I am a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Iowa under the direction of Prof. Paula Kempchinsky. During the years 2005-2009, I worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the same department. I am a 2009-2010 recipient of the Ballard-Seashore Dissertation Year Fellowship administered through the Graduate College.
I am currently writing my dissertation, entitled “The syntax-information structure interface: subjects and clausal word order in Galician”. My research interests lie in theoretical syntax, more specifically on the syntax of subjects and left-peripheral constituents, but for my dissertation research I have been making a foray into Experimental Syntax, which attempts to elicit quantitative psycholinguistic grammar judgments from larger numbers of participants. I am also interested in pragmatics and the influence that information packaging may have on word order. Looking toward the future, I have an interest in investigating quantifier raising and scope relations. Languages of particular interest to me currently are Galician, Spanish, European Portuguese, and Catalan, but I have also worked with English, Mandarin Chinese and Korean.
Selected conference presentations:
“U-lo suxeito?: A program for determining word order in Galician”. IX International Conference of the International Association of Galician Studies (AIEG), Santiago de Compostela/Vigo/A Coruña (Galicia). 13-17 July 2009. (.ppt link)
“A Piece of the EPP Puzzle: Preverbal Subjects in Galician”. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, University of Western Ontario (Canada). 19-22 October 2006. (.pdf link)
Selected publications:
Gupton, T. 2004. “Estructuras auxiliares en contacto: tener + el acuerdo (in)variable del
participio en el español de Asturias Occidental”. Studia Romanica Posnaniensia 31, 287-294. (.pdf link)
Courses taught as a graduate student at U. Iowa:
Summer/Fall 2009 – None. Currently on dissertation completion fellowship.
Spring 2009 – 035:011 Intermediate Spanish I
Summer/Fall 2008 – None. Leave of absence for dissertation field research
Spring 2008 – 035:121 Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
Fall 2007 – 035:012 Intermediate Spanish II
Summer 2007 – 035:001 Elementary Spanish I
Spring 2007 – None. Served as grader for 035:121 and 035:128.
Fall 2006 – 035:012 Intermediate Spanish II
Summer 2006 – 035:002 Elementary Spanish II
Spring 2006 – None. Served as Research Assistant to Prof. Jason Rothman
Fall 2005 – 035:011 Intermediate Spanish I
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