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Iván Ortega-Santos
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Hi! I am an ABD student at the Department of Linguistics. I work on syntax
both from a theoretical and an experimental point of view. Specifically, I
focus on the nature of syntactic movement, licensing configurations, the syntax-phonology
interface and how all this relates to our brain. Furthermore, I also study
Romance and Spanish syntax, Spanish dialectology and Spanish and Mapudungun Phonology.
Academic background
- Ph.D., University of Maryland (Linguistics),
expected in March 2008 - Qualifying Paper: On Postverbal Subjects, PF and the Copy Theory: The
Spanish Case; Dissertation Title: On
Displacement in Natural Language. Director: J. Uriagereka.
- M.A., University of Arizona (Hispanic
Linguistics), 2003 - M.A Thesis: Overt
Subjects of Infinitives in Spanish: Abstract Agreement and the EPP.
Director: A. Olarrea.
- B.A., University of Deusto,
Further Education
2006 Course “Of
Minds and Language: an encounter with Noam Chomsky”, XVIII Summer Courses at the
University of the Basque Country
2000 Course “On Reference in Natural
Language”, XII Summer Courses at
the University of the Basque Country
1999 Spanish Qualified Teacher’s Title (CAP, Spanish Government)
1997 Erasmus
Exchange Program at the
Publications
2006 On Long Distance Agreement, the Spec,Head Configuration and Overt
Agreement. Proceedings
of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics.
2006 On Postverbal
Subjects, PF and the Copy Theory: The Spanish Case. Selected Proceedings of the 9th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium.
2006 On New
Information Focus, Sentence Stress Assignment Conditions and the Copy Theory: A
Spanish Conspiracy.
2005 On
Locative Inversion and the EPP in Spanish. Actas del VIII Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística
2003 Los sujetos léxicos de los infinitivos en
castellano: Concordancia abstracta y el Principio de la Proyección Extendida. (Overt
Subjects of Infinitives in Spanish: Abstract Agreement and the EPP).
University Microfilms Incorporated,
2003 Alternative
Patterns in Spanish and Mapudungun Stress within
Optimality Theory, Selected Proceedings
of the 13th Annual Graduate and Professional Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language and Culture,
University Arizona.
2002 Overt
Subjects of Infinitives in Spanish: Abstract Agreement and the EPP, Selected
Proceedings of the 12th Annual Graduate and Professional Symposium on Hispanic
and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language and Culture,
Book Reviews / Book Notices
2006 Book notice of
Christopher Gledhill. 2003. Fundamentals
of French Syntax. Lincom Europa.
Language: Journal
of the Linguistic Society of America 83, 946.
2005 Review
of Eugenia Casielles-Suárez. 2004. The Syntax-Information Structure Interface.
Routledge.
Linguistlist (16.1927).
2005 Book notice of
Judith Berman. 2003. Clausal Syntax of
German. CSLI Publications. To
appear in Language: Journal of the
Linguistic Society of America.
2005 Book notice of Mily Crevels, Simon van de Kerke, Sergio Meira and Hein van der Voort (eds.).
2002 Current Studies on
South American Languages. CNWS Publications.
In Language:
Journal of the Linguistic Society of America 81, 1002-3.
2005 Book notice of Manuel Leonetti, Olga Fernández Soriano and Victoria Escandell
Vidal (eds.) 2002. Current
Issues in Generative Grammar. U.N.E.D. In Language: Journal of the
Linguistic Society of America 81, 1012-3.
Conference Presentations
2007 On Constraints on Syntactic Movement and the
Brain – III Conference of the Association of Latinoamerican
Linguistics and Philology of Northwest Europe (ALFAL-NE), University
of Oxford, UK.
2007 On
Neural Accommodation and Relativized Minimality Effects – Biolinguistic Investigations, FUNGLODE,
2007 On Expletives and Checking Relations – Poster
at the
2006 On
Postverbal Subjects, PF and the Copy Theory: The
Spanish Case - ECO5 Workshop,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
2006 On
the Units of Spell-out and Long Distance Agreement - 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCFL25),
University of Washington, Seattle.
2006 On
Efficient Production, the Units of Spell-out and Agreement Paradigms - Poster
at InterPhases,
University of Cyprus, Cyprus.
2006 On the Duality
of Merge and Semantics. – 36th
Annual Meeting of the
2005 On
Postverbal Subjects, PF and the Copy Theory: The
Spanish Case - Hispanic Linguistics
Symposium,
2004 Impersonal
constructions and the EPP in Spanish - 23rd
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 23),
2004 On (Locative) Inversion in Spanish - VIII
Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística del Noroeste, University of Sonora (México)
2003 Alternative
Patterns in Spanish and Mapudungun Stress within
Optimality Theory – 13th Annual
Graduate and Professional Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian
Literature, Language and Culture, University of Arizona.
2002 El interfaz fonología-sintaxis: cuando la topicalización del sintagma inflexional
se encuentra a los sujetos léxicos de infinitivos regidos (The
Phonology-Syntax Interphase: When IP Remnant Movement Meets Overt Infinitival
Subjects) – Graduate Symposium, Arizona State
University.
2002 Verbal
Agreement in Southern Chilean Spanish - Fall
Brown Bag Colloquium Series, Department of Latin-American Studies,
2001 El Teorema de PRO y
los sujetos léxicos de infinitivo (The PRO Theorem and Overt Infinitival Subjects)
– 12th Annual Graduate and
Professional Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian
Literature, Language and Culture,
Invited Talks
2006 On Long
Distance Agreement, Incrementality and Left-to-right Syntax - BIDE
(Bilbao-Deusto Student Conference),
Professional Service
2007 Editorial
Assistant for J. Uriagereka (forthcoming) Syntactic
Anchors, Cambridge University Press.
2007 Co-editor
of the
2004
Co-organizer, Mayfest 2005 / WH-Fest,
2004-2007 Member of the Scientific Committee of BIDE (
2004 Co-organizer, Departmental Student Conference,
2002-2005 Judge for drama and poetry contests at the
annual Language Fair organized by the
2001-2002 Assistant Editor of
the
2000 Member
of the Organizing Committee of the 11th Annual Graduate and Professional
Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature,
Language and Culture,
Awards and Honors
2006 Jacob
K. Goldhaber Award (
2001-2005 Research Training Scholarship (Department of Education,
Universities and Research of the Basque Government)
2000-2001 Registration Scholarship (
2000-2001 Graduate Student Scholarship (
1999-2000 Spanish Teaching Assistantship at
Secondary Education in the
1997-1998 Erasmus Scholarship (European Union Study Grant at the University of
Research in Progress
· Dissertation Research:
Licensing
configurations
Syntactic
movement in natural language
Word order and clause structure from
a crosslinguistic point of view
Syntax
/ Phonology Interface
Advisor: J. Uriagereka
· Minor Area Project:
Unification of Theoretical and
Experimental research through the case study of Relativized
Minimality Effects (Rizzi
1990)
Advisor:
D. Poeppel
Last updated: 09/01/2007