Here is the most recent version of my CV. If anybody wants any of the papers, books, handouts, or has any other questions, let me know.
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Book Chapters
2016 The Plural Prefix in Kx’a, ǃUi and Taa. In Sheena
Shah and Matthias Brenzinger (eds.), Khoisan
Languages and Lingusitics, Proceedings of the 5th International
Symposium, pgs. 27 - 51. Rüdiger
Köppe Verlag (with Henry Honken)
Other Publications
2016 N!aq
(Sasi) Spelling Primer (with Zach Wellstood, designer).
2014 Why
Formalize? Faculty of Language Blog (run by Norbert Hornstein)
2014 Obituary
for Jeffrey S. Gruber. Linguist List
2012 Obituary
for Henry Honken, Linguist List
(https://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-3405.html)
2009 Imposters:
An Online Survey of Grammaticality Judgments. In Patricia Irwin and Violeta
Vázquez Rojas Maldonado (eds), NYU
Working Papers in Linguistics 2 (with Stephanie N. Guitard and Jim Wood).
2007 Home
Sweet Home. In Lisa Levinson and Oana
Savescu-Ciucivara (eds.), NYU Working Papers in Linguistics 1. (http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/001967)
2001 Eliminating
Labels. MIT Occasional Papers in
Linguistics 20.
Cornell Departmental Talks
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tvdj22tzulrdav4/CV-most%20recent%20%28July%203%202017%29.pdf?dl=0
CURRICULUM VITAE
Christopher Thad Collins
Department
of Linguistics 4
Washington Square Village, Apt. 5G
New
York University New
York, New York 10012
10
Washington Place (212)
260-1661
New
York, New York 10003
(212)
992-8763
E-mail:
cc116@nyu.edu
Research Interests
Syntax,
formalization of syntactic theory, syntax/semantics interface, English syntax,
fieldwork, the syntax of African languages, Ewe syntax, the syntax of the
Khoisan languages (especially N|uu, Kua, ǂHoan
and Sasi).
Education
1988-1993 Ph.D. in Linguistics, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Thesis Title: Topics in
Ewe Syntax
1982-1985
B.S.
in Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1981-1982 Mathematics, University of Minnesota
Academic Positions
2011-2012 Visiting
Professor, Department of African Languages and Literature and the San Research
Center, University of Botswana, Botswana.
2011 (Spring) Visiting Professor, NYU-in-Ghana and Department of linguistics,
University
of Legon, Ghana.
2008 (Fall) Visiting Professor, NYU-in-Ghana and Department of Linguistics,
University
of Legon, Ghana.
2006- Full Professor, Department of
Linguistics, New York University
2005-2006 Associate Professor, Department of
Linguistics, New York University
(starting Sept. 2005)
2005 Invited
Professor, University of Paris 7, France (March 15 – April 15)
2004-2005 Invited Researcher (Chercheur Associé), CNRS (“poste rouge”),
University of Paris 7, France (Sept. 15 –
March 14)
2004-2005 Full Professor, Department of
Linguistics, Cornell University
1999-2004Associate Professor, Department of
Linguistics, Cornell University
1997 Instructor, LSA Institute,
Cornell University
1995-1999 Assistant Professor, Department of
Linguistics, Cornell University
1993-1995 Assistant Professor, Department of Modern
Languages and
Linguistics, Cornell
University
1985-1987 Professeur
de mathématiques, Lycée, Togo.
Academic Grants and Fellowships
2015-2016 Guggenheim
Fellowship (The Eastern Khoisan Languages
of Botswana).
2015-2016 National Science
Foundation grant. Project-Based Learning
at the African Linguistics School (BCS-1451683, $51,500, with John
Singler).
2012 Documenting
the Eastern Khoisan Languages of Botswana,
Office
of Research and Development, University of Botswana (PI: Andy Chebanne)
2011-2012 Fulbright
Scholar, Teaching and Research, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana.
2010 National
Science Foundation grant. African
Linguistics School 2011.
(BCS-1023982,
$50,193, with John Singler).
2009 Supplement
to National Science Foundation grant. SGER: Prototype and Specifications for a Web-based Database of
the Syntactic Structures of the World's Languages (SSWL).
