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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.

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Courses
  • SNWL
    Structures of Non-Western Languages

  • AST
    Advanced Syntactic Theory

  • LS
    Lexical Semantics

  • M
    Morphology

  • SNWL
    Structure of Non-Western Language

  • LMPR
    Language Maintenance, Preservation and Revitalization

  • LED
    Linguistic Elicitation and Documentation

  • FST
    Foundations of Syntactic Theory

  • MWST
    Major Works in Syntactic Theory

  • TSMW
    The Structure and Meaning of Words

  • CIHWWYALIEW
    Can I Have a Word With You? A Linguistic Introduction to English Words

Grants
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    Comparative Morphosemantics of Plurality

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2020

    $449.0K
    Active
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    Documentation and Comparative Grammatical Analysis of Aspects of Five Iranian Languages

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2019

    $388.4K
    Active
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    A Descriptive and Theoretical Analysis of Complex Predicates in Iranian Languages

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2015

    $287.4K
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    Hiaki Grammar: Documentation and Analysis

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2015

    $260.2K
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    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

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