Principal Investigator
Patrick Georg Grosz is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Oslo. He obtained a Mag.phil. in Linguistics from the University of Vienna (2005) and a PhD in Linguistics from MIT (2011). His interests include semantics, syntax, pragmatics, and their interfaces; he has worked on topics such as optatives, imperatives, discourse particles, pronouns, agreement, and the diachrony of ‘dunno’ indefinites. In his current research, he is focusing on the application of linguistic methodology beyond natural language, to objects such as emojis and gestures, with a particular emphasis on face emojis.
About
University of Oslo
p.g.grosz@iln.uio.no
Selected Publications
Grosz, Patrick G. (submitted): Expressivity and Emojis. Submitted for The Oxford Handbook of Expressivity edited by Daniel Gutzmann.
Grosz, Patrick G., Gabriel Greenberg, Christian De Leon, and Elsi Kaiser (accepted): A semantics of face emoji in discourse. To appear in Linguistics and Philosophy. [https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/005981]
Grosz, Patrick G. (2022): Emojis and conditionals: Exploring the super linguistic interplay of pictorial modifiers and conditional meaning. Linguistics Vanguard. [https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2021-0123]
Grosz, Patrick G., Elsi Kaiser, and Francesco Pierini (2021): Discourse anaphoricity and first-person indexicality in emoji resolution. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25, 340-357. [https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2021.v25i0.941]
Kaiser, Elsi, and Patrick G. Grosz (2021): Anaphoricity in emoji: An experimental investigation of face and non-face emoji. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 6, 1009-1023. [https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v6i1.5067]