2008 National Science Foundation
grant. SGER: Prototype and Specifications
for a Web-based Database of the Syntactic Structures of the World's Languages
(SSWL). (BCS- 0817202, $68,133 with supplement)
2007 NYU
Research Challenge Fund. A Workshop to
Investigate the
Feasibility of an
Internet Database of the Syntactic Structures of the World’s Languages (November 2007).
2006
Supplement to NSF grant (Summer funding for fieldwork on N|uu in 2007).
2005
Supplement to NSF grant (Summer funding for fieldwork on N|uu in 2005).
2003
National Science Foundation grant. Collaborative
Research: Descriptive and
Theoretical Studies of N|uu
(Summer funding for
fieldwork in 2004, with Amanda Miller-Ockhuizen and Bonny Sands). (BCS-0236735,
179,446 with supplements)
1999
Robert
and Helen Appel Fellowship for Humanists and Social Scientists (Cornell), recognizing
excellence in teaching, scholarly promise and dedication to advancing
knowledge.
1998 National Science Foundation
grant. Studies in Khoisan Syntax
Languages (Summer funding for fieldwork 1998,
1999, 2002)
(BCS-9808256, $103,165)
1996-1997 Fulbright (CIES) African Regional
Research Program
Research in ǂHoan
Syntax (Botswana, Sept.
1996-Aug. 1997)
1996 The Society for the Humanities,
Cornell University, Research
Support for Non-tenured
Faculty in the Humanities
1995 Fulbright-Hays (CIE) Faculty
Research Abroad Program,
The Syntax of Serial Verb Constructions in
Ifè (Togo, June-August)
1993 Postdoctoral
study at the Université de Québec à Montréal,
for
the Groupe de Recherche sur le Créole Haïtien (July-August)
1989-1993 National Science Foundation Graduate
Research Fellowship
1990-1991 Fulbright (IIE) Scholarship for Graduate
Study Abroad,
for research on the
syntax of Ewe (Togo)
Books
2014 A Grammar of ǂHȍã.
Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. (Co-authored with Jeffrey
Gruber)
2014 Classical NEG Raising: An Essay on the
Syntax of Negation. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. (Co-authored with Paul
Postal)
2012 Imposters. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. (Co-authored with Paul Postal)
2011 A Grammatical Sketch of N|uuki with Stories.
Rüdiger Köppe Verlag (Co-authored with Levi Namaseb)
1997 Local Economy. MIT Press,
Cambridge, MA.
Edited
Books
2014 Cross-Linguistic Studies of Imposters and
Pronominal Agreement. Oxford University Press.
2009 Language Universals. Oxford University Press.
(Co-edited with Morten Christiansen and
Shimon Edelman)
2001 The Handbook of Syntactic Theory. Blackwell.
(Co-edited with Mark Baltin)
Refereed Journal Publications
2017 Negative Polarity Items in Ewe. Journal of Linguistics (with Paul Postal
and Elvis
Yevudey)
2017 Interclausal
NEG Raising and the Scope of Negation. Glossa
(with Paul Postal)
2017 NEG Raising and Serbo-Croatian
NPIs. Canadian Journal of Linguistics
(with
Paul Postal)
2016 Not even. Natural Language
Semantics 24, 291-303.
2016 A
Formalization of Minimalist Syntax. Syntax
19, 43-78 (with Edward Stabler)
2015 Gaps,
Ghosts and Gapless Relatives in Spoken English. Studia Linguistica (with Andrew Radford)
2008 An AAE Camouflage Construction. Language (with Simanique Moody and
Paul Postal), volume
84.1, pgs. 29-68.
2006 Linkers
and the Internal Structure of vP. Natural
Language and Linguistic Theory
(with Mark Baker), volume 24.2, pgs.
307-354.
2005
The Absence of the Linker in Double Object Constructions in N|uu.
Studies in African Linguistics, 33.2.
2005 A
Smuggling Approach to the Passive in English. Syntax 8.2.
2005 A
Smuggling Approach to Raising in English. Linguistic
Inquiry 36.2, 289-298.
