Teodora Mihoc

Jul/2025–present

I conduct user research sessions with new Canonical joiners during onboarding, as one of the UX research office-hours volunteers they can book — watching them attempt a task and observing where it breaks down.

Nov/2024–present

I help write and maintain the JAAS documentation at Canonical.

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Jul/2024–present

I help write and maintain the Terraform Provider for Juju documentation at Canonical.

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May/2024–present

As part of my senior duties, I run stand-ups, conduct 1:1s, and give performance evaluations for technical authors at Canonical.

Jan/2024–present

I am a Senior Technical Author at Canonical.

Jun/2022–present

I assist in technical author hiring at Canonical (to date, more than 200 interviews).

Aug/2021–present

I help write and maintain the Juju documentation at Canonical.

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26 Jun 2026

I created an AI prompt codifying conventions for Juju's cloud reference docs, restructuring all 15 cloud-provider pages around a consistent entity-based skeleton.

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13 May 2026

I argued that documentation should follow the actual shape of the software and the story it already tells from within, rather than reinvent that story from the outside — for example, don't restructure a modular system's docs as if it were a monolith. Mihoc, Teodora. 2026. Technically true is the only kind of true, and it shall set you free. Lightning talk, Canonical Engineering Sprint, May 13.

Nov/2025–May/2026

As secondment coordinator, I updated and refined how Canonical's technical-author secondment program works.

Dec/2025–Apr/2026

I completed the Canonical Design Academy UX training program.

Dec/2025–Apr/2026

I designed an information representation and retrieval plan where solution and persona docs are "views" into the database that is the component docs.

31 Mar 2026

I created an AI prompt codifying Juju's documentation conventions — one-location content, entity-lifecycle how-to guides, no hand-edits to autogenerated docs — and used it to document a brand-new feature from scratch: the database entity reference, the Dqlite REPL command reference, and the database how-to guides.

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26 Mar 2026

I created an AI prompt for writing Go package documentation (doc.go files) across Juju, codifying a "document at the smallest accurate scope" principle and a requirement to verify every claim against the actual code.

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12 Feb 2026

I argued that our ecosystem is graph-shaped and proposed a way for the docs to catch up to that. Mihoc, Teodora. 2026. From tree to graph: An answer to the solution docs vs. product docs challenge. Internal talk, Canonical, Feb 12.

03 Feb 2026

I received a Valuable Contribution Award from Canonical for my work refining the technical-author secondment program.

Aug/2021–Nov/2025

I helped document Ops at Canonical.

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28 Oct 2025

As an attendee at Write the Docs Berlin, I ran an unconference session introducing the Canonical Open Documentation Academy, a program helping people make their first contribution to FOSS docs.

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27 Oct 2025

As an attendee at Write the Docs Berlin, I ran an unconference session arguing that software diagrams raise three main concerns — branding, expressive power, and maintainability (e.g., diagrams-as-code) — and that expressive power matters most: no matter how polished a tool is, if it can't tell the story you need to tell, it's no good.

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Oct 2025

I served on the promotion committee for 3 people.

Aug/2021–Jul/2025

I helped document Charmcraft at Canonical.

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Sep/2021–Apr/2025

I co-moderated Juju community workshop meetings.

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Jul/2024–Jan/2025

I designed and implemented a new architecture for the core tools in the Juju ecosystem docs, moving from 2 hybrid persona-component monoliths to 6 modular, interoperable, component-based docsets that are easy to govern, maintain, and version.

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06 Dec 2024

I conducted an interview with Joost De Cock from FreeSewing.org on sewing, open source, and docs, as a session for Canonical's Open Documentation Academy.

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22 Oct 2024

I gave a lightning talk (with Lidia Luna Puerta) on user research and docs at Canonical Engineering Sprint. Puerta, Lidia Luna, and Teodora Mihoc. 2024. When in doubt: User research and docs. Lightning talk, Canonical Sprint, Oct 22.

Oct 2024

I served on the promotion committee for 2 people.

05 Aug 2024–13 Aug 2024

I attended an internal Canonical user research bootcamp.

14 May 2024

I gave a lightning talk on my documentation creed at Canonical Engineering Sprint. Mihoc, Teodora. 2024. My documentation creed, currently. Lightning talk, Canonical Sprint, May 14.

Apr/2024–May/2024

I helped write the copy for the Charmhub charm user UI.

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Nov/2023–May/2024

As part of a secondment, I helped document Ubuntu Pro for WSL.

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Mar/2024–Apr/2024

I helped write the copy for the Charmhub charm author UI.

Aug/2021–Dec/2023

I was a Technical Author at Canonical.

08 Nov 2023

I led a cross-team session on the Charmhub charm discovery experience.

Nov 2023

I organized and led a cross-team session on where charm users' experience on Charmhub was failing and what to do about it.

