Janet H. Randall

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

• Research areas and interests: theoretical linguistics (syntax/semantics interface), language acquisition, psycholinguistics
• Selected publications: Linking: the geometry of argument structure (Kluwere Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory series, forthcoming); Features and linking rules: a parametric account of auxiliary selection, "in Aranovich (ed.), Cross Linguistic Perspectives on Auxiliary Selection," John Benjamins (forthcoming); "Acquiring unaccusatives: a cross-linguistic look." (with van Hout, Baayen & Weissenborn), in Alexiadou, Anagnostopoulou & Everaert (eds.) Studies in Unaccusativity: the syntax-lexicon interface.(Oxford 2003); Morphological Structure and Language Acquisition; "Lexical Mapping" (with Carrier) in Reuland & Abraham (eds.) Knowledge and Language vol. 2: lexical and conceptual structure (Kluwer); "The Argument Structure and Syntactic Structure of Resultatives" in Linguistic Inquiry
• Honors: Recipient of Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship 1993, 1994
  Research Associate, Max-Planck Institute