BA, Linguistics 1987, McGill University
Ph.D., Linguistics 1993, University
of Maryland, College Park.
1997-2002
Assistant Professor of Linguistics,
Dept. of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages.
2002-present
Associate Professor of Linguistics,
Dept. of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages.
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Visiting positions held at University of Chicago, Harvard University, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, University of Missouri, University of Brasília, Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute, Zentrum für Allgemeinesprachwissenschaft, Berlin.
Research interests: syntax/semantics, language acquisition, language variation.
Current Graduate Students
- Komeil Ahari (Ph.D.)
Former Graduate Students
- Tariq Farghal MA, 2020 Hyperraising in Jordanian Arabic
- Kali Morris, Ph.D. 2018 Defaults and the Theory of Grammar
- Joe Jalbert Ph.D. 2016 Restricting sideward movement: The course of the derivation and the directionality of movement; Data Scientist, Michigan State University
- Greg Johnson Ph.D. 2014 Restructuring and Infinitives: The view from Appalachia; Louisiana State University
- Walter Sistrunk, Ph.D. (African American Studies) 2012 The Syntax of Zero in African American Relative Clauses; LaGuardia Community College
- Xiang, Ming. Ph.D. 2004 Topics in the Syntax of Comparatives; U. Chicago
- Liou, Yu-fen Ph.D. 2003 On Temporal Clauses in Mandarin; Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
- Kakegawa, Tomomi Ph.D. 2003 The Internal Structure of Japanese Noun Phrases and the Syntactic Status of Case Particles; University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
- Salem, Murad Ph.D. 2003 Bare Nominals, Focus Structure, and Reference in Germanic, Romance and Semitic
- Visonyanggoon, Saisunee, Ph.D. 2000 Syntactic Parallelism in noun phrases and clauses in Thai; Ubon Ratchathani University, Thailand
- Yamagata, Ayako, Ph.D. 2000. Tense, aspect and event representations in English and Japanese
- Sistrunk, Walter, MA 1998 Negative inversion in African American English
- Lee, Daehee, Ph.D. 1997 Localizing derivational economy in minimalism