Anna Szabolcsi

Anna Szabolcsi ([sabolt͡ʃi]) is a linguist whose research has focused on semantics, syntax, and the syntax–semantics interface. She was born and educated in Hungary, and received her Ph.D. from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.^[1]

She is currently a professor of linguistics at New York University.^[2] She has been a research fellow at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, and a professor at UCLA.

Szabolcsi was one of the first to propose the determiner phrase hypothesis^[3] and alongside Mark Steedman and others initiated research in combinatory categorial grammar.^[4] More recently she has worked on quantification,^[5] islands,^[6] polarity,^[7] verbal complexes,^[8] overt nominative subjects in infinitival complements, ^[9] and cross-linguistic semantics. ^[10]