Update: Beginning in September, I will be joining Masaryk University in Brno as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow. I look forward to working under the supervision of Pavel Caha on my new project, Mapping complexity in language.
I’m a visiting lecturer at the linguistics department at UMass Amherst. I got my Ph.D. from MIT in August 2025.
I work mostly on semantics and its interfaces with pragmatics, syntax and morphology. Topics I’ve written about include presupposition accommodation, number marking, relevance, and definteness. I think that my main research motivation is identifying the fundamental processes involved in our knowledge of language.
odoron at umass dot edu
Dissertation
- Local competition, number and definiteness. Dissertation committee: Danny Fox, Kai von Fintel, Viola Schmitt, Martin Hackl. 2025
Papers
Journal
- The varieties of Relevance. With Ido Benbaji-Elhadad. Accepted for publication (with revisions) to Journal of Semantics. 2026.
- On the pragmatic status of locally accommodated presuppositions. With Jad Wehbe. Under review. 2026.
Proceedings
- Saving FACE: Fragment answers, copy theory, and radical trace conversion. With Ido Benbaji-Elhadad. Proceedings of NELS 56. Upcoming.
- Definite plurals in comparatives. With Omri Amiraz. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 29. 2025.
- Diagnosing the presuppositional properties of global and embedded implicatures. With Jad Wehbe. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 29. 2025.
- How is presupposition accommodation constrained, again?. Co-authored with Ido Benbaji-Elhadad. Proceedings of the 24th Amsterdam Colloquium. 2024.
- Hebrew nonverbal sentences wear reconstruction on their sleeve. Proceedings of SALT 33. 2024.
- Distinguishing levels of morphological derivation in word-embedding models. Co-authored with Ido Benbaji-Elhadad and Adele Hénot-Mortier. Proceedings of NELS 53. 2023.
- Adversative only is only only. Co-authored with Ido Benbaji-Elhadad. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 27. 2023.
- A constraint on presupposition accommodation. Co-authored with Jad Wehbe. Proceedings of the 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium. 2022.
- A new disgnostic for antonym decomposition. Co-authored with Ido Benbaji-Elhadad and Ruoan Wang. Proceedings of NELS 51. 2021.
Presentations
Invited
- Assertion, Presupposition and Local Accommodation. With Danny Fox and Jad Wehbe. Talk at the UMass Amherst colloquium. 2025.
- Presupposing multiplicity: another look at the semantics of plural marking. Talk at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Departmental Seminar. 2025.
- Revisiting pronominal copulas. Talk at the Tel Aviv University Interdisciplinary Colloquium. 2025.
- A new constraint on accommodation: comments on Spector. With Danny Fox and Jad Wehbe. Talk at the Workshop on Speech Act Related Operators. 2024.
Peer-reviewed
- Saving FACE: Fragment answers, copy theory, and radical trace conversion. With Ido Benbaji-Elhadad. Talk at NELS 56. 2025
- Disjunctive inferences and presupposition projection. Talk at the 3rd Workshop on Gaps and Imprecision in Natural Language. 2024.
- Definite plurals in comparatives. With Omri Amiraz. Talk at Sinn und Bedeutung 29. 2024.
- Diagnosing the presuppositional properties of global and embedded implicatures. With Jad Wehbe. Talk at Sinn und Bedeutung 29. 2024.
- A new constraint on accommodation: Comments on Spector. With Danny Fox and Jad Wehbe. Talk at the Workshop on Speech Act Related Operators. 2024.
- Relevance as a dynamic constraint. With Ido Benbaji-Elhadad. Talk at WCCFL 42. 2024.
- Scalar implicatures are sensitive to constraints on presupposition accommodation. With Jad Wehbe. Poster at 2024 LSA Annual Meeting. 2024.
- Hebrew nonverbal sentences wear reconstruction on their sleeve. Poster at SALT 33. 2023.
- Distinguishing levels of morphological derivation in word-embedding models. With Ido Benbaji-Elhadad and Adèle Hénot-Mortier. Talk at NELS 53. 2023.
- A constraint on presupposition accommodation. With Jad Wehbe. Poster at the 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium. 2023.
- Adversative only is only only. With Ido Benbaji-Elhadad. Talk at Sinn und Bedeutung 27. 2022.
- A new disgnostic for antonym decomposition. With Ido Benbaji-Elhadad and Ruoan Wang. Talk at NELS 51. 2021.
- Reduplication in Hebrew as a Diagnostic for Antonym Decomposition. With Ido Benbaji-Elhadad and Ruoan Wang. Talk at Sinn und Bedeutung 25. 2021.
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