2003 The Internal Structure of vP in
Ju|’hoan and ǂHoan. Studia Linguistica 57.1, 1-25.
2002
Multiple
Verb Movement in ǂHoan. Linguistic Inquiry 33.1, 1-29.
2001 Aspects of Plurality in ǂHoan. Language
77.3, 456-476.
1997 Argument Sharing in Serial Verb
Constructions. Linguistic Inquiry
28.3,
461-497.
1997 Quotative Inversion. Natural
Language and Linguistic Theory 15.1, 1-41
(with P. Branigan).
1996 VP Internal Structure and Object
Shift in Icelandic. Linguistic Inquiry
27.3, 391-444 (with H.
Thráinsson).
1994 Economy of Derivation and the
Generalized Proper Binding
Condition. Linguistic Inquiry 25.1, 45-61.
Book Chapters
Forthcoming Dispelling the Cloud of Unknowing. In Laurence Horn and Kenneth
Turner (eds.), An Atlas of Meaning,
Papers on Pragmatics, Semantics and Truth (with Paul Postal). (http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002269)
Forthcoming Merge(X,Y) = {X,Y}. In Leah Bauke, Andreas Blümel, and
Erich Groat (eds.), Labels and Roots.
De Gruyter Mouton. (http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002186)
Forthcoming The Linker in the Khoisan Languages. Proceedings of the 45th Annual
Conference on African Linguistics. (http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002191)
2016 The Plural Prefix in Kx’a, ǃUi and Taa. In Sheena
Shah and Matthias Brenzinger (eds.), Khoisan
Languages and Lingusitics, Proceedings of the 5th International
Symposium, pgs. 27 - 51. Rüdiger
Köppe Verlag (with Henry Honken)
(http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002416)
2015 Relative Clause
Deletion. In Ángel
J. Gallego and Dennis Ott (eds.). 2015. 50 Years Later: Reflections on
Chomsky’s Aspects. Vol. 77 of MIT
Working Papers in Linguistics. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL. (http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002094)
Syntactic
Theory. Blackwell.
1997 Argument Projection, Thematic
Configuration, and Case Theory. In
Anna-Maria Di Sciullo
(ed.) Projections and Interface
Conditions,
130-154. Oxford University Press, Oxford
(with Jeff Gruber).
Manuscripts
2017 A Grammatical Sketch of Kuasi
(with Andy Chebanne)
2017 A Sasi Dictionary (with Andy
Chebanne)
2017 Incomplete Comparatives as
Ellipsis
(https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003542)
2017 On the Implicit Argument in the
Short Passive
(https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003492)
2017 A Smuggling Approach to the
Dative Alternation
(https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003370)
2017 The Distribution of Negated
Quantifier Phrases in English
(https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003348)
2016 *NEG NEG
(http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003159)
2016 A Scope Freezing Effect with
Negated Quantifiers
(http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003147)
2016 Two Ways of Negating Quantifiers
(with Paul Postal)
2016 Click Pronouns in N|uu (http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002309)
2015 Quantifier Domain Restriction as
Ellipsis
(http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002616)
2015 Double Modals beyond the South: would might
(https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002678)
2015 Adjunct Deletion
(http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002540)
2013 On Time
2006 A Note on Derivational
Morphology
1988 Conjunction Adverbs
Other Publications
2016 N!aq
(Sasi) Spelling Primer (with Zach Wellstood, designer).
(https://sites.google.com/site/sasispellingprimer/primer)
2014 Why
Formalize? Faculty of Language Blog (run by Norbert Hornstein)
2014 Obituary
for Jeffrey S. Gruber. Linguist List
2012 Obituary
for Henry Honken, Linguist List
(https://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-3405.html)
2010 Forward
for Paul Postal’s “Edge-Based Clausal Syntax” (MIT Press)
2009 Imposters:
An Online Survey of Grammaticality Judgments. In Patricia Irwin and Violeta
Vázquez Rojas Maldonado (eds), NYU
Working Papers in Linguistics 2 (with Stephanie N. Guitard and Jim Wood).
2007 Home
Sweet Home. In Lisa Levinson and Oana
Savescu-Ciucivara (eds.), NYU Working Papers in Linguistics 1. (http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/001967)
2001 Eliminating
Labels. MIT Occasional Papers in
Linguistics 20.
