Curriculum Vitae

Eric Potsdam

Linguistics Department
University of Florida
potsdam@ufl.edu
people.clas.ufl.edu/potsdam

Education

1996                Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz

1987                M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University

1986                B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and English, Tufts University

Research Interests

• syntactic theory, clause structure
• non-declarative clauses (imperatives, interrogatives, and exclamatives)
• raising and control phenomena
• clausal ellipsis, wh-question structures cross-linguistically
• Austronesian languages, particularly Malagasy, Polynesian

Academic Work Experience

8/24-present    Professor Emeritus. University of Florida

8/24-8/25        Adjunct Professor. University of Florida

8/13-8/24        Professor. University of Florida

8/17-8/21        Chair, Linguistics Department. University of Florida

8/06-7/13        Associate Professor. University of Florida

8/08-8/10        Linguistics Program Director. National Science Foundation

7/09-8/09        Instructor, LSA Linguistics Institute. University of California, Berkeley

8/00-7/06        Assistant Professor. University of Florida

9/07-12/07      Visiting Scholar. University of Massachusetts at Amherst

9/98-6/00        Lecturer with Ph.D. Yale University

6/98-8/98        Visiting Scholar. University of California, San Diego

8/97-5/98        Visiting Assistant Professor. University of Iowa

7/96-7/97        Lecturer in Linguistics. University of California, San Diego

9/95-12/95      Teaching Fellow. University of California, Santa Cruz

6/95-8/95        Summer Session Instructor. University of California, Santa Cruz

Grants

2021-2025       NSF research grant, Variation in Exceptive Structures, $221,000

2018                UF International Center Internationalizing the Curriculum Award, $6,000 (with Martina Martinović)

2018                UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere film series grant, $1,800

2018                UF Office of Research Conference Award, $3,000

2017                NSF conference grant, CoLang 2018: Institute for Collaborative Language Research, co-PI, $171,000

2014                University of Florida Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund grant, $5,585

2013                UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere Conference grant, $5,000

2008                University of Florida Internationalizing the Curriculum Award, $3,000

2007                UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere Conference grant, $4,000

2003-2004       NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates supplement, $6,000

2002-2006       NSF research grant, Variation in Control Structures, $95,000

2002                University of Florida Faculty Laptop Program

2001                University of Florida Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund grant

Teaching Recognition

2017                Tbilisi Summer School in Linguistics, co-taught “Generative Syntax and Formal Typology”

2009                LSA Summer Institute Instructor, co-taught “Syntactic Dependencies”

2006-2007       University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Award

Honors and Awards since 2006

2022                 Elected Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America

2016-2019       University of Florida Term Professorship

2015-2016       University of Florida International Center Global Fellow

2011-2014       University of Florida Research Foundation Professor

2011                 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Books

1998/2017       Syntactic Issues in the English Imperative, New York: Garland Publishing Inc. Reprinted by Routledge

Refereed Journal Publications

2024          Potsdam, Eric. The Malagasy phrasal comparative. Syntax 2024, 1-36.

2024          Paul, Ileana, and Eric Potsdam. Malagasy framing demonstratives and the syntax of doubling. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics 9, 1-37.

2022          Potsdam, Eric. What sluices in Malagasy sluicing? Oceanic Linguistics 61, 757-790.

2022          Potsdam, Eric. Malagasy extraposition: Evidence for PF movement. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 40, 195-237.

2015          Potsdam, Eric, and Daniel Edmiston. Imperatives. Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics, New York: Oxford University Press.

2014          Polinsky, Maria, and Eric Potsdam. Left edge topics in Russian and the processing of anaphoric dependencies, Journal of Linguistics 50, 627-669.

2013          Potsdam, Eric. CP-negation and the domain of Quantifier Raising, Linguistic Inquiry 44, 674-684.

2012          Potsdam, Eric, and Maria Polinsky. The syntax of the Tahitian Actor Emphatic construction, Oceanic Linguistics 51, 58-85.

