BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
| Birth date: | April 2, 1946 |
| Citizenship: | United States |
| Civil Status: | Married (in 1967 to Martha Burgess) |
| Children: | Miriam, born 1972 |
| Deborah, born 1974 | |
| Abigail, born 1978 |
EDUCATION
September 1974 | Ph.D. in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (under the direction of Professors Paul Kiparsky, Noam Chomsky and Kenneth Hale). |
June 1967 | A.B. summa cum laude in Anthropology, Harvard University (under the direction of Professor David Maybury-Lewis). |
RECENT CAREER HISTORY
A. Primary faculty position:
1991 — present | Professor, Department of Linguistics, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. |
B. Visiting faculty positions:
July 2003 | Visiting Professor of Linguistics, Linguistic Institute Summer School, Michigan State University. |
June 2002 | Visiting Professor of Germanic Linguistics, Universität Tübingen, Germany. |
January 1997 | Instructor, LOT Winter School, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands. |
Spring 1994 | Visiting Professor, Departments of English and Linguistics, Université de Paris 8, Paris. |
C. University administrative positions:
7/97 — 7/04 | Chair, Department of Linguistics, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania. |
1999 — 2000 | Member, Penn SAS Language Advisory Board. |
7/98 — 7/99 | Member, Penn SAS Task Force on Foreign Languages and Literatures. |
1997 — 1999 | Member, Penn SAS Faculty advisory committee to the Writing Program. |
7/90 — 7/97 | Member, Executive Committee, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS), University of Pennsylvania. |
7/94 — 6/96 | Chair, Penn SAS Committee on Graduate Education. |
7/94 — present | Computing coordinator, Penn SAS Department of Linguistics. |
D. Administrative service:
4/01 | Member, Georgetown University Linguistics Department external review committee. |
7/00 — 2/01 | Member, Penn SAS Dean's Internal Review Committee for the Department of Psychology. |
11/99 | Member of the national evaluation committee for Linguistics and Computational Linguistics in Portugal. |
1999 — 2001 | External advisor, graduate program in linguistics and computational linguistics, University of Stuttgart, Germany. |
3/99 | Member, Cornell University Linguistics Department external review committee. |
1996 — 1997 | Chair, IRCS interdepartmental committee to establish undergraduate Cognitive Science Major, approved in April 1997. |
E. Editorial activity:
2000 — present | Member of the editorial board, Journal of Portuguese Linguistics. |
1997 — present | Member of the editorial board, English Language and Linguistics. |
1997 — present | Member of the editorial board, Journal of Comparative Germanic Syntax. |
1996 — present | Member of the editorial board, DELTA, a Brazilian journal of linguistics. |
1988 — present | Co-editor, Language Variation and Change, a quarterly journal of quantitative studies in linguistics, Cambridge University Press (with William Labov and David Sankoff). |
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND SUPPORT
A. Grants for research:
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant SGER 0527116, "Enriching Parser Output for Treebank
Construction."
April 2005 — June 2006
Co-principal Investigator, Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council, "Modéliser le changement :
les voies du français (Modeling change: the trajectories of French."
January 2005 — January 2010
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant BCS 0418061, "A Parsed Historical Corpus of Modern
British English."
September 2004 — September 2006
Co-principal Investigator, University Research Foundation, "Penn Parsed Corpus of Sumerian (PPCS): Pilot
Program."
July 2003 — June 2004
Principal Investigator, National Endowment for the Humanities Grant PA 23382-99, "Creating an Electronic
Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English."
September 1999 — September 2003
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant BCS 99-05488, "The Emergence of Modern English
Syntax."
September 1999 — September 2004
Co-principal Investigator, DARPA Grant N66001-00-1-8915, "Translingual Information Detection,
Extraction and Summarization." Other PIs: Martha Palmer, Aravind Joshi, Mitch Marcus, Mark
Liberman.
January 2000 — January 2005
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant SBR 95-11368, "The Historical Syntax of Middle
English from a Comparative Perspective."
February 1996 — July 1999
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant BNS 89-19701, "Head-Complement Word Order in the
History of the West Germanic Clause."
July 1990 — December 1993
Recipient, University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation Grant, "West Germanic Historical Syntax."
Summer 1990, Fall 1993
Research Supervisor, "Linguistic Relevance of Tree Adjoining Grammar," NSF Grants MCS-82-19116 and
DCR-84-10413, Aravind Joshi, Principal Investigator.
July 1985 — 1997
B. Research collaborations:
2000 — present | Consultant on parsed corpus construction — Ana Maria Martins, Centro de Linguistica, Universidade Classica de Lisboa. |
1998 — present | Consultant on the construction of the Tycho Brahe Corpus of Historical Portuguese in the project on Rhythmic Patterns, Parameter Setting and Language Change— Charlotte Chambelland Galves, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem, Universidade de Campinas |
1997 — present | Research on the historical syntax of English — Susan Pintzuk and Anthony Warner, University of York. |
1995 — 2002 | Member of the scientific committee — Project on Statistical Physics, Pattern Recognition and Language Change, Antonio Galves — director, Universidade de São Paulo and Universidade de Campinas |
1994 — present | Research on the syntax/semantics interface — Caroline Heycock, Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh. |
1993 — 1995 | Consultant on historical corpus construction — Maria Francisca Xavier, Department of Linguistics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. |
1993 — present | Collaboration on the construction of parsed corpora of historical English — Matti Rissanen, Terttu Nevaleinen, University of Helsinki. |
1985 — present | Research on Tree Adjoining Grammar — Aravind Joshi, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Pennsylvania. |
PEDAGOGY
A. Curriculum development:
June 2000 — present | Author and publisher, online textbook with electronic exercises for introductory syntax courses, "The syntax of natural language: an online introduction using the Trees program," with Beatrice Santorini. |
July 1995 — September 1998 | Recipient, University of Pennsylvania Instructional Computing Development Grants, "Trees: a graphically based computational tool for the teaching of natural language syntax and mathematical linguistics." |
1997 — 1999 | Developer, Penn linguistics department undergraduate curriculum project: A course on language structure and verbal art, with Don Ringe. |
B. Recent courses taught:
C. Ph.D. dissertations supervised:
Thomas McFadden, 2004. "The position of morphological case in the derivation: a study on the syntax-morphology
interface."
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Alexis Dimitriadis, 2001, "Anaphora without identity: problems in the semantics of reciprocals and pronouns,"
co-supervisor with Maribel Romero.
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Netherlands.
Roumyana Pancheva (Izvorski), 2000, "Free relatives and related matters," co-supervisor with Sabine
Iatridou.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Slavic, University of Southern California.
Seth Kulick, 1999, "Constraining non-local dependencies in Tree Adjoining Grammar: computational and linguistic
perspectives," co-supervisor with Aravind Joshi.
Current position: Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania.
Rajesh Bhatt, 1999, "Covert modality in non-finite contexts," co-supervisor with Sabine Iatridou.
Current position: Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Chung-hye Han, 1998, "The structure and interpretation of imperatives: mood and force in Universal
Grammar."
Current position: Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University.
Shizhe Huang, 1996, "Quantification and predication in Mandarin Chinese: a case study of duo."
Current position: Associate Professor, Haverford College.
Shengli Feng, 1994, "The prosodic syntax of Chinese."
Current position: Professor, Harvard University.
Owen Rambow, 1994, "Formal and computational aspects of natural language syntax," co-supervisor with Aravind
Joshi.
Current position: Researcher, ATT Labs.
Michel DeGraff, 1993, "The syntax of Haitian Creole," co-supervisor with Mitchell Marcus.
Current position: Associate Professor, MIT.
Josep Fontana, 1993, "Phrase structure and the syntax of clitics in the history of Spanish."
Current position: Lecturer, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.
Young-suk Lee, 1993, "Scrambling as case-driven obligatory movement."
Current position: Research Scientist, IBM.
Robert Frank, 1992, "Syntactic locality and Tree Adjoining Grammar: grammatical, acquisition and processing
perspectives," co-supervisor with Aravind Joshi.
Current position: Professor, Johns Hopkins University.
Caroline Heycock, 1991, "Layers of predication: the non-lexical syntax of clauses."
Current position: Reader, University of Edinburgh.
Susan Pintzuk, 1991, "Phrase structures in competition: variation and change in Old English word
order."
Current position: Professor, University of York.
Raffaella Zanuttini, 1991, "Syntactic properties of sentential negation: a comparative study of Romance
languages."
Current position: Associate Professor, Georgetown University.
Beatrice Santorini, 1989, "The verb-second constraint in the history of Yiddish."
Current position: Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
Dominique Estival, 1986, "The passive in English: a case of syntactic change"
Current position: Head, Natural Language Processing, Syrinx Speech Systems, Sydney, Australia