Janet H. Randall

Associate Professor; Head of the Linguistics Program; Ph.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst

• Research areas and interests: theoretical linguistics (the syntax/semantics interface, argument structure), language acquisition (acquisition of verbs; argument structure; morphology); psycholinguistics; linguistics and grammar in K-12. Her forthcoming book is on verb argument linking. Her next project, The Grammar Gap, is on the teaching (and non-teaching) of grammar.

• Selected publications: Linking: the geometry of argument structure. (In press.) Springer. "Parameterized auxiliary selection: a fine-grained interaction of features and linking rules." (2007) In Aranovich, R., (ed.), Split Auxiliary Systems. John Benjamins. "Acquiring unaccusatives: a cross-linguistic look." (with A. van Hout, H. Baayen & J. Weissenborn). (2003) In Alexiadou, A. A. Anagnostopoulou & M. Everaert (eds.) Studies in Unaccusativity: the syntax-lexicon interface. Oxford. The argument structure and syntactic structure of resultatives. (with Jill Carrier) (1992) Linguistic Inquiry. Catapults & pendulums: the mechanics of language acquisition. (1990) Linguistics. Morphological Structure and Language Acquisition. (1985) Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics, Garland.

• Honors: Research Associate, Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics 1989-1997; Recipient of Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship 1993, 1994; Killam Fellowship 1981-83.

• Visiting appointments: Brown University; Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; MIT Cognitive Science Center; University of Düsseldorf.