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1957 B.A. Columbia College, New York, New York Majors: Anthropology and Philosophy 1963 Ph.D. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Department : Anthropology

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Research Interests:

Grammatical Theory and English Grammar, Grammatical Theory and French Grammar, Relationally oriented grammatical theories, Foundations of linguistics.

Fellowships/Honors:

Recipient (with Mark Baltin) as of August 1, 1995 and Principal Investigator of two year NSF Grant (SBR-9409340) entitled Extraction from Selective Islands.

Selected Works:

Selected Publications


(1980) Arc Pair Grammar, (with D. E. Johnson), Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

(1984) The Vastness of Natural Languages, (with D. T. Langendoen) Basil Blackwell, Oxford, England.

(1989) Masked Inversion in French, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

(1990) "French Indirect Object Demotion" in P. M. Postal and B. Joseph (eds.) Studies in Relational Grammar 3, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

(1991) "Realism vs. Conceptualism in Linguistics" (with J. J. Katz), Linguistics and Philosophy 14, 515-554.

(1992) "Un passif sans morphologie sp-cifique" in L. Tasmowski and A. Zribi-Hertz (eds.), Hommages à Nicolas Ruwet, Comunication and Cogniton, Ghent, Belgium.

(1993) "Remarks on Weak Crossover Effects", Linguistic Inquiry 24, 539-556.

(1993) "Parasitic Gaps and the Across-the-Board Phenomenon", Linguistic Inquiry 24, 735-754.

(1994) "Parasitic and Pseudo-Parasitic Gaps", Linguistic Inquiry 25, 63-117.

(1994) "Contrasting Extraction Types", Journal of Linguistics 30, 159-186.

(1996) (with M. Baltin) "More on the Inadequacy of Reanalysis Hypotheses" Linguistic Inquiry 27, 127-145.

(1996) "A Glance at French Pseudopassives", in C. Burgess, K. Dziwirek and D. B. Gerdts (eds.), Grammatical Relations, Theoretical Approaches to Empirical Questions, CSLI, Cambridge University Press, New York.

(In Press) Three Investigations of Extraction, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

(In Press) "Islands", in M. Baltin and C. Collins (eds.), The Handbook of Syntactic Theory, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, England.


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