Florian Schwartz

Florian Schwartz is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also serves as the Undergraduate Chair and Associate Director for Education at mindCORE. His research integrates formal semantics and pragmatics with psycholinguistic experimentation to study how linguistic content and contextual information interact during language comprehension.

• Research Focus: Presupposition projection, scalar implicatures, definiteness systems, and social identity effects on interpretation.
• Methodology: Uses eye-tracking (visual world paradigm), truth value judgments, and online experiment platforms like PCIbex.
• Grants & Awards: Funded by NSF, ESF, XPRAG.de, and Penn’s URF. Mercator Fellow sponsored by DFG.
• Collaborations: Active with labs at Goethe-University Frankfurt, MIT, and University of Konstanz.

Recent Publications (2023) explore covariation in processing, social identity effects on imprecision, and presupposition projection asymmetry. His edited work Experimental Perspectives on Presuppositions (2015) remains influential in theoretical psycholinguistics.