Robert Frank is Associate Professor in the Cognitive Science department at Johns