Research Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz

Short CV

Education

1986

Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (thesis supervisor: Alan Prince)

1978

Erstes Staatsexamen, University of Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Georgia Augusta), Germany

1971

Abitur, Ravensberger Gymnasium, Herford, Germany

Employment

since 2017

Research Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz

1997-2017

Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz

1993-97

Associate Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz

1989-93

Assistant Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz

1986-89

Assistant Professor of Linguistics, UT Austin

Visiting Appointments

since 2013 Visiting Research Faculty, National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL), Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan

2010-2012

Visiting Researcher, Department of Linguistic Theory and Structure, NINJAL (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics), Tachikawa, Japan

2006-07

Visiting Researcher, Kyoto University and Kobe University, Japan

2001-02

Visiting Researcher, Kobe University, Japan

1999

Visiting Professor, Tsukuba University, Japan (June-July)

1998

Visiting Professor, Tübingen University, Germany (April-July)

1995

Visiting Professor, Tübingen University, Germany (June-July)

1993-94

Adjunct Professor of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Awards and Grants

2018-20

NSF Grant No. 1749368 "Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory" (with J. Ito)

2001-02

JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Fellowship for Research in Japan

1997-00

Monbusho International Scientific Research Program (Japan): Joint Research Grant (with H. Kubozono, S. Haraguchi, and J. Ito)

1995-99

NSF Grant No. SBR-9510868 "The Structure of the Phonological Lexicon" (with J. Ito)

1991-92

NSF Grant No. BNS-9021357 "Properties of Feature Organization" (with E. Selkirk, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and J. Ito)

 

Link to Papers and publications

 
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