John Whitman teaches in the linguistics department at Cornell. His fields of interest are syntactic variation in natural language and language change. He works broadly within the paradigm of generative linguistics. Much of his research is on Japanese and Korean, but he has also worked on Chinese, Burmese, and a variety of other languages. Recent publications include (with K. Takezawa) “Kaku to gojun to tôgo kôzô” (Case, Word Order, and Syntactic Structure) in Nichieigo hikaku sensho , volume 9 (Kenkyusha); (co-editor, with K. Takami and A. Kamio) Syntactic and functional explorations: A festschrift for Susumu Kuno (Kuroshio Press); (co-editor with Y. Shirai) “First Language Acquisition of East Asian Languages,” special issue of the Journal of East Asian Linguistics; “Kayne 1994: p. 143, fn. 3,” in The Minimalist Parameter (John Benjamins); “Relabeling,” in Diachronic Syntax: Models and Mechanisms (Oxford University Press); (with Sang Doh Park) “Direct movement passives in Korean and Japanese,” in Japanese/Korean Linguistics 11 (CSLI); (with W. Paul) “Reanalysis and conservancy of structure in Chinese,” in Grammaticalization and Parametric Change (Oxford University Press, to appear, 2004); (with Bjarke Frellesvig) “The Japanese-Korean vowel correspondences,” in Japanese/Korean Linguistics 12, (CSLI, to appear 2004); and “Preverbal elements in Japanese and Korean,” in Handbook of Syntactic Variation (Oxford University Press, to appear, 2004).

The Syntax of Pre-Modern Japanese | LSA.239
with Akira Watanabe
TR 2:55-4:35
Three Week Course | Second Session