Heather Lee Taylor

Department of Linguistics
1401 Marie Mount Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742-7505
office phone 301-405-4936
email HLTaylor att umd dot edu

About me:
I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park. My advisor is Norbert Hornstein.
Research Interests:
  • theoretical syntax
  • language acquisition (first and second)
  • semantics and pragmatics

    • My CV can be downloaded here.

    Education:

    doctoral candidacy

    Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland at College Park
    June 2006
    Generals Paper: Out on Good Syntactic Behavior
    M.A.

    Program in Linguistics, Department of English, Eastern Michigan University
    August 2000 - August 2003
    Thesis: On Tough-constructions and Construal-as-Movement: Be tough! It's too easy to give up! [T. Daniel Seely, Advisor]
    B.A. Baylor University, Waco Texas
    completed August 1997
    Major: Psychology
    Minor: Child Development


    A recent picture of me

    Teaching:

    As an instructor

    Issues of Relative Clauses in Syntax and Semantics (seminar for majors)
    [LING 419B]

    		 University of Maryland at College Park
    Fall 2006
    Introductory Linguistics (for non-majors)
    [LING 200]    		 University of Maryland at College Park
    Winter 2006, Winter 2007

    As a TA

    Introductory Linguistics (for non-majors)
    [LING 200]

    University of Maryland at College Park
    Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007
    Introduction to Linguistics (for non-majors)
    [LING 201]

    Eastern Michigan University
    Fall 2001

    Me in my hometown
    Fort Lauderdale, Florida
    (before Hurricane Wilma)

    Publications:

    published papers  
    submitted

    "Comparative Correlatives in Greek: The Syntax of oso" (co-authored with Konstantia Kapetangianni) in MIT Working Papers in Linguistics (MITWPL), Volume on Greek syntax and semantics.
    accepted “The complementizer the,” Proceedings of the 37th Annual Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics. (peer-reviewed).
    volume in preparation “The Syntax of Wh-in-situ and Common Ground” (co-authored with Acrisio Pires) in Masullo, P. (ed) Romance Languages: Structure, interfaces, and microparametric variation: Proceedings of the 37th LSRL/ Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.[link to paper in .pdf]
    volume in preparation “The Syntactically Well-Behaved Comparative Correlative,” in Brucart, J.M., & Gavarró, A. (eds.) Merging Features: Computation, Interpretation and Acquisition.
    2007 “Movement from IF-clause adjuncts” in Conroy, A., C. Jing, C. Nakao, & E. Takahashi (eds.) University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics (UMWPiL) Volume 15, pp. 192-206.
    2005 “Can comparative correlatives be derived under minimalist assumptions?” in Davis, C., A. R. Deal, and Y. Zabbal (eds.) Proceedings of the 36th meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS), GLSA, Amherst, MA.
    2005 “The Web in theoretical linguistics research: two case studies using the Linguist's Search Engine,” (authors - Philip Resnik, Aaron Elkiss, Heather Taylor and Ellen Lau). in Proceedings of 31st Berkeley Linguistics Society.
       
    edited volumes  
    2006 University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics (UMWPiL) volume 14, eds, Nina Kazanina, Utako Minai, Philip J. Monahan and Heather L. Taylor


    Me with long hair

    Conference Presentations:

    2007 Kapetangianni, Konstantia & Heather Lee Taylor (co-authored paper). “Comparative
    Correlatives in Greek: the syntax of oso,” presented at 8th International Conference on
    Greek Linguistics (ICGL-8), at University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
    2007 Kapetangianni, Konstantia & Heather Lee Taylor (co-authored paper). “Comparative Correlatives in Greek: the syntax of oso,” presented at Workshop on Greek Syntax and
    Semantics, (commentary by Rajesh Bhatt), at MIT, May 20-22.
    2007 Kapetangianni, Konstantia & Heather Lee Taylor (co-authored paper). “The syntax of
    Greek equative comparatives,” accepted for presentation at 18th International Symposium
    on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISTAL), at Aristotle University of Thessoloniki,
    Thessoloniki, Greece, May 3-6.
    2007 Pires, Acrisio & Heather Lee Taylor (co-authored paper). “The Syntax of Wh-in-situ and
    Common Ground,” presented at the 43rd Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic
    Society (CLS 43), University of Chicago, May 3-5.
    2007 Pires, Acrisio & Heather Lee Taylor (co-authored paper). “The Syntax of Wh-in-situ and
    Common Ground,” presented at the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
    (LSRL) 37, University of Pittsburgh, March 15-18. [link to paper in pdf]
    2007 Taylor, Heather Lee. “The complementizer the,” presented at Georgetown University
    Round Table on Language and Linguistics (GURT) 37, Georgetown University,
    Washington DC, March 8-11. Chosen for Best Student Paper/Presentation Award in the conference. [link to paper submitted for review in pdf]
    2007 Pires, Acrisio & Heather Lee Taylor (co-authored paper). “The Syntax of Wh-in-situ and
    Common Ground,” accepted for presentation at Penn Linguistics Colloquium 31,
    University of Pennsylvania, Feb 23-25.
    2007 Pires, Acrisio & Heather Lee Taylor (co-authored paper). “The Syntax of Wh-in-situ and
    Common Ground: Discourse-Pragmatics and I-Language,” presented at Biolinguistic Investigations, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Feb 23-25.
    2006 Taylor, Heather Lee. “Conditionals and (the lack of) CED violations,” presented at
    Michigan Linguistic Society, Oakland University, Rochester Michigan. [link to .pdf handout]
    2006 Taylor, Heather Lee. “The Syntactically Well-Behaved Comparative Correlative,”
    presented at the 29th Colloquium, Generative Linguistics of the Old World (GLOW),
    UAB-Casa Convalescència, Barcelona Spain, April 6-8.
    2006 Taylor, Heather Lee. “Moving out of IF-clauses If an IF-clause is sentence initial...”
    presented in the Adjuncts/Modifiers Workshop, Generative Linguistics of the Old World
    (GLOW), UAB-Casa Convalescència, Barcelona Spain, April 5.
    2005 Taylor, Heather Lee. “Can comparative correlatives be derived under minimalist
    assumptions?” poster presented at the North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS) 36, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
    2005 Taylor, Heather Lee. “Pragmatics, Intonation, and WH-in-situ,” presented at the
    SouthEastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL) LXXII, Sheraton Conference Center,
    Raleigh, North Carolina.[link to .pdf handout] [link to paper, ms. from LSA Summer Inst, 2005]
    2005 Resnik, Philip, Aaron Elkiss, Heather Lee Taylor and Ellen Lau. “The Web in
    theoretical linguistics research: two case studies using the Linguist's Search Engine,” paper
    presented at 31st Meeting of Berkeley Linguistics Society.
    2004 Taylor, Heather Lee. “Interclausal (co)dependency: the case of the comparative
    correlative,” presented at Michigan Linguistic Society Annual Meeting, University of
    Michigan-Flint.[link to .pdf handout]
    2003 Taylor, Heather Lee. “A construal-as-movement analysis of a new type of tough-
    construction,” presented at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2003 Annual Meeting,
    Atlanta, Georgia
    2002 Taylor, Heather Lee. “Tough-constructions involving degree ADVPs: A Construal-as-
    Movement approach,” presented at Michigan Linguistic Society Annual Meeting, Wayne
    State University.
    2002 Taylor, Heather Lee. “Adverbs Are Too Important to Ignore: Complementation of Degree
    Adverbs,” presented at Eastern Michigan University Graduate Research Fair 2002,
    Ypsilanti, Michigan
    2001 Appleby, Michael, Lydia Grebenyova and Heather Taylor-Loring. “Binding Principles of
    Children in First-Language Acquisition,” presented at Eastern Michigan University
    Graduate Research Fair 2001, Ypsilanti Michigan.

    My most recent passport/visa photo

    Links of interests:

    The LINGUIST List (I'm an alumna!)
    My alumni page at Eastern Michigan University
    One woman who inspires me

    		  

    Other interests:

    I am an amateur pianist, and I love music. I also used to play the cello, and my daughter is a violist.

    More photos
    A lesson for language from Broadway
    Me when I was still right-handed