2001 Multiple Verb Movement in ǂHoan. In Arthur Bell and Paul Washburn
(eds.),
2001 ǂHoan and the Typology of Click
Accompaniments in Khoisan. In Arthur Bell and Paul Washburn (eds.), Khoisan Linguistics. Cornell Working Papers in Linguistics 18
(with Arthur Bell).
2001 The
Internal Structure of the Verb Phrase in Ju|’hoan and ǂHoan. In Arthur Bell and Paul Washburn
(eds.), Khoisan Linguistics. Cornell Working Papers in Linguistics 18.
2001 Review
of The Syntax of Nonfinite
Complementation by Zeljko Boskovic,
Lingua 110, 127-133.
2001 Review
of Saramaccan: Predication and creole
genesis by Tonjes Veenstra, Journal
of Pidgin and Creole Languages 16, 182-188.
1998 Plurality
in ǂHoan. Khoisan
Forum, Working Paper 9. University of Cologne, Germany.
1998 A Note on Extraction from
Conditionals. Cornell Working Papers in
Linguistics
16, 66-75. (http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/001688)
1995
Toward
a Theory of Optimal Derivations. MIT
Working Papers in
Linguistics 27, 65-103.
1994 Topics in Ewe Syntax. Distributed
by MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
1994 The Factive Construction in Kwa.
Travaux de recherche sur le
créole haïtien 23, 31-65. Université du Québec à Montréal.
1993 Object Shift in Double Object
Constructions and the Theory of
Case. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 19,
131-174 (with H. Thráinsson).
1993 Verb Movement and the Quotative
Construction in English. MIT
Working Papers in Linguistics 18, 1-13 (with P. Branigan).
1992 Case in Ewe and Yoruba. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 17, 53-70.
1992
Review
of Claire Lefebvre (ed.), Serial Verbs:
Grammatical, Comparative and
Cognitive
Approaches.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1991. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 13, 98-103.
1991 Why and How Come. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 15,
31-45.
(http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/001689)
Invited Talks
2017, Feb. The Distribution of Negated Quantifier Phrases in English.
University of Connecticut.
2015, July. Lectures on
Deletion. Brugmann Fellow, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. (https://igra.philol.uni-leipzig.de/en/visiting-scholars/brugmann-fellow/)
2015, May Lectures on
Negation. Linguistics Spring School in the Indian Mountains (LISSIM).
2015, Feb. Ewe and the
Typology of Negative Polarity Items. Jerusalem Workshop on Syntax and
Semantics: Negation and Polarity. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (joint
work with Paul Postal and Elvis Yevudey).
2014, April The Linker in Khoisan Languages. Plenary
speaker, 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. The
University of Kansas.
2013, Oct. Horn Clauses and the Analysis of Negative
Polarity Items. Rutgers University.
2013, March Horn Clauses. SUNY Stony Brook.
2012, Nov. Imposters: Implications for the Theory of
Anaphora. Harvard, Cambridge.
2012, July Putting Humpty Together Again: An
Approach to Khoesan Linguistic Relationships. Keynote speaker, 2nd International
Conference of the Department of African Languages and Literature, University of
Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana.
2011, Dec. A Formalization of Minimalist Syntax
Keynote speaker, 5th
International Conference on Formal Linguistics
Guangdong University of
Foreign Studies , Guangzhou, P.R. China
(http://clal.gdufs.edu.cn/fl5/enfl5/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=43)
2011, Dec. Imposters a Study of Pronominal Agreement
Distinguished Linguist Talk Series
Guangdong University of Foreign
Studies, Guangzhou, P.R. China
(http://clal.gdufs.edu.cn/fl5/enfl5/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=74)
2011, Dec. Syntactic Structures of the World’s
Languages
Guangdong University of Foreign
Studies , Guangzhou, P.R. China
2010, Feb. Syntactic Structures of the World’s
Languages. CUNY Graduate Center (with Dennis Shasha).
2009, May. Commentator. Conference on Recursion,
Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
2009, March. Post-Verbal Verb Focus in Two West African
Languages. Interfaces
syntaxe-sémantique-pragmatique. Leysin, Switzerland, March 24.
