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Curriculum Vitae<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Eric Potsdam<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Linguistics Department
University of Florida
potsdam@ufl.edu
people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Education<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

1996                Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1987                M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1986                B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and English, Tufts University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Interests<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • syntactic theory, clause structure<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • non-declarative clauses (imperatives, interrogatives, and exclamatives)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • raising and control phenomena<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • clausal ellipsis, wh-question structures cross-linguistically<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Austronesian languages, particularly Malagasy, Polynesian<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Academic Work Experience<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    8\/24-present    Professor Emeritus. University of Florida<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    8\/24-8\/25        Adjunct Professor. University of Florida<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    8\/13-8\/24        Professor. University of Florida<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    8\/17-8\/21        Chair, Linguistics Department. University of Florida<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    8\/06-7\/13        Associate Professor. University of Florida<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    8\/08-8\/10        Linguistics Program Director. National Science Foundation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    7\/09-8\/09        Instructor, LSA Linguistics Institute. University of California, Berkeley<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    8\/00-7\/06        Assistant Professor. University of Florida<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    9\/07-12\/07      Visiting Scholar. University of Massachusetts at Amherst<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    9\/98-6\/00        Lecturer with Ph.D. Yale University<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    6\/98-8\/98        Visiting Scholar. University of California, San Diego<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    8\/97-5\/98        Visiting Assistant Professor. University of Iowa<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    7\/96-7\/97        Lecturer in Linguistics. University of California, San Diego<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    9\/95-12\/95      Teaching Fellow. University of California, Santa Cruz<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    6\/95-8\/95        Summer Session Instructor. University of California, Santa Cruz<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Grants<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    2021-2025       NSF research grant, Variation in Exceptive Structures, $221,000<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2018                UF International Center Internationalizing the Curriculum Award, $6,000 (with Martina Martinovi\u0107)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2018                UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere film series grant, $1,800<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2018                UF Office of Research Conference Award, $3,000<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2017                NSF conference grant, CoLang 2018: Institute for Collaborative Language Research, co-PI, $171,000<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2014                University of Florida Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund grant, $5,585<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2013                UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere Conference grant, $5,000<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2008                University of Florida Internationalizing the Curriculum Award, $3,000<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2007                UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere Conference grant, $4,000<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2003-2004       NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates supplement, $6,000<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2002-2006       NSF research grant, Variation in Control Structures, $95,000<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2002                University of Florida Faculty Laptop Program<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2001                University of Florida Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund grant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Teaching Recognition<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    2017                Tbilisi Summer School in Linguistics, co-taught \u201cGenerative Syntax and Formal Typology\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2009                LSA Summer Institute Instructor, co-taught \u201cSyntactic Dependencies\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2006-2007       University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Honors and Awards since 2006<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Elected Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2016-2019       University of Florida Term Professorship<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2015-2016       University of Florida International Center Global Fellow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2011-2014       University of Florida Research Foundation Professor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2011\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Books<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    1998\/2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Syntactic Issues in the English Imperative<\/em>, New York: Garland Publishing Inc.\u00a0Reprinted by Routledge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Refereed Journal Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    2024          Potsdam, Eric. The Malagasy phrasal comparative. Syntax <\/em>2024, 1-36.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2024          Paul, Ileana, and Eric Potsdam. Malagasy framing demonstratives and the syntax of doubling. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics <\/em>9, 1-37.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2022          Potsdam, Eric. What sluices in Malagasy sluicing? Oceanic Linguistics <\/em>61, 757-790.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Potsdam, Eric. Malagasy extraposition: Evidence for PF movement.\u00a0Natural Language and Linguistic Theory<\/em> 40, 195-237.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Potsdam, Eric, and Daniel Edmiston. Imperatives.\u00a0Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics<\/em>, New York: Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2014          Polinsky, Maria, and Eric Potsdam. Left edge topics in Russian and the processing of anaphoric dependencies, Journal of Linguistics <\/em>50, 627-669.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2013          Potsdam, Eric. CP-negation and the domain of Quantifier Raising, Linguistic Inquiry<\/em> 44, 674-684.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2012          Potsdam, Eric, and Maria Polinsky. The syntax of the Tahitian Actor Emphatic construction, Oceanic Linguistics <\/em>51, 58-85.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2012          Potsdam, Eric, and Maria Polinsky. Backward raising, Syntax<\/em> 15, 75-108.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2011          Potsdam, Eric, and Maria Polinsky. Against covert A-movement in Russian unaccusatives, Linguistic Inquiry <\/em>42, 345-355.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2009          Potsdam, Eric. Malagasy backward object control, Language<\/em> 85, 754-784.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2009          Potsdam, Eric. Austronesian verb-initial languages and wh-question strategies, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory<\/em> 27, 737-771.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2008          Polinsky, Maria, and Eric Potsdam. The syntax and semantics of wanting in Indonesian, Lingua <\/em>118, 1617-1639.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2007          Potsdam, Eric. Malagasy sluicing and its consequences for the identity requirement on ellipsis, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory<\/em> 25, 577-613.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2007          Potsdam, Eric, and Maria Polinsky. Missing complement clause subjects in Malagasy, Oceanic Linguistics<\/em> 46, 277-303.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2006          Polinsky, Maria, and Eric Potsdam. Expanding the scope of control and raising, Syntax<\/em> 9, 171-192.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2006          Potsdam, Eric. More concealed pseudoclefts in Malagasy and the Clausal Typing Hypothesis, Lingua<\/em> 116, 2154-2182.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2002          Polinsky, Maria, and Eric Potsdam. Backward control, Linguistic Inquiry<\/em> 33, 245-282.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2001          Polinsky, Maria, and Eric Potsdam. Long-distance agreement and topic in Tsez, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory <\/em>19, 583-646.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1997          Potsdam, Eric. NegP and subjunctive complements in English, Linguistic Inquiry <\/em>28, 533-541.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Refereed Proceedings and Book Chapters<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    to appear   The Javanese free exceptive and its implications for ellipsis constraints in Austronesian, in Proceedings of AFLA 30 <\/em>(With Luan\u00e9 Lennox and Victoria Chen)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

