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CURRICULUM VITAE Jaklin Kornfilt Educational Background: Highest Degree: Ph.D.: Harvard University, March 1985 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY May 2003 - present: Professor, Syracuse University Academic Affiliations other than at Syracuse University (most recent): June 2003: University of Leipzig; Visiting Professor Summer School Affiliations (most recent): Summer 1998: Teaching Faculty, Linguistic Society of Germany, Summer Institute at Mainz University PUBLICATIONS Books: 1997 J. Kornfilt Turkish Grammar ; London: Routledge (in its "Descriptive Grammars" series) 1994 B. Lust, G. Hermon and J. Kornfilt (eds.): Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Crosslinguistic Perspectives ; vol. 2: Binding, Dependencies and Learnability ; Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Articles and Book Chapters: 2005 "Agreement and its Placement in Turkic Non-Subject Relative Clauses"; in Handbook of Comparative Syntax; G. Cinque & R. Kayne (eds.); Oxford: Oxford University Press; 513-541. 2004 “Remarks on Complex Predicates in a Comparative Altaic Perspective”; in Proceedings of the Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics I; A. Czirmaz, Y. Lee & M. A. Walter (eds.); Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 46; 1-14. 2003 (a) "Scrambling, Subscrambling, and Case in Turkish"; in Word Order and Scrambling; S. Karimi (ed.); Malden and Oxford: Blackwell; 125-155. 2003 (b) "Unmasking the Sentential Subject Constraint"; in Studies in Turkish Linguistics; S. Özsoy, D. Akar, M. Nakipo Glu-Demiralp, E. Erguvanl-Taylan & A. Aksu-Koç (eds.); Istanbul: Bogaziçi University Press; 121-130. 2003 (c) "Subject Case in Turkish Nominalized Clauses"; in Syntactic Structures and Morphological Information; U. Junghanns & L. Szucsich (eds.); Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter; 129-215. 2002 (a) Review of The Turkic Languages, L. Johanson & É. Á. Csató (eds.); London: Routledge [1998]; in Journal of Linguistics, 2002; 2002 (b) "Functional Projections and their Subjects in Turkish Clauses"; in The Verb in Turkish; E. Erguvanlı Taylan (ed.); Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins; 183-212. 2001 "On the Syntax and Morphology of Clausal Complements and Adjuncts in the Turkic languages"; in Aspects of Typology and Universals; W. Bisang (ed.); Berlin: Akademie Verlag; 63-82. 2000 (a) "Local and Long Distance Reflexives in Turkish"; in Long Distance Reflexives; P. Cole, G. Hermon and J. Huang (eds.); in the series Syntax and Semantics; San Diego: Academic Press; 197-226. 2000 (b) "Some Syntactic and Morphological Properties of Relative Clauses in Turkish"; in The Syntax of Relative Clauses; A. Alexiadou, C. Wilder, and P. Law (eds.); Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins; 121-159. 2000 (c) R. Borsley and J. Kornfilt "Mixed Extended Projections"; in The Nature and Function of Syntactic Categories; R. Borsley (ed.); in the series Syntax and Semantics, vol. 32; San Diego: Academic Press; 101-131. [1999] 2000 (d) "Locating Relative Agreement in Turkish and Turkic"; in Studies on Turkish and Turkic Languages; A. Göksel & C. Kerslake (eds.). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz; 189-196. [2001] 2000 (e) (with Gerald Greenberg) "Changing Argument Structure without Voice Morphology: A Concrete View"; in Studies on Turkish and Turkic Languages; A. Göksel & C. Kerslake (eds.). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz; 51-55. [2001] 2000(f) "Postpositions and Adverbs: A Case Study in Syntactic Categories"; in The Balance of Truth: Essays in Honour of Professor Geoffrey Lewis; Ç. Balm and C. Imber (eds.); Istanbul: The Isis Press; 217-237. 2000 (g) "Directionality of identical verb deletion in Turkish"; in An Electronic Festschrift for Jorge Hankamer; S. Chung and J. McCloskey (eds.); in http://ling.ucsc.edu/Jorge/kornfilt.html 1999 (a) " Remarks on Erguvanl Taylan's review of Turkish[Kornfilt (1997)]"; Anthropological Linguistics, volume 41, # 3; 382-387. [2000] 1999 (b) "Das Fernpassiv im Türkischen und im Deutschen"; in Türkisch und Deutsch im Vergleich, L. Johanson & J. Rehbein (eds.); Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz; 153-170. 