Elizabeth Coppock

Associate Professor, Linguistics, CAS
- Education
- PhD, Stanford University
BA, Northwestern University - Office
- Linguistics Department, 621 Commonwealth Ave, Linguistics 110
- ecoppock@bu.edu
- Phone
- 617-353-6221
Elizabeth Coppock is an Associate Professor of Linguistics in the College of Arts & Sciences. Coppock specializes in formal semantics, addressing foundational topics in truth, reference, quantification, and measurement through the lens of specific empirical puzzles. She works in several languages, including Hungarian, Swedish, Elfdalian, Kathmandu Newari, Turoyo, and Mandinka and has led a 100-language fieldwork project funded by the Swedish Research Council. She has published 19 articles in top-tier journals, including Language, Natural Language Semantics, Journal of Semantics, Linguistics and Philosophy, Semantics and Pragmatics, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, and Glossa, and made 42 contributions to edited volumes. She also served for eight years as associate editor for Semantics and Pragmatics.
- Fellows
- Past Fellows
- Fields
- Hariri Faculty Affiliate