Tom Stephen

Formal Semanticist at Trinity College Dublin

Teaching

  • Trinity College Dublin
    • Undergraduate
      • Semantics I
      • Semantics II
      • Semantics III
      • Pragmatics I
      • Pragmatics II
    • Postgraduate
      • Linguistic Pragmatics
      • Describing Meaning
    • 11-Week In-depth Courses
      • Scalar Implicature
      • Presuppositions
      • Indirect Semantics
      • Modality
  • Queen Mary University of London
    • Undergraduate
      • Introduction to Semantics
      • Syntax II
      • Meaning in the Real World
    • Postgraduate
      • Formal Semantics
      • Research Practicum
  • University of Edinburgh (as Lecturer)
    • Undergraduate
      • Logic 1
      • Puzzles and Paradoxes
  • University of Edinburgh (as Tutor)
    • Undergraduate
      • Logic 1
      • Mind, Matter, and Language
      • LEL 1A
      • LEL 1B
    • Postgraduate
      • Introduction to Syntax
      • Semantic Theory

Supervision

  • Bovin, Joshua. Research Practicum: Classes of Clause Embedding Predicates. MA thesis, Queen Mary University of London, 2024.
  • Pavlovic, Stefan. From Crisis to Convergence: Minimalist Syntax and the Search for a Neurolinguistic Linking Hypothesis. MPhil thesis, Trinity College Dublin, 2025.
  • Liang, Mengzhu. Pragmatic Functions and Stance Orientations of the Sentence-Final Particles ha and sai in Southwestern Mandarin. MPhil thesis, Trinity College Dublin, 2025.
  • Shan, Zeqi. From Syntax to Semantics: A Comparative Analysis of ChatGPT and Deepseek’s Explanation Styles on CEFR-Leveled Chinese Learner Sentences. MPhil thesis, Trinity College Dublin, in progress.
  • Tran, Thalia. A Corpus Analysis of the Manifestos of Violent “Incels” and Leaders of Destructive Cults. MPhil thesis, Trinity College Dublin, in progress.