Juan Uriagereka

Curriculum Vitae

Last updated January 2006

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· Professional Interests	· Academic Service	· Advisees	Summary of Outreach Activities
· Education	· Professional Activities	· Publications
· Teaching Experience	· Grants and Awards	· Talks / Conference Presentations

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Professional Interests

Theoretical Syntax, Comparative Grammar, Romance Linguistics, Linguistic Evolution, Logical Form, Syntax/Cognition Interface, Poetics, Language and Culture.

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Education

2004	Konstanz University, Germany. Visiting Professor (sabbatical).
1996	Wolfson College, Oxford University. Visiting Scholar (sabbatical).
1984-88	University of Connecticut. PhD in Linguistics. Dissertation Title: On Government (Howard Lasnik, director), distributed by MITWPL.
1986	LSA Institute, City University of New York. Graduate Student, Summer.
1983-84	University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Hispanic Languages and Linguistics Dept.
1978-83	University of Deusto. Licenciatura in Anglo-Germanic Philology.

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Teaching Experience

2000-pres	Professor, Linguistics, UMD at College Park, US.
2002 -05	Visiting Chair (Summers), Basque Philology, University of the Basque Country.
2004-05	Visiting Prof., Konstanz University, Germany.
2005	Visiting Prof., Leiden University, Netherlands.
1994-99	Associate Prof., Linguistics, UMD at College Park, US.
1999	Visiting Prof., LSA International Summer School at Urbana-Champaign Illinois, US.
1999	Visiting Prof., Tsukuba University, Japan.
1997-99	Visiting Prof., European Summer Courses, U. of the Basque Country, Europe.
1997	Visiting Prof., U. Nacional del Comahue, General Roca, Argentina.
1997	Visiting Prof., Universidade Católica de Portoalegre, Brazil.
1995-97	Visiting Prof., Instituto Ortega y Gasset, Madrid, Europe.
1995	Visiting Prof., Universidade Federal do Río de Janeiro, Brazil.
1989-94	Assistant Prof., Linguistics, UMD at College Park, US.
1991-94	Adjunct Prof., Linguistics, Georgetown U., US.
1992	Visiting Prof., GLOW International School in Linguistics, Girona, Europe.
1988-89	Visiting Assistant Prof., Linguistics, UMass at Amherst, US.
1985-87	Teaching Assistant, Linguistics, University of Connecticut, US.

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Courses Taught

All levels of Syntax (including Honors). Romance Linguistics. Language & Mind. Grammar & Meaning.

Seminars: Biolinguistics, Issues on Minimalism, Dynamic Syntax, Distributed Interfaces, Minimalist Extensions, Integrals, Phrase Structure, Extraction, Agreement, (In)definiteness & (Un)specificity, Poetics, etc.

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Academic Service

2006	Search Committee for MITH Director, Arts & Humanities, chair.
2006	Orientation for new Assistant Professors, Arts & Humanities.
2006	Internal Review Committee for Linguistics, Arts & Humanities.
2005	Orientation for new Assistant Professors, Arts & Humanities.
2005	Linguistics Department Chair Evaluation Committee, Arts & Humanities.
2005	Promotion Committee to Full Professorship for Professor D. Poeppel, chair.
2003-04	Academic Planning and Curriculum Committee, Arts & Humanities.
1999-2003	Director of the Graduate Program, Linguistics Department.
2002	Tenure Committee for Professor C. Phillips.
2001-02	Chair of the Appointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Arts & Humanities.
2001-02	Committee on Alternative Recruitment Methods, Graduate School.
2000-02	Appointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Arts & Humanities.
2000	Philosophy Department Chair Search Committee, Arts & Humanities.
1998-00, 2003-04	Academic Planning and Curriculum Committee, Arts & Humanities.
1998	Committee on New Technologies, Arts & Humanities.
1998	Linguistics Department Chair Evaluation Committee, Arts & Humanities.
1998	Search Committee, Neuroscience & Cognitive Science Assistant Professor position.
1995/1998	Collegiate Council, Arts & Humanities.
1997	Internal Review Committee for Linguistics, Arts & Humanities.
1997	Search Committee, Linguistics and Philosophy Associate Professor position.
1993-94	Director of the Undergraduate Program, Linguistics Dept.
1993-94	Faculty Advisory Committee, Linguistics Dept.
1990-93	Campus Senate, University of Maryland.
1990-93	Collegiate Council, Arts & Humanities.
1990	Drafter of Department Plan of Organization.
1991	Committee on Teaching Evaluation, Dean of Arts and Humanities and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education.
1990-91	Faculty Advisory Committee, Linguistics Dept.
1986-87	Ex-officio member of the Executive Committee of the LSA (Bloch fellow).

