emantique `a Paris (CSSP, September 23-25, 2009) under the title “Move and accommodate: A solution to Haddock’s Puzzle.”
Lucas Champollion and Uli Sauerland (2009), “Definiteness, inverse linking, and nar- rowing.” 10th Semantics Fest, March 13-14, 2009, Stanford, CA.
Lucas Champollion (2009). “For -adverbials quantify over subintervals, not subevents.”
Presentation at the CHRONOS 9 international conference on tense, aspect and modality, September 2-4, 2009, Paris, France.
Lucas Champollion (2008), “The influence of goals on ambiguities in certain donkey sentences.” Fourth Formal Semantics in Moscow workshop (FSIM 4), April 5-6, 2008, Moscow, Russia.
Lucas Champollion (2007), “Lexicalized non-local MCTAG with dominance links is NP- complete,” Mathematics of Language 10, UCLA, July 28-30, 2007, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Lucas Champollion (2006), “On the (ir)relevance of psycholinguistics for anaphora res- olution.” Workshop on Ambiguity in Anaphora, ESSLLI 2006, M´alaga, Spain.
Other
Contributions
Lucas Champollion (2015). “Some questions in typed inquisitive semantics.” Workshop on questions in logic and semantics. University of Amsterdam. December 15, 2015.
Lucas Champollion (2015). “Linguistic applications of mereology.” Lecture notes for LSA course. Available at http://www.nyu.edu/projects/champollion/lsacourse-2015.
pdf. 43 pages.
Lucas Champollion (2015). “The weak/strong ambiguity in donkey sentences cannot be explained away”. Second annual Logic Group workshop (“Going Heim”), University of Connecticut, Storrs, May 2-3, 2015.
Lucas Champollion (2014). “Integrating Montague semantics and event semantics.”
Lecture notes for NASSLLI and ESSLLI courses. Available at http://ling.auf.net/
lingbuzz/002143 and http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002121. 59 pages.
Lucas Champollion (2014). “Algebraic semantics and mereology.” Lecture notes. Avail- able at http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002174. 124 pages.
Lucas Champollion (2014). “Reply to Roger Schwarzschild on event semantics.” Tech- nical note. Available at http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002165. 18 pages.
Yanyan Sui and Lucas Champollion (2010), “Chinese dou and cumulative quantifi- cation.” Poster at the Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning (MACSIM) workshop, University of Pennsylvania, April 10, 2010.
Daniel Bobrow, Lucas Champollion, Cleo Condoravdi, Elizabeth Coppock and Annie Zaenen (2009). “Going from X to Y.” Presented at the 5th Workshop on Discourse Structure in honor of Carlota S. Smith, University of Texas at Austin.
Daniel Bobrow, Lucas Champollion, Cleo Condoravdi, Elizabeth Coppock and Annie Zaenen (2009). “Extended Paths.” Presented at Spatial Relations: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, Stanford University.
Lucas Champollion, Joshua Tauberer, and Maribel Romero (2007), “The Penn Lambda Calculator: Pedagogical software for natural language semantics,” Proceedings of the Grammar Engineering across Frameworks (GEAF) 2007 Workshop, Stanford, CA, ed.
by Tracy Holloway King and Emily M. Bender, CSLI On-Line Publications.
Invited Talks and Courses
“Breaking de Morgan’s law in counterfactual antecedents.” Invited talk in 2016 at the Fourth Workshop on Natural Language and Computer Science (NLCS).
“Antecedents of counterfactuals violate de Morgan’s law.” Talk given in 2015 at various locations, including Paris (ENS), Utrecht (LUSH series), and G¨ottingen.
“The common core of distributivity, aspect, and measurement.” Talk given at various locations, including Munich (Center for Mathematical Philosophy), UConn, Paris 7, NYU, UCLA, Maryland, Yale, Dublin (Trinity College), Berlin, Frankfurt, T¨ubingen, Utrecht, Konstanz.
“The interaction of compositional semantics and event semantics.” Reading group, Yale, October 2015.
“Linguistic applications of mereology.” Course taught at the Linguistic Society of Amer- ica 2015 Linguistic Summer Institute, Chicago, July 2015.
“Each vs. all : Distributivity, cumulativity, and two types of collectivity.” Invited talk at the 4th Cornell Workshop in Linguistics and Philosophy, November 2014.
“The making of stratified reference.” Invited talk at MACSIM 4 roundtable, October 2014.
“Putting events into your trees.” Invited talk at Stony Brook University, September 2014.
“Compositional semantics and event semantics: a case study in inter-theoretic rela- tions.” Invited talk at the BRIDGES trans-continental workshop on inter-theoretic relations in mathematical philosophy. German consulate, New York, September 2014.
“Man and woman: the last obstacle for boolean coordination.” Invited talk at University of Amsterdam, ILLC, January 2014.
“Integrating Montague semantics and event semantics.” Course taught at European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), T¨ubingen (Germany), August 2014.
“Integrating Montague semantics and event semantics.” Course taught at North Amer- ican Summer School for Logic, Language and Information (NASSLLI), University of Maryland (United States), June 2014.
“Existential/universal ambiguities in donkey sentences and beyond.” New York Philos- ophy of Language Workshop, November 2013.
