Omri Doron | MIT Linguistics

I’m a visiting lecturer at the linguistics department at UMass Amherst. I got my Ph.D. from MIT in August 2025.

I work mostly on semantics and its interfaces with pragmatics, syntax and morphology. Topics I’ve written about include presupposition accommodation, number marking, relevance, and definteness. I think that my main research motivation is identifying the fundamental processes involved in our knowledge of language.

odoron at umass dot edu

Dissertation

Local competition, number and definiteness. Dissertation committee: Danny Fox, Kai von Fintel, Viola Schmitt, Martin Hackl. 2025

Papers

Journal

On the pragmatic status of locally accommodated presuppositions. With Jad Wehbe. Under review. 2024.
Relevance as a dynamic constraint. With Ido Benbaji Elhadad. Under review. 2024.

Proceedings

How is presupposition accommodation constrained, again?. Co-authored with Ido Benbaji Elhadad. Proceedings of the 24th Amsterdam Colloquium. 2024.
Hebrew nonverbal sentences wear reconstruction on their sleeve. Proceedings of SALT 33. 2024.
Distinguishing levels of morphological derivation in word-embedding models. Co-authored with Ido Benbaji Elhadad and Adele Hénot-Mortier. Proceedings of NELS 53. 2023.
Adversative only is only only. Co-authored with Ido Benbaji Elhadad. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 27. 2023.
A constraint on presupposition accommodation. Co-authored with Jad Wehbe. Proceedings of the 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium. 2022.
A new disgnostic for antonym decomposition. Co-authored with Ido Benbaji Elhadad and Ruoan Wang. Proceedings of NELS 51. 2021.

Presentations

Disjunctive inferences and presupposition projection. Talk at the 3rd Workshop on Gaps and Imprecision in Natural Language. 2024.
Definite plurals in comparatives. With Omri Amiraz. Talk at Sinn und Bedeutung 29. 2024.
Diagnosing the presuppositional properties of global and embedded implicatures. With Jad Wehbe. Talk at Sinn und Bedeutung 29. 2024.
A new constraint on accommodation: Comments on Spector. With Danny Fox and Jad Wehbe. Talk at the Workshop on Speech Act Related Operators. 2024.
Relevance as a dynamic constraint. With Ido Benbaji Elhadad. Talk at WCCFL 42. 2024.
Scalar implicatures are sensitive to constraints on presupposition accommodation. With Jad Wehbe. Poster at 2024 LSA Annual Meeting. 2024.
Hebrew nonverbal sentences wear reconstruction on their sleeve. Poster at SALT 33. 2023.
Distinguishing levels of morphological derivation in word-embedding models. With Ido Benbaji Elhadad and Adèle Hénot-Mortier. Talk at NELS 53. 2023.
A constraint on presupposition accommodation. With Jad Wehbe. Poster at the 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium. 2023.
Adversative only is only only. With Ido Benbaji Elhadad. Talk at Sinn und Bedeutung 27. 2022.
A new disgnostic for antonym decomposition. With Ido Benbaji Elhadad and Ruoan Wang. Talk at NELS 51. 2021.
Reduplication in Hebrew as a Diagnostic for Antonym Decomposition. With Ido Benbaji Elhadad and Ruoan Wang. Talk at Sinn und Bedeutung 25. 2021.

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