    2023          Malagasy framing demonstratives, Proceedings of AFLA 29 <\/em>(with Ileana Paul)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2021          Deriving VOS from VSO in Tongan, in Polynesian syntax and its interfaces<\/em>, Oxford University Press (with Maria Polinsky)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2021          Tongan VOS: Coordination plus ellipsis? Proceedings of AFLA 27 <\/em>(with Maria Polinsky)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2019          Exceptives: An under-appreciated ellipsis construction, Proceedings of CLS 54<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2018          Exceptives and ellipsis, Proceedings of the 48th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society<\/em>, Amherst, Mass.: GLSA, University of Massachusetts at Amherst<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2017          Control phenomena, in The Blackwell Companion to Syntax, 2nd edition<\/em>. Blackwell Publishers (with Youssef A. Haddad)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

    2016          Extraposition in Malagasy, in Proceedings of the 22nd Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, <\/em>Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics (with Daniel Edmiston)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

    2013          Diagnosing covert A-movement, in Diagnostics in Syntax. <\/em>Oxford University Press (with Maria Polinsky)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2013          Linearizing the control relation: A typology, in Principles of Linearization<\/em>. Mouton de Gruyter Studies in Generative Grammar (with Youssef A. Haddad)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

    2012          Sluicing without wh-movement in Malagasy, in Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives<\/em>. Oxford University Press (with Ileana Paul)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2011          Questions and word order in Polynesian, in Topics in Oceanic Morphosyntax<\/em>. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (with Maria Polinsky)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2011          Expressing exclamatives in Malagasy, in Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and Typological Perspectives<\/em>. Amsterdam: John Benjamins<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2010          VSO word order in Malagasy imperatives, in Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics<\/em>. Amsterdam: John Benjamins<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2008          How to sluice in the wh-in-situ language Malagasy, in CLS 40, Vol. I. <\/em>Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society (with Ileana Paul)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2007          Analysing Word Order in the English Imperative, in Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar: Studies Offered to Frits Beukema<\/em>. Amsterdam: John Benjamins<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

    2006          The cleft structure of Malagasy wh-questions, in Clause Structure and Adjuncts in Austronesian Languages<\/em>, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2005          Malagasy control and its theoretical implications, in The Proceedings of the 30th Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society<\/em> (with Maria Polinsky)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2004          Wh-questions in Malagasy, in ZAS Working Papers in Linguistics 34: The Proceedings of the 11th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2003          Control in Malagasy, in Cornell Working Papers in Linguistics<\/em> 19 (with Maria Polinsky)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