“Linguistic applications of mereology.” Course taught at European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), Opole (Poland), August 2012.
“Linguistic applications of mereology.” Mini-lecture series. University of G¨ottingen, 2012. Also given at University of T¨ubingen (2012) and Philosophy Institute of the University of Warsaw (2011).
“Each vs. jeweils: A cover-based view of distance distributivity.” University of Potsdam, May 2012.
“Temporal prepositional phrases and implicit variables.” Workshop in honor of Arnim von Stechow, University of Konstanz, November 2011.
“For -adverbials and the scope of indefinites.” Workshop “Indefinites and beyond”, University of G¨ottingen, November 2011.
“The scope of for -adverbials: A reply to Deo and Pi˜nango”, Workshop on aspect and modality in lexical semantics, University of Stuttgart, September 2011.
“A strata-theoretic view on distance-distributivity.” Workshop on quantification, Uni- versity of Stuttgart, July 2011.
“Unifying aspect, measurement, distributivity and cumulativity.” ArgDiap 7 conference, CSWU, Warsaw, June 2011.
Lucas Champollion (2009). “Davidsonian events and thematic roles: are they necessary?
A reply to Kratzer and Schein.” Workshop on Language, Communication and Rational Agency, Stanford, May 30-31, 2009.
Teaching Experience – Graduate
Spring 2016: Seminar in Semantics / The interaction of compositional semantics and event semantics.
Course site: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/champollion/eventsemantics/
Spring 2015: Semantics II.
Syllabus: http://tinyurl.com/semIIsyllabus
Spring 2013 and Fall 2014: Seminar in Semantics / Algebraic Semantics – Linguistic Applications of Mereology.
Course site: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/champollion/algebraic-semantics/
Spring 2014: Seminar in Semantics / Topics in Metaphysics – Minimal Entities (co- taught with Kit Fine, NYU Philosophy).
Course site: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/champollion/minimal-entities/
Fall 2012 and Fall 2013: Semantics I (introduction to semantics) (in Fall 2012, co-taught with Chris Barker, NYU Linguistics).
Syllabus: http://linguistics.as.nyu.edu/docs/IO/16252/sem1syllabus.pdf Teaching
Experience – Undergraduate
Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016: Language (introduction to linguistics).
Course site: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/champollion/language
Fall 2014: Patterns in Language (introduction to language technology) Co-developed and co-taught with Prof. Frans Adriaans (NYU).
Course site (archived): http://web.archive.org/web/20150611190614/https://files.
nyu.edu/fa46/public/patterns/
Teaching Experience – Summer Schools
Summer 2015: Linguistic applications of mereology. LSA 2015 summer institute.
Summer 2014: Integrating Montague semantics and event semantics. ESSLLI 2014 and NASSLLI 2014.
Summer 2012: Linguistic applications of mereology. ESSLLI 2012.
Advising 2014 – present: Songhee Kim, NYU graduate student.
Dissertation and Qualifying Paper Committees
2016: Masha Esipova, NYU (qualifying paper committee chair).
2016: WooJin Chung, NYU (qualifying paper committee chair).
2016: Sofya Kasyanenko, NYU (dissertation committee member).
2015: Songhee Kim, NYU (qualifying paper committee chair, and committee member).
2015: Shih-Yueh Jeff Lin, NYU (qualifying paper committee member).
2015: Paola C´epeda, Stony Brook University (external qualifying paper committee member).
2014 – present: Emily Wilson, CUNY (external dissertation committee member).
2014 – 2015: Svetlana Antonyuk-Yudina, Stony Brook University (external dissertation committee member).
2014 – 2015: Jeremy Kuhn, NYU (dissertation committee member).
2012 – 2014: Simon Charlow, NYU (dissertation committee member).
2014: Sofya Kasyanenko, NYU (qualifying paper committee member).
2014: Linmin Zhang, NYU (qualifying paper committee member).
2013: Dylan Bumford, NYU (qualifying paper committee member).
Professional Service
2014 – 2015: Elected chair of NYU FAS Library and IT Services committee. (Elected to serve as a committee member through 2017.)
2014 – present: Served on Executive Committee of NYU Classes User Advisory Group.
2013 – present: Served on NYU Dean of Libraries’ faculty advisory group.
2013 – 2014: Elected to serve on NYU FAS Library Liaison committee (the committee did not meet in AY2013/14).
2013 – 2014: Helped organize Semantics and Linguistic Theory, an international con- ference, held at NYU from May 30 to June 1, 2014.
2012 – present: Faculty library liaison for NYU department of linguistics.
2010 – present: Reviewer for Journal of Semantics, Linguistics and Philosophy, Lin- guistic Inquiry, Natural Language Semantics, Amsterdam Colloquium, Semantics and Linguistic Theory, West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Penn Lin- guistics Colloquium, TripleA, Sinn und Bedeutung, North Eastern Linguistic So- ciety, ESSLLI student session and others.
2004 – 2006: Helped organize Penn Linguistics Colloquium (international conference).
Software Development
2006 – present: Lambda Calculator (http://www.lambdacalculator.com)
2006 – 2008: LTAG-spinal API (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~xtag/spinal#api) Language
Proficiency
German (native speaker); French (native speaker); English (fluent); Italian (basic) Professional
Affiliations
Linguistic Society of America