10 Oct 2023

I was an invited speaker, running a documentation workshop at a NOMAD group retreat hosted by FAIRmat. Mihoc, Teodora. 2023. How to win over hearts and minds with NOMAD docs. Workshop, FAIRmat Meets Domain Experts retreat, Arnsberg, Oct 9-12.

25 Aug 2023

I gave a talk on Juju community and docs at a Juju Community Workshop.

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Jun 2023

I contributed as a proofreader to A grammar of Ulwa (Papua New Guinea), published by Language Science Press, an open-access publisher.

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08 May 2023

I co-ran (with Daniele Procida) a documentation workshop at Humboldt University of Berlin, hosted by FAIRmat.

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04 May 2023

I ran a workshop on how to generate complete reference and how-to docs quickly based on my approach to reference as a dictionary of primitive concepts, entities, tools, and processes, and of (first-order) how-to guides as entity-lifecycle stories. Mihoc, Teodora. 2023. How to generate decent Reference docs quickly. Workshop, Canonical Engineering Sprint, May 4.

03 May 2023

I gave a lightning talk (with Jordan Barrett and Juan Tirado) on how we improved truth in our reference docs by autogenerating the CLI command docs from source. Barrett, Jordan, Teodora Mihoc, and Juan M. Tirado. 2023. How we got Juju command docs to relax and stop lying. Lightning talk, Canonical Engineering Sprint, May 3.

02 May 2023

At a Canonical Engineering Sprint, I ran a workshop on how to add docs to charms on Charmhub. Mihoc, Teodora. 2023. Let's add docs to our charms on Charmhub! Workshop / campaign, Canonical Engineering Sprint, May 2.

23 Mar 2023

I served on the promotion committee for 1 person, reviewing their application and taking part in the deliberation.

14 Feb 2023

I received a Juju Documentation Community Call-Out. James Beedy: "The Juju docs now set the standard for good documentation."

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Nov/2022–Feb/2023

As part of a secondment, I helped document Charmed Kubeflow.

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20 Jan 2023

I received a Valuable Contribution Award from Canonical for revitalizing hundreds of Juju and Operator Framework documents into a more cohesive whole.

Jan 2023

I reviewed 4 abstracts for Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 33.

Nov/2022–Jan/2023

I helped write the copy and design the content flow for the juju.is menu.

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Dec 2022

I reviewed a paper for Minds and Machines arguing that GPT-3 generates internally coherent outputs that are however not coherent with one another.

20 Oct 2022

I received a Canonical Thank You Award for being the first Technical Author to be seconded to another team, spending about an hour a day for three months coaching the Multipass team on documentation practices.

20 Aug 2022

I received a Valuable Contribution Award from Canonical for the work I led during my secondment with the Multipass team.

Jun 2022

I wrote a paper arguing that still, already, yet, and anymore share temporal, evaluative, and polarity properties that prior accounts of aspectual operators had left unaddressed, and explained them by drawing on existing analyses of disjunction, indefinites, minimizers, and numerals, which show the same patterns. Mihoc, Teodora. 2022. Aspectual operators: Temporality, evaluativity, and polarity sensitivity. Preprint, LingBuzz.

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@misc{mihoc2022aspectual, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {Aspectual operators: {T}emporality, evaluativity, and polarity sensitivity}, year = {2022}, howpublished = {\url{https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/006213}} }

Jun 2022

I wrote a blog post arguing that odd-seeming documentation feedback is usually rational once read through Grice's Cooperative Principle, and used that to lay out how to collect better feedback. Mihoc, Teodora. 2022. Humans may be rational, or how to collect better documentation feedback with linguistic theory. Ubuntu Blog, Canonical.

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Jun 2022

I contributed as a proofreader to On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar, published by Language Science Press, an open-access publisher.

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Mar/2022–May/2022

As part of a secondment, I helped document Multipass, where I first worked out the idea of reference as a dictionary of primitive concepts, entities, processes, and tools.

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Oct/2021–May/2022

I helped rewrite the juju.is Home and About pages.

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Aug/2021–Feb/2022

I asked engineers to independently sort our how-to guides into "basic" and "advanced"; when they could not converge, I concluded it was a false category and abolished it.

Aug/2021–Feb/2022

I designed a small taxonomy of typed "See" links to reconnect content inside a documentation monolith without duplicating it: See also, linking an entity-lifecycle how-to laterally to its reference; See more, linking a procedure to the tool reference it depends on. After federation, I extended it with See first and See next, linking a use-an-artifact story to the story of building that artifact.

Jan 2022

I wrote a paper proposing that no more than n and not more than n differ in exactness, evaluativity, and ignorance because not, unlike no, generates an extra layer of negation alternatives. Mihoc, Teodora. 2022. Negative comparison, or how to be judgmental and ignorant with scalar alternatives. University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 28(1).

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@article{mihoc2022negative, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {Negative comparison, or how to be judgmental and ignorant with scalar alternatives}, journal = {University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics}, volume = {28}, number = {1}, year = {2022} }

May/2021–Dec/2021

I was a visiting scholar at the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, UAB.