1998 (a) "Motivating Morpho-Syntactic Changes in Turkic Subordination"; in Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistic Society 1998 Annual Meeting; Berkeley. B. K. Bergen, M. C. Plauché & A. C. Bailey (eds.); Berkeley: BLS; 139- 149. [1999] 1998 (b) C. Khoo, J. Kornfilt, R. N. Oddy & S. H. Myaeng " Automatic Extraction of Cause-Effect Information from Newspaper Text without Knowledge-Based Inferencing". In: Literary and Linguistic Computing, Vol. 13, No. 4; 177-186. [1999] 1998 (c) "Some Thoughts on Distributing And Non-Distributing Morphemes in Turkish Nominalizations"; in an electronic festschrift for Noam Chomsky’s 70 th birthday--http://cognet.mit.edu/Books/celebration//kornfilt.html 1997 (a) "On Rightward Movement in Turkish"; in The Mainz Meeting: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (1994); L. Johanson, E. Csató-Johanson (eds.); Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz; 107-123. 1997 (b) "On the Syntax and Morphology of Relative Clauses in Turkish"; in Dilbilim Araßt^rmalar^ (Linguistic Investigations); K. Èmer, A. Kocaman, S. Özsoy (eds.); Ankara: Kebikeç Yay^nlar^; 24-51. 1997 (c) "On Some Constraints Governing Free Relative Clauses in Turkish"; in Proceedings of the VIIIth International Conference on Turkish Linguistics; K. Èmer and N. Engin Uzun (eds.); Ankara: Ankara University Press; 17-24. 1996 (a) "NP-Movement and 'Restructuring'"; in Current Issues in Comparative Grammar, R. Freidin (ed.); Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers; 121-147. 1996 (b) "Naked Partitive Phrases in Turkish"; in Partitives, J. Hoeksema (ed.); Berlin: Mouton-de Gruyter (in the GRASS series); 107-142. 1996 (c) "Turkish and Configurationality"; in Current Issues in Turkish Linguistics vol. 1; B. Rona (ed.); Ankara: Hitit Yaynevi; 111-125. 1996 (d) "On Some Infinitival Wh-Constructions in Turkish"; in Dilbilim Araßtrmalar (Linguistic Investigations); K. È mer, A. Kocaman, S. Ö zsoy (eds.); Ankara: Bizim Büro Bas^mevi ; 192-215. 1996 (e) "On Copular Clitic Forms in Turkish"; in ZAS Papers in Linguistics, #6; A. Alexiadou, N. Fuhrhop, P. Law, S. Löhken (eds.); Berlin: ZAS; 96-114. 1995 (a)"Scrambling and Incorporation in Turkish"; in Forschungsschwerpunkt Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Papers in Linguistics, #1; A. Alexiadou, N. Fuhrhop, P. Law, S. Löhken (eds.); Berlin: FAS; 56-65. 1995 (b) "Constraints on Free Relative Clauses in Turkish"; in Forschungsschwerpunkt Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Papers in Linguistics, #4; A. Alexiadou, N. Fuhrhop, P. Law, S. Löhken (eds.); Berlin: FAS; 36-57. 1994 (a) "Some Remarks on the Interaction of Case and Word Order in Turkish: Implications for Acquisition"; in Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Cross Linguistic Perspectives; vol. 1: Heads, Projections and Learnability; B. Lust, M. Suñer, J. Whitman (eds.); Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; 171-199. 1994 (b) J. Bayer and J. Kornfilt "Against Scrambling as an Instance of Move-Alpha"; in Studies on Scrambling: Movement and Non-Movement Approaches to Free Word-Order Phenomena; H. V. Riemsdijk and N. Corver (ed.s); Berlin: Mouton-de Gruyter; 17-60. 1994 (c) B. Lust, J. Kornfilt, G. Hermon, C. Foley, Z. Nuñez del Prado, and Sh. Kapur; primary co-author with B. Lust "Constraining Binding, Dependencies and Learnability: Principles or Parameters?"; introduction to: Binding, Dependencies and Learnability; B. Lust, G. Hermon, J. Kornfilt (eds.); vol. 2 of: Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Crosslinguistic Perspectives; Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; 1-37. 1994 (d) J. Whitman, I. Barbier, K. Boser, Sh. Kapur, J. Kornfilt and B. Lust "Constraining Structural Variation and the Acquisition Problem"; introduction to: Heads, Projections and Learnability; B. Lust, M. Suñer, J. Whitman (eds.); vol. 1 of: Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Crosslinguistic Perspectives; Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; 1-12. 1994 (e) B. Lust, I. Barbier, C. Foley, G. Hermon, Sh. Kapur, J. Kornfilt, S. Nuñez del Prado, M. Suñer, and J. Whitman) "Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Cross Linguistic Perspectives"; general introduction to: Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Crosslinguistic Perspectives (both volumes); Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; xxi-xxxvii in vol. 1, xxiii-xxxix in vol. 2. 