Craige Roberts (born February 20, 1949) is an American linguist, known for her work on pragmatics and formal semantics.
Her work in the areas of pragmatics and formal semantics explores how meaning is conveyed through anaphora, definiteness, and specificity of referring expressions, the modeling of presupposition and implicature, and methods for capturing modality, mood, tense, and aspect of verbs in language.
[3] In 2015, Roberts and co-investigators David Beaver, Mandy Simons, and Judith Tonhauser were awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Collaborative Grant for the project “What’s the question?
[6] Roberts was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University in 2014–2015.
[7] She has served on the editorial board of Semantics and Pragmatics,[8] the Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication,[9] and is an Associate Editor for Linguistics and Philosophy.