    2002          Backward control: Evidence from Malagasy, in MIT Working Papers in Linguistics<\/em> 44, Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy (with Maria Polinsky)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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. <\/em>Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society (with Jeffrey T. Runner)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

    1998          A Syntax for adverbs, in The<\/em> Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Western Conference on Linguistics<\/em>. Fresno, Ca.: Department of Linguistics, California State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1997          English verbal morphology and VP ellipsis, in The<\/em> Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society<\/em>. Amherst, Mass.: GLSA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1997          The parallel structure of English questions and imperatives,  in The Proceedings of the Fifteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics<\/em>. Stanford: Stanford Linguistics Association<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1995          Phrase structure of the English imperative, in Papers from the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America<\/em>. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1995          The long-distance anaphor in Fula, in Theoretical Approaches to African Linguistics<\/em>. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

    Edited Volumes<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    2016          Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics<\/em>, Amsterdam: John Benjamins (with Youssef A. Haddad)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

    2011          Representing Language: Essays in Honor of Judith Aissen<\/em>, Berkeley: University of California eScholarship Repository (with Rodrigo Gutierrez-Bravo and Line Mikkelsen)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2010          Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics<\/em>, Amsterdam: John Benjamins (with Raphael Mercado, and Lisa Travis)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

    2009          Selected Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of African Linguistics<\/em>, Somerville, Ma.: Cascadilla Proceedings Project <\/em>(with Fiona McLaughlin and Matondo Masangu)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Other Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    2018          Extraposition patterns in Malagasy. Heading in the right direction: Linguistics treats for Lisa Travis<\/em>, McGill Working Papers in Linguistics <\/em>25:1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2017          A preliminary look at exceptives in Tahitian. Asking the right questions: Essays in honor of Sandra Chung<\/em>(with Maria Polinsky)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

    2014          Fi <\/em>in Gulf Pidgin Arabic, in Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics <\/em>35 (with Mohammad Alanazi)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2012          Which <\/em>questions in Malagasy, in UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics 17: Theories of Everything. In honor of Ed Keenan<\/em>, 360-366.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2011          A direct analysis of Malagasy comparatives, in Tampa Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 2<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2003          Author\u2019s summary of Syntactic Issues in the English Imperative<\/em>, GLOT <\/em>7, issue 1\/2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Book Reviews<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    2004          book review of Thomas Ernst\u2019s The Syntax of Adjuncts<\/em>, Language<\/em> 80, 594-597<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2000          book notice of Bj\u00f8rg B\u00e6kken\u2019s Word Order Patterns in Early Modern English<\/em>, Language<\/em> 76, 222<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2000          book notice of Artemis Alexiadou\u2019s Adverb Placement: A Case Study in Antisymmetric Syntax<\/em>, Language<\/em> 76, 222-223<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1998          book notice of Bas Aart\u2019s English Syntax and Syntactic Argumentation<\/em>, Language<\/em> 74, 876-877<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Invited Talks<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    2024          Clausal ellipsis and Austronesian voice systems, MayFest, University of Maryland, College Park<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2024          Exceptives, ellipsis, and negation, LASC, University of California, Santa Cruz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2023          Voice mismatch under clausal ellipsis, McGill University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2023          Exceptives and ellipsis, CSU Fresno<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2018          Exceptives and ellipsis, University of Florida<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2018          Tongan VOS word order, at the Workshop on the Syntax of Polynesian Languages, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (with Maria Polinsky)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2018          Exceptives, clausal ellipsis, and island (in)sensitivity, at the 25th Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2016          Prosodically-driven word order alternations in Malagasy, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2015          Analyses of extraposition: The view from Madagascar, Syntax Circle, University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2015          A prosodic account of obligatory extraposition in Malagasy, University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2013          The landscape of phrasal comparison, with views from Austronesia, at the 20th Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2013          The processing of Russian numerical constructions, Syntax Reading Group, University of Massachusetts at Amherst<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2013          The Malagasy phrasal comparative, University of Massachusetts at Amherst<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2011          A direct analysis of Malagasy comparatives, Tampa Annual Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Phonology 2, University of South Florida<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2010          Learning to be backward, Mayfest, University of Maryland, College Park<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2010          Exploring the syntax of Malagasy comparatives, University of Chicago<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2010          A degree construction approach to the Malagasy exclamative, University of Washington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2009          Malagasy exclamatives (!), University of Delaware<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2009          Agreement in subject-to-subject raising constructions, Georgetown University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2008          Malagasy backward control and the typology of control relations, University of California, San Diego<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2007          Malagasy backward control within a typology of control relations, Harvard University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2007          Backward object control in Malagasy and selective copy pronunciation, Syntax Reading Group, University of Massachusetts at Amherst<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2007          Malagasy backward control within a typology of control relations, University of Rochester<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2007          Analyzing backward object control in Malagasy, McGill University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2006          Austronesian verb-initial languages and wh-question strategies, at the Workshop on Comparative Austronesian Syntax, UCSD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2005          The Clausal Typing Hypothesis and Malagasy wh-questions, University of Hawaii, Manoa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2005          The Clausal Typing Hypothesis and Malagasy wh-questions, University of California, San Diego<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

