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Beth Levin is the William H. Bonsall Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. from MIT in 1983 and then spent four years at the MIT Center for Cognitive Science, where she had major responsibility for the Lexicon Project. Before joining the Stanford Department of Linguistics, she taught in the Department of Linguistics at Northwestern University from 1987-1999 and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1999-2000. Her recent work investigates the linguistic representation of events and the ways in which events and their participants are expressed in English and other languages. She is the author of English Verb Classes and Alternations: A Preliminary Investigation (University of Chicago Press) and “Objecthood: An Event Structure Perspective,” in CLS (35). She has also co-authored with Malka Rappaport Hovav a monograph, Unaccusativity: At the Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface (MIT Press), Argument Realization (CUP, in press), and many papers, including “An Event Structure Account of English Resultatives,” in Language.

Semantic Prominence and Argument Realization | LSA.123
TR 10:10-11:50
Three Week Course | First Session