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palrenga@bu.edu
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617-353-6221
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617-358-4641
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110
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621 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
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M 2-3:30; W 11-12:30
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Peter Alrenga
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Education
- BA, Stanford University
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MA and PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz
Research
Prof. Alrenga joins the Linguistics program in September 2009, after a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Semantics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of
Chicago, where he worked with Prof. Chris Kennedy on an NSF-funded project on the "Parameters of Comparison."
Prof. Alrenga's research interests lie in semantics, syntax, and pragmatics. Particular topics include the structure and interpretation of comparative constructions; gradability, scalarity, and vagueness; (in)definiteness and anaphora; and negation.
He teaches courses in formal semantics, pragmatics, and general linguistics.
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