Enrico Flor

I'm a post doc in Martin Hackl's Lab at MIT, working on the semantics and pragmatics of reference resolution. I'm originally from Italy, but before coming to MIT as a PhD student, I received my MA from the University of Vienna, where I was also briefly employed as a junior researcher.

My dissertation is on modality, with a focus on the Italian adverb magari and what it teaches us about the typology of modals in natural language. Another topic of interest that is not yet represented in the list below is the proper treatment of plurality in intensional contexts, in ongoing work with Filipe Hisao Kobayashi.

I pronounce my name as [enˈriko flor] (note that most Italians would say [flɔr]).

Work

• Coarse Modality with Italian magari.
  2025. Semantics and Linguistic Theory 34.
  
• Questions in belief ascriptions
  2023. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 27.
  
• Base-Derivative Faithfulness in Italian Palatalization
  2023. Under revision.
  
• Focus-sensitivity and homogeneity in attitude predicates
  with Jad Wehbe
  2022. Proceedings of NELS 52.
  
• CSC-Violating Head Movement in English Conditional Inversion
  with Stanislao Zompì
  2021. Submitted for publication.
  
• A unified account of Velar Palatalization in Italian
  2020. Proceedings of NELS 50.
  
• Coordinating Complete Answers: The Case of Tanto-Quanto Conjunction
  with Filipe Hisao Kobayashi
  2019. Proceedings of the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium.
  
• Cumulative readings of Italian ogni
  2018. Manuscript.
  
• Cross-linguistic evidence for a non-distributive lexical meaning of conjunction
  with Nina Haslinger, Hilda Koopman, Eva Rosina, Magdalena Roszkowski, Viola Schmitt
  2017. Proceedings of the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium.
  
• Distributive and non-distributive conjunction: Formal semantics meets typology
  with Nina Haslinger, Eva Rosina, Magdalena Roszkowski, Viola Schmitt
  2017. To appear in 'Logical Vocabulary and Logical Change', ed. Moreno Mitrović.
  

Teaching experience

• TA for Phonology
  Instructor: Ezer Rasin (Spring 25)
  Duties: office hour, grading assignments.
• TA for Intermediate Semantics
  Instructor: Yael Sharvit and Rajesh Bhatt (Summer 23)
  Duties: office hour, grading assignments.
• TA for Introduction to Linguistics
  Instructor: Norvin Richards (Spring 22)
  Duties: weekly section and office hour, grading and assistance in designing assignments.
• TF for Topics in Linguistics and Philosophy
  Instructor: Kai von Fintel, Sabine Iatridou, Justin Khoo (Fall 20)
  Duties: office hour.
• TA for Language & Structure III: Semantics and Pragmatics
  Instructor: Roger Schwarzschild (Spring 20)
  Duties: weekly section and office hour, grading and assistance in designing assignments.
• TA for Introduction to Linguistics
  Instructor: Adam Albright (Fall 19)
  Duties: weekly section and office hour, grading and assistance in designing assignments.

Skills

(Natural) Languages

Technical

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