We are delighted to welcome Dr Emily Davis as a new postdoctoral researcher. She will join the Center for Language Evolution at the Faculty of Humanities. Emily Davis got her PhD from University of California San Diego in 2023, with a concentration in Anthropogeny— the interdisciplinary study of human origins and evolution. She has worked with Robert Kluender and Tim Gentner at UCSD, and with Kenny Smith at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests are the evolution of recursion (in language and nonlinguistic cognition) and the syntactic and semantic factors that influence the acceptability of linguistic center-embedding. At CLES she will be a working in the NCN-funded OPUS project “Paths to Polysemy: Integrating Approaches to the Role of Polysemy in the Evolutionary Dynamics of Language” (PI: dr Michael Pleyer), which investigates the role of cognition, interaction and cross-cultural differences in the emergence of polysemy and meaning extension in language evolution.
Polish Title: “Ścieżki do polisemii: integracja podejść do roli polisemii w ewolucyjnej dynamice języka” (UMO-2024/53/B/HS2/01366)