Elizabeth Coppock

Associate Professor, Linguistics, CAS

Education
PhD, Stanford University
BA, Northwestern University
Office
Linguistics Department, 621 Commonwealth Ave, Linguistics 110
Email
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 LanguageNatural Language SemanticsJournal of SemanticsLinguistics and PhilosophySemantics and PragmaticsNatural 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.

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