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Dr. Iván García Álvarez

Dr. Iván García-Álvarez
Lecturer in Linguistics
Telephone: +44 (0)161 295 3539
Email: I.GarciaAlvarez [at] salford.ac.uk
Room: Maxwell 812

Dr. García-Álvarez studied linguistics as an undergraduate at University College London and received a Ph.D. in linguistics from Stanford University in 2009. His areas of research and teaching are semantics, pragmatics, syntax and the syntax-semantics interface. In particular, his current research focuses on exceptives, quantification and distributivity. He is currently supervising postgraduate students on rhetorical questions in Japanese and presentational sentences in English. Dr. García-Álvarez is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Recent publications

(2008) 'Relevance Theory'. In Siobhan Chapman and Christopher Routledge (eds.), 'Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language', Edinburgh University Press.

(2008) 'Model-Theoretic Semantics'. In Siobhan Chapman and Christopher Routledge (eds.), 'Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language', Edinburgh University Press.

(2007) 'Connected Exceptives and Nonmonotonic Inference'. In Erin Bainbridge and Brian Agbayani (eds.), 'Proceedings of the Thirty-fourth Western Conference On Linguistics', California State University, Fresno, California, USA.

Recent presentations

(2009) 'There are No Exception Determiners in English'. Talk given at the 'First Semantics and Pragmatics in the North Fest', The University of Manchester.

(2009) 'Adjectival Associates of Exception Phrases'. Talk given at the '10th 'Annual Semantics Fest', Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, California, USA.

(2008) 'Adjectival Associates of Exception Phrases'. Invited Lecture at the 'Linguistics and English Language Seminar Series', The University of Manchester.

(2006) 'Connected Exceptives and Nonmonotonic Inference'. Talk presented at the '34th Western Conference on Linguistics', California State University, Fresno, California, USA.

(2006) 'Non-monotonicity in the Semantics of Exception Phrases'. Talk presented at the '2006 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain', University of Newcastle upon Tyne.