Lelia Glass
Assistant Professor
Overview
Pronunciation of Name:
LEE-lee-uhPersonal Pronouns:
sheDr. 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.
Education:
- Ph.D. in Linguistics, Stanford University (2018)
- M.A. in Linguistics, Stanford University (2014)
- B.A. in Linguistics, University of Chicago (2012), with honors
Awards and
Distinctions:
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
Research Fields:
- Linguistics
- Pedagogy and Curriculum Development
Issues:
- 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
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
- Using the Anna Karenina Principle to explain why CAUSE favors negative-sentiment complements
In: Semantics and Pragmatics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2023
- Boomer Peak or Gen X Cliff? From SVS to LBMS in Georgia English
In: Language Variation and Change [Peer Reviewed]
Date: July 2023
- 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