2009, March. A Database of the Syntactic Structures of the
World’s Languages. Interfaces syntaxe-sémantique-pragmatique. Leysin,
Switzerland, March 23.
2009, March. Panel Member: A Career in Linguistic Fieldwork, Fieldwork in a Linguistics Career. CUNY
Graduate Center, March 19.
2008, Oct. Imposters. Department of Linguistics,
Legon University, Ghana.
2008, Sept. Mini-course on the Minimalist Theory of
Syntax. Department of Linguistics, Legon University, Ghana. (three lectures)
2008, June Mini-course
on Imposters. Departamento de Lingüística, Português e Línguas Clássicas,
Universidade de Brasília, Brasil. (five lectures)
2008, June An AAE Camouflage Construction. Departamento de Lingüística, Português e
Línguas Clássicas, Universidade de Brasília, Brasil.
2007, April Camouflage:
Its Scope and Limits. Department of Linguistics, UCLA.
2007, March The
Resumptive-With Construction in AAE. Department of Linguistics,
Rutgers
2007, Feb. An AAE
Camouflage Construction. Department of Linguistics,
University of
Maryland.
2006, Dec. An AAE
Camouflage Construction. Department of Linguistics,
University of Michigan.
2006, Sept. Home-Sweet-Home.
Yale University, New Haven.
2006, May. Parametric Variation in Linker Constructions in Khoisan:
A case study on how research into endangered languages can inform syntactic theory. Department of Linguistics, University of Delaware.
A case study on how research into endangered languages can inform syntactic theory. Department of Linguistics, University of Delaware.
2006, March Notes on *Lk <gap> in Non-Central Khoisan. Presented at
Tales of the
Missing Link
Conference, NYU.
2005,
Nov. Linker Theory. Department of
Linguistics, Stony Brook University.
2005, Jan. Le “linker” dans les langues Khoisan. Grammaire des Formes
Faibles,
Journée
sur les prépositions, Université Paris 7, January 22.
2004, Nov. L’inversion de citation en anglais et en français, Université
Paris 7,
November
8.
2004, Oct. The Passive in English. Journée
d'étude sur le temps et l'aspect,
Université de Paris 8, October 8.
Université de Paris 8, October 8.
2003,
Oct. A Smuggling Approach to Raising in English.
Workshop on Antisymmetry and Remnant
Movement, Oct. 31 to Nov. 2.
2003, Jan. The Linker in Ju|’hoansi and ǂHoan. The International Symposium on Khoisan Languages and
Linguistics, Germany (paper read by Amanda Miller-Ockhuizen)
2002, Dec. Is Human Language Perfect? Ninety-Ninth Annual Meeting of the
American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division. Philadelphia, PA.
2002, Oct. The Agreement Parameter. Workshop on Triggers, Tilburg, The
Netherlands.
2002, Sept. Smuggling in Quotative Inversion and Passive. Workshop on the
Displacement Property of Human Language, Tromsoe, Norway.
2002, Sept. Some General Properties of Movement.
Workshop on the Displacement Property
of Human Language, Tromsoe, Norway.
2002, May Inversion in English and Ju|’hoansi.
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft,
Berlin. (three lectures).
2002, April Passive as Inversion. MIT.
2001, Dec. Remnant Movement in Quotative Inversion.
CUNY Graduate Center.
2001, July Movement without Phrase Structure. Tools
in Linguistic Theory,
Utrecht, Holland.
1999, Oct. Eliminating Labels. The First
International Symposium on Linguistics, Lyon
Institute for Cognitive Science, France.
1998, June Economy Conditions in Syntax. LOT Summer
School, Utrecht, Holland.
(5 days, 10 hours total)
1998, June Topics in Minimalism. Instituto
Universitario Ortega y Gasset, Madrid,
Spain. (three weeks, 30
hours total)
1998, Jan. Pluractional Verbs in ǂHoan. GLOW Workshop on Verb Typology in
Asian and African
Languages. Hyderabad, India.
1997, Nov. The Extraction of Adjuncts in ǂHoan and The Theory of VP Internal
Structure. Dept. of
Linguistics, Harvard.