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Professional Activities

Reviews / Evaluation:

o Journals: Language, LA, LI, NLLT, Syntax, Lingua, JL, JSL, LA, Probus, etc.

o Conferences: GLOW, NELS, WCCFL, WECOL, LSRL, HLS, TLR, CGG, Evolang, etc.

o Publishers: MIT, Cambridge, Oxford, Blackwell, etc.

o Foundations: NSF, ESF, CSF, Rockefeller, etc.

o Evaluator for research position candidates, ICREA (senior and junior).

o External Evaluator for promotion/tenure cases at: Arizona (two departments), Connecticut (two cases), Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio State, NYU, Purdue.

Boards:

o Scientific Panels: Jakiunde, Basque Academy of Sciences, Arts and Humanities; ICREA, Spain.

o Scientific Boards: Center for Complex Dynamic Systems, Potsdam.

o Editorial Boards: Biolinguistics, Syntax, Probus, Linguistic Variation Yearbook Project, LICOM (Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, Munich), ReVEL (Virtual Journal of Language Studies, Brazil), Signos Lingüísticos (UAM, Mexico City), International Journal of Basque Linguistics andPhilology (Spain), The Knowledge-Language series (Spain).

o Scientific Advisor: Asymmetry (UQAM, Montreal, Canada), Die Syntax nichtkanonischer Komplementation (ASG, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and Humboldt Universtat Berlin).

Other professional activities:

o Co-organizer, with M. Piattelli-Palmarini and P. Salaburu of the 2006 Course Of Minds and Language: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky. 2006. 25^th Anniversary of the European Summer Courses of Basque Country.

o Co-organizer, with N. Hornstein, of the 2002 Minimalist Mayfest; University of Maryland.

o Co-director of 1998 Linguistics Course What is the Meaning of a Word? Invited professors: J. Fodor, J. Higginbotham, E. Lepore; U. of the Basque Country European Summer School.

o Co-organizer of the 1998 Mayfest Minority Languages in the 21st Century; University of Maryland.

o Co-director of the 1997 Linguistics Course Natural Language Processing. Invited professors: S. Crain, B. Dorr, R. C. Berwick, A. Weinberg; U. of the Basque Country European Summer School.

o Co-organizer of the 1993 Mayfest Minimalist Presentations; University of Maryland.

o Co-organizer of the 1992 Mayfest Minimalist Readings; University of Maryland.

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Grants and Awards

2007-2010	Co-PI with N. Hornstein and H. Lasnik of ‘Islands and Linearization’, NSF grant.
2007- 2010	Researcher for Biolinguistica: Fundamento Genético, Desarrollo y Evolución del Lenguaje, FEDER grant HUM2007-60427/FILO, Universidad de Oviedo.
2004	Project ‘The Chomsky Hierarchy and the Transition to the Upper Paleolithic,’ funded by the Graduate School, UMD.
2004	Distinguished Graduate Director, University of Maryland at College Park.
2003	Project ‘The Immune Syntax,’ funded by the Center for Comparative Neuroscience, UMD.
2002	GRB Summer Research Grant, UMD. Topic: ‘The Evolution of Transformational Syntax.’
2001	National Euskadi Prize for Research in Social Sciences, Basque Government.
2000	José María de Pereda Prize, for La Comandita, co-authored with Javier Díez.
1999-02	Co-PI with N. Hornstein of ‘Minimalism, Modularity and Derivations’ NSF grant BCS‑9817569.
1999-00	Co-PI, with J. Reggia and G. Wilkinson of ‘Computational Exploration of the Origins and of Language,’ project funded by the Center for Comparative Neuroscience, UMD.
1998-99	Co-PI, with D. Poeppel of ‘Neurophysiology of Vocabulary Types,’ project funded by the Center for Comparative Neuroscience, UMD.
1998	Best New Professional Book in Language and Linguistics Award from the American Association of Publishers, for Rhyme and Reason.
1997	GRB Summer Research Grant, UMD. Topic: ‘Minimalist Extensions.’
1996-99	Co-PI with N. Hornstein of ‘Minimalism and Logical Form,’ NSF grant SBR 9601559.
1995	GRB Summer Research Grant, UMD. Topic: ‘Context Specifications in a Theory of Grammar’
1994	UMD Certificate of Teaching Excellence.
1993	UMD Certificate of Teaching Excellence.
1990	Dissertation nominated as the University of Connecticut candidate for the 1990 Council of Graduate Schools Distinguished Dissertation Award, Social Sciences.
1987	University of Connecticut Dissertation Fellowship
1986-87	Bloch Fellow, Linguistic Society of America.
1985-88	Research Training Grant, Department of Education, Universities and Research of the Basque Government, Europe.
1984-85	Research Training Grant, Caja de Ahorros Vizcaína, Europe.
1983	Matrícula de Honor (magna cum laude) in the State Exam for licenciatura, University of Deusto, Europe.

