Thomas Stephen

PhD Linguistics & English Language

  • Linguistics and English Language
  • School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Contact details

Address

Street

Dugald Stewart Building

City
3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9AD

Background

Education

  • 2015 BA (Hons) Philosophy (First Class), Durham University
    • Thesis: A Modal Approach to Propositional Attitude Reports in Scientific Contexts (Supervised by Dr. Peter Vickers)
  • 2016 MSc Philosophy, The University of Edinburgh
    • Thesis: Do That-Clauses Designate Propositions? (Supervised by Dr. Bryan Pickel)
  • 2020 PhD Linguistics and English Language, The University of Edinburgh
    • Thesis: The Semantics of Clause Embedding Predicates (Supervised by Dr. Rob Truswell, Dr. Bryan Pickel)

Research summary

Clause-embedding predicates, Compositional semantics, Syntax-Semantics interface.

Dr Rob Truswell

Dr Bryan Pickel