2012          Potsdam, Eric, and Maria Polinsky. Backward raising, Syntax 15, 75-108.

2011          Potsdam, Eric, and Maria Polinsky. Against covert A-movement in Russian unaccusatives, Linguistic Inquiry 42, 345-355.

2009          Potsdam, Eric. Malagasy backward object control, Language 85, 754-784.

2009          Potsdam, Eric. Austronesian verb-initial languages and wh-question strategies, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 27, 737-771.

2008          Polinsky, Maria, and Eric Potsdam. The syntax and semantics of wanting in Indonesian, Lingua 118, 1617-1639.

2007          Potsdam, Eric. Malagasy sluicing and its consequences for the identity requirement on ellipsis, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 25, 577-613.

2007          Potsdam, Eric, and Maria Polinsky. Missing complement clause subjects in Malagasy, Oceanic Linguistics 46, 277-303.

2006          Polinsky, Maria, and Eric Potsdam. Expanding the scope of control and raising, Syntax 9, 171-192.

2006          Potsdam, Eric. More concealed pseudoclefts in Malagasy and the Clausal Typing Hypothesis, Lingua 116, 2154-2182.

2002          Polinsky, Maria, and Eric Potsdam. Backward control, Linguistic Inquiry 33, 245-282.

2001          Polinsky, Maria, and Eric Potsdam. Long-distance agreement and topic in Tsez, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 19, 583-646.

1997          Potsdam, Eric. NegP and subjunctive complements in English, Linguistic Inquiry 28, 533-541.

Refereed Proceedings and Book Chapters

to appear   The Javanese free exceptive and its implications for ellipsis constraints in Austronesian, in Proceedings of AFLA 30 (With Luané Lennox and Victoria Chen)

2024          Exceptive constructions in Japanese, in Issues in Japanese psycholinguistics from comparative perspectives, Vol. 2: Interaction between linguistic and nonlinguistic factors, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter (with Maria Polinsky and Hisao Kurokami)

2023          Malagasy framing demonstratives, Proceedings of AFLA 29 (with Ileana Paul)

2021          Deriving VOS from VSO in Tongan, in Polynesian syntax and its interfaces, Oxford University Press (with Maria Polinsky)

2021          Tongan VOS: Coordination plus ellipsis? Proceedings of AFLA 27 (with Maria Polinsky)

2019          Exceptives: An under-appreciated ellipsis construction, Proceedings of CLS 54

2018          Exceptives and ellipsis, Proceedings of the 48th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Amherst, Mass.: GLSA, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

2017          Control phenomena, in The Blackwell Companion to Syntax, 2nd edition. Blackwell Publishers (with Youssef A. Haddad)

2017          Linearization at PF: Evidence from Malagasy extraposition, Proceedings of the 47th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Amherst, Mass.: GLSA, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (with Daniel Edmiston)

2016          Extraposition in Malagasy, in Proceedings of the 22nd Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics (with Daniel Edmiston)

2015          Control into nominalized complements in Malagasy, in Proceedings of the 21st Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics (with Maria Polinsky)

2014          Topics at the left periphery in Russian, in Perspectives on linguistic structure and context: Studies in honor of Knud Lambrecht, Amsterdam: John Benjamins (with Maria Polinsky)

2013          Diagnosing covert A-movement, in Diagnostics in Syntax. Oxford University Press (with Maria Polinsky)

2013          Linearizing the control relation: A typology, in Principles of Linearization. Mouton de Gruyter Studies in Generative Grammar (with Youssef A. Haddad)

2012          A direct analysis of Malagasy phrasal comparatives, in Proceedings of the 18th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, http://westernlinguistics.ca/afla/proceedings/afla18/papers/potsdam.pdf

2012          Sluicing without wh-movement in Malagasy, in Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives. Oxford University Press (with Ileana Paul)