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PUBLICATIONS

Books

Forthcoming	Of Minds and Language, with M. Piattelli-Palmarini and P. Salaburu (co-eds.).
Forthcoming	Syntactic Anchors (On Semantic Structuring) (Cambridge).
2005	A Course in Minimalist Syntax, with H. Lasnik, Blackwell. 312 pp.
2002	Derivations, Routledge ‘Leading Linguists’ series, 361 pp. (Reviewed in Linguistische Berichte).
2001	La Comandita, with J. Díez, Pre-Textos, 161 pp. Premio de Novela Corta José María de Pereda, Spain.
2000	Step by Step: Minimalist Papers in Honor of Howard Lasnik, co-edited with R. Martin and D. Michaels, MIT Press, 381 pp. (Reviewed in The Linguist List (2001) and The Journal of Linguistics (2002)).
1998	Rhyme and Reason (with a foreword by M. Piattelli-Palmarini), MIT Press, 720 pp. 1998 American Association of Publishers Award for Best New Professional Book on Language and Literature (Reviewed in Language (2002), Journal of Linguistics (1998), twice in The Linguist’s List; translated into Spanish as Pies y Cabeza, Visor (2005)).
1988	A Course in GB Syntax, with H. Lasnik, MIT Press, 192 pp. (Reviewed in Language (1991), Linguistics (1989) Lingua (1988), translated into Basque and Korean)

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Articles

2006	‘The Dynamics of Islands’, with H. Lasnik and N. Hornstein, to appear in K. Grohmann (ed.), Dynamic Interfaces, special issue of Linguistic Analysis.
2006	‘On the Metaphysics of Linguistics’, with W. Hinzen, in W. Hinzen (ed.) Prospects for Dualism, special issue of Erkenntnis.
2006	‘Some Concepts and Questions Concerning the I System,’ Anuario del Seminario Julio de Urquijo. International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology
2005	‘The Evolution of the Narrow Faculty of Language: The skeptical view and a Reasonable Conjecture,’ with M. Piattelli-Palmarini, in D. Delfitto, G. Graffi and S. Scalise (eds.), Lingue e Linguaggio, special issue on Language Evolution.
2003	‘Language and Complexity: A tutorial’, special theme issue of the International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos on ‘Cognition and Complex Brain Dynamics’, with D. Saddy.
2002	‘Progress in the Simulation of Emergent Communication and Language,’ Mind and Language, with K. Wagner, J. Reggia and G. Wilkinson.
2002	‘Cutting Derivational Options,’ Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.
2001	‘Conditions enabling the emergence of inter-agent signaling in an artificial world,’. Artificial Life, with J. Reggia, R. Schulz, and G. Wilkinson.
2001	‘On the Emptiness of Design Polemics,’ Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.
2000	‘Warps: Some Thoughts on Categorization,’ Theoretical Linguistics.
2000	‘Cyclicity and Extraction Domains,’ with J. Nunes, Syntax.
1999	‘Government Restriction