William D. Davies

Professor and DEO

 

email: william-davies@uiowa.edu

Phone: 319-335-0215
Office: 553 EPB

 

Office Hours

M 1:30-3:00, Th 9:30-11:00, and by appointment

 

Spring 2012 Courses

Course #
Title
Location
Time
 103:113  Linguistic Field Methods  269 EPB  TTh 11:30-12:45

 

 

Education

  • AB (Anthropology), Duke University, 1975
  • MA (Linguistics), University of California, San Diego, 1979
  • Ph.D. (Linguistics), University of California, San Diego, 1981

Areas of Specialization

  • syntax
  • morphology
  • Choctaw
  • Indonesian languages
  • Madurese

Current Research Projects

Some recent publications

In press. "Movement and Locality in Sundanese wh-questions," Syntax. (with Eri Kurniawan) Abstract

2010. A Grammar of the Madurese Language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2010.  “Up to D[eb]ate on Raising and Control, Part 1: Properties and Analyses of the Constructions,” Language and Linguistics Compass 4: 390-400. (with Susannah Kirby and Stanley Dubinsky)

2010.  “Up to D[eb]ate on Raising and Control, Part 2: The Empirical Range of the Constructions and Research on their Acquisition,” Language and Linguistics Compass 4: 401:416. (with Susannah Kirby and Stanley Dubinsky)

2009.  “Methodological Thoughts from the Linguistic Field,” Kata 11:18-38.

2009.  “On the Existence (and Distribution) of Sentential Subjects,” Hypothesis A/Hypothesis B: Linguistic Explorations in Honor of David M. Perlmutter, ed. by Donna Gerdts, John Moore and Maria Polinsky, pp. 111-128.  Current Studies in Linguistics 49.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (with Stanley Dubinsky)  

2008. “Madurese Reflexives with Reference to Malay/Indonesian,” Lingua 118:1603-1616.

2007.  “Looking Out Over the Horizon,”  New Horizons in the Analysis of Control and Raising, pp. 3-12.  Dordrecht: Springer-Verlag. (with Stanley Dubinsky)

2007. New Horizons in the Analysis of Control and Raising. Dordrecht: Springer-Verlag. (edited with Stanley Dubinsky)

2006. "The Place, Range, and Taxonomy of Control and Raising," Syntax 9:111:117. (with Stanley Dubinsky)

2006. "Sentential (and Other Non-nominal) Subjects in English," Studies in Modern Grammar 45:1-32. (with Stanley Dubinsky)

2005. "Madurese Prolepsis and Its Implications for a Typology of Raising," Language 81:645-665.

2005. "The Richness of Madurese Voice," The Many Faces of Austronesian Voice Systems: Some New Empirical Studies, ed. by I Wayan Arka & Malcolm Ross, pp. 193-216. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

2005. "Madurese Control," Kata 7:48-63.

2005. "The Structure of Javanese And Madurese Determiner Phrases," Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, 57-72. (with Craig Dresser) Abstract

2004. The Grammar of Raising and Control. London: Blackwell Publishers. (with Stanley Dubinsky)

2003. "Raising (and Control)." State of the article for GLOT International 7:230-243. (with Stanley Dubinsky)

2003. "Extreme Locality in Madurese wh-Questions," Syntax 6:237-259. Abstract

2003. "On Extraction from NPs," Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 21:1-37. (with Stanley Dubinsky) Abstract

2002. "What Madurese Can Tell Us About Other Languages and What Other Languages Can Tell Us About Madurese," Kata 4:80-95.

2001. Objects and Other Subjects: Grammatical Functions, Functional Categories, and Configurationality. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press. (edited with Stanley Dubinsky)

2001."Against Raising in Madurese (and Other Javanic Languages)," Papers from the 36th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 57-69.

2000. "Events in Madurese Reciprocals," Oceanic Linguistics 39:123-143. Abstract

1999. "Madurese and Javanese as Strict Word Order Languages," Oceanic Linguistics 38:152- 167. Abstract

 

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