2011          Questions and word order in Polynesian, in Topics in Oceanic Morphosyntax. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (with Maria Polinsky)

2011          Expressing exclamatives in Malagasy, in Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and Typological Perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins

2010          VSO word order in Malagasy imperatives, in Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins

2008          How to sluice in the wh-in-situ language Malagasy, in CLS 40, Vol. I. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society (with Ileana Paul)

2007          Analysing Word Order in the English Imperative, in Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar: Studies Offered to Frits Beukema. Amsterdam: John Benjamins

2006          Backward object control in Malagasy: Against an empty category analysis, in The Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, Ma.: Cascadilla Proceedings Project

2006          The cleft structure of Malagasy wh-questions, in Clause Structure and Adjuncts in Austronesian Languages, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter

2005          Malagasy control and its theoretical implications, in The Proceedings of the 30th Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society (with Maria Polinsky)

2004          Wh-questions in Malagasy, in ZAS Working Papers in Linguistics 34: The Proceedings of the 11th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association

2003          Control in Malagasy, in Cornell Working Papers in Linguistics 19 (with Maria Polinsky)

2003          Evidence for semantic identity under ellipsis from Malagasy sluicing, in The Proceedings of the 33rd Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. Amherst, Mass.: GLSA, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

2002          Backward control: Evidence from Malagasy, in MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 44, Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy (with Maria Polinsky)

2001          Richard Returns: Copy raising and its implications, in CLS 37: The Main Session. Papers from the 37th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Vol 1. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society (with Jeffrey T. Runner)

2000          Backward control in Tsez, in The Proceedings of the Nineteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, Ma.: Cascadilla Press (with Maria Polinsky)

1999          Long-distance agreement in Tsez, in The Proceedings of the Eighteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, Ma.: Cascadilla Press (with Maria Polinsky)

1998          A Syntax for adverbs, in The Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Western Conference on Linguistics. Fresno, Ca.: Department of Linguistics, California State University

1997          English verbal morphology and VP ellipsis, in The Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. Amherst, Mass.: GLSA

1997          The parallel structure of English questions and imperatives,  in The Proceedings of the Fifteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Stanford: Stanford Linguistics Association

1995          Phrase structure of the English imperative, in Papers from the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club

1995          The long-distance anaphor in Fula, in Theoretical Approaches to African Linguistics. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press

1987          Electric charging in laminar pipe flow, in the Journal of PhysicoChemical Hydrodynamics, vol. 9, no. 3/4 (with I. N. Miaoulis and B. Abedian)

Edited Volumes

2016          Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics, Amsterdam: John Benjamins (with Youssef A. Haddad)

2015          Proceedings of the Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting 2, http://journals.fcla.edu/floridalinguisticspapers/issue/view/4123 (with Daniel Edmiston)

2014          Proceedings of the Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting 1, http://journals.fcla.edu/floridalinguisticspapers/issue/view/4022 (with Daniel Edmiston)

2011          Representing Language: Essays in Honor of Judith Aissen, Berkeley: University of California eScholarship Repository (with Rodrigo Gutierrez-Bravo and Line Mikkelsen)

2010          Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics, Amsterdam: John Benjamins (with Raphael Mercado, and Lisa Travis)

2009          Proceedings of AFLA 16 (with Sandy Chung, Daniel Finer, and Ileana Paul)
http://westernlinguistics.ca/afla/meetings/afla16/proceedings.htm

2009          Selected Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of African Linguistics, Somerville, Ma.: Cascadilla Proceedings Project (with Fiona McLaughlin and Matondo Masangu)

Other Publications

2018          Extraposition patterns in Malagasy. Heading in the right direction: Linguistics treats for Lisa Travis, McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 25:1

2017          A preliminary look at exceptives in Tahitian. Asking the right questions: Essays in honor of Sandra Chung(with Maria Polinsky)

2015          Information questions in Malagasy dialects: Official Malagasy and Antakarana. Western Papers in Linguistics/Cahier linguistiques de Western 1 (with Maria Polinsky)

2014          Fi in Gulf Pidgin Arabic, in Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 35 (with Mohammad Alanazi)

2012          Which questions in Malagasy, in UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics 17: Theories of Everything. In honor of Ed Keenan, 360-366.

