姓名：Brendan S. Gillon Professor
研究方向：Semantics, Pragmatics, Sanskrit Linguistics, Chinese (Mandarin and Classical)
电子邮箱：brendan.gillon@mcgill.ca
个人简介：
Brendan S. Gillon: Brendan S. Gillon received an MA in East Asian Studies from the University of Michigan, an MA in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in philosophy from MIT. After teaching philosophy at the University of Alberta and the University of Toronto, he became a member of McGill University's Department of Linguistics and an associate of its Department of Philosophy.
His research encompasses natural language semantics, the history of logic and metaphysics in India and Sanskrit linguistics. He is the co-editor of Semantics: A Reader (Oxford University Press) and the editor of Logic in Early Classical India (Motilal Banarsidass). He has published an introductory textbook on natural language semantics with MIT Press. He has written extensively on the history of logic in early classical India on the syntax and semantics of Sanskrit. Currently, he is writing two books, one on the nature of optional complements in natural language and the other on the history of logic in early classical India.
教育经历：
1984 M.I.T. Ph.D. Linguistics & Philosophy
1979 University of Toronto M.A. Sanskrit & Indian Studies
1975 University of Michigan M.A. East Asian Studies
1971 University of Michigan B.A. Chinese Language & Literature
工作经历：
2011– McGill University Full Professor Linguistics
1997–11 McGill University Associate Professor Linguistics
1991–97 McGill University Assistant Professor Linguistics
1988–91 University of Toronto Assistant Professor Philosophy
1984–85 The University of Alberta Assistant Professor Philosophy
1984 M.I.T. Lecturer Philosophy
代表性成果Publications：
主要著作Books：
1. Natural Language Semantics: Formation and Valuation. MIT Press, 2019.
2. Logic in earliest classical India. Motilal Banarsidass (Delhi, India), 2010.
3. Semantics: A Reader (edited in collaboration with Steven Davis), Oxford University Press, 2004.
主要论文Papers：
1. Formalizing English contextuals. Disputatio: v. 14, 2022: 205–238.
2. Re-examining the Mass-Count Distinction. In: Moltmann, Friederike Mass and Count in Linguistics, Philosophy and Cognitive Science, John Benjamins, 2019: 13–36.
3. Word complementation in Classical Sanskrit. In: Huet, Gérard and Kulkarni, Amba (eds) 2018 Computational Sanskrit & Digital Humanities, Delhi, India: D K Publishers Distributors Pvt. Ltd., 2018: 217–228.
4. English translation of the Upāyahrdaya (pt. 1). Journal of Indian and Tibetan Studies (Indogaku Chibettogaku Kenkyu): n. 20, 2017: 195–232. URL:http://www.jits-ryukoku.net/
5. The neuronal correlates of indeterminate sentence comprehension: an fMRI study. Frontiers of human neuroscience: Doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00614. URL:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00614/full.
6. Constituency and cotextual dependence in Classical Sanskrit. In: Scharf (ed) 2015 Sanskrit syntax: selected papers presented at the seminar on Sanskrit syntax and discourse structures, June 2013: 13–15, Université Paris Diderot, with an updated and revised bibliography by Hans Henrich Hock. The Sanskrit Library, 2015: 237–267.
7. Reasoning and its relationship to logic and language. In: Paul, Gregor (ed) 2015 Logic in Buddhist Scholasticism from Philosophical, Historico-Philological and Comparative Perspectives, Lumbini, Nepal: The Lumbini International Research Institute, 2015: 63–84.
8. Complement polyvalence and permutation in English. Journal of Logic, Language and Information. v. 23, n. 3, pp. 275–285.
9. Optional complements of English verbs and adjectives. In: Verb con-
10. Optional complements of English verbs and adjectives. In: Verb concepts: cognitive science perspectives on verb representation and processing. (Oxford University Press, edited by Roberto De Almeida and Christina Manouilidou), pp. 67–75.
11. Logic and Language in Indian Buddhist Thought. In: A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy (John Wiley and Sons, Inc., edited by Steven M. Emmanuel), pp. 307–319.
12. Implicit complements: a dilemma for model theoretic semantics. Linguistics and Philosophy: v. 35 (2012), n. 4, pp. 313–359.
13. The correspondence principle. In: World View and Theory in Indian Philosophy (Warsaw Indological Studies: v. 5) (Manohar Publishers, edited by Piotr Balcerowicz), pp. 379–396.
14. Exocentric (bahuvrihi) compounds in Classical Sanskrit. In: Saṁskr.ta-sādhutā. Goodness of Sanskrit. Studies in Honour of Professor Ashok N. Aklujkar (D. K. Printworld, edited by Chikafumi Watanabe, Michele Desmarais, Yoshichika Honda), pp. 240–257.
15. Mass terms. Philosophy Compass: v. 7, n. 10, pp. 712–730.
16. Dharmakı̄rti on inference from effect: a discussion of verse 12 and the svavr.tti of the Svārthānumāna chapter of the Pramān.avārttika. In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Dharmakı̄rti Conference, Vienna, August 23-27, 2005 (Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, edited by Helmut Krasser, Horst Lasic, Eli Franco and Birgit Kellner, 2011), pp. 113–129.
