Amy Rose Deal

Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics
University of California Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

ardeal (at) ucsc (dot) edu

I am a theoretical linguist with research interests in syntax, semantics and morphology, especially in areas where the three come together. My work draws primarily from Nez Perce and English.

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Some syntactic puzzles:

possessor raising (LI paper, Syncom paper)
ergativity (Handbook article, recent handout, NLLT paper)
the structure of various English possessive constructions (Possession seminar)
Nez Perce complementizer agreement and multiple agree (coming soon!)
Nez Perce word order and scrambling

Some semantic ones:

modals that seem to vary quantificationally (Language paper)
embedded indexicals (Short SULA paper, handout)
semantic variation in mass and count (coming soon!)

Processes of reasoning in semantic fieldwork (Paper)

And at least one puzzle for morphology:

outward-looking phonologically conditioned allomorphy (Paper--joint work with Matthew Wolf)