Research Interests: Major Topics of Past and Present Research: Presupposition Projection Characterizability in Second-Order Logics Other Areas of Curiosity: Foundations of Intensionality Alternatives to Dynamic Semantics Philosophy and Linguistic Relevance of Higher-Order Logics Mathematical Formalization of Linguistics Theories Linguistics of Classical Latin Linguistics of Classical Chinese Linguistics of Modern English Computational Tools for Linguistics Teaching and Research Journal Articles: 2006 - George, B. R., ‘Second-Order Characterizable Cardinals and Ordinals’, Studia Logica 84:425-449. (late draft PDF.) 2005 - Weaver, G. and George, B., ‘Fraenkel-Carnap Properties’, Mathematical Logic Quarterly 51:285-290. 2003 - Weaver, G. and George, B., ‘The Fraenkel-Carnap Question for Dedekind Algebras’, Mathematical Logic Quarterly 49:92-96. 2002 - Weaver, G. and George, B., ‘Quasi-finitely Characterizable and Finitely Characterizable Dedekind Algebras’, Bulletin of the Section of Logic of the University of Lodz 31:145-157 Posters: 2008 - George, B. R., ‘A New Predictive Theory of Presupposition Projection’, SALT 18 (proceedings draft PDF.) 2007 - George, B. R., ‘Variable Presupposition Strength in Quantifiers’, XPRAG 2007 Theses and Manuscripts: 2008 - George, B. R., ‘Presupposition Repairs: a Static, Trivalent Approach to Predicting Projection’, M.A. thesis, UCLA. (at the Semantics Archive.) 2008 - George, B. R., ‘Predicting Presupposition Projection: some alternatives in the strong Kleene tradition’, manuscript, UCLA. (at the Semantics Archive.) 2002 - George, B. R., ‘The: Definite Article of the English Language’, B.A. thesis, Swarthmore College.

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