2011          A direct analysis of Malagasy comparatives, in Tampa Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 2

2003          Author’s summary of Syntactic Issues in the English Imperative, GLOT 7, issue 1/2

Book Reviews

2004          book review of Thomas Ernst’s The Syntax of Adjuncts, Language 80, 594-597

2000          book notice of Bjørg Bækken’s Word Order Patterns in Early Modern English, Language 76, 222

2000          book notice of Artemis Alexiadou’s Adverb Placement: A Case Study in Antisymmetric Syntax, Language 76, 222-223

1998          book notice of Bas Aart’s English Syntax and Syntactic Argumentation, Language 74, 876-877

Invited Talks

2024          Clausal ellipsis and Austronesian voice systems, MayFest, University of Maryland, College Park

2024          Exceptives, ellipsis, and negation, LASC, University of California, Santa Cruz

2023          Voice mismatch under clausal ellipsis, McGill University

2023          Exceptives and ellipsis, CSU Fresno

2018          Exceptives and ellipsis, University of Florida

2018          Tongan VOS word order, at the Workshop on the Syntax of Polynesian Languages, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (with Maria Polinsky)

2018          Exceptives, clausal ellipsis, and island (in)sensitivity, at the 25th Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association

2016          Prosodically-driven word order alternations in Malagasy, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

2015          Analyses of extraposition: The view from Madagascar, Syntax Circle, University of California, Berkeley

2015          A prosodic account of obligatory extraposition in Malagasy, University of California, Berkeley

2013          The landscape of phrasal comparison, with views from Austronesia, at the 20th Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association

2013          The processing of Russian numerical constructions, Syntax Reading Group, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

2013          The Malagasy phrasal comparative, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

2011          A direct analysis of Malagasy comparatives, Tampa Annual Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Phonology 2, University of South Florida

2010          Learning to be backward, Mayfest, University of Maryland, College Park

2010          Exploring the syntax of Malagasy comparatives, University of Chicago

2010          A degree construction approach to the Malagasy exclamative, University of Washington

2009          Malagasy exclamatives (!), University of Delaware

2009          Agreement in subject-to-subject raising constructions, Georgetown University

2008          Malagasy backward control and the typology of control relations, University of California, San Diego

2007          Malagasy backward control within a typology of control relations, Harvard University

2007          Backward object control in Malagasy and selective copy pronunciation, Syntax Reading Group, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

2007          Malagasy backward control within a typology of control relations, University of Rochester

2007          Analyzing backward object control in Malagasy, McGill University

2006          Austronesian verb-initial languages and wh-question strategies, at the Workshop on Comparative Austronesian Syntax, UCSD

2005          Backward raising: Theoretical and empirical options, Workshop on New Horizons in the Grammar of Raising and Control, at the 2005 LSA Linguistics Institute, Cambridge, Ma. (with Maria Polinsky)

2005          The Clausal Typing Hypothesis and Malagasy wh-questions, University of Hawaii, Manoa

2005          The Clausal Typing Hypothesis and Malagasy wh-questions, University of California, San Diego

2005          Some remarks on Austronesian clause structure: Implications from Malagasy control complements, at AustroFest Workshop on Austronesian Syntax, Stanford University (with Maria Polinsky)

2004          Patterns of control in Malagasy and their theoretical implications, University of Maryland, College Park

2001          Analysing word order in the English imperative, at Imperatives and Functional Projections: A Workshop for Frits Beukema at the University of Leiden