1997, Oct. Derivational vs. Representational
Approaches to Grammar. Dept. of
Linguistics, NYU.
1997, Aug. Local Economy. Numazu, Japan. (8 lectures)
1997, April Comparing Setswana and ǂHoan. Department of African Languages
and Literature,
University of Botswana.
1997, Mar. Issues in the Analysis of the MLC. MLC
Workshop. University of
Potsdam, Germany.
1997, Mar. Quotative Inversion in English: A
Minimalist Analysis
Universityof the
Witwatersrand, South Africa
1997, Mar. Predicate Relativization in ǂHoan, University of the Witwatersrand, South
Africa
1995, Nov. Economy Considerations in the Analysis of
Quotative Inversion.
University of
Connecticut.
1995, June The Structure of Serial Verb
Constructions. Workshop on Object
Positions
in Benue-Kwa, Leiden,
Holland.
1995, Feb. Quotative Inversion in English. NYU.
1994, April Object Shift in Double Object
Constructions in Icelandic.
Jersey Syntax Circle,
Princeton.
1994, Feb. Some Linguistic Features of West African
Languages. Black
History Month, Ithaca
College.
1990 The Distribution of yi in Kpele-Gbe. Université Nationale
du
Benin, Cotonou,
Benin.
1990 The Third Person Singular
Subject Pronoun in Kpele-Gbe.
University of Ghana,
Legon, Ghana.
Other Talks
2015, Jan. On
the Typology of Nominal NPIs (joint work with Paul Postal and Elvis Yevudey).
NYU Brown Bag.
2014, Nov. An AAE Camouflage Construction. League of
Linguistics Students, NYU (11/10/2014)
2012-2014 The Khoesan Languages of Botswana. Talk
for a general audience presented on 3/7/2012 (Associated Colleges of the
Midwest Study Program at the University of Botswana), 4/6/2012 (American
Fulbright scholars in Gaborone), 5/17/2012 (Peace Corps, Kanye, Botswana),
9/14/2012 and 9/23/2016 (Department of Linguistics, NYU), 3/25/2013 and
11/18/2013 (League of Linguistics Students, NYU), 4/2/2014 (a lecture in the
class Endangered Languages, NYU)
2009, Sept. A Formalization of Minimalist Syntax. MIT
Syntax-Semantics Reading Group.
2009, April. Post-Verbal Focus in Shupamem. Annual
Conference on African Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign,
April 9-11 (with Abdoulaye Laziz Nchare).
2006, Dec. Stylistic Inversion in French as Clausal
Pied-Piping. MLA Annual Convention,
Philadelphia.
2005, Oct. Some Notes on Parameters. Dialogues on
Optionality. NWAVE 34, NYU.
2003, Aug. A Fresh Look at Habitual Be in AAVE.
Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics conference
in Honolulu (paper read by Arthur Bell).
1998,
Aug. A Syntactic Comparison of
Ju|'hoan and ǂHoan.
5th LASU Conference,
University of Namibia.
1994,
May The Factive Construction in Kwa.
Leiden, Holland.
1993,
April Extraction and Ditransitive
Verbs in Ewe. 6th Niger-Congo Syntax
and Semantics Workshop,
Boston University, African Studies Center.
1992,
March The Factive Construction in Ewe.
The 23rd Annual Conference on
African Linguistics,
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
1992,
Jan. Case in Ewe and Yoruba. Kwa
Comparative Syntax Workshop,
MIT, Cambridge, MA.
1991,
Sept. The Distribution of yi in Kpele-Gbe. 21st Colloquium on
African
Languages and
Linguistics. Leiden, Holland.
Cornell Departmental Talks
2002: Is Human Language Perfect? (Dec., Department
of Philosophy)
2002: Passive as Inversion (April), The Reflexive
Passive in Ju|’hoansi (Sept.)
2001: Quotative Inversion Reconsidered (Oct.),
Multiple Verb Movement in ǂHoan
(Feb.)
2000: Click Accompaniments in ǂHoan (Oct.)
1998: Eliminating Labels and Projections (Dec.),
The Extraction of Adjuncts in ǂHoan
(Oct.)