Dec 2021

I contributed as a proofreader to Syntactic architecture and its consequences III, published by Language Science Press, an open-access publisher.

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25 Nov 2021

I gave an invited talk at GLiF arguing that still, already, and yet share temporal, evaluative, and polarity properties, drawing on existing analyses of disjunction, indefinites, minimizers, and numerals — which show the same patterns — to derive a unified account of the aspectual operators. Mihoc, Teodora. 2021. Aspectual operators: Temporality, evaluativity, and polarity sensitivity. Invited talk at Grup de Lingüística Formal (GLiF), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Nov 25.

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@misc{mihoc2021glif, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {Aspectual operators: {T}emporality, evaluativity, and polarity sensitivity}, year = {2021}, howpublished = {Invited talk at Grup de Ling\"{u}\'{\i}stica Formal ({GLiF}), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Nov 25} }

25 Oct 2021

I gave a talk on demystifying Juju docs and writing at a Juju Community Workshop.

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Aug 2021

I received (and declined) a Juan de la Cierva 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct independent research hosted by Laia Mayol at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Jan/2007–Aug/2021

I proofread and copyedited dozens of technical and academic papers, routinely taking them from low-level writing issues all the way to their fundamental logical and rhetorical flow.

Jul/2019–Jul/2021

I was a research affiliate (associate of the department) in Linguistics at Harvard.

17 Jun 2021

I gave an invited talk at the UAB Functional Categories Workshop arguing that polarity sensitivity in aspectual operators (still, already, yet) and in indefinites and numerals can be unified within an alternatives-and-exhaustification framework. Mihoc, Teodora. 2021. Polarity sensitivity across domains. Invited talk at The Meaning of Functional Categories, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, June 17–18.

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@misc{mihoc2021uabfunctional, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {Polarity sensitivity across domains}, year = {2021}, howpublished = {Invited talk at The Meaning of Functional Categories, Universitat Aut\`onoma de Barcelona, June 17--18} }

Jun 2021

I co-authored a paper reporting three experiments confirming that superlative-modified numerals are degraded under negation in ways that go beyond any one of four competing theoretical accounts, requiring insight from each. Mihoc, Teodora and Kathryn Davidson. 2021. Superlative-modified numerals and negation: A multiply negotiable cost. Proceedings of Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 1, pp. 212–223.

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@inproceedings{mihoc-davidson2021superlative, author = {Mihoc, Teodora and Davidson, Kathryn}, title = {Superlative-modified numerals and negation: {A} multiply negotiable cost}, booktitle = {Proceedings of Experiments in Linguistic Meaning}, volume = {1}, pages = {212--223}, year = {2021} }

Jun 2021

I contributed as a proofreader to Russian verbal prefixation: a frame semantic analysis, published by Language Science Press, an open-access publisher.

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21 May 2021

I gave an invited talk at the UAB CLT Seminar arguing that obligatory ignorance and anti-negativity in some, or, and superlative-modified numerals all follow from a single alternatives-and-exhaustification account, with differences derived from the structure of their domain alternatives. Mihoc, Teodora. 2021. Ignorance and positive polarity in indefinites, disjunction, and numerals. Invited talk at Centre de Lingüística Teòrica (CLT), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, May 21.

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@misc{mihoc2021uabclt, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {Ignorance and positive polarity in indefinites, disjunction, and numerals}, year = {2021}, howpublished = {Invited talk at Centre de Ling\"{u}\'{\i}stica Te\`orica ({CLT}), Universitat Aut\`onoma de Barcelona, May 21} }

18 May 2021

I gave an invited talk on my research trajectory at LBUS. Mihoc, Teodora. 2021. From Chomsky through Confucius to Montague and Grice (Or what I've been up to since I left LBUS). Invited talk at Lucian Blaga U of Sibiu, May 18.

29 Apr 2021

I presented a poster at LSRL 51 arguing that Spanish algún, German irgendein, and English some are all modal indefinites in both singular and plural, with their varying certainty compatibility derived from a uniform alternatives-based account. Mihoc, Teodora. 2021. Singular, plural, modal. Refereed poster at Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) 51, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (online), Apr 29–May 1.

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@misc{mihoc2021lsrl51, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {Singular, plural, modal}, year = {2021}, howpublished = {Poster at Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages ({LSRL}) 51, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (online), Apr 29--May 1} }

05 Apr 2021

I gave a talk at GLOW 44 arguing that already, still, yet, and anymore share temporal, continuity, and evaluativity inferences, and that their two forms of polarity sensitivity — PPI vs. NPI status, and predicate sensitivity — fall out from a unified account. Mihoc, Teodora. 2021. Aspectual operators and polarity sensitivity. Refereed talk at Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 44, online, Apr 5–7.

