{"id":2,"date":"2012-09-04T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:23:06","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/files\/Potsdam-headshot-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/files\/Potsdam-headshot-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"potsdam\" class=\"wp-image-227\" style=\"width:213px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/files\/Potsdam-headshot-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/files\/Potsdam-headshot-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/files\/Potsdam-headshot-1-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/files\/Potsdam-headshot-1-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Eric Potsdam<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Adjunct Professor \/ Professor Emeritus<br>\nLinguistics Department<br>\nUniversity of Florida<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Interest\/Research<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/files\/adventure.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"108\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/files\/adventure.gif\" alt=\"adventure\" class=\"wp-image-208\" style=\"width:171px;height:auto\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>syntactic theory<\/li>\n<li>clause structure &amp; non-declarative clause types<\/li>\n<li>raising and control<\/li>\n<li>ellipsis<\/li>\n<li>exceptives<\/li>\n<li>Austronesian languages,\u00a0particularly Malagasy and Polynesian languages<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<table style=\"height: 88px\" width=\"409\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/files\/phone.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-210\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-211 \" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/files\/phone-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"phone\" width=\"91\" height=\"97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/files\/phone-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/files\/phone-200x213.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/files\/phone-300x320.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/files\/phone.jpg 352w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 91px) 100vw, 91px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 200px;vertical-align: middle\">Email: <a href=\"mailto:potsdam@ufl.edu\">potsdam@ufl.edu<\/a><br>\nPhone: (352) 392-0639 (department office)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<table style=\"height: 88px\" width=\"409\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 200px;vertical-align: middle\">Linguistics Department<br>\nUniversity of Florida<br>\nP.O. 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