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Edith Moravcsik, Professor

Office: Curtin Hall 883
Phone: 414-229-6794
e-mail: edith@uwm.edu

Degree:
Ph.D., Indiana University

Research Interests:
Syntax, language typology

Teaching Interests:
Introduction to linguistics, syntax, morphology, language typology

On-Line Papers:
"On the nouniness of Hungarian adjectives" (PDF 80K)
"What is universal about typology?" (PDF 44K)
"Coming to Grips with Exceptions" (PDF 111K)
"Explaining language universals" (PDF 102K)
"Part-whole relations in syntax" (PDF 25K)
"Intro to syntax: contents and preface" (PDF 48K)
"Intro to syntactic theory: contents and preface" (PDF 44K)
"The distribution of case" (PDF 74K)
"Review of F.J. Newmeyer's Possible and probable languages" (PDF 56K)
"Partonomic structures in syntax" (PDF 81K)

Recent Publications:
2006 An introduction to syntax. Fundamentals of syntactic analysis. London, New York: Continuum.

2006 An introduction to syntactic theory. London, New York: Continuum.

2000 "On the nouniness of Hungarian adjectives" In: Chris Schaner-Wolles et al., ed., Naturally! Linguistic studies in honour of Wolfgang Ulrich Dressler presented on the occasion of his 60th birthday. 337-346. Torino: Rosenberg and Sellier.

2000 "Infixation" In: Geert Booij et al., ed., Morphology. An international handbook on inflection and word-formation. Volume 1. 545-552. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

2000 "Nouns" (with Christian Lehmann) In: Geert Booij et al., ed, Morphology. An international handbook on inflection and word-formation. Volume 1. 732-757. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

2000 Review of Language form and language function, by Frederick Newmeyer, Language, 76/1, 168-170.

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