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@misc{mihoc2021glow44, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {Aspectual operators and polarity sensitivity}, year = {2021}, howpublished = {Talk at Generative Linguistics in the Old World ({GLOW}) 44, online, Apr 5--7} }

19 Mar 2021

I gave a talk at PLC 45 arguing that no more than n and not more than n differ in exactness, evaluativity, and ignorance because the two negations asymmetrically affect scalar alternative generation. Mihoc, Teodora. 2021. Negative comparison between exactness, ignorance, and evaluativity. Refereed talk at Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC) 45, U of Pennsylvania (online), Mar 19–21.

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@misc{mihoc2021plc45, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {Negative comparison between exactness, ignorance, and evaluativity}, year = {2021}, howpublished = {Talk at Penn Linguistics Conference ({PLC}) 45, U of Pennsylvania (online), Mar 19--21} }

Jan 2021

I wrote a paper arguing that bare, comparative-, and superlative-modified numerals differ less than prior literature had claimed in their scalar implicatures, ignorance, and polarity sensitivity — with both the similarities and the remaining differences falling out in a principled way once their truth conditions, alternatives, and exhaustification mechanism are properly worked out. Mihoc, Teodora. 2021. Modified numerals and polarity sensitivity: Between O(nly)DA and E(ven)SA. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25, pp. 648–665.

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@inproceedings{mihoc2021modified, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {Modified numerals and polarity sensitivity: {B}etween {O(nly)DA} and {E(ven)SA}}, booktitle = {Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung}, volume = {25}, pages = {648--665}, year = {2021} }

Jan 2021

I reviewed 1 grant proposal for the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Jan 2021

I reviewed 3 abstracts for Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 26.

Jan 2021

I was a member of the editorial committee for Proceedings of Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) 1.

Dec 2020

I contributed as a proofreader to Syntactic architecture and its consequences II, published by Language Science Press, an open-access publisher.

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26 Sep 2020

I gave a talk at Sensus arguing that epistemic indefinites across Spanish, English, and German share ignorance effects but differ in certainty compatibility in ways that track item identity rather than singular/plural number. Mihoc, Teodora. 2020. Epistemic indefinites, number marking, and certainty. Refereed talk at Sensus 1, U of Massachusetts at Amherst (online), Sep 26–27.

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@misc{mihoc2020sensus, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {Epistemic indefinites, number marking, and certainty}, year = {2020}, howpublished = {Talk at Sensus 1, U of Massachusetts at Amherst (online), Sep 26--27} }

16 Sep 2020

I co-presented experimental work at ELM 1 showing that superlative-modified numerals (at least/most n) are worse than comparative-modified numerals (more/less than n) under negation, with results pointing beyond any single theoretical account. Mihoc, Teodora and Kathryn Davidson. 2020. Superlative-modified numerals and negation: A negotiable cost. Refereed talk at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) 1, U of Pennsylvania (online), Sep 16–18.

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@misc{mihoc-davidson2020elm, author = {Mihoc, Teodora and Davidson, Kathryn}, title = {Superlative-modified numerals and negation: {A} negotiable cost}, year = {2020}, howpublished = {Talk at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning ({ELM}) 1, U of Pennsylvania (online), Sep 16--18} }

03 Sep 2020

I gave a talk at SuB 25 proposing a new unified alternatives-and-exhaustification account of scalar implicatures, ignorance, and two types of polarity sensitivity in superlative-modified numerals, using O(nly) over domain alternatives and E(ven) over scalar alternatives. Mihoc, Teodora. 2020. Modified numerals and polarity sensitivity: Between O(nly)DA and E(ven)SA. Refereed talk at Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 25, University College London / Queen Mary U of London (online), Sep 3–5.

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@misc{mihoc2020sub25, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {Modified numerals and polarity sensitivity: {B}etween {O(nly)$_{DA}$} and {E(ven)$_{SA}$}}, year = {2020}, howpublished = {Talk at Sinn und Bedeutung ({SuB}) 25, University College London / Queen Mary U of London (online), Sep 3--5} }

Jul 2020

I contributed as a proofreader to Interpreting language-learning data, published by Language Science Press, an open-access publisher.

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Jun 2020

I contributed as a proofreader to Syntactic architecture and its consequences I, published by Language Science Press, an open-access publisher.

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Jan/2020–May/2020

I was an Instructor in Linguistics at the Harvard Extension School.

Jan/2020–May/2020

I taught Introduction to Linguistics.

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Sep/2019–May/2020

I was Assistant Head Tutor in the Dept of Linguistics at Harvard.

Jan 2020

I wrote a paper arguing that or/some and comparative-/superlative-modified numerals show the same pattern of ignorance and anti-negativity, unified within a single alternatives-and-exhaustification account. Mihoc, Teodora. 2020. Ignorance and anti-negativity in the grammar: or/some and modified numerals. Proceedings of NELS 50, pp. 197–210.

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@inproceedings{mihoc2020ignorance, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {Ignorance and anti-negativity in the grammar: or/some and modified numerals}, booktitle = {Proceedings of {NELS}}, volume = {50}, pages = {197--210}, year = {2020} }

Jan 2020

I reviewed 1 abstract for Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 25.

