Luis A. Irizarry Figueroa
About Luis A. Irizarry Figueroa
Third year Ph.D. student in the Linguistics Department I was born and raised in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico and I completed my B.A in Philosophy in the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez with a minor in linguistics. My Philosophy Undergraduate Thesis explored Pico Della Mirándola's Oration on the Dignity of Man and which selected lines are attributed to his Kabalistic doctrine. My Undergraduate Thesis in linguistics explored "donkey sentences" with multiple quantifiers. Other than philosophy and lingusitics I enjoy reading novels and watching horror movies.
Areas of Study
Formal Semantics, Syntactic Theory, Syntax-Semantics Interface and Lexical Semantics.
Research Interests
Quantifier ambiguity in VSO languages, compositional semantics, computational linguistics.
Areas of Study
Formal Semantics, Syntactic Theory, Syntax-Semantics Interface and Lexical Semantics.
Contact Information
Degree(s)
M.S in Human Language Technology, University of Arizona 2021
B.A in Philosophy, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto Universitario de Mayaguez 2019
Courses Taught
LING300 Introduction to Syntax (TA), Spring 2022
LING432 The Psychology of Language, Winter 2021
LING150C1 Language in the Digital Age (TA), Fall 2021
LING432 The Psychology of Language, Summer 2021
LING322 Structure and Meaning of Words, Summer 2020, Winter 2020
LING364 Introduction to Formal Semantics (TA) Spring 2020
GER150A1 Becoming Multilingual: Learning and Mantaining Two or More Languages (Grader) Spring 2020
GER150B1 Becoming Transcultural: Maximizing Study Abroad (Grader) Fall 2019
NSCS320 Issues & Themes in Cognitive Science (TA) Fall 2019