    2004          Patterns of control in Malagasy and their theoretical implications, University of Maryland, College Park<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2001          Analysing word order in the English imperative, at Imperatives and Functional Projections: A Workshop for Frits Beukema at the University of Leiden<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2000          The clausal status of English imperatives, University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2000          Long-distance agreement and topic in Tsez, University of Florida<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2000          Long-distance agreement and topic in Tsez, Northwestern University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1999          A syntax for English adverbs, Carleton College<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1998          Non-local agreement in Tsez, Northwestern University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1997          Towards a syntax for adverbs, Swarthmore College<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Conference Presentations\/Posters<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    2023          The Javanese free exceptive and its implications for ellipsis constraints in Austronesian, Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 30, Lund University, Lund Sweden (with Luan\u00e9 Lennox and Victoria Chen)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2022          Malagasy framing demonstratives, TripleAFLA 2022 (with Ileana Paul)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2022          How to frame your demonstratives: Lessons from Malagasy, MOTH 2022 (with Ileana Paul)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2020          Tongan VOS: Coordination plus ellipsis? Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 27, National University of Singapore (with Maria Polinsky)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

    2018          Exceptives: An under-appreciated ellipsis construction, 54th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2017          Exceptives and ellipsis, 48th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland (poster presentation)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2017          Exceptives in Tahitian and beyond, Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 24, University of Washington (with Maria Polinsky)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

    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)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2016          Prosody-driven extraposition of CPs in Malagasy, at the LSA 2016 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (with Dan Edmiston)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2015          Extraposition in Malagasy, at the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 22, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (with Dan Edmiston)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2014          Information questions in Antakarana, at the Dialectal Variation in Madagascar Conference, Universit\u00e9 d\u2019Antsiranana, Madagascar (with Maria Polinsky)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2014          Control into nominalized clauses in Malagasy, at the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 21, University of Hawaii (with Maria Polinsky)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2014          Russian topicalization constructions, at the Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting 1, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida (with Maria Polinsky)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2013          On the derivation of VSO word order in Tahitian, 9th Conference on Oceanic Linguistics, Newcastle, Australia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2012          The clauseboundedness of QR and external negation, at the Tampa Annual Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Phonology 3, University of South Florida<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2011          The syntax of Malagasy phrasal comparatives, at the Colloque de Syntaxe et S\u00e9mantique \u00e0 Paris 2011, Universit\u00e9 Paris VIII<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2011          Relative structures in Malagasy, at the Workshop on the Syntax of Relative Clauses, University of Victoria, BC (with Ileana Paul)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

    2011          A direct analysis of Malagasy phrasal comparatives, at the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 18, Harvard University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2010          Where on earth <\/em>in Oceanic languages, at the Conference on Oceanic Linguistics 8, Auckland, New Zealand (with Maria Polinsky)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2008          Word order in Malagasy imperatives, at the UCSC Linguistics Alumni Conference<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2007          Expressing exclamatives in Malagasy, at the Beyond Focus and Ergativity in Austronesian Workshop, ZAS Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

    2007          VSO word order in Malagasy imperatives, at the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 14, at McGill University, Montreal, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

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

    2004          Wh-questions in Malagasy, at the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 11 at ZAS Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2003          Ellipsis identity and Malagasy sluicing, at the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 10 at the University of Hawaii, Manoa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

