David Dowty

David Roach Dowty is a linguist known primarily for his work in semantic and syntactic theory, and especially in Montague grammar and Categorial grammar. Professor Dowty is a professor emeritus of linguistics at the Ohio State University, and his research interests mainly lie in Semantic and Syntactic Theory, Lexical semantics and Thematic roles, Categorial grammar, and Semantics of Tense and Aspect.

Major Publications
 Dowty D.R (1991). Thematic Proto-Roles and Argument Selection. Language 67: 547-619
 (with Robert E. Wall and Stanley Peters) Introduction to Montague Semantics 
 Word Meaning and Montague Grammar (1979)

External links
David Dowty's home page at the Ohio State University Department of Linguistics

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Category:Living people
Category:Ohio State University faculty
Category:Semanticists
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)