Research

My PhD research concerned semantics of imperfective (especially progressive) aspect, semantic change and computational modeling, and the syntax and semantics of concessive clauses (e.g., adverbial clauses headed by even though and although). I also worked on the semantics of complementizers and reportative constructions.

Publications

2021Lund, Gunnar. Pluractionality in progress. Harvard University PhD dissertation. [pdf]
2020Lund, Gunnar, and Isabelle Charnavel. The syntax of concessive clauses: evidence from exempt anaphora. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics. [pdf]
2019Lund, Gunnar, Rebecca Jarvis, and Gregory Scontras. The pragmatics of semantic change: Modeling the progressive-to-imperfective shift. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23, pp. 73–90. [pdf]
2017Lund, Gunnar. Deriving Even Though from Even. In Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2017 Student Session, pp. 161–172. [pdf]
2012Lund, Gunnar. Across and Beyond: The Semantics of Transgender Identity. Stance 5, pp. 7-18. [pdf]

Presentations

2021Lund, Gunnar. "From Pluractionality to Aspect" at Formal Diachronic Semantics (FoDS) 6, University of Cologne. [abstract][slides]
2020Lund, Gunnar. "Semantic change without semantic reanalysis" at Formal Approaches to Grammaticalization (special session) at the 94th annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA), New Orleans, Louisiana. [slides]
2019Lund, Gunnar. "Pluractionality and progressive aspect" at Linguistics Circle, Harvard University.
2019Kocab, Annemarie, Dorothy Ahn, Gunnar Lund, Kathryn Davidson. "Reconsidering agreement in sign languages" at Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 42, Oslo, Norway. [poster]
2019Lund, Gunnar, and Isabelle Charnavel. "The syntax of concessive clauses: evidence from exempt anaphora" at Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC) 43, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [slides]
2019Spadine, Carolyn, and Gunnar Lund. "Complementizers in matrix clauses: Reporting attitudes without attitude verbs" at the 93rd annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA), New York City. [poster]
2018Spadine, Carolyn, and Gunnar Lund. "Complementizers in matrix clauses: Reporting attitudes without attitude verbs" at LF Reading Group (LFRG), MIT. [handout]
2018Lund, Gunnar, Rebecca Jarvis, and Gregory Scontras. "The progressive-to-imperfective shift: What computational pragmatics can tell us about diachronic semantics" at Formal Diachronic Semantics (FoDS) 3, Oslo, Norway.
2018Lund, Gunnar, Rebecca Jarvis, and Gregory Scontras. "The pragmatics of semantic change: Modeling the progressive-to-imperfective shift" at Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 23, Barcelona, Spain.
2018Lund, Gunnar. "Concessive adverbial clauses and even" at the 92nd annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA), Salt Lake City, Utah.
2017Lund, Gunnar. "Deriving Even Though from Even" at European Summer School of Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) 29, Toulouse, France. [poster]
2017Lund, Gunnar. "Deriving Even Though from Even" at Meaning and Modality lab meeting, Harvard University.
2016Lund, Gunnar. "Object Markers in Northwest Caucasian: Agreement or Clitic Doubling?" at ECO-5 Graduate Student Workshop, MIT.