1997: Pluractional Verbs in ǂHoan (Dec.)
1995: Pied-Piping in Relative Clauses in Ifè (Oct.)
1994: Quotative Inversion in English (Dec.),
Unaccusativity
and Serial Verb Constructions (Apr)
Conferences and Schools
African Linguistics School (July 18 – July 29, 2016)
in Yamoussoukro, Cote-d’Ivoire (teacher)
African Linguistics School (July 15 – July 26, 2013)
in Ibadan, Nigeria (organizer, teacher)
African Linguistic School (July 27 – August 7, 2009)
in Accra, Ghana (organizer, teacher)
African Linguistics School (July 17 – July 20, 2011)
in Porto Novo, Benin (organizer, teacher)
A Workshop to Investigate the Feasibility of an
Internet Database of the
Syntactic Structures of the World’s Languages
(November 9, 10, 2007).
Tales of the
Missing Link (March 3, 2006)
(Co-organised
with Stony Brook and CUNY).
Cornell
Symposium on Language Universals (May 1,2, 2004),
A symposium to
investigate the nature of language universals from
Databases
Syntactic
Structures of the World’s Languages (SSWL)
Creator (with
Richard Kayne and Dennis Shasha),
Project
coordinator until Sept. 2011, consultant from Sept. 2011.
Editorial Activities
Associate Editor
for Linguistic Inquiry (Winter 1994 –
Fall 2002).
Organizations:
National Science Foundation (reviewer of grant applications), Fulbright
(Institute
of
International Education) 1999-2001 (reviewer of grant applications for Africa),
2016 (reviewer of linguistics grant applications), ELDP (Endangered Languages
Documentation Program), SSHRC
Publishers: MIT
Press, Harcourt Brace (the grammar chapters of the Harbrace Handbook),
Syncom
(The Syntax Companion), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Blackwell, Mouton
de
Gruyter and Oxford University Press.
Journals: Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language Semantics, Lingua, The Linguistic Review,
Journal of African Languages and
Linguistics, Studies in African Linguistics, Journal of
Pidgin and Creole Languages, Natural
Language and Linguistic Theory, Trends in
Cognitive
Sciences, Syntax, Glossa.
Conferences:
North Eastern Linguistic Society (NELS), WCCFL, ESCOL, Penn Linguistics
Colloquium,
GLOW, Asian GLOW, Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)
Courses Taught (NYU)
V61.9058 Introduction
to African Languages (Spring 2011) (undergrads)
V61.0056 Introduction
to English Grammar (Summer 2009) (undergrads)
V61.9023 African American English I (Fall
2008, at NYU-in-Ghana) (undergrads and grads)
UA13 Grammatical
Analysis (Fall 2007, 2009, 2013, Spring 2017) (undergrads)
UA16 Grammatical
Analysis II (Fall 2012, 2014)
UA44/GA44 Field Methods (Fall 2005[Kabiye], Spring
2007[Chuukese], Spring
Spring 2008[Shupamem],
Spring 2009[Medumba], Spring 2010[Masalit], Fall 2010[Masalit], Spring
2011[Okri/Cherepong], Spring 2013[Songhay], Fall 2013[Sherpa], Spring
2015[Danyi Ewe], Fall 2016[Shughni])
V61.0050 Endangered Languages (undergrads)
(Spring 2007)
GA1310 Syntax I (grads) (Fall 2006, 2012,
2014)
V61.0027 Grammatical Diversity (undergrads) (Fall
2006, Spring 2010)
GA2310 Syntactic Theory and Analysis (Syntax
II, grads) (Spring 2006, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2017)
V61.0002 Introduction to Linguistics (undergrads)
(Spring 2006)
GA3320 Seminars (grads): Lexical Categories
(Fall 2005, with Richard Kayne), Masks, Self, Light Nouns (Fall 2007),
Imposters and Anaphora (Fall 2009), Seminar on Person (Fall 2010), Seminar on
Negation (Spring 2013), Formalizing Minimalist Syntax (Spring 2014), Modality