1994 (f) "Türkçe'de Geçi ß im ve Sözcük Dizimine Etkisi"; in Dilbilim Araßtrmalar; K. È mer, A. Kocaman, S. Ö zsoy (eds.); Ankara: Hitit Yaynclk ; 42-53. ("Incorporation in Turkish and its Effects on Syntax", in Syntactic Investigations; Ankara: Hittite Publishers; 42-53.) 1994 (g) "On Some Unusual Passives in Turkish and in German"; in Proceedings of the 1994 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association; P. Koskinen (ed.); Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics: Toronto University; 289-300. 1993 (a) J. Kornfilt and N. Correa "Conceptual Structure and its Relation to the Structure of Lexical Entries"; in Knowledge and Language: Lexical and Conceptual Structure; E. Reuland and W. Abraham (eds.); Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers; 79-118. 1993 (b) "Infinitival WH-Constructions and Complementation in Turkish"; in Eurotyp Working Papers; Group 3: Subordination and Complementation, vol. 4; K. Börjars and N. Vincent (eds.); European Science Foundation; published at the University of Manchester; 66-83. 1991 (a) Encyclopedia article on Turkish; in The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics; Oxford: Oxford University Press; 190-196. 1991 (b) "A Case for Emerging Functional Categories"; in Perspectives on Phrase Structure: Heads and Licensing; S. Rothstein (ed.); Syntax and Semantics, vol. 25; New York: Academic Press; 11-35. 1991 (c) "Some Current Issues in Turkish Syntax"; in Turkish Linguistics Today; H. Boeschoten and L. Verhoeven (eds.); Leiden: Brill Publishers; 60-92. 1991 (d) J. Bayer and J. Kornfilt "Against Scrambling as Move-Alpha"; NELS 21; T. Sherer (ed.); GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; 1-15. 1990 (a) "Complex Categories in Syntax and Morphology: Comments on E. Reuland's 'Head Movement and the Relation between Morphology and Syntax' "; in Yearbook of Morphology 3; G. Booij and J. V. Marle (eds.), A. Lahiri, A. Jongman (guest eds.); 163-171. 1990 (b) G. Greenberg and J. Kornfilt "The Hierarchy from [+Tense] to [-Tense]"; ESCOL '89; K. de Jong and Y. No (eds.); 117-125. 1990 (c) "Remarks on Headless Partitives and Case in Turkish"; in Grammar in Progress: GLOW Essays for Henk van Riemsdijk; M. Nespor and J. Mascaró (eds.); Dordrecht: Foris; 285-303. 1990 (d) "'NP-Deletion' and Case Marking in Turkish"; in Studies on Turkish Linguistics; S. Koç (ed.); Ankara: Middle East Technical University; copyrighted 1988; 187-215. 1990 (e) J. Bayer and J. Kornfilt "Restructuring Effects in German"; in Parametric Variation in Germanic and Romance; E. Engdahl, M. Reape, M. Mellor, and R. P. Cooper (eds.); Edinburgh Working Papers in Cognitive Science, Vol. 6, Centre for Cognitive Science: University of Edinburgh; 21-42. 1990 (f) J. Kornfilt and N. Correa Deriving the Structure of Lexical Entries from Conceptual Structure; CASE Center Technical Report No. 9021; The New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications and Software Engineering; Syracuse University; 50 pages. 1989 (a) Book notice on D. I. Slobin and K. Zimmer (eds.) Studies in Turkish Linguistics. 1986; Amsterdam - Philadelphia: John Benjamins; in Language, Vol. 65, No. 2; 441-442. 1989 (b) Review article on Studies in Turkish Linguistics, (op. cit.); in Studies in Language; Vol, 13, No. 1. 171-193. 1989 (c) "Functional Categories and Syntactic Change"; in MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 10; I. Laka and A. Mahajan (eds.); Cambridge, MA; 151-173. 1988 "A Typology of Morphological Agreement and its Syntactic Consequences"; in CLS 24-II: Papers from the Parasession on Agreement in Grammatical Theory; D. Brentari, G. Larson and L. MacLeod (eds.); Chicago Linguistic Society; 117-134. 1987 (a) "Beyond Binding Conditions: The Case of Turkish", in Studies on Modern Turkish; H. Boeschoten and L. Verhoeven (eds.); Tilburg: Tilburg University Press; 105-120. 1987 (b) "Turkish", chapter in The World's Major Languages; B. Comrie (ed.); London: Croom Helm; 619-644. 1986 "Stem-Penultimate Empty Cs, Compensatory Lengthening, and Vowel Epenthesis in Turkish", in Studies in Compensatory Lengthening; E. Sezer and L. Wetzels (eds.); Dordrecht: Foris; 79-96. 