Paloma Jeretic

Paloma Jeretic is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts & Sciences. She previously held a postdoctoral position at the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin as part of the LeibnizDream project. She earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics from New York University in 2021, focusing on neg-raising modals and scaleless implicatures. Her research spans semantics, pragmatics, and syntax, with a focus on cross-linguistic studies of negation, modality, and implicature. She conducts fieldwork on languages such as Ecuadorian Siona, Turkish, French, and Spanish, and utilizes experimental, computational, and corpus-based methods in her work.

Education

• Ph.D., Linguistics, New York University, 2021

Research Interests

Dr. Jeretic’s work explores semantics and pragmatics, with a focus on negation, modality, and their interfaces with syntax. Key topics include implicature, negative concord, polarity, and the semantics of differential objects. She also investigates how large language models process natural language structure and meaning. Methodologically, her research combines theoretical analysis, fieldwork, typological comparison, and experimental approaches.

Awards & Grants

While no specific awards are listed, her extensive publication record reflects sustained recognition in linguistic research.

Labs & Collaborations

Her collaborative projects include work with institutions like ZAS Berlin and co-authors globally, focusing on language universals and typological diversity in semantics and syntax.