Julie Anne Legate

Julie Anne Legate is a linguist who works in the areas of syntax and morphology. She earned her B.A. from York University in 1995 and her M.A. from the University of Toronto (1997). She received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002, writing a dissertation on the Warlpiri language, under the supervision of Noam Chomsky and Sabine Iatridou.[1][2] She is a professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania,[3] and since 2015 has been the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.[4][5]


Key publications

Articles and chapters

JA Legate and CD Yang. 2002. Empirical re-assessment of stimulus poverty arguments. The Linguistic Review.

JA Legate. 2003. Some interface properties of the phase. Linguistic Inquiry.

JA Legate. 2006. Split absolutive. Ergativity.

JA Legate and C Yang. 2007. Morphosyntactic learning and the development of tense. Language Acquisition.

JA Legate. 2008. Morphological and abstract case. Linguistic Inquiry.[6]

JA Legate. 2012. Subjects in Acehnese and the Nature of the Passive. Language.

Books

JA Legate. 2014. Voice and v: Lessons from Acehnese (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs). MIT Press.[7][8]


References

  1. ↑ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/dm/theses/legate02.pdf
  2. ↑ Pylkkänen, Liina. 2008. Introducing Arguments, MIT Press, 2008 p. ix
  3. ↑ Rebeca Tenney 12/04/12 “Married faculty couples confront the 'two-body problem'” The Daily Pennsylvanian.http://www.thedp.com/article/2012/12/married-academic-couples-confront-the-two-body-problem
  4. ↑ NLLT Editoral Board https://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/journal/11049?detailsPage=editorialBoard
  5. ↑ Blake Cole. “Common Tongues Associate Professor of Linguistics Julie Legate examines language structures.” Omnia, Tuesday, August 26, 2014. https://omnia.sas.upenn.edu/story/common-tongues.
  6. ↑ Mark C. Baker 2015. Case. Cambridge University Press, p. 22
  7. ↑ Victoria Chen, 2016. “To See a World in a Grain of Sand: Review of Legate (2014)” Oceanic Linguistics 55: 1, 290-297.
  8. ↑ Jim Wood and Alec Marantz, (to appear). The interpretation of external arguments. In Roberta D’Alessandro, Irene Franco and Ángel Gallego (eds.), The Verbal Domain. Oxford University Press. p. 2.
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