    2001          Control in Malagasy, at the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 9 at Cornell University (with Maria Polinsky)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2001          Backward control: Evidence from Malagasy, at the 2nd Subtropical Summer Syntax Workshop at the University of Georgia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2001          Backward control: Evidence from Malagasy, at the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 8 at MIT (with Maria Polinsky)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2000          The two verbs Begin<\/em>, again, at the Nineteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics at the University of California at Los Angeles (with Maria Polinsky)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

    1999          Agreement climbing, at the 73rd meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, California (with Maria Polinsky)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1998          A syntax for adverbs, at the 1998 Western Conference on Linguistics at Arizona State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1997          Syntactic licensing of null VPs, at the 71st meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, Illinois<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1996          English verbal morphology and VP ellipsis, at the 27th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society at McGill University, Montreal, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1996          The parallel structure of English questions and imperatives, at the Fifteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics at the University of California, Irvine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1995          Phrase structure of the English imperative, at the Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America VI at Indiana University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1994          The long-distance anaphor in Fula, at the 25th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at Rutgers University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Graduate Committee Activities since 2006<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Ph.D committee chair\/co-chair (7)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Kevin Yu \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 registered<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 William Dyer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Muteb Alqarni               2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                Dong-yi Lin                   2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Quinn Hansen\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02010<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Ph.D committee member (10)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Alexandrine Dunlap      registered<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Polina Pleshak\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Caleb Ewing\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Christopher Muntzner    2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Alina Yan                      2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Hamed Aljeradaat          2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Diego Pascual y Cabo    2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Audrey Viguier              2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Mantoa Smouse             2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Maria Jordan                  2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Laurie Massery              2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    MA committee chair (8)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                JD Dimanche                 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Zhongyuan Lu               2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Jun Nakai                       2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Yasser Albaty                2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Mohammad Alanazi      2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Daniel Michel                2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Sheldon Ebbeler            2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Philip Monahan             2002<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Professional Service<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    2024-2025          Elected as Council Member of Section Z, Linguistics and Language Science Section, <\/em>American Association for the Advancement of Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2023-2026          LSA Awards Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2016-2018          CoLang 2018 Organizing Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2015-2020          LSA Membership Consultancy Group<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2015-2018          LSA Awards Advisory Group<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2012-2015          Elected to the Electorate Nominating Committee, Linguistics and Language Science section, American Association for the Advancement of Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2014                   Advisory Panel for NSF SBE Directorate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2010-2013          