Jan 2020

I reviewed 1 abstract for Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA) 13.

24 Oct 2019

I gave a talk at NELS 50 arguing that or and some, and comparative- and superlative-modified numerals, display the same pattern of ignorance and anti-negativity, unified in a single alternatives-and-exhaustification account. Mihoc, Teodora. 2019. Ignorance and anti-negativity in the grammar: or/some and modified numerals. Refereed talk at North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 50, MIT, Oct 24–27.

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@misc{mihoc2019nels50, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {Ignorance and anti-negativity in the grammar: {\textit{or}/\textit{some}} and modified numerals}, year = {2019}, howpublished = {Talk at North East Linguistic Society ({NELS}) 50, {MIT}, Oct 24--27} }

Jun 2019

I wrote a paper deriving the ignorance and polarity sensitivity of some, comparative-modified, and superlative-modified numerals from a single alternatives-and-exhaustification account, with their differences traced to a novel morphological decomposition. Mihoc, Teodora. 2019. Ignorance and polarity sensitivity in the grammar: From disjunction and indefinites to numerals. Unpublished manuscript.

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@unpublished{mihoc2019ignorance, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {Ignorance and polarity sensitivity in the grammar: {F}rom disjunction and indefinites to numerals}, year = {2019}, note = {Unpublished manuscript} }

17 May 2019

I co-presented cross-linguistic evidence at SALT 29 that epistemic will and epistemic must are not equivalent, diverging in deduction and factive contexts, with a formal solution based on variable modal strength. Mihoc, Teodora, Diti Bhadra, and Anamaria Fălăuș. 2019. Epistemic modals, deduction, and factivity. Refereed talk at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 29, UCLA, May 17–19.

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@misc{mihoc-etal2019salt, author = {Mihoc, Teodora and Bhadra, Diti and F\u{a}l\u{a}u\c{s}, Anamaria}, title = {Epistemic modals, deduction, and factivity}, year = {2019}, howpublished = {Talk at Semantics and Linguistic Theory ({SALT}) 29, {UCLA}, May 17--19} }

May 2019

I obtained my PhD in Linguistics from Harvard University.

May 2019

I co-authored a paper providing novel English and Romanian evidence that epistemic will and epistemic must are not equivalent, diverging in deduction and factive contexts, and proposing a unified analysis based on modal weakness and factive presupposition. Mihoc, Teodora, Diti Bhadra, and Anamaria Fălăuș. 2019. Epistemic modals, deduction, and factivity: New insights from the epistemic future. Proceedings of SALT 29, pp. 351–370.

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@inproceedings{mihoc-bhadra-falaus2019epistemic, author = {Mihoc, Teodora and Bhadra, Diti and Fălăuș, Anamaria}, title = {Epistemic modals, deduction, and factivity: {N}ew insights from the epistemic future}, booktitle = {Proceedings of {SALT}}, volume = {29}, pages = {351--370}, year = {2019} }

May 2019

I wrote my PhD thesis on decomposing logic: modified numerals, polarity, and exhaustification. Mihoc, Teodora. 2019. Decomposing logic: Modified numerals, polarity, and exhaustification. PhD thesis, Harvard University.

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@phdthesis{mihoc2019decomposing, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {Decomposing logic: {M}odified numerals, polarity, and exhaustification}, school = {Harvard University}, year = {2019} }

Sep/2013–May/2019

I was a PhD student in Linguistics at Harvard.

27 Mar 2019

I presented a poster in Berlin arguing that ignorance and polarity sensitivity in some, comparative-modified numerals, and superlative-modified numerals all follow from a unified alternatives-and-exhaustification account, with differences derived from morphological decomposition. Mihoc, Teodora. 2019. Ignorance and polarity sensitivity in modified numerals and beyond. Refereed poster at Workshop: The meaning of numerals: cognitive, experimental, and semantic perspectives, ZAS, Berlin, Mar 27–28.

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@misc{mihoc2019berlin, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {Ignorance and polarity sensitivity in modified numerals and beyond}, year = {2019}, howpublished = {Poster at Workshop: The meaning of numerals: cognitive, experimental, and semantic perspectives, {ZAS}, Berlin, Mar 27--28} }

Mar 2019

I received a Conference Travel Grant from Harvard.

06 Dec 2018

I gave a talk at RALFE proposing a unified morphology-driven theory of bare numerals and comparative- and superlative-modified numerals that derives entailments, scalar implicatures, ignorance, and polarity sensitivity from a principled decomposition of their morphological pieces. Mihoc, Teodora. 2018. The alternatives of bare and modified numerals. Refereed talk at Rencontres d'Automne de Linguistique Formelle (RALFe), U of Paris 8 / CNRS, Paris, Dec 6–7.

