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Barbara Kenyon Abbott (born 1943) is an American linguist. She earned her PhD in linguistics in 1976 at the University of California at Berkeley under the supervision of George Lakoff. From 1976 to 2006, she was a professor in the department of linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African languages at … See more
Abbott grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut and currently resides in Michigan with her husband, Larry Hauser. See more
Books
• Abbott, B. 2010. Reference. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Gundel, Jeanette K. and Barbara Abbott, eds. 2019. The Oxford Handbook of Reference. Oxford University Press. See moreAbbott's research in areas of semantics and pragmatics examines topics in reference and noun phrase interpretation, looking at philosophically-influenced aspects of word meaning, presupposition, and conditional sentences. She has been pivotal in both uniting formal … See more
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