 Associate Professor and ANLI Program Coordinator, Linguistics
Syntax, morphology, lexical semantics, formal semantics
MIT, 1995
Communications 114b
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In the fall of 1999, I began working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona in the Department of Linguistics . I'm on the steering committee of the Cognitive Science program, the L2 Analysis committee of the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching program, and the Anthro/Ling program faculty. Since arriving, I've collaborated with Tom Bever, Erin O'Bryan and Raffaella Folli on the processing of event structure; with Simin Karimi and Raffaella Folli on the structure of Persian complex predicates, and with Raffaella Folli on the structure of the vP in Italian and English. Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini and I have co-taught a course on lexical semantics in philosophy and linguistics, and Andrew Carnie and I have continued our collaboration on VSO order, hosting, with our colleague Sheila Dooley-Colberg, an NSF-sponsored conference in spring 2003. Eloise Jelinek introduced me to the Yaqui language (also known as Hiaki and Yoeme), and, together with Maria Amarillas, director of the Pascua Yaqui tribe's language program, I am investigating its complex derivational verbal morphology.
Graduate students I have supervised or am supervising include Jason Haugen, Jeongrae Lee, Azita Taleghani, Shannon Bischoff, Lika Chtareva, Luis Barragan, Stacey Oberly, Yosuke Sato, Michael Alexander and Leila Lomashvili. |
