Anna Szabolcsi is a Professor of Linguistics at New York University and Senior Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She earned her B.A. and M.A. in General and Applied Linguistics from Eötvös Loránd University and Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Professor Szabolcsi’s main interest is in how and why form and meaning work in parallel.

Representative Publications

Szabolcsi, Anna. “What do Quantifier Particles Do?.” Linguistics and Philosophy 38.2 (2015): 159-204.

Szabolcsi, Anna, Lewis Bott, and Brian McElree. “The Effect of Negative Polarity Items on Inference Verification.” Journal of Semantics 25.4 (2008): 411-450.

Szabolcsi, Anna, and Frans Zwarts. “Weak Islands and an Algebraic Semantics for Scope Taking.” Natural Language Semantics 1.3 (1993): 235-284.