User:MalignantMouse/Louise McNally

Louise McNally is a linguist and professor in the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She researches semantics and pragmatics and their interfaces with syntax, in particular on areas including natural semantic ontology, scales, and reference.

Biography
McNally earned her PhD in linguistics at UC Santa Cruz in 1992 with a dissertation entitled, "A Semantics for the English Existential Construction." She worked at Indiana University Bloomington from 1992 until 1994, briefly at The Ohio State University and UC San Diego, and has been employed at UPF since 1995.

Awards
In 2017, McNally was awarded the Humboldt Prize. In 2022, McNally was elected to the Academia Europaea.