2000          The clausal status of English imperatives, University of California, Berkeley

2000          Long-distance agreement and topic in Tsez, University of Florida

2000          Long-distance agreement and topic in Tsez, Northwestern University

1999          A syntax for English adverbs, Carleton College

1998          Non-local agreement in Tsez, Northwestern University

1997          Towards a syntax for adverbs, Swarthmore College

Conference Presentations/Posters

2023          The Javanese free exceptive and its implications for ellipsis constraints in Austronesian, Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 30, Lund University, Lund Sweden (with Luané Lennox and Victoria Chen)

2022          Malagasy framing demonstratives, TripleAFLA 2022 (with Ileana Paul)

2022          How to frame your demonstratives: Lessons from Malagasy, MOTH 2022 (with Ileana Paul)

2020          Tongan VOS: Coordination plus ellipsis? Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 27, National University of Singapore (with Maria Polinsky)

2019          Clausal and phrasal exceptives, Generative Linguistics in the Old World 42, University of Oslo, Norway (with Maria Polinsky) (poster presentation) 

2018          Exceptives: An under-appreciated ellipsis construction, 54th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society

2017          Exceptives and ellipsis, 48th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland (poster presentation)

2017          Exceptives in Tahitian and beyond, Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 24, University of Washington (with Maria Polinsky)

2016          Linearization at PF: Evidence from Malagasy extraposition, 47th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (with Daniel Edmiston)

2016          An argument for predicate fronting in Malagasy from SVO contexts, 42nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society at the University of California, Berkeley (with Ileana Paul and Matt Pearson)

2016          Prosody-driven extraposition of CPs in Malagasy, at the LSA 2016 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (with Dan Edmiston)

2015          Extraposition in Malagasy, at the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 22, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (with Dan Edmiston)

2014          Information questions in Antakarana, at the Dialectal Variation in Madagascar Conference, Université d’Antsiranana, Madagascar (with Maria Polinsky)

2014          Control into nominalized clauses in Malagasy, at the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 21, University of Hawaii (with Maria Polinsky)

2014          Russian topicalization constructions, at the Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting 1, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida (with Maria Polinsky)

2013          Anaphoric dependencies in real time: The processing of Russian numerical constructions, at Generative Linguistics in the Old World 26, Lund, Sweden (with Maria Polinsky)

2013          On the derivation of VSO word order in Tahitian, 9th Conference on Oceanic Linguistics, Newcastle, Australia

2012          Microvariation in Malagasy: An overview of methodology, 12th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia (with Ileana Paul, David Heap, and Maria Polinsky)

2012          The clauseboundedness of QR and external negation, at the Tampa Annual Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Phonology 3, University of South Florida

2011          The syntax of Malagasy phrasal comparatives, at the Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris 2011, Université Paris VIII

2011          Relative structures in Malagasy, at the Workshop on the Syntax of Relative Clauses, University of Victoria, BC (with Ileana Paul)

2011          Irrealis headless relatives in Malagasy, at the Canadian Linguistics Association Conference 2011, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB (poster presentation with Ileana Paul)

2011          A direct analysis of Malagasy phrasal comparatives, at the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 18, Harvard University

2010          Where on earth in Oceanic languages, at the Conference on Oceanic Linguistics 8, Auckland, New Zealand (with Maria Polinsky)

2008          Word order in Malagasy imperatives, at the UCSC Linguistics Alumni Conference

2008          Covert A-movement: New evidence from the Caucasus, at the 27th Meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles (with Maria Polinsky)

2008          Real and apparent long-distance agreement in subject-to-subject raising constructions, at the DGfS Workshop on Local Modeling of Non-local Dependencies in Syntax, Bamberg, Germany (with Maria Polinsky) 

2007          Expressing exclamatives in Malagasy, at the Beyond Focus and Ergativity in Austronesian Workshop, ZAS Berlin

2007          Questions and word order in Polynesian, at the Conference on Oceanic Linguistics 7, University of New Caledonia (with Maria Polinsky)

