Syntax and Morphology

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Syntax is the study of sentence structure, its relationship to meaning, and theoretical models that account for the ability of speakers to generate an infinite number of novel utterances. Morphology is the study of word structure and its relationship both to sentence structure and to meaning.

 

 

 

Personnel

Dustin Alfonso Chacón

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Predictive processing, syntactic processing, morphological processing, South Asian languages, case and agreement, filler-gap dependencies

Lukas Denk

Visiting Lecturer

Linguistic Typology
Morphology
Linguistic Complexity
Navajo and less-documented languages

Steven Foley

Visiting Assistant Professor

Incremental sentence comprehension, case and agreement, singular they, cataphora, person–case constraints, relative clauses, languages of the Caucasus

Timothy Gupton

Professor, Dept. of Romance Languages

Syntax, Second language acquisition, Romance languages

Keith Langston

University Professor, Department Head, Undergraduate Coordinator

Slavic prosody and the phonology/morphology interface; historical Slavic linguistics and accentology; and sociolinguistics, with a focus on questions of language and identity and language contact in the former Yugoslavia.

Vera Lee-Schoenfeld

Associate Professor of Linguistics

Syntax, Syntax-Phonology-Pragmatics interface, Language acquisition, Germanic languages

Mark Wenthe

Lecturer

Historical Indo-European linguistics, Syntax

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