András Kertész (editor) - Current Approaches to Syntax: A Comparative Handbook

Andrs Kertsz, Edith Moravcsik, and Csilla Rkosi (Eds.)
Current Approaches to Syntax

Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics

Edited by

Andrej Malchukov and Edith Moravcsik

Volume 3

ISBN 978-3-11-053821-2
e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-054025-3
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ISSN 2364-4354

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018963679

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The editors

Jenny Audring

Cristiano Broccias

Philip Carr

Rui P. Chaves

Peter W. Culicover

Mary Dalrymple

Sam Featherston

Jamie Y. Findlay

Pius ten Hacken

Norbert Hornstein

Esa Itkonen

Ray Jackendoff

Andrs Kertsz

Stephan Kornmesser

Ritva Laury

Graldine Legendre

Peter Ludlow

Antonio Machicao y Priemer

J. Lachlan Mackenzie

Edith Moravcsik

Stefan Mller

Tsuyoshi Ono

Timothy Osborne

Csilla Rkosi

Mark Steedman

Jenny Audring is Assistant Professor at the University of Leiden. She specializes in morphology and has written on grammatical gender, linguistic complexity, Canonical Typology, and Construction Morphology. Together with Ray Jackendoff she is developing an integrated theory of lexical representations and relations in the Parallel Architecture. A monograph (Jackendoff & Audring The Texture of the Lexicon) is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

Cristiano Broccias is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Genoa, Italy. His research interests include synchronic and diachronic English syntax, cognitive theories of language and, more recently, figurative language. He has published a book on change constructions (The English Change Network, 2003) and various papers on cognitive approaches to grammar, resultative constructions, adverbs, as -constructions and metonymy.

Philip Carr graduated in 1981 with First Class Honours in Linguistics from Edinburgh University. He then completed a PhD in the philosophy of linguistics at the same university, under the supervision of Roger Lass. He taught linguistics in the English Department at The University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, from 1983 to 1999. He then became the Professor of Linguistics in the English Department of the University of Montpellier in France, from 1999 to 2017, where he is now Emeritus Professor. He has also taught linguistics at The University of Khartoum, The University of Texas at Austin, and The University of Canterbury at Christchurch, in New Zealand, where he was a Visiting Fellow. His first book, Linguistic Realities, on the philosophy of linguistics, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1990. He has since published books and articles on phonology, general linguistics and the philosophy of linguistics. He was joint editor of three volumes on phonology and the nature of phonological knowledge.

Rui P. Chaves is an Associate Professor at the Linguistics Department of the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. He specializes in lexicalist and construction-based models of grammar, experimental syntax, and computational modeling, with particular focus on the syntax-semantics interface, ellipsis, coordination, and long-distance dependencies.

Peter Culicover is Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics at The Ohio State University and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Linguistic Society of America. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT in 1971. His research has been concerned with explaining why grammars are the way they are. Culicover has worked in recent years on grammar and complexity, the theory of constructions (syntactic nuts), the history of the core constructions of English, and ellipsis. Recent major publications include Grammar and Complexity (Oxford, 2013) and Simpler Syntax, with Ray Jackendoff (Oxford, 2005).

Mary Dalrymple is Professor of Syntax at the University of Oxford. Her main interests are in syntax, semantics, and the interface between them. She completed her PhD in linguistics at Stanford University in 1990, and was subsequently a member of the research staff of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and a senior lecturer at Kings College London before coming to Oxford. Her most recent book is the Oxford Reference Guide to Lexical Functional Grammar, coauthored with John Lowe and Louise Mycock (2019, Oxford University Press). She is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of Academia Europaea.

Sam Featherston is originally from London and studied German and Social Anthropology before becoming a teacher. While working in school he became increasingly interested in the linguistic and psychological aspects of language acquisition, so that he completed a Masters degree in Applied Linguistics and PhD in Psycholinguistics at the University of Essex. He works at the boundary of syntax and sentence processing, using data gathering methods and analytical tools from psycholinguistics and applying them to grammar research. The result has been that he has developed an individual approach to modelling the restrictions of the grammar, which blends the abstract generalizations of the generative approach with an increased attention to and respect for the empirical basis of grammar building.

Jamie Y. Findlay is a DPhil candidate in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford. His current research centres on multiword expressions and their representation in the lexicon, and he is more broadly interested in syntax, semantics, and especially apparent mismatches in the mapping between them.

Pius ten Hacken is a professor of translation studies at Innsbruck University. He studied French and general linguistics in Utrecht and completed his PhD (English linguistics) and Habilitation (general linguistics) in Basel. He has worked for the machine translation project Eurotra and at universities in Basel (Computer Science, General Linguistics), Swansea (French, Translation Studies), and Innsbruck (Translation Studies with specializations in terminology and English). His current main research interests are terminology, word formation, lexicography, and the nature of language as an object of linguistic study. His monographs include Defining Morphology (Olms, 1994) and Chomskyan Linguistics and its Competitors (Equinox, 2007), and his most recent edited volumes are Word Formation and Transparency in Medical English (with Renta Panocov, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015) and The Semantics of Compounding (Cambridge University Press, 2016).