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Magdalena Kaufmann is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut, affiliated with the Philosophy Department. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Frankfurt (Germany) and specializes in formal semantics, pragmatics, and syntax. Her research focuses on modality, clause types, conditionals, and cross-linguistic variation in languages such as Japanese, Serbian, Slovenian, and Hungarian. She has been awarded NSF grant #2116972 for research on conditional and modal language.
Education: Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Frankfurt (2006); M.A. in General Linguistics, University of Vienna (2002). Professional roles include Junior Professorship at Göttingen University (2008–2012) and Postdoctoral researcher in Frankfurt (2005–2008).
Research interests span semantics/pragmatics interfaces, speech acts, intensional contexts, and grammaticalization. Notable works include Interpreting Imperatives (2012) and over 50 peer-reviewed articles on topics like Japanese modals, Serbian obviation, and conditional conjunctions.
Grants: NSF grant (2021), SHARE undergrad grant (2022). Teaching includes advanced semantics courses, syntax-semantics interfaces, and summer schools on formal semantics.