2007          VSO word order in Malagasy imperatives, at the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 14, at McGill University, Montreal, Canada

2006          Backward object control in Malagasy: Against an empty category analysis, at the 25th Meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics at the University of Washington

2006          Crossed control in Indonesian and Malagasy, at the Tenth International Symposium on Malay/Indonesian Linguistics at the University of Delaware (with Maria Polinsky)

2005          The Clausal Typing Hypothesis and optional wh-movement in Malagasy, at CSSP 05, the 6th Conference on Syntax and Semantics in Paris

2005          Finite control in Malagasy?, at the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 12 at the University of California, Los Angeles (with Maria Polinsky)

2004          Wh-questions in Malagasy, at the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 11 at ZAS Berlin

2004          Patterns of control in Malagasy, at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society at the University of California, Berkeley (with Maria Polinsky)

2003          Ellipsis identity and Malagasy sluicing, at the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 10 at the University of Hawaii, Manoa

2002          Evidence for semantic identity under ellipsis from Malagasy sluicing, at the 33rd meeting of the North East Linguistic Society at MIT, Boston, Massachusetts

2001          Control in Malagasy, at the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 9 at Cornell University (with Maria Polinsky)

2001          Backward control: Evidence from Malagasy, at the 2nd Subtropical Summer Syntax Workshop at the University of Georgia

2001          Backward control: Evidence from Malagasy, at the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 8 at MIT (with Maria Polinsky)

2001          Richard returns: Copy raising and its implications, at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago (with Jeffrey T. Runner)

2000          The two verbs Begin, again, at the Nineteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics at the University of California at Los Angeles (with Maria Polinsky)

1999          Cross-linguistic view of long-distance agreement, at the Third International Conference of the Association of Linguistic Typology, Amsterdam (with Maria Polinsky)

1999          Long-distance agreement in Tsez, at the Eighteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics at the University of Arizona, Tucson (with Maria Polinsky)

1999          Agreement climbing, at the 73rd meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, California (with Maria Polinsky)

1998          A syntax for adverbs, at the 1998 Western Conference on Linguistics at Arizona State University

1997          Syntactic licensing of null VPs, at the 71st meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, Illinois

1996          English verbal morphology and VP ellipsis, at the 27th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society at McGill University, Montreal, Canada

1996          The parallel structure of English questions and imperatives, at the Fifteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics at the University of California, Irvine

1995          Phrase structure of the English imperative, at the Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America VI at Indiana University

1994          The long-distance anaphor in Fula, at the 25th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at Rutgers University

1990          An analysis of feel system effects on lateral flying qualities, at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerospace Engineering Conference and Show in Los Angeles, California

Graduate Committee Activities since 2006

Ph.D committee chair/co-chair (7)

            Kevin Yu                   registered

            William Dyer                  2025

            Muteb Alqarni               2015

            Said Al-Jahdhami        2013

            Dong-yi Lin                   2013

            Quinn Hansen              2010

            Youssef Haddad          2007

Ph.D committee member (10)

            Alexandrine Dunlap      registered

            Polina Pleshak               2025

            Caleb Ewing                   2022

            Christopher Muntzner    2022

            Alina Yan                      2017

            Hamed Aljeradaat          2017

            Diego Pascual y Cabo    2013

            Audrey Viguier              2012

            Mantoa Smouse             2010

            Maria Jordan                  2009

            Laurie Massery              2009

MA committee chair (8)

            JD Dimanche                 2017

            Zhongyuan Lu               2017

            Jun Nakai                       2015

            Yasser Albaty                2013

            Mohammad Alanazi      2013

            Daniel Michel                2007

            Sheldon Ebbeler            2006

            Philip Monahan             2002

Professional Service

2024-2025          Elected as Council Member of Section Z, Linguistics and Language Science Section, American Association for the Advancement of Science