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@misc{mihoc2018ralfe, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {The alternatives of bare and modified numerals}, year = {2018}, howpublished = {Talk at Rencontres d'Automne de Linguistique Formelle ({RALFe}), U of Paris~8 / {CNRS}, Paris, Dec 6--7} }

03 Dec 2018

I gave an invited talk in Nantes on how polarity sensitivity (PPI vs. NPI behavior) and scalar valence (lower vs. upper bound) interact in comparative- and superlative-modified numerals. Mihoc, Teodora. 2018. Modified numerals between polarity and valence. Invited talk at Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes, CNRS/U of Nantes, Dec 3.

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@misc{mihoc2018nantes, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {Modified numerals between polarity and valence}, year = {2018}, howpublished = {Invited talk at Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes, {CNRS}/U of Nantes, Dec 3} }

Sep 2018

I received a GSAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship from Harvard for the 2018–19 academic year. Awarded to enable full-time dissertation completion, free from teaching obligations.

12 Jun 2018

I gave an invited talk at the ILLC Colloquium presenting an extent-based, generalized-quantifier-style unified account of scalar implicatures, ignorance, and polarity sensitivity in bare and modified numerals. Mihoc, Teodora. 2018. An extent-based GQT-style unified implicature account of bare and modified numerals. Invited talk at Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation (ILLC), U of Amsterdam, June 12.

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@misc{mihoc2018illc, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {An extent-based {GQT}-style unified implicature account of bare and modified numerals}, year = {2018}, howpublished = {Invited talk at Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation ({ILLC}), U of Amsterdam, June 12} }

04 May 2018

I gave a talk at LingEdIn on how questions under discussion and exhaustification account for scope asymmetries in quantified sentences. Mihoc, Teodora. 2018. Scope asymmetry, QUDs, and exhaustification. Talk at LingedIn, Harvard U, May 4.

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@misc{mihoc2018scope, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {Scope asymmetry, {QUDs}, and exhaustification}, year = {2018}, howpublished = {Talk at LingedIn, Harvard U, May 4} }

Jun/2016–May/2018

I managed the Meaning and Modality Lab (PI: Kathryn Davidson), Dept of Linguistics, Harvard.

21 Feb 2018

I gave an interview for an article on experimental linguistic research, Harvard Gazette, Feb 21.

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Jan 2018

I co-authored a paper arguing that Romanian bare plurals and French bare plural partitives share with English bare plurals only the narrow-scope existential reading, deriving cross-linguistic differences from the presence or absence of a Derived Kind Predication operation spelled out by French partitive de. Gonzalez, Aurore and Teodora Mihoc. 2018. A neo-Carlsonian approach to bare plural nominals in Romanian and French. Unpublished manuscript.

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@unpublished{gonzalez-mihoc2018bare, author = {Gonzalez, Aurore and Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {A neo-{C}arlsonian approach to bare plural nominals in {Romanian} and {French}}, year = {2018}, note = {Unpublished manuscript} }

2018

I co-authored a paper extending a Bayesian Rational Speech Act model of numeral-negation scope ambiguity (e.g. two horses didn't jump) by deriving questions under discussion from grammatical structure and adding a silent exhaustification operator, reproducing experimental endorsement asymmetries without stipulating ad hoc priors, implemented in WebPPL, a purely functional probabilistic subset of JavaScript. Agrawal, Akshat and Teodora Mihoc. 2018. Numeral-negation scope endorsement asymmetry: An alternative RSA model. Unpublished manuscript.

@unpublished{agrawal-mihoc2018rsa, author = {Agrawal, Akshat and Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {Numeral-negation scope endorsement asymmetry: {A}n alternative {RSA} model}, year = {2018}, note = {Unpublished manuscript} }

07 Dec 2017

I gave a talk on decomposing bare and modified numerals at LingEdIn.

Sep/2017–Dec/2017

As a teaching assistant for Semantic Theory I at Harvard, I led problem-solving sections, graded homework, and helped design, proctor, and grade exams.

Sep/2017–Dec/2017

As a teaching assistant for Language, Structure, and Cognition at Harvard, I led problem-solving sections, graded homework, and helped design, proctor, and grade exams.

21 Jun 2017

I co-presented experimental work at XPrag 7 testing three predictions of a positive-polarity-item (PPI) analysis of superlative-modified numerals, with results confirming their anti-licensing under negation and acceptability in restrictors, but not their rescue under embedded DE operators. Mihoc, Teodora and Kathryn Davidson. 2017. Testing a PPI analysis of superlative-modified numerals. Refereed talk at Experimental Pragmatics (XPrag) 7, U of Cologne, June 21–23.

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@misc{mihoc-davidson2017xprag, author = {Mihoc, Teodora and Davidson, Kathryn}, title = {Testing a {PPI} analysis of superlative-modified numerals}, year = {2017}, howpublished = {Talk at Experimental Pragmatics ({XPrag}) 7, U of Cologne, June 21--23} }

Jan/2017–May/2017

I taught The Semantics and Pragmatics of Numerals at Harvard.

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25 Apr 2017

I co-ran (with Aurore Gonzalez) an intro-to-experiments workshop at Harvard.

