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Sara Rosen

Sara Rosen

Name: Sara Thomas Rosen
Title: Professor
Address:
      Department of Linguistics
      1541 Lilac Lane
      University of Kansas
      Lawrence, KS 66044
Phone: (785) 864-2881
Fax: (785) 864-5724
Email: rosen@ku.edu

Sara Thomas Rosen (Ph.D., Brandeis), Chair of the Linguistics Department, does her primary research in theoretical syntax, focusing on the clausal functional architecture and its contribution to argument and event interpretation.

Courses Scheduled

  • Fall 2006:
    Linguistics 910: Subject Positions (download syllabus in MS Word format)

Education

  • Ph.D.(1990)
    Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1985-1989
    Linguistics and Cognitive Science

    Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, attended 1982-1985
    Applied Psycholinguistics

  • M.Ed. (1982)
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Special Education

  • BA honors (1981)
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Psychology

Dissertation

"Argument Structure and Complex Predicates"
Thesis Supervisor: Jane Grimshaw

Professional Employment

  • Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas – Lawrence

  • Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas – Lawrence, 2000 - 2006

  • Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas – Lawrence, 1996 - 2000.

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas – Lawrence, 1991 - 1996.

  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland, 1990 - 1991 academic year.

  • Post Doctoral Fellow, SSHRCC (Canada Council) Grant 410-88-0624 "Argument Structure" to Université du Québec à Montréal (Anna Maria DiSciullo) September, 1989 - August, 1990.

Grants and Awards

  • Probing the Syntax-Discourse Interface: The role of person in events and speech acts. Collaborator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2005-2008.

  • NSF ADVANCE Leadership Institute for Senior Women Faculty. 2005-2006 academic year.

  • Senior Administration Fellow, University of Kansas, 2004-2005 Academic Year. Seminar-style training for senior administration.

  • J. Michael Young Academic Advising Award, 2002-2003.

  • Excellence in Teaching Award, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Kansas, May 1999.

  • Post-Lexical Semantics: At the Interface between the Lexicon and Syntax. Collaborator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1994-1996.

  • Argument Mapping. General Research Fund, University of Kansas, 1995.

  • Inferring the Innateness of Syntactic Knowledge. General Research Fund, University of Kansas, 1994.

  • Thematic and Aspectual Arguments. General Research Fund, University of Kansas, 1993.

  • Event Structure. New Faculty Research Fund Award, University of Kansas, 1992.

Book

Rosen, S.T. (1990) Argument Structure and Complex Predicates. Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics Series V, New York : Garland Publishing Co.

Refereed Journal Publications and Book Chapters

  • Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen (to appear) Event Structure in Blackfoot. In M. Rappaport Hovav (ed.), Oxford University Press.

    Rosen, S.T. (in press) Structured Events, Structured Discourse. To appear in Ramchand & Reiss (eds.), Interfaces, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen (2005) Agreement without A positions: Another look at Algonquian. Linguistic Inquiry, 36:648-660.

    Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen (2005) Topic or Aspect: Functional heads, features and the grammatization of events. In P. Kempchinsky & R. Slabokova (eds.), Aspectual Inquiries, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 21-40.

    Hornstein, N., S.T. Rosen and J. Uriagereka (2002) Integrals. In J. Uriagereka, Derivations: Exploring the Dynamics of Syntax. London: Routledge, 179-191.

    Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen (2001) The Interpretive Value of Object Agreement. Language Sciences, 23, 425-451.

  • Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen (2000) Event Structure and Ergativity. In C. Tenny & J. Pustejovsky (eds.) Events as Grammatical Objects, CSLI, Stanford: 187-238.

  • Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen (1998) Delimiting Events in Syntax. In W. Geuder & M. Butt (eds.), The Projection of Arguments: Lexical and Syntactic Constraints, pp. 135-164, CSLI, Stanford.

  • Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen (1997) The Function of Have. Lingua, 101, 295-321.

  • Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen (1996) Strong and Weak Predicates: Reducing the Lexical Burden. Linguistic Analysis, 26, 1-34.

  • Rosen, S.T. (1996) Events and Verb Classification. Linguistics, 34, 191-223.

  • Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen (1993) Deriving Causation. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 11, 519-555.

  • Di Sciullo, A.M. and S.T. Rosen (1991) Constructions à prédicats légers et quasi-légers. Révue Québécoise de Linguistique: Structures d’arguments et propriétés grammaticales, 20, 13-37.

  • Di Sciullo, A.M. and S.T. Rosen (1990) Light and Semi-Light Verb Constructions. In Perrin Wright (ed.) Grammatical Relations: A Cross-Theoretical Perspective, CSLI, Stanford University.