(Spring 2015, with Stephanie Harves), Seminar on Negation (Fall 2016)
Courses Taught (University of Botswana)
ALL 231 The Perception and Transcription of
African Languages (Fall 2011)
ALL 333 Research Methods (Fall 2011)
ALL 423 The Bantu and Khoesan Languages of
Southern African (co-taught with Prof. Herman Batibo)
Courses Taught (Cornell)
Ling 100 Language: Myth and Reality (First-Year
Writing Seminar) (Fall 2001)
(also taught as Eng 131,
summer 2000)
Ling 101 Theory and Practice of Linguistics
(undergrads)
(Spring 1998, Summer and Spring 1996,
Fall 2002)
Ling 203 Introduction to Syntax and Semantics
(undergrads) (Fall 1997)
Ling 235 Introduction to African Languages and
Linguistics (undergrads) (Fall 1995)
Ling 242 Diversity in American English
(undergrads) (Summer 1999, Spring 2000)
Ling 300 Field Methods (grads and undergrads)
(Spring 2000[Wolof], 2002[Lubukusu],
2003[Khoekhoe])
Ling 303 Syntax I (grads and advanced
undergrads) (Fall 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002)
Ling 304 Syntax II (grads and advanced
undergrads) (Spring 1995, 1996, 2003, 2004)
Ling 305 Foundations of Linguistics (grads and
undergrads) (Fall 2003)
Ling 310 Morphology II (graduates and advanced undergrads) (Spring
1994)
Ling 311 The Structure of English
(undergraduates) (Spring 1999)
Ling 402 Typology (grads and undergrads) (Fall
1988)
Ling 600 Field Methods (grads and undergrads)
(Spring 1995[Igbo])
Ling 616 Syntax III (grads) (Fall 1997, Fall
1994, Fall 1993)
Ling 700
(seminars): The Syntax of Khoisan
Languages (Spring 1998, Fall 1999)
(see: http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/ling700/home.htm),
The Theory of Optimal Derivations (Fall 1995), Serial Verb Constructions and
Complex Predicates (Fall 1994, Fall 1993), The Internal Structure of the VP
(Spring 1994), Movement, Phrase Structure and Multiple Spell-Out (Spring 2002),
Word Order and Agreement in Bantu Languages (Spring 2003), Remnant Movement and
Parameters (Spring 2004)
The Minimalist
Program, LSA Institute (grads and undergrads) (Summer 1997, June 23-July 2)
Graduate Student Dissertation Committee Chair
Mathes,
Tim (2014, NYU) Consonant-Tone
Interaction in the Khoisan Language Tsua
Violeta Vazquez
Rojas (2012,NYU) The Syntax and Semantics
of Purépecha Noun
Phrases and
the Mass-Count Distinction
Laziz Nchare
(Chair, 2011, NYU) The Grammar of
Shupamem
Wang, Arthur
Chyan-an (2010, NYU) The Microparametric
Syntax of Resultatives in
Chinese Languages
Aggrey
Wasike (2006, NYU) The Left Periphery,
Wh-in-situ and A-bar movement in
Lubukusu and Other
Bantu Languages
Estevam, Adriana (2005, mémoire de
maîtrise, Paris 7) Les constructions
sérielles en tariana et
l'opération Accorder
Arthur Bell
(2004, Cornell) Bipartite Negation with
Final Neg
Gabanamotse, Budzani (2003, MA, Cornell) Serial Verbs in Naro
Yoshi Dobashi
(2003, Cornell) Phonological Phrasing and
Syntactic Derivation
Rachel Hastings
(Co-chair, 2003, Cornell) The Syntax and
Semantics of Relativization and
Quantification: The Case of Quechua
Kunio Nishiyama
(Co-chair, 1998, Cornell) The
Morphosyntax and Morphophonology of
Japanese Predicates
Graduate Student Qualifying Paper
Committee Chair
Isaac Bleaman
(2015), Tim Leffel (2011), Tim Mathes (2010), Patricia Irwin (2008), Violeta
(2006),
En-Hsing Liu (2006)
Undergraduate
Honors Chair
Wellstood,
Zach (2015, NYU) Spanish Imposters
Dudley,
Rachel (2011, NYU) Filling in the Gaps
(on the syntax of gapping in English)
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