17. Classical semantics and apoha semantics. In: Apoha: Buddhist nominalism and human cognition (Columbia University Press, edited by Mark Siderits, Tom Tillemans and Arindam Chakrabarti), pp. 273–282.
18. French relational words, context sensitivity and implicit arguments. Current Research in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface (Making Semantics Pragmatic): v. 24, pp. 143–164.
19. Phrase structure grammar and model theory. Linguistic Analysis: v. 36, n. 1–4, pp. 419–440.
20. Linguistic investigations into ellipsis in classical Sanskrit. In: Proceedings of Sanskrit Computational Linguistics: Fourth International Symposium, Delhi, India, December 10–12, 2010 (Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence v. 6465, edited by Girish Nath Jha), pp. 218–230.
21. The model theory for words with context-sensitive implicit arguments. In: Context-Dependence, Perspective and Relativity (Mouton De Gruyter, edited by François Recanati, Isidora Stojanovic and Neftali Villanueva), pp. 127–140.
22. Obversion and contraposition in the Nyāyabhās.ya. In: Logic in early classical India (Motilal Banarsidass, edited by Brendan Gillon), pp. 167–182.
23. (with Sara Mondini, Eva Kehayia, Giorgio Arcara and Gonia Jarema) Lexical access of mass and count nouns: How word recognition reaction times correlate with lexical and morpho-syntactic processing. The Mental Lexicon: v. 4, n. 3, pp. 354–379.
24. Introduction to ‘The syntax-semantics interface and the origins of philosophy’ by J. Lambek. The Mental Lexicon: v. 4, n. 1, pp. 147–149.
25. Tagging classical Sanskrit compounds. In: Proceedings of Sanskrit Computational Linguistics: Third International Symposium, Hyderabad, India, January 15–17, 2009 (Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence v. 5406, edited by Amba Kulkarni and Gérard Huet), pp. 98–106.
26. The role of knowledge of causation in Dharmakı̄rti’s theory of inference. In: Buddhist philosophy: essential readings (Oxford University Press, edited by William Edelglass and Jay Garfield), pp. 197–204.
27. On the semantics/pragmatics distinction. Synthèse: v. 165, pp. 373–384.
28. (with Richard P. Hayes) Dharmakı̄rti on the role of causation in inference as presented in Pramānavārttika Svopajñavr.tti 11–38. Journal of Indian Philosophy: v. 36, n. 1, pp. 335–404.
29. An early Buddhist text on logic: Fāng Biàn Xı̄n Lùn’. Argumentation: v. 22, n. 1, pp. 15–25.
30. Pānini’s Astādhyāyı̄ and linguistic theory. Journal of Indian Philosophy: v. 35, n. 5–6, pp. 445–468.
31. Du sens littéral. Philosophiques: v. 33, n. 1, pp. 237–248.
32. (with Benjamin Shaer) Classical Sanskrit, ‘wild trees’, and the properties of free word order languages. In: Classical languages and generative linguistics (de Gruyter, edited by Katalin Kiss), pp. 457–494.
33. Semantic categorization. In: Handbook of categorization in cognitive science (Elsevier, edited by Henri Cohen and Claire Lefebvre), pp. 167–185.
34. Ambiguity, indeterminacy, deixis and vagueness: evidence and theory. In: Semantics: a reader (Oxford University Press, edited by Steven Davis and Brendan Gillon), pp. 157–187.
35. Subject predicate order in Classical Sanskrit. In: Language and grammar: studies in mathematical linguistics and natural language (Center for the Study of Language and Information, edited by Philip Scott, Claudia Casadio and Robert Seely), pp. 211–225.
36. Nyāya-sūtra 5.1.2: anomalies in the bhāsya. Journal of Indian Philosophy: v. 31, pp. 47-60.
37. Bhartr.hari’s rule for unexpressed kārakas: The problem of control in Classical Sanskrit. In: Indian linguistic studies: festschrift in honour of George Cardona (Motilal Banarsidass, edited by M. Deshpande), pp. 93–111.
38. Another look at the Sanskrit particle eva. In: Dharmakı̄rti’s thought and its impact on Indian and Tibetan philosophy, Proceedings of the Third International Dharmakı̄rti Conference, Hiroshima, 11–16 November, 1997 (Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, edited Shoryu Katsura, 1999), pp. 117–130.
39. Indefinite noun phrases and plurality in English. Current Research in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface: v. 1, pp. 1–21.
40. (with Eva Kehayia and Vanessa Taler) The mass count distinction: evidence from psycholinguistic performance. Brain and Language: v. 68, pp. 205–211.
41. The lexical semantics of English count and mass nouns. In: The breadth and depth of semantic lexicons (Kluwer, edited by E. Viegas, 1999), pp. 19–37.
42. Anaphora and some non-commutative uses of or. The Journal of Pragmatics: v. 28, pp. 373–381.
43. Contraposition and Lewis Carroll’s barber shop paradox. Dialogue: v. 36, n. 1, pp. 247–251.
44. Collectivity and distributivity internal to English noun phrases. Language Sciences: v. 18, n. 1-2, pp. 443–468.
45. Word order in Classical Sanskrit. Indian Linguistics: v. 57, n. 1, pp. 1–35.
46. The lexical semantics of English count and mass nouns. In: The breadth and depth of semantic lexicons. Workshop Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Santa Cruz, California (U. S. A.), 28 th June, 1996, pp. 51–61.
47. Three theories of anaphora and a puzzle due to C. S. Peirce. In: Proceedings of the 10 th Amsterdam Colloquium (Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, University of Amsterdam, edited by P. Dekker and M. Stokhof), pp. 283–298.
48. Negative facts and knowledge of negative facts. In: Relativism, suffering and beyond Memorial volume for Bimal K. Matilal (Oxford University Press, edited by P. Bilimoria and J. N. Mohanty, 1996), pp. 127–147.
49. Autonomy of word formation: evidence from Classical Sanskrit. Indian Linguistics: v. 56, n. 1-4, pp. 15–52.
50. Peirce’s challenge to material implication as a model of if. Analysis: v. 55, n. 4, pp. 280–282.
51. (with Siniruddha Dash) Adjectives in Sanskrit. Brahmavidya (The Adyar Library Bulletin): v. 59, pp. 285–294.
52. Grammatical number and donkey anaphora in English. Revue québecoise de linguistique: v. 23, n. 1, pp. 35–60.
53. On the semantic differences between mass nouns and count nouns. In: Parts and wholes: conceptual part-whole relations and formal mereology. Workshop Proceedings of the 11 th , European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 1994, pp. 157–160.
54. Bhartr.hari’s solution to the problem of asamartha compounds. Asiatische Studien/Études Asiatiques: v. 47, n. 1, pp. 117–133.
55. Towards a common semantics for English count and mass nouns. Linguistics and Philosophy: v. 15, n. 6, pp. 597–640.
56. (with Richard P. Hayes) Introduction to Dharmakı̄rti’s theory of inference as presented in Pramānavārttika Svopajñavr.tti 1-10. Journal of Indian Philosophy: v. 19, n. 1, pp. 1–73.
57. Dharmakı̄rti and the problem of induction. In: Studies in the Buddhist epistemological tradition. Proceedings of the Second International Dharmakı̄rti Conference, Vienna, 11-16 June, 1989 (Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, edited Ernst Steinkellner, 1991), pp. 53–58.
58. Word order in the Svārthānumāna of Dharmakı̄rti’s Pramān.avārttika. In: Studies in the Buddhist epistemological tradition. Proceedings of the Second International Dharmakı̄rti Conference, Vienna, 11-16 June, 1989 (Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, edited Ernst Steinkellner, 1991), pp. 59–65.
59. Ambiguity, generality, and indeterminacy: tests and definitions. Synthèse: v. 85, n. 3, pp. 391–416.
60. Plural noun phrases and their readings: A reply to Lasersohn. Linguistics and Philosophy: v. 13, n. 4, pp. 477–485.
61. Truth theoretical semantics and ambiguity. Analysis: v. 50, n. 3, pp. 178–182.
62. Bare plurals as plural indefinite noun phrases. In: Knowledge representation and defeasible reasoning (Dordrecht, D. Reidel Publishing, edited by Greg Carlson, Henry Kyburg and Ron Loui, 1989), pp. 139–191.
63. The readings of plural noun phrases (in English). Linguistics and Philosophy: v. 10, n. 2, pp. 199–220.
64. On two kinds of negation in Sanskrit. Lokaprajña: v. 1, n. 1, pp. 81–89.
65. Dharmakı̄rti and his theory of inference. In: Buddhist Logic and Epistemology (D. Reidel Co., edited by Bimal K. Matilal and R. D. Evans, 1986), pp. 77–87.
66. (with Richard P. Hayes) The role of the particle eva in logical quantification in Sanskrit. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Sudasiens: v. 26, pp. 195–203.
67. (with Martha Lyle Love) Indian logic revisited: Nyāyapraveśa reviewed. Journal of Indian Philosophy: v. 8, n. 4, pp. 349–384.
68. Introduction, translation, and discussion of Chao Chün-ch’ing’s Notes to the diagrams of short legs and long legs of squares and circles. Historia Mathematica: v. 4, n. 3 , pp. 253–293.
行政工作Administrative service：
1. McGill University Association of University Teachers
2012– Academic freedom committee
2011–2012 Past President
2010–2011 President
2009–2010 President Elect
2007–2010, 2012–2013 Vice-President External
2004–2006 Council Member
2. Senate
2020–2022 Committee on the libraries
2010–2013 Arts Faculty senator
3. Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research
1992–1998 Graduate Faculty Council Member
