Lelia Glass

I am an Associate Professor of Linguistics in the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Tech.  

New (June 2026): Here is my newest paper ("Sentiment-linked quantification among adjectives," about adjectives like clean versus dirty), to appear in the new Diamond Open Access journal, Semantics of Natural Languages! I am very grateful to the Editorial Team for starting this new journal and proud to be part of its inaugural issue!

New (June 2026): I've joined Semantics and Pragmatics as an Associate Editor. I am very excited for all the things that I'll get to learn from working on this highly committed team!

I work on lexical semantics (word meaning), compositional semantics (sentence meaning), pragmatics (inferences drawn in context), and sociolinguistics (how people use language in their social identity), from an empirically rich perspective.  I am particularly interested in how our knowledge of the (physical, social) world affects our interpretation of language.

Here is my CV and here is my Google Scholar profile.

For third-person reference, please feel free to use the pronunciation [liliə glæs] and the pronoun she.

Outside of linguistics, I am proud to be a runner (with type 1 diabetes) and a mom.