1986 "The Stuttering Prohibition and Morpheme Deletion in Turkish"; in Proceedings of the Second Conference in Turkish Linguistics; A. Aksu Koç, and E. Erguvanl -Taylan (eds.); Istanbul: University of the Bosporus Publications #400; 59-83. 1985 "Infinitival Relative Clauses and Complementation in Turkish", in Proceedings of the 21st Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, General Session; W. H. Eilfort, P. D. Kroeber, and K. L. Peterson (eds.); 221-235. 1981 L. George and J. Kornfilt "Finiteness and Boundedness in Turkish"; in Binding and Filtering; F. Heny (ed.); London: Croom Helm, and Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; 105-127. 1980 J. Kornfilt, S. Kuno and E. Sezer "A Note on Crisscrossing Double Dislocation"; in Harvard Studies in Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 3; S. Kuno (ed.); Cambridge, MA; 185-242. 1977 (a) L. George and J. Kornfilt "Infinitival Double Passives"; in Proceedings of NELS VII; J. Kegl, D. Nash, and A. Zaenen (eds.); Cambridge, MA; 65-79. 1977 (b) "A Note on Subject Raising in Turkish"; Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 8, #4; 736-742. 1977 (c) "Against the Universal Relevance of the Shadow Pronoun Hypothesis"; Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 8,#2; 412-418. 1976 "The Cycle Against Free Rule Application"; in Harvard Studies in Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 2; J. Hankamer and J. Aissen (eds.); Cambridge, MA; 359-444. INVITED LECTURES (non-conference) (Last four years) 2005 “Types of subjects and types of clauses in Turkish: A study of categorial features in argument and adjunct clauses”; Department of Linguistics, University of Utrecht. 2004 (a) “Types of subjects and types of clauses in Turkish: A study of categorial features in argument and adjunct clauses”; Department of English Linguistics, Stuttgart University. 2004 (b) “A constraint on internal clauses in Turkish”; Department of Linguistics, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul. 2003 (a) "Agreement and its location in Turkic Non-Subject Relative Clauses"; Department of Linguistics, University of Delaware. 2003 (b, c) "Resumptive pronouns and morphological variety in Turkish relative clauses: How closely do they interact?"; Frankfurt University; Max-Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. 2003 (d-h) Miniseries of lectures on Turkish syntax: "Non-specific partitives and the unreliability of specificity markings"; "On partitive constructions in Turkish and their relevance to specificity"; "Some syntactic and morphological properties of relative clauses in Turkish"; "Agreement and its location in Turkic non-subject relative clauses"; "Is there a Sentential Subject Constraint in Turkish?"; University of Leipzig. 2002 (a) "Subjects and their Case in Turkish, with particular attention to nominalized subordination", Department of Linguistics, Max-Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. 2002 (b) "Subject Case in Turkish Subordination", Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (=Center for General Linguistics), Berlin. 2002 (c) "Subject Case in Turkish: Does its Morphology Match its Syntax?"; Department of Linguistics; Cornell University. PAPERS AND COMMENTS AT CONFERENCES (Last six years) 2005 (a) “Some correlations in Turkic relative clause properties”, conference of Turkologists in Germany, University of Frankfurt (by invitation). 2005 (b) “Agr in Turkish as an expression of categorial features”; conference on Mediterranean languages; University of the Aegean, Rhodes (by invitation). 2005 (c) “Some theoretical issues in relative clause studies, with particular attention to head-final relative clauses”; workshop on relative clauses; Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology; Leipzig (by invitation). 2004 (a) "Unmasking Covert Complementizer Agreement", LSA, Boston. 2004 (b) “Two types of DSM in Turkish”, Workshop on Differential Subject Marking, University of Nijmegen, Holland. 2004 (c) “Types of subjects and types of clauses in Turkish: A study of categorical features in argument and adjunct clauses”, WAFL (Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics) 2, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul (invited panel speaker). 