20 Apr 2017

I co-presented a crosslinguistic analysis at LSRL 47 arguing that bare plurals in Romanian and bare plural partitives in French lack the generic and kind readings available in English, with all cross-linguistic variation derived from the presence or absence of a Derived Kind Predication operation. González, Aurore and Teodora Mihoc. 2017. Bare nominals in French and Romanian. Refereed talk at Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) 47, U of Delaware, Apr 20–23.

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@misc{gonzalez-mihoc2017lsrl, author = {Gonz\'{a}lez, Aurore and Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {Bare nominals in {F}rench and {R}omanian}, year = {2017}, howpublished = {Talk at Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages ({LSRL}) 47, U of Delaware, Apr 20--23} }

Jan 2017

I refereed linguistics submissions for MIT INSPIRE (US national high-school research competition).

Sep/2016–Dec/2016

As a teaching assistant for Language, Structure, and Cognition at Harvard, I led problem-solving sections, graded homework, and helped design, proctor, and grade exams.

29 Nov 2016

I gave an invited talk on heterogeneity in comparative and superlative numeral modifiers at the Harvard Language & Cognition seminar. Mihoc, Teodora. 2016. More evidence of heterogeneity in the class of comparative and superlative numeral modifiers. Talk, Language and Cognition, Harvard University, Nov 29.

18 Oct 2016

I gave an invited talk on heterogeneity in comparative and superlative numeral modifiers at the MIT Experimental Syntax & Semantics Lab. Mihoc, Teodora. 2016. More evidence of heterogeneity in the class of comparative and superlative numeral modifiers. Talk, Experimental Syntax & Semantics Lab / Language Acquisition Lab, MIT, Oct 18.

30 Sep 2016

I gave a talk on heterogeneity in comparative and superlative numeral modifiers at LingEdIn. Mihoc, Teodora. 2016. More evidence of heterogeneity in the class of comparative and superlative numeral modifiers. Talk, LingEdIn, Harvard University, Sep 30.

28 Sep 2016

I co-ran (with Laurence B. Violette) an Introduction to LaTeX workshop at Harvard.

20 Jul 2016

I gave a guest lecture on entailment and monotonicity at Harvard.

Jan/2016–May/2016

As a teaching assistant for Language, Structure, and Cognition at Harvard, I led problem-solving sections, graded homework, and helped design, proctor, and grade exams.

Jan/2016–May/2016

I taught Logic in Linguistics at Harvard.

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20 Apr 2016

I gave a talk on confessing ignorance at LingEdIn.

Sep/2015–Dec/2015

As a teaching assistant for Syntactic Theory I at Harvard, I led problem-solving sections and graded homework.

Sep/2015–Dec/2015

I taught Inquisitive Semantics at Harvard.

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21 Nov 2015

I gave a talk on Romanian bare nominals and derived kind predication at SNEWS.

21 Nov 2015

I co-organized Southern New England Workshop on Semantics (SNEWS), Harvard U, Nov 21.

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Sep 2015

I received a Sosland Family Graduate Fellowship from Harvard. Awarded by the Harvard Department of Linguistics.

11 Apr 2015

I gave a talk (with Alexander Klapheke) on two sets of alternatives for numerals at ECO 5.

Jan 2015

I wrote a paper arguing that the Georgian particle tu — which surfaces as both 'if' and 'or' — is a single unary KA-particle in the sense of Szabolcsi (2015), licensed by an exhaustive question operator and equivalent to Russian li, ili, and esli. Mihoc, Teodora. 2015. Georgian tu: A ka particle. Unpublished manuscript.

@unpublished{mihoc2015georgian, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {{Georgian} tu: {A} ka particle}, year = {2015}, note = {Unpublished manuscript} }

05 Sep 2014

I gave an invited talk at the Neuchâtel Symposium proposing a unified semantic account of the Romanian future-and-presumptive auxiliary as an epistemic modal with temporal and evidential properties. Mihoc, Teodora. 2014. The broader epistemic future. Invited talk at Commitment Phenomena through the Study of Evidential Markers in Romance Languages, U of Neuchâtel, Sep 5.

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@misc{mihoc2014neuchatel, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {The broader epistemic future}, year = {2014}, howpublished = {Invited talk at Commitment Phenomena through the Study of Evidential Markers in Romance Languages, U of Neuch\^{a}tel, Sep 5} }

Sep 2014

I received a Sosland Family Graduate Fellowship from Harvard. Awarded by the Harvard Department of Linguistics.

Jun 2014

I wrote a paper arguing that the Romanian presumptive mood is the key to analyzing the Romanian will-future as an epistemic modal, proposing a unified semantic analysis of its presumptive and temporal uses. Mihoc, Teodora. 2014. The Romanian presumptive mood: The key to the Romanian will-future. Ottawa Papers in Linguistics 38.

