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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, and I've been here ever since. Besides the Linguistics Department, I'm also part of the Cognitive Science program and the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching program.I work on syntax, morphology and lexical semantics, with a special interest in argument structure cross-linguistically. Together with Maria and Santos Leyva, I am investigating the grammar of the Hiaki (Yaqui) language, a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Mexico and Arizona. I have supervised over 20 doctoral students, and am hugely proud of every one. See my web page for a fuller description of my research and teaching, for a relatively complete catalog of my publications (most downloadable) and for a complete list of supervisees. Show Less
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Courses
- SNWLStructures of Non-Western Languages
- ASTAdvanced Syntactic Theory
- LSLexical Semantics
- MMorphology
- SNWLStructure of Non-Western Language
- LMPRLanguage Maintenance, Preservation and Revitalization
- LEDLinguistic Elicitation and Documentation
- FSTFoundations of Syntactic Theory
- MWSTMajor Works in Syntactic Theory
- TSMWThe Structure and Meaning of Words
- CIHWWYALIEWCan I Have a Word With You? A Linguistic Introduction to English Words
Grants
- Comparative Morphosemantics of Plurality
Co-Investigator (COI)
2020
$449.0K
Active - Documentation and Comparative Grammatical Analysis of Aspects of Five Iranian Languages
Co-Investigator (COI)
2019
$388.4K
Active - A Descriptive and Theoretical Analysis of Complex Predicates in Iranian Languages
Co-Investigator (COI)
2015
$287.4K
- Hiaki Grammar: Documentation and Analysis
Principal Investigator (PI)
2015
$260.2K
- Hiaki Grammar: Documentation, Analysis, and Teaching
Principal Investigator (PI)
2009
$144.2K
Books
- Morphological Metatheory
2015
- Pronouns, Presuppositions, and Hierarchies: The Work of Eloise Jelinek in Context
2014
- Verb First: The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages
2005
- Formal Approaches to Function: Papers in honor of Eloise Jelinek
2003
News
- UA Student's Project Captures Tucson's Linguistic Diversity
2017
- Noam Chomsky to Return to UA
2015
- The Chomsky-UA Connection
2012
- Instructors Honored for Outstanding Achievements in Teaching
2011
- President Shelton's State of the University Address
2009
- NSF Awards 3 Grants, 2 Fellowships to UA Linguists
2005
- New Web Site Promotes Depth of Language Research at UA
2004
Publications (62)
Recent
- Hiaki ‘echo vowels’ are motivated by phonotactics, but not the way we thought
2021
- Texts in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas: Uto-Aztecan: Hiaki ( Kuka
2021
- What would it take to tame the verbal hydra?
2020
- Inalienable posssession and the representation of self in the lexicon
2020
- A head-movement approach to Talmy's typology
2020
- A Head Movement Approach to Talmy rsquo;s Typology
2020
- Locality domains and morphophonological rules: Phases, heads, node-sprouting and suppletion in Korean honorification
2019
- Parallelism and specificity in Persian Non-Verbal Element ellipsis
2017
- Lexical category and the distribution of word-final vowels in Hiaki
2016
- Implementing orthography.
2016
- English denominal verbs, the Canonical Use Constraint and syntactic incorporation
2016
- Some PP modifers of N block relative readings in superlatives
2015
- A force-theoretic framework for event structure
2015
- In Support of the P sub HAVE /sub Analysis of the Double Object Construction
2015
- Coronado-era Place-names, I. Marcos de Niza in Sonora, and the Occurrence of Yaqui Names in his Relación
2015
- In support of the PHAVE analysis of the double object construction
2015
- Telicity is launching and atelicity is entrainment
2014
- Reply to commentaries,“On the identity of roots”
2014
- On the identity of roots
2014
- Inception and Cessation in Hiaki
2014
- External arguments and the Mirror Principle: On the independence of Voice and v
2013
- Manner of motion as a head movement parameter
2013
- Feature matching and case/number disscociation in Hiaki
2013
- Lexical vs. Functional: Complex Predicates in Italian
2013
- The syntax of argument structure: Evidence from Italian complex predicates
2012
- A morphosyntactic account of the 'Latinate' ban on dative shift in English
2012
- Phases and templates in Georgian agreement
2010
- The Biological Nature of Human Language
2010
- Hiaki pronominals and the typology of deficiency
2010
- Futurates, directors, and have-causatives.
2009
- Teleology and animacy in external arguments
2009
- Form and meaning in Hiaki (Yaqui) verbal reduplication.
2008
- Es el sufijo -ri un nominalizador pasivo en yaqui?
2008
- Special Issue on Perfectivity and Telicity
2008
- The syntax of hybrid verb/affix lexemes and clause fusion in Hiaki (Yaqui)
2008
- The bipartite structure of verbs cross-linguistically, or, Why Mary can't exhibit John her paintings
2008
- Introduction: Perfectivity, Telicity and the Nordic Languages
2007
- Causation, obligation, and argument structure: On the nature of little v
2007
- External arguments and the Mirror Principle: On the distinctness of Voice and v
2007
- Introduction: The In(ter)dependence of event structure, aspect and tense
2007
- Causation, obligation and argument structure: On the nature of little v
2007
- Special issue on Aspect and Aktionsart: Nordic Journal of Linguistics 30.2
2007
- Are there really two classes of instrumental denominal verbs in English?
2007
- Hybrid verb/affix lexemes in Hiaki.
2006
- On obligatory obligation: The composition of Italian causatives
2006
- What language says about the psychology of events
2006
- Applicative constructions and suppletive verbs in Hiaki
2006
- On the licensing of causatives of directed motion: Waltzing Matilda all over
2006
- Determinants of event structure in Persian complex predicates
2005
- Event-Path Homomorphism and the Accompanied-Motion Reading in Motion Causatives
2005
- Existential Impersonals
2005
- Wanting, Having, and Getting: A Note on Fodor and Lepore 1998
2004
- Why is it the CIA but not *the NASA? Acronyms, abbreviations and definite descriptions
2004
- Merge, Conflation and Head Movement: The First Sister Principle revisited
2004
- The composition of Italian causatives
2004
- Wanting, having and getting: A note on Fodor and Lepore 1998
2004
- WCO, ACD, and QR of DPs
2002
- Possession and the double object construction
2002
- Distributed morphology
1999
- Logophors, variable binding and the interpretation of have
1997
- Distinguishing the EPP and Nominative case
1997
- Nominally Complex Copular Structures
1994