Syntax  



 

SYNTAX



Linguistics Faculty

Peter Culicover, Professor and Chair, Linguistics; Director, Center for Cognitive Science
(Appointed 1987) Chair of Department 1998-Present, B.A., (Mathematics), City College of New York, 1966 Ph.D., (Linguistics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology,1971
Areas of specialization: Syntactic theory, English grammar, language learnability.

David R Dowty, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics

(Appointed 1972; Chair of the Department of Linguistics, 1979-85) B.A., (Music), Austin College, 1968 Ph.D., (Linguistics), University of Texas at Austin, 1972
Areas of specialization: Syntactic and semantic theory; formal semantics; tense and aspect; lexical semantics.

Javier Jesús Gutiérrez Rexach, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portugese and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Linguistics,.

(Appointed 1997) Ph.D. UCLA, 1997.
Areas of specialization: negative polarity licensing and the syntactic of relative clauses in Spanish. Semantics, generalized quantifiers and event semantics.

Robert Levine, Associate Professor of Linguistics

(Appointed 1988) Interim Chair 1997-Present, B.A., Columbia College of Columbia University, 1968 Ph.D., (Linguistics), Columbia University, 1977
Areas of specialization: Formal syntax, syntax/semantics mapping.
Detmar Meurers, Associate Professor of Linguistics
Appointed 2000. Ph.D., (Computational Linguistics), Universität Tübingen, Germany, 1999. M.A., (Linguistics, Computer Science, Psychology), Universität Tübingen, Germany, 1994.

Areas of specialization: Computational linguistics; syntax; Germanic linguistics.

Carl J. Pollard, Professor of Linguistics

(Appointed 1990) B.S., (Mathematics), Purdue University, 1970 M.S., (Mathematics), Brown University, 1973 M.A., (East Asian Languages & Cultures), Indiana University, 1978 Ph.D.. (Linguistics), Stanford University, 1984
Areas of specialization: Syntax; semantics; computational linguistics; mathematical formulations of linguistic theory; Chinese linguistics.
 

Craige Roberts, Associate Professor of Linguistics

(Appointed 1988) A.B., (Linguistics), Indiana University, 1979 Ph.D., (Linguistics), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1987
Areas of specialization: Semantics; the syntax-semantics interface; formal theories of discourse.



Graduate Courses in Syntax

602.01Syntactic Theory I
602.02Syntactic Theory II
680Formal Foundations of Linguistics
681Algebraic Linguistics
820Seminar in Syntax

(see also courses in Cognitive Science.)


Synners

Synners is a discussion/reading group at Ohio State devoted to the study of syntax. We are interested in arranging for presentations by anyone who has something that might bear on syntax and syntactic theory, including things about syntactic theory per se, analyses of particular phenomena in particular languages, relationships between syntax and something else, like comprehension, prosody, meaning, phonology, production, computation, change, etc. If you are interested in giving a presentation in Synners, or if you would like to have Synners focus on a particular issue or piece of literature, please get in touch with Peter Culicover or Bob Levine.
Click here for the current schedule for Synners.  It is updated periodically.

Faculty with Related Interests in Other Departments

Charles J. Quinn, Jr., Associate Professor of East Asian Langs. & Lits.

Anelya Rugaleva Associate Professor of Slavic & East European Langs. & Lits.

Javier Gutierrez-Rexach , Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Scott Schwenter, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Mineharu Nakayama, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

Special Research Activities 

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