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Gennaro Chierchia

Gennaro Chierchia

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
38
Citations
20063
World Ranking
5757
National Ranking
2726

Gennaro Chierchia publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gennaro Chierchia sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 82 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Gennaro Chierchia D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gennaro Chierchia sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Gennaro Chierchia is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Arts and Humanities as well as Computer Science. Within these broad areas, their work focuses on subfields including Language and Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, and Cultural Studies.

The scientist's publications cover a range of topics related to Natural Language Processing Techniques, Syntax, Semantics, and Linguistic Variation. Additional areas of their research include linguistics and terminology studies, Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, Language and Cultural Evolution, and Historical Linguistics and Language Studies.

Their recent papers showcase contributions to both theoretical and applied linguistics. Notable recent works include:

  • 'People are fed up; don't mess with them.' Non-quantificational Arguments and Polarity Reversals, 2022, Journal of Semantics
  • Contemporary Issues in Natural Language Semantics: an interview with Gennaro Chierchia, 2020, DELTA Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada
  • Kinds, properties and atelicity, 2024, Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory
  • Movement and crossover in three languages, 2025, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory

Their research has appeared in several academic venues, including the Journal of Semantics, DELTA Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory, and Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.

Gennaro Chierchia has collaborated with other researchers, with Roberta Pires de Oliveira noted as a frequent co-author.

Among their recognitions, they were named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Reference to Kinds across Language

    Gennaro Chierchia

  • Meaning and Grammar: An Introduction to Semantics

    Gennaro Chierchia;Sally McConnell-Ginet

  • Genericity: An Introduction

    Manfred Krifka;Francis Jeffry Pelletier;Gregory Carlson;Alice ter Meulen

  • Plurality of Mass Nouns and the Notion of “Semantic Parameter”

    Gennaro Chierchia

  • Logic in Grammar: Polarity, Free Choice, and Intervention

    Gennaro Chierchia

  • Topics in the syntax and semantics of infinitives and gerunds

    Gennaro Chierchia

  • Dynamics of meaning

    Gennaro Chierchia

  • Dynamics of Meaning: Anaphora, Presupposition, and the Theory of Grammar

    Gennaro Chierchia

  • Broaden Your Views: Implicatures of Domain Widening and the “Logicality” of Language

    Gennaro Chierchia;Gennaro Chierchia

  • A Semantics for Unaccusatives and its Syntactic Consequences

    Gennaro Chierchia

  • Anaphora and Attitudes De Se

    Gennaro Chierchia

  • Meaning and grammar

    Gennaro Chierchia

  • Mass nouns, vagueness and semantic variation

    Gennaro Chierchia

  • Semantics and property theory

    Gennaro Chierchia;Raymond Turner

  • Anaphora and dynamic binding

    Gennaro Chierchia

  • Questions with quantifiers

    Gennaro Chierchia

  • The acquisition of disjunction: Evidence for a grammatical view of scalar implicatures

    Gennaro Chierchia;Stephen Crain;Maria Teresa Guasti;Andrea Gualmini

  • Scalar implicature as a grammatical phenomenon

    Gennaro Chierchia;Danny Fox;Benjamin Spector

  • Why children and adults sometimes (but not always) compute implicatures

    Maria Teresa Guasti;Gennaro Chierchia;Stephen Crain;Francesca Foppolo

  • At the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface in Child Language

    Andrea Gualmini;Stephen Crain;Luisa Meroni;Gennaro Chierchia

  • Formal Semantics and the Grammar of Predication

    Gennaro Chierchia

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Teresa Guasti
Maria Teresa Guasti University of Milano-Bicocca
Stephen Crain
Stephen Crain Macquarie University
Claudio Luzzatti
Claudio Luzzatti University of Milano-Bicocca
Nadine Gaab
Nadine Gaab Harvard University
Barbara H. Partee
Barbara H. Partee University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ira A. Noveck
Ira A. Noveck Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Charles Clifton
Charles Clifton University of Massachusetts Amherst
Gina R. Kuperberg
Gina R. Kuperberg Tufts University
Jesse Snedeker
Jesse Snedeker Harvard University
Manfred Krifka
Manfred Krifka Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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