Alexander Williams (PhD, U. Pennsylvania) is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy. His work is mainly in verbal semantics and its relation to clausal syntax, across languages. The aim is a theory of semantic composition in natural languages, and correspondingly a theory of semantic values for verbs, both as components of the individual mind. He is also interested in formal language theory and logical grammars.

"Themes, cumulativity, and resultatives," Linguistic Inquiry 40: 686-700. "Patients in Igbo and Mandarin," in Event Structures in Linguistic Forma and Interpretation (Doelling et al., eds), 1-30. "Adverbial quantification over (interrogative) complements," in Proceedings of the 19th WCCFL.