Elected to the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Executive Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2011-2012          LSA Outreach Committee member and chair (2012)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2012                   LSA Awards Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2011                   Judge at AAAS Student Poster Competition<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2008-2011          LSA Program Committee member<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2007                   Advisory Panel for NSF Linguistics Program<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Editorial Service<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    2022-2024          Associate Editor of Language & Linguistics<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2015-2024          Associate Editorial Board of Oceanic Linguistics<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2012-2024          Associate Editorial Board of Linguistic Inquiry<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2008-2024          Editorial Board of Syntax: A Journal of Theoretical, Experimental and Interdisciplinary Research<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2014-2018          Syntax area editor, Mouton Linguistics Vanguard<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2000-2015          Editorial Board of Natural Language and Linguistic Theory<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2000-2025\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0manuscript 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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2000-2025\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0abstract reviewer for NELS, WCCFL, CLS, FLYM, WECOL, AFLA, LSA Annual Meeting, GLOW, SSILA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2000-2025\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0grant proposal reviewer for the NSF, SSHRC of Canada, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2000-2025\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0manuscript reviewer for\u00a0Diachronica, Discourse Processes, Folia Linguistica, Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Slavic Linguistics, Language, Language and Linguistics Compass, Lingua, Linguistic Inquiry<\/em>,\u00a0The Linguistic Review, Linguistics, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Oceanic Linguistics, Second Language Review, Studia Linguistica, Syntax<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    University Service<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    2023-2026          Research Policy Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2018-2021          CLAS Finance Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2018-2021          UF University Libraries Committee <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2017                   Linguistics Search Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2014-2017          Academic Freedom, Tenure, Professional Relations, and Services Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2015                   CLAS Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund Selection Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2015                   CLAS Graduate Handbook Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2012-2015          CLAS Finance Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2012-2015          CLAS Graduate Affairs Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2013-2014          Anthropology Search Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2012-2013          CLAS Sabbatical and Professional Development Leave Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2010-2011          Anthropology Search Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2010                   Presentation on NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, University of Florida<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2010                   Judge at the NSF Research Day Poster Competition hosted by I-Cubed and the UF Graduate School<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2005-2006          Syntax Search Committee, chair<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2004-2005          Psycholinguistics Search Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2002-2003          Neurolinguistics Search Committee, chair<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Department Service<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    2022-2023                                           Bylaws Revision Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2006-2007, 2010-2015, 2017, 2021   Comprehensive Exam Committee
    2022-2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2017-2021                                           Department Chair<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2006, 2012-2015, 2017                       Graduate Coordinator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2010-2013                                           Tenure & Promotion Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2006-2007, 2011-2015, 2017             Admissions Committee, chair<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2006-2009, 2012-2014                       Merit Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2006-2007, 2010-2012                       Goals & Future of Linguistics Committee, chair<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2006-2007, 2012-2013                       Administrative Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2012-2015                                           Graduate Education Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2000-2005, 2011-2012, 2017-2018    Coordinator for Introduction to Linguistics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Teaching Evaluations since Fall 2006<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    On leave 2007-2008, 2016, 2021-2022, and served at NSF from 2008-2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Term<\/em><\/td>Course<\/em><\/td>Mean<\/em><\/td>Dept
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    2023 Spring<\/td>LIN 4930 Syntax 2<\/td>too few<\/td>responses<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
    2023 Spring<\/td>LIN 6520 Syntax 2<\/td>too few<\/td>responses<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
    2022 Fall<\/td>LIN 4760 Field Methods<\/td>4.93<\/td>4.70<\/td>4.23<\/td><\/tr>
    2022 Fall<\/td>LIN 6165 Field Methods<\/td>5.00<\/td>4.77<\/td>4.59<\/td><\/tr>
    2021 Spring<\/td>LIN 6932 Syntax Seminar<\/td>5.00<\/td>4.70<\/td>4.25<\/td><\/tr>
    2020 Fall<\/td>LIN 4500 Intro to Syntax<\/td>5.00<\/td>4.47<\/td>4.22<\/td><\/tr>
    2020 Spring<\/td>LIN 4930 Syntax 2<\/td>too few <\/td>responses<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
    2020 Spring<\/td>LIN 6520 Syntax 2<\/td>4.98<\/td>4.79<\/td>4.27<\/td><\/tr>
    2019 Fall<\/td>LIN 4930 Field Methods<\/td>4.92<\/td>4.70<\/td>4.21<\/td><\/tr>
    2019 Fall<\/td>LIN 6165 Field Methods<\/td>5.00<\/td>4.70<\/td>4.21<\/td><\/tr>
    2019 Spring<\/td>LIN 3010 Intro to Linguistics<\/td>4.60<\/td>4.73<\/td>4.38<\/td><\/tr>
    2018 Fall<\/td>LIN 6501 Syntax 1<\/td>4.75<\/td>4.79<\/td>4.65<\/td><\/tr>
    2018 Spring<\/td>LIN 4930 Syntax 2<\/td>5.00<\/td>4.64<\/td>4.30<\/td><\/tr>
    2018 Spring<\/td>LIN 6520 Syntax 2<\/td>4.33<\/td>4.73<\/td>4.55<\/td><\/tr>
    2017 Fall<\/td>LIN 4930\/6165\/6932 Field Methods<\/td>too few<\/td>responses<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
    2017 Spring<\/td>LIN 4400 Intro to Morphology<\/td>4.25<\/td>4.64<\/td>4.30<\/td><\/tr>
    2017 Spring<\/td>LIN 6402 Morphology 1<\/td>3.75<\/td>4.58<\/td>4.49<\/td><\/tr>
    2015 Fall<\/td>LIN 4930 Field Methods<\/td>4.67<\/td>4.56<\/td>4.22<\/td><\/tr>
    2015 Fall<\/td>LIN 6165 Field Methods<\/td>5.00<\/td>4.56<\/td>4.22<\/td><\/tr>
    2015 Fall<\/td>LIN 6501 Syntax 1<\/td>4.38<\/td>4.56<\/td>4.22<\/td><\/tr>
    2015 Spring<\/td>LIN 6520 Syntax 2<\/td>4.75<\/td>4.54<\/td>4.21<\/td><\/tr>
    2014 Fall<\/td>LIN 4930 Field Methods<\/td>4.82<\/td>4.50<\/td>4.18<\/td><\/tr>
    2014 Fall<\/td>LIN 6165 Field Methods<\/td>5.00<\/td>4.50<\/td>4.18<\/td><\/tr>
    2014 Fall<\/td>LIN 6501 Syntax<\/td>4.85<\/td>4.50<\/td>4.18<\/td><\/tr>
    2014 Spring<\/td>LIN 6520 Issues in Syntax<\/td>4.75<\/td>4.45<\/td>4.22<\/td><\/tr>
    2013 Fall<\/td>LIN 4500 Intro to Syntax<\/td>5.00<\/td>4.52<\/td>4.18<\/td><\/tr>
    2013 Fall<\/td>LIN 4930 Field Methods<\/td>4.87<\/td>4.52<\/td>4.18<\/td><\/tr>
    2013 Fall<\/td>LIN 6165 Field Methods<\/td>5.00<\/td>4.52<\/td>4.18<\/td><\/tr>
    2013 Fall<\/td>LIN 6501 Syntax<\/td>4.44<\/td>4.52<\/td>4.18<\/td><\/tr>
    2013 Spring<\/td>LIN 6520 Issues in Syntax<\/td>5.00<\/td>4.52<\/td>4.16<\/td><\/tr>
    2012 Fall<\/td>LIN 6165 Field Methods<\/td>5.00<\/td>4.39<\/td>4.08<\/td><\/tr>
    2012 Fall<\/td>LIN 6501 Syntax<\/td>5.00<\/td>4.39<\/td>4.08<\/td><\/tr>
    2012 Fall<\/td>LIN 4500 Intro to Syntax<\/td>4.50<\/td>4.39<\/td>4.08<\/td><\/tr>
    2012 Fall<\/td>LIN 6932 Seminar in Syntax<\/td>4.75<\/td>4.39<\/td>4.08<\/td><\/tr>
    2012 Spring<\/td>LIN 6520 Issues in Syntax<\/td>4.78<\/td>4.46<\/td>4.20<\/td><\/tr>
    2012 Spring<\/td>LIN 3010 Intro to Linguistics<\/td>4.77<\/td>4.46<\/td>4.20<\/td><\/tr>
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    2011 Fall<\/td>LIN 6165 Field Methods<\/td>4.47<\/td>4.36<\/td>4.14<\/td><\/tr>
    2011 Fall<\/td>LIN 6501 Syntax<\/td>4.85<\/td>4.36<\/td>4.14<\/td><\/tr>
    2011 Spring<\/td>LIN 3460 Struc Human Language<\/td>4.82<\/td>4.36<\/td>4.21<\/td><\/tr>
    2011 Spring<\/td>LIN 6520 Issues in Syntax<\/td>4.76<\/td>4.36<\/td>4.21<\/td><\/tr>
    2010 Fall<\/td>LIN 3010 Intro to Linguistics<\/td>4.60<\/td>4.45<\/td>4.20<\/td><\/tr>
    2010 Fall<\/td>LIN 4500 Intro to Syntax<\/td>4.81<\/td>4.45<\/td>4.20<\/td><\/tr>
    2010 Fall<\/td>LIN 6501 Syntax<\/td>4.78<\/td>4.45<\/td>4.20<\/td><\/tr>
    2007 Spring<\/td>LIN 3460 Struc Human Language<\/td>4.54<\/td>4.32<\/td>4.17<\/td><\/tr>
    2007 Spring<\/td>LIN 6520 Issues in Syntax<\/td>4.87<\/td>4.32<\/td>4.17<\/td><\/tr>
    2006 Fall<\/td>LIN 4500 Intro to Syntax<\/td>4.51<\/td>4.39<\/td>4.16<\/td><\/tr>
    2006 Fall<\/td>LIN 6165 Field Methods<\/td>4.44<\/td>4.39<\/td>4.16<\/td><\/tr>
    2006 Fall<\/td>LIN 6501 Syntax<\/td>4.76<\/td>4.39<\/td>4.16<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Language Work<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    French, Malagasy, Fijian, Tongan, Tahitian, Indonesian, Malay, Javanese, Sundanese, Mauritian Creole, Zulu\/Xhosa, Mandinka, Fula, Swedish, Italian, Oromo, Ewe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Eric Potsdam Linguistics DepartmentUniversity of Floridapotsdam@ufl.edupeople.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 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}