William D. Davies

Professor

Phone: 319-335-0215
Office: 553 EPB

Office Hours

M 2:30-4:00, Th 11:00-12:30, and by appointment.

Fall 2009 Courses

Course #	Title	Location	Time
103:055	Language of the World	107 EPB	TTh 1:05-2:20
103:200	Proseminar: Morphosyntax	108 EPB	F 10:30-11:20
103:201	Introduction to Syntax	14 EPB	TTh 9:30-10:45

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
Javanese
Madurese

Current Research Projects

A digital archive of Madurese folk tales and historical narratives
Distribution of voice marking and null pronouns in Madurese discourse
Madurese applicative suffixes

Some recent publications

To appear. A Grammar of Madurese. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

In press. "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 . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (with Stanley Dubinsky)

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

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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Revised August 24, 2009.