  • Grimshaw, J. and S.T. Rosen (1990) Obeying the Binding Theory. In Lyn Frazier and Jill de Villiers (eds.), Language Processing and Acquisition, Kluwer Academic.

  • Grimshaw, J. and S.T. Rosen (1990) Knowedge and Obedience: The Developmental Status of the Binding Theory. Linguistic Inquiry, 21 (2), 187-222.

  • Rosen, S.T. (1989) Two Types of Noun Incorporation: A Lexical Analysis. Language, 65 (2), 294-317.

Invited Reviews

  • Rosen, S.T. (1999) The Syntactic Representation of Linguistic Events. A State-of-the-Article. Glot International, 4, 3-10.

  • Rosen, S.T. (1998) Review of Carol Tenny Aspectual Roles and the Syntax-Semantics Interface. Language, 74 (4), 847-850.

  • Rosen, S.T. (1992) Review of Suzanne Flynn and Wayne O’Neil (eds.), Linguistic Theory in Second Language Acquisition. Language, 68 (1), 202-206.

Reprinted Articles

  • Rosen, S.T. (2003) The Syntactic Representation of Linguistic Events. In L. Cheng & R. Sybesma (eds.), The 2nd State of the Article Book. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 323-365. Reprinted from Glot International, 4, 3-10.

  • Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen (2002) Strong and Weak Predicates: Reducing the Lexical Burden. In Kensei Sugayama (ed.) Studies in Lexical Semantics. Tokyo : The Eihosa Ltd. Reprinted from Linguistic Analysis, 26, 1-34.

Theses Directed

Ph.D.

  • Mubeccel Taneri, Ph.D. with honors May 1993 The Morpheme -IL/(I)N: The Syntax of Personal Passives, Impersonal Passives and Middles in Turkish.

  • In Lee, Ph.D. December 1994 Analysis of Korean Complex Predicates: An Argument Structure Account.

  • Dongik Choi, Ph.D. with honors December 1996 An Optimality Theoretic Approach to the Coreference between NPs.

  • Virginia Wang, Ph.D. May 1999 Delimitation: Evidence from Mandarin.

  • Supath Kookiattikoon, Ph.D. with honors May 2001. The Syntax of Classifiers in Thai.

  • Mary S. Linn, Ph.D. with honors May 2001. A Grammar of Euchee (Yuchi). (with Akira Yamamoto)

  • Emad Al-Tamari, Ph.D. Summer 2001. Sentential Negation in English and Arabic: A Minimalist Approach.

  • Osama Abdel-Ghafer, Ph.D. with honors December 2003.
  • Mohamad Galal, Ph.D. May 2004. A Minimalist Approach to Relative Clauses in Modern Standard Arabic.

  • Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto, Ph.D. with honors May 2005. Focus at the Interface.

  • Maisoun Abu-Joudeh, Ph.D. May 2005. Multiple Feature Checking in Arabic.

  • Yan Ling, Ph.D. August 2005. Movement to the Left Periphery of vP.

  • Michael Putnam, Ph.D. in Germanic Languages May 2006. Prolific Scrambling (with William Keel).

  • Jong-Il Kwon, Ph.D. expected May 2007.

  • Khalaf Al-Shammiry, Ph.D. expected May 2007.

M.A.

  • Elisa Vazquez-Iglesias, MA May 1995. A New Approach to the Binding Theory in Spanish.

  • Melissa Goodell, MA with honors August 1998. Marginal Questions in Optimality Theory.

  • Lisa Stewart, MA May 2001.

  • Maria Carmen Parafita, MA with honors May 2002. Minimalist Approach to Galician Inflected Infinitives

  • Junko Maekawa Young, MA May 2002. Movement of the Object in English and Japanese in Minimalist Program. (with Akira Yamamoto)

  • Gerardo Fernandez-Salguiero, MA with honors May 2003. On Agree.

  • Nina Radkevich, MA with honors August 2005. Multiple Wh in Russian.

  • Donald Englund, MA December 2006. The Syntactic Structure of the Focused Adverbial Cognate Object in Biblical Hebrew.

  • Michelle Bridges, MA expected May 2007.

B.A. Honors

  • Madeline Holler, Undergraduate Honors May 1995 Get and Aspect.

  • Jarromy Brune, Undergraduate Honors May 1997 Conjoined Structures and Case Assignment in Conjunctions.

  • Ann Moser, Undergraduate Honors May 2003.