Philip Miller

Philip Miller is a Professor of General and English Linguistics at University of Paris Cité. He specializes in syntax, semantics, and discourse pragmatics, with a focus on verbal complementation, perception verbs, VP ellipsis, pseudogapping, anaphora, and deixis. His work often compares English and French, and he has supervised several PhD students in linguistics.

• PhD in Linguistics, Utrecht University (1991)

His research explores the interface between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, particularly in areas like auxiliary verbs, ellipsis mechanisms, and discourse constraints. Recent publications analyze VP ellipsis, anaphora, and nominal phrase structures.

Professor Miller actively supervises doctoral research in topics such as verbal complementation and discourse pragmatics. He contributes to edited volumes like Sens conventionnel et implicite and Experimental Approaches to Ellipsis.