Norvin
Richards
Professor of Linguistics, Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow
32-D868
MIT Linguistics and Philosophy
77 Massachusetts Avenue, 32-D808
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
This semester I'm teaching 24.956 (Contiguity Theory) and, together with Michael Kenstowicz, 24.942 (Topics in the Grammar of a Less-Familiar Language (Wolof)).
some interests: wh-movement, crucially derivational properties of syntax, interaction between phonology and syntax, endangered languages, the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, any of various issues in the syntax of Tagalog or other Austronesian languages.
Syntax, Endangered Languages, Austronesian Languages, Tagalog, Lardil
Contiguity Theory (MIT Press, 2016)
Uttering Trees (MIT Press, 2010)
Movement in Language: Interactions and Architectures (Oxford University Press, 2001)
- Richards, Norvin. To appear. Nuclear stress and the life cycle of operators. ms., to appear in a Festschrift.
- Richards, Norvin. 2017. Some notes on Tagalog prosody and scrambling. Glossa 2(1), 21.
- Richards, Norvin. 2017. Deriving Contiguity. ms., MIT.
- Richards, Norvin. 2017. Contiguity Theory and pied-piping. ms., MIT.