Lassiter, Daniel

Daniel Lassiter is an assistant professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. He directs the Psychosemantics Lab at the Center for the Study of Language and Information. His research focuses on natural language semantics and pragmatics, particularly on connections between language understanding and psychological, computational, and philosophical theories of reasoning and decision-making under uncertainty. He is the author of Measurement and Modality: The Scalar Basis of Modal Semantics, to appear with Oxford University Press.