2004 (d) “A constraint on internal clauses in Turkish”, Workshop on the occasion of Susumu Kuno’s retirement), CUNY Graduate Center (by invitation). 2003 (a) Overview of session on comparative Altaic; Conference on Altaic Formal Linguistics, MIT (by invitation). 2003 (b) "Main Embedding Types in Turkish"; Workshop on Clause Structure and Clausal Integration in Head-Final Languages; University of Konstanz (by invitation). 2003 (c) "Agreement: The (unique and local) syntactic and morphological licenser of subject Case." 2003 (d) "Two Asymmetries in Relative Clauses"; Asymmetry Conference, UQAM. 2002 (a) "On Mood(y) Expressions in Turkish", workshop "In the Mood", Frankfurt University, Department of Linguistics (by invitation). 2002 (b) "Two subject/Non-subject Asymmetries", LSA annual meeting, San Francisco. 2001 (a) "Non-Specific Partitives and the Unreliability of Specificity Markings", LSA annual meeting, Washington, DC. 2001 (b) "Case and Agreement: Morphology and Some of its Syntactic Effects in Turkish", DGfS annual meeting, Workshop on Clause Structure and Morphologically Rich Languages; Leipzig University (by invitation). 2001 (c) "On Certain Word Orders in Turkish", Workshop on Word Order, Bogaziçi University. 2001 (d) "Turkish at the Intersection of Nominalization and Finiteness", Conference on Finiteness, Konstanz University, Department of Linguistics (by invitation). 2001 (e) "Subjects and their Case in Turkish/Turkic Embeddings", Workshop on Altaic Languages, MIT, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. 2000 (a) "Local and Non-Local Agreement in Turkic Relative Clauses", LSA annual meeting, Chicago. 2000 (b) "Scrambling, Subscrambling and Case in Turkish", Conference on Scrambling and Word Order, University of Arizona, Tucson (by invitation in this all-by-invitation conference). 2000 (c) "On Infinitives and other non-finite Clauses in Free (and other) Turkish Relatives"; Workshop on the Functional Structure of the Balkan Languages, University of Venice (by invitation in this all-by-invitation workshop). 2000 (e) "Unmasking the Sentential Subject Constraint in Turkish", 10th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics; Bo©aziçi University, Istanbul. 1999 Invited speaker: "Language tutorial" on all aspects of Modern Standard Turkish: 4-hour lecture (presented in three parts); Linguistic Association of Great Britain, semi-annual meeting, Manchester University. GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS (Limited to the last six years.) Summer 2003 Fellowship (1 month), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary , Leipzig Summer 2002 (a) Fellowship (1 month), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Summer 2002 (b) Fellowship (2.5 weeks), Konstanz University (project on specificity) Spring 2001 (for 2003) Institute of Turkish Studies matching conference grant, to organize the Second Altaic Workshop Fall 1999: Fulbright Fellowship, Frankfurt University, Turkology Department November 1999: Fulbright Interfoundation Grant (Italy) December 1999: Fulbright Interfoundation Grant (France) Summer 1999: Konstanz University Research Fellowship (one month) PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Member, editorial board: Syntax: Journal of Theoretical, Experimental and Interdisciplinary Research (Blackwell Publishers) Organizer of a number of conferences and workshops 1. Referee: Peer-reviewed journals: Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Journal of Linguistics, Studies in Language, Linguistics, Phonology Yearbook, Anthropological Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Syntax, Lingua, Canadian Journal of Linguistics, Dilbilim ve Uygulamaları [Linguistics and its applications]); 2. Conferences : GLOW, NELS, WCCFL, WECOL, WAFL, the International Turkish Linguistics Conference; 3. Funding agencies: NSF, NEH, AHRB; 4. Publishers: University of Chicago Press, Blackwell, Pantheon Member: Linguistic Society of America; Generative Linguists of the Old Worlds (GLOW); American Association of Teachers of Turkic; Turkish Studies Association; Middle East Studies Association ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE IN SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics (since August 2003) COURSES TAUGHT Introduction to Linguistics (undergraduate course) |
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