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@article{mihoc2014presumptive, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {The {Romanian} presumptive mood: {T}he key to the {Romanian} will-future}, journal = {Ottawa Papers in Linguistics}, volume = {38}, year = {2014} }

Jan 2014

I wrote a paper proposing a unified semantic account of the Romanian future-and-presumptive auxiliary from the point of view of its temporal, epistemic, and evidential properties. Mihoc, Teodora. 2014. The Romanian future-and-presumptive auxiliary. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 24(1), pp. 64–80.

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@article{mihoc2014future, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {The {Romanian} future-and-presumptive auxiliary}, journal = {McGill Working Papers in Linguistics}, volume = {24}, number = {1}, pages = {64--80}, year = {2014} }

Jan 2014

I ran a two-weekend syntax–semantics-semantics-pragmatics–LaTeX bootcamp for undergraduates at LBUS.

Jan 2014

I reviewed 1 paper for Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic linguistics.

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16 Nov 2013

I gave a talk on the Romanian presumptive mood. Mihoc, Teodora. 2013. Romanian presumptivity: The future case in point. Talk, Southern New England Workshop on Semantics (SNEWS), MIT, Nov 16.

Sep 2013

I received a Douglas Dillon Fellowship from Harvard. Named a Dillon Fellow for 2013–14 on the recommendation of the Department; fund supports international students at Harvard.

Sep/2012–Aug/2013

I was a Research Assistant in the Dept of Linguistics at the University of Ottawa (PI: María Luisa Rivero).

23 Mar 2013

I gave a talk at TOM 6 arguing that the Romanian presumptive mood reveals the key to analyzing the Romanian will-future as an epistemic modal, connecting presumptive morphology, modality, and temporality. Mihoc, Teodora. 2013. The Romanian presumptive mood and the key to the Romanian will-future. Refereed talk at Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Workshop on Semantics (TOM) 6, McGill U, Mar 23.

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@misc{mihoc2013tom, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {The {R}omanian presumptive mood and the key to the {R}omanian \textit{will}-future}, year = {2013}, howpublished = {Talk at Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Workshop on Semantics ({TOM}) 6, McGill U, Mar 23} }

Aug 2012

I obtained my MA in Linguistics from the University of Ottawa.

Aug 2012

I wrote a MA thesis on the Romanian presumptive mood. Mihoc, Teodora. 2012. The Romanian Presumptive Mood: Inferential evidentiality and upper-end degree epistemic modality. MA thesis, University of Ottawa.

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@mastersthesis{mihoc2012romanian, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {The {Romanian} Presumptive Mood: {I}nferential evidentiality and upper-end degree epistemic modality}, school = {University of Ottawa}, year = {2012} }

Sep/2011–Aug/2012

I was an MA student in Linguistics at the University of Ottawa.

10 Jun 2012–24 Jun 2012

I attended NASSLLI 2012 (North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information) at UT Austin.

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Apr 2012

I helped organize the Workshop on Modality at the University of Ottawa (Apr 20-21), as a paid student helper.

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Jan/2012–Apr/2012

As a teaching assistant for Writing Systems at the University of Ottawa, I graded assignments and helped proctor exams.

Jan/2012–Apr/2012

As a teaching assistant for Les langues dans le monde at the University of Ottawa, I graded assignments and helped proctor exams.

Sep/2011–Dec/2011

As a teaching assistant for Introduction to Linguistics at the University of Ottawa, I graded assignments and helped proctor exams.

Sep 2011

I received an International Differential Admission Scholarship from the University of Ottawa. Awarded on the recommendation of the Department of Linguistics (research paper option). Covered tuition differential for international students plus a $9,000/year departmental assistantship.

Jan/2007–Aug/2011

I translated 2 books and dozens of articles (English-Romanian).

Jan/2007–Aug/2011

I interpreted at 2 international conferences (English-Romanian).

Sep/2010–Jul/2011

I was a Mandarin Chinese language student at Beijing Language and Culture University.

Sep 2010

I received a Study Abroad Scholarship from the Confucius Institute.

Jul 2010

I obtained my BA in Applied English and French from Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu.

Oct/2007–Jul/2010

I was a BA student in Applied English and French at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu.

Jun 2010

I wrote my BA thesis on from Plato to Derrida: the dissolution of the author. Mihoc, Teodora. 2010. From Plato to Derrida: The dissolution of the author. BA thesis, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu.

@mastersthesis{mihoc2010plato, author = {Mihoc, Teodora}, title = {From {Plato} to {Derrida}: {T}he dissolution of the author}, type = {{BA} thesis}, school = {Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu}, year = {2010} }

Sep 2009

I received a Merit Scholarship from Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu.

Jan/2009–Jun/2009

I did a semester abroad at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where I got my first taste of theoretical linguistics.

Jan 2009

I received an Erasmus Mundus Study Abroad Scholarship.

Sep 2008

I received a Merit Scholarship from Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu.

Sep 2007

I received a Merit Scholarship from Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu.

I received a Canonical Thank You Award for helping shorten the Juju issues backlog and resolve high-profile bugs.