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Greg Carlson is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Philosophy, and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester, where he has been since 1987. He has taught at the University of California at Irvine, the University of Iowa, Wayne State University, the LSA Summer Institute, the European Summer School, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Trondheim (Norway), and visited at the Max Planck Institute (Netherlands). His research interests focus on natural language semantics with a special interest in generics; he also conducts research in experimental psycholinguistics, with other strong interests in philosophy and computer science. Publications include Reference to Kinds in English (Garland, 1980), The Generic Book (Chicago, 1995), and Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to You and What This Says About You (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). He served as editor in chief of Linguistics and Philosophy (1992-1997) and editor of Language (2009-2017). His dissertation advisor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Prof. Barbara Partee, was one of Chomsky’s earliest students.