Peter Nathan Lasersohn

Peter Nathan Lasersohn holds dual professorships in Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Illinois. His primary appointment resides in the Department of Linguistics within the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, with significant cross-disciplinary work spanning formal semantic theory and philosophical linguistics.

His educational background includes a Ph.D. (1988) and M.A. (1985) from Ohio State University, and a B.A. (1981) from Earlham College. His research fundamentally explores event-based semantic theories, plural and coordinate constructions, pragmatic vagueness, and relative truth, with substantial contributions to understanding how context shapes meaning.

Analysis of his publication trends reveals consistent focus on truth-value semantics, with recent work (2021) advancing theories of non-rigid common nouns while earlier foundational texts established frameworks for plural reference. His scholarship consistently bridges linguistic formalism and philosophical inquiry, particularly regarding subjectivity in truth-theoretic systems.

Professor Lasersohn maintains active academic engagement through editorial roles for Natural Language Semantics (1999-present) and Studies in the Linguistic Sciences (2002-2009), alongside numerous invited lectures at international conferences on perspectival meaning and compositional pragmatics.

His office resides in 4096 Foreign Languages Building at 707 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, where he conducts research supported by ongoing scholarly activities including conference presentations and editorial oversight of major linguistics journals.