2023-2026          LSA Awards Committee

2016-2018          CoLang 2018 Organizing Committee

2015-2020          LSA Membership Consultancy Group

2015-2018          LSA Awards Advisory Group

2012-2015          Elected to the Electorate Nominating Committee, Linguistics and Language Science section, American Association for the Advancement of Science

2014                   Advisory Panel for NSF SBE Directorate

2010-2013          Elected to the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Executive Committee

2011-2012          LSA Outreach Committee member and chair (2012)

2012                   LSA Awards Committee

2011                   Judge at AAAS Student Poster Competition

2008-2011          LSA Program Committee member

2007                   Advisory Panel for NSF Linguistics Program

Editorial Service

2022-2024          Associate Editor of Language & Linguistics

2015-2024          Associate Editorial Board of Oceanic Linguistics

2012-2024          Associate Editorial Board of Linguistic Inquiry

2008-2024          Editorial Board of Syntax: A Journal of Theoretical, Experimental and Interdisciplinary Research

2014-2018          Syntax area editor, Mouton Linguistics Vanguard

2000-2015          Editorial Board of Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

2000-2025             manuscript reviewer for Blackwell Publishers, Bloomsbury Publishers, Cambridge University Press, Cascadilla Press, CSLI, Elsevier Publishers, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Oxford University Press, John Benjamins, Mouton de Gruyter, the National Science Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

2000-2025           abstract reviewer for NELS, WCCFL, CLS, FLYM, WECOL, AFLA, LSA Annual Meeting, GLOW, SSILA

2000-2025          grant proposal reviewer for the NSF, SSHRC of Canada, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)

2000-2025          manuscript reviewer for Diachronica, Discourse Processes, Folia Linguistica, Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Slavic Linguistics, Language, Language and Linguistics Compass, Lingua, Linguistic Inquiry, The Linguistic Review, Linguistics, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Oceanic Linguistics, Second Language Review, Studia Linguistica, Syntax

University Service

2023-2026          Research Policy Committee

2018-2021          CLAS Finance Committee

2018-2021          UF University Libraries Committee 

2017                   Linguistics Search Committee

2014-2017          Academic Freedom, Tenure, Professional Relations, and Services Committee

2015                   CLAS Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund Selection Committee

2015                   CLAS Graduate Handbook Committee

2012-2015          CLAS Finance Committee

2012-2015          CLAS Graduate Affairs Committee

2013-2014          Anthropology Search Committee

2012-2013          CLAS Sabbatical and Professional Development Leave Committee

2010-2011          Anthropology Search Committee

2010                   Presentation on NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, University of Florida

2010                   Judge at the NSF Research Day Poster Competition hosted by I-Cubed and the UF Graduate School

2005-2006          Syntax Search Committee, chair

2004-2005          Psycholinguistics Search Committee

2002-2003          Neurolinguistics Search Committee, chair

Department Service

2022-2023                                           Bylaws Revision Committee

2006-2007, 2010-2015, 2017, 2021   Comprehensive Exam Committee
2022-2023

2017-2021                                           Department Chair

2006, 2012-2015, 2017                       Graduate Coordinator

2010-2013                                           Tenure & Promotion Committee

2006-2007, 2011-2015, 2017             Admissions Committee, chair

2006-2009, 2012-2014                       Merit Committee

2006-2007, 2010-2012                       Goals & Future of Linguistics Committee, chair

2006-2007, 2012-2013                       Administrative Committee

2012-2015                                           Graduate Education Committee

2000-2005, 2011-2012, 2017-2018    Coordinator for Introduction to Linguistics

Teaching Evaluations since Fall 2006

On leave 2007-2008, 2016, 2021-2022, and served at NSF from 2008-2010

Language Work

French, Malagasy, Fijian, Tongan, Tahitian, Indonesian, Malay, Javanese, Sundanese, Mauritian Creole, Zulu/Xhosa, Mandinka, Fula, Swedish, Italian, Oromo, Ewe