Education

• Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of California at Los Angeles (1982)
• M.A. in Linguistics, Northwestern University (1966)
• B.A. in French, Oberlin College (1964)

Teaching Areas

• English as a Second Language
• General Linguistics
• Grammar
• Semantics of English

Research Areas

• Logic and Ontology
• Philosophical Semantics

On-Line Work

Aspects of a Theory of Singular Reference (UCLA Ph.D. Dissertation, 1982; published in the Garland Series Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics, 1985)

  'A Theory of Complexes' (HTML: revised and updated version of a paper that appeared in Epistemologia XIX, 1996, pp. 85-112)

  'The Paradox of Identity' (HTML: revised and updated version of a paper that appeared in Epistemologia XIX, 1996, pp. 207-226)

  'Let X = X But Not Necessarily' (HTML: unpublished manuscript)

'Identidad, ontología, y el problema de Frege' (HTML: Seminario de Filosofía talk, Facultad de Humanidades, UPR, Oct. 1997; updated Nov. 2006)

Other Links of Interest

• The Writings of Karlis Podnieks
• The Philosophy Research Base