ANTHONY KROCH
Professor, Department of Linguistics

Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed
   Term Professor in the Cognitive Sciences

Address:	Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania 619 Williams Hall 255 South 36th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 USA
Office:	614 Williams Hall
Phone numbers:	(215) 898-3212   faculty office (215) 898-6046   department office
Fax:	(215) 573-2091
Email:	kroch@change.ling.upenn.edu
Office Hours:	By appointment

Research Interests:

A. Primary areas:

• The formal analysis of natural language syntax (Tree Adjoining Grammar and the formalization of transformational theory)
• Historical syntax (studying parametric grammar change through the analysis of corpus data)
• The syntax-semantics interface (implications for the architecture of grammar revealed by the
  analysis of copular sentences)

B. Other areas:

• Computational linguistics (applied statistical Natural Language Processing for corpus construction)
• Psycholinguistics (syntactic processing)
• Sociolinguistics (the quantitative analysis of usage data)

Teaching (2013–2014):

Fall Term

Linguistics 550: Introduction to Syntax

Linguistics 556: Historical Syntax

Spring Term

On leave.

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Curriculum Vitae

Handouts of recent presentations

Selected bibliography

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Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English

The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpora of Historical English are three corpora (two released and one under construction) of parsed prose text samples useful in historical syntax research. They were created with funding from the NSF and the NEH and are available on CD-ROM. See the corpus web site for details.

Papers available on line

This web site contains a number of papers written by Tony Kroch and some of his collaborators at Penn over the past several years. The papers are available as .ps files, which should be printable on any postscript printer, and/or as .pdf files documents, which are both printable on any printer and readable onscreen with Acrobat Reader, downloadable from Adobe Systems.

The papers have varying status. Some are finished products but others are drafts, which the authors are in the process of revising. If a paper is marked, "Do not cite," please respect the authors' request. You may distribute the papers you download to others, however, so long as you include any notice regarding citation that the paper may contain.

abstracts of on-line papers

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