Julie Anne Legate

Assistant Professor
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002

610 Williams Hall
Department of Linguistics
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104

jlegate standard-preposition ling.upenn.edu

Research

My research is in syntactic theory, and the syntax and morphology of endangered/understudied/typologically interesting languages. I have secondary research interests in language acquisition.

Current Projects

The relationship between morphological case and abstract Case: here's a 2008 LI paper Morphological and Abstract Case. Also, here's a related handout: Absolutive Case: Syntax plus Morphology
Syntactic ergativity in Dyirbal, which argues for abstract Case in the syntax: email me for a submitted draft. Also, here's a recent handout: Dyirbal Ergativity
The notion ``subject'' in Acehnese (Malayo-Polynesian): here's a recent NELS paper Passive Agreement in Acehnese
Itawes morphosyntax (Northern Philippine)

Selected Publications

2008. Morphological and Abstract Case. Linguistic Inquiry 39.1.
2008. Warlpiri and the Theory of Second Position Clitics. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 26.1.
2007. (with Charles Yang) Morphosyntactic Learning and the Development of Tense. Language Acquisition 14.3:315-344.
2005 Split Absolutive In Alana Johns, Diane Massam, and Juvenal Ndayiragije, Ergativity: Emerging Issues. Kluwer. (link is to prefinal draft)
(This is sometimes cited as 2003 Split Ergativity in Warlpiri)
2005. (with Charles Yang) The richness of the poverty of the stimulus at the LSA Institute, Happy Golden Anniversary, Generative Syntax Workshop
2005 Phases and Cyclic Agreement In Martha McGinnis & Norvin Richards (eds.), Perspectives on Phases . MITWPL.
2003 Some Interface Properties of the Phase. Linguistic Inquiry 34.3.
2003 The Morpho-Semantics of Warlpiri Counterfactual Conditionals. Linguistic Inquiry 34:1.
2003 The Configurational Structure of a Nonconfigurational Language. Linguistic Variation Yearbook.
2002.(with Charles Yang) Empirical Re-Assessment of Stimulus Poverty Arguments. Linguistic Review 19, 151-162.
2002. My dissertation: Warlpiri: Theoretical Implications
1999 The Morphosyntax of Irish Agreement. In Karlos Arregi, Benjamin Bruening, Cornelia Krause, and Vivian Lin (eds), Papers on Morphology and Syntax, Cycle One. MITWPL. (link is to prefinal version)