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Faculty achievements are listed here. Please notify William McClure if you have something to add.

 

Recent publications

• Martin Chodorow (with Na-Rae Han and Claudia Leacock). (2006). "Detecting errors in English article usage by non-native speakers". Natural Language Engineering, 12:115-129
• Marcel den Dikken. (2006). Relators and Linkers - The Syntax of Predication, Predicate Inversion, and Copulas. MIT Press.
• Marcel den Dikken. (2005) "Either-float and the syntax of co-ordination". Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 24:689-749
• Marcel den Dikken. (2005). " Comparative correlatives comparatively". Linguistic Inquiry 36:497-532
• Robert Fiengo (with Robert May). (2006). De Lingua Belief. MIT Press.
• Robert Fiengo. (2007). Asking Questions: Using meaningful structures to imply ignorance. Oxford University Press.
• Janet Fodor and William Sakas. (2005). "The Subset Principle in syntax: costs of compliance". Journal of Linguistics. 41:513-569
• Miki Makihara. (2005). "Rapa Nui ways of speaking Spanish: Language shift and socialization on Easter Island ". Language in Socciety. 34(5):727-762
• Kate Menken (2008) "English Learners Left Behind - Standardized Testing as Language Policy " from Multilingual Matters.
• Otheguy, Ricardo, Ana Celia Zentella & David Livert. (2007). Language and dialect contact in Spanish in New York: Towards the formation of a speech community. Language 83.770-802
• Ricardo Otheguy and Ana Celia Zentella. (2007). Apuntes preliminaries sobre el contacto lingüístico y dialectal en el uso pronominal del español en Nueva York. In Spanish in Contact: Policy, Social and Linguistic Inquiries. Editors: Kim Potowski and Richard Cameron.
• Sandeep Prasada and Elaine Dillingham. (2006). "Principled and statistical connections in common sense conception". Cognition 99(1):73-112
• David Rosenthal. (2005). Consciousness and Mind. Clarendon Press, Oxford
• Christina Tortora. (2006). "The Case of Appalachian Expletive they". American Speech 81(3):266-296
• Virginia Valian. (2006). "Young children's understanding of present and past tense" in Language Learning and Development 2(4):251-276
• Virginia Valian and Sandeep Prasada (with Jodi Scarpa). (2006). "Direct object predictability : effects on young children's imitation of sentences". Journal of Child Language. 33:247-269)

Talks and Invitations

• Marcel den Dikken will speak at the 31st GLOW, Newcastle University, from 26th to 28th March 2008. The title of his talk is "Small Clauses, Phases, and Phase Extension -- The Case of Scope and Object Shift"
• Marcel den Dikken is invited to speak at The 9th Seoul International Conference On Generative Grammar, in Seoul from July 17 to 20, 2008.
• Marcel den Dikken was invited to speak at Senshu University, Japan on August 15, 2007. The titles of his talk are "Subject agreement variation in English: the hypothesis space and how to narrow it down" and "Phase Extension: Contours of a theory of the role of head movement in phrase extraction".
• Martin Chodorow will present his work "Detection of Grammatical Errors Involving Prepositions" (co-authored with Joel Tetreault and Na-Rae Han) at 4th ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Preposition (part of 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics) in Prague, Czech Republic on June 24-30, 2007
• Marcel den Dikken was invited to speak at the 2007 International Conference on Linguistics in Korea on January 19-20, 2007. He is also the sole invited speaker at the 9th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar to be held at Dongguk University August 8-11, 2007.
• Janet Dean Fodor will give a keynote speech at International Conference on Processing Head-final Structures at Rochester Institute of Technologyand on September 21-22.
• Gita Martohardjono and Bill McClure spoke at Beijing University during the week of October 9, 2006. Their topics included the syntax, semantics, and acquisition of aspect.
• Bill McClure will give a talk at WCCFL 26 at UC Berkeley on April 27-29, 2007.
• Ricardo Otheguy gave a keynote presentation at the First Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization at the University of Groningen, September 28-30, 2006.
• William Sakas and Janet Dean Fodor will speak at the Special 1-day MIT Workshop: Where Does Syntax Come From? Have We All Been Wrong? on October 19th, 2007. The webcast of the talks will be available at http://mitworld.mit.edu
• Arthur Spears spoke at One Book One, New Paltz 2006 at SUNY New Paltz. His title was "Haitan Creole: A language's history, cultural context, and legacy." (10/2006)
• Christina Tortora has been invited to the University of Padova to give a seminar on morpho-syntactic variation in English dialects. She will also be giving talks at Venice and Treviso on the topic.
• Virginia Valian spoke on the "The controversy of women in science: A sober look" at the Columbia University School of Interntional and Public Affairs. (2/2007)

Grants

• Elaine Klein and Gita Martohardjono received $384,000 from the NYC Dept of Education for their project: Understanding the Student with Interrupted Formal Education (SIFE). The grant will run for eighteen months. (February 2007)
• Elaine Klein and Gita Martohardjono received nearly $36,000 from the NYC Dept of Education to train teachers in assessing the educational needs of Students with Interrupted Formal Education. (October, 2006)
• RISLUS Research Fellow Kate Menken has received a grant for $45,494 from the Office of English Language Learners of the New York City Department of Education to conduct a study entitled "Meeting the Needs of Long-Term English Language Learners in High School." Visit here for more information. (January, 2007)
• Christina Tortora and Marcel den Dikken received an NSF grant for a joint project (with Judy Bernstein and Raffaella Zanuttini) on "The comparative morpho-syntax of Appalachian English" (September 2006 - August 2008). Erin Quirk will work for the project as a graduate assistant.
  In the RF Report 2006, the Appalachian English project has been featured. Click on the image to see the page in PDF.
  

Distinctions, awards, public service

• Arthur Spears is the elected vice-president of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics (2005-2007). He will be president from 2007-2009. He also appeared on WABC's "Like it Is" with Gil Noble (May 14, 2006).
• Christina Tortora received the Feliks Gross Endowment Award for Outstanding Scholarly Achievement by a CUNY junior faculty member (2006).