Chris Kennedy

Chris Kennedy a linguistic scholar whose research is geared toward discovering and describing the principles that are involved in relating linguistic forms to meanings; determining how this mapping is achieved through the interaction of properties of the linguistic system, properties of cognition more generally, and broader features of communicative contexts; and understanding the extent to which structural and typological features of language can be explained in terms of meaning.

Over the past two decades, he has explored these issues primarily through a focused exploration of the language of comparison, amount and degree, though his research has also touched on core issues in the syntax-semantics interface such as ellipsis, anaphora and quantification. Kennedy has also conducted research on cultural and humanistic AI, specifically about how scholars in the humanities can evaluate and harness the potential of generative AI.