Lelia Glass
Coordinator of Linguistics Program, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Overview
Dr. Lelia Glass is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the School of Modern Languages. She earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2018, where she won the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, and held a dissertation fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the American Council for Learned Societies.
Lelia works on lexical semantics (word meaning), compositional semantics (sentence meaning), pragmatics (inferences drawn in context), and sociolinguistics (how people use language in their social identity), from an empirically rich perspective, with a particular interest in how our knowledge of the (physical, social) world affects our interpretation of language.
- Ph.D. in Linguistics, Stanford University (2018)
- M.A. in Linguistics, Stanford University (2014)
- B.A. in Linguistics, University of Chicago (2012), with honors
Distinctions:
- Faculty Excellence in Research Award (Ivan Allen College, 2022)
- American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) / Mellon Dissertation Fellowship (2017-2018)
- Phi Beta Kappa of Northern California Graduate Student Scholarship (2018)
- Walter J. Gores Award for excellence in teaching (Stanford University, 2017)
- Phi Beta Kappa (University of Chicago, 2012)
Interests
- Linguistics
- Pedagogy and Curriculum Development
- Digital Humanities
- Grammar
Courses
- LING-2100: Intro to Linguistics
- LING-3100: Apps of Linguistics
- LING-3813: Special Topics: Language and Computers
- LING-4015: Adv Lang Processing
- LING-4100: Language & Computers
- LING-4813: Special Topics: Language and Computers
- LING-6015: Adv Lang Processing
- ML-8801: Special Topics
All Publications
Journal Articles
- Quantifying relational nouns in corpora
In: English Language & Linguistics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2022
- The negatively biased Mandarin belief verb YIWEI
In: Studia Linguistica [Peer Reviewed]
Date: July 2022
- Decomposing and recomposing event structure
In: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: January 2022
- English verbs can omit their objects when they describe routines
In: English Language & Linguistics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: July 2021
- The lexical and formal semantics of distributivity
In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: February 2021
- Adjectives relate individuals to states: Evidence from the two readings of English Determiner + Adjective
In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: February 2019
- Systematicity in the Semantics of Noun Compounds: The Role of Artifacts vs. Natural Kinds (coauthored: by Beth Levin, Lelia Glass, and Dan Jurafsky)
In: Linguistics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2019
Conferences
- Deriving the distributivity potential of adjectives via measurement theory
In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (peer-reviewed abstract)
Date: March 2018
- Exploring the relation between argument structure and distributivity
In: Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (peer-reviewed abstract)
Date: September 2017
- Using lexical semantics to predict the distributivity potential of verb phrases in a large dataset
In: Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence [Peer Reviewed]
Thesis / Dissertations
- Distributivity, lexical semantics, and world knowledge
In: Stanford University dissertation
Date: June 2018