Mandy Simons is a linguist and professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).
She researches semantics and pragmatics, in particular phenomena like presupposition and projection.
[1] Simons earned her PhD in linguistics at Cornell in 1998 with a dissertation entitled, "Or: Issues in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Disjunction.
"[2] She joined the faculty at CMU in 1998, and also holds an adjunct position at the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Linguistics.
[3][4] In 2013, her paper, "Toward a taxonomy of projective content," coauthored with Judith Tonhauser, David Beaver, and Craige Roberts won the 2013 Best Paper in Language (journal) Award from the Linguistic Society of America.