Brendan Gillon
Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
McGill University
1085, Docteur-Penfield Room #119
tel: 514-398-4868
e-mail: brendan.gillon(at)mcgill.ca
Membership Status
Associate Member
Research Themes
Areas of Expertise
Semantics, Sanskrit Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Chinese (Mandarin and Classical), Sanskrit
Current Research Interests
Research interests in semantics extend to a number of neighboring fields: syntax and morphology (within linguistics) and logic and ontology (within philosophy)
Selected Publications
- Gillon, B. 1(999). Collectivity and distributivity internal to English noun phrases. Language Sciences, 18.1-2, 443-468.
- Gillon, B. (1996). Word order in Classical Sanskrit. Indian Linguistics, 57.1, 1-35.
- Gillon, B. (1995). Autonomy of word formation: Evidence from Classical Sanskrit. Indian Linguistics, 56.1-4, 15-52.
- Gillon, B. (1992). Towards a common semantics for English count and mass nouns. Linguistics and Philosophy, 15.6, 597-640.
- Gillon, B. & Hayes, R.P. (1991). Introduction to Dharmakirti's theory of inference as presented in Pramanavarttika Svopajnavrtti 1-10. Journal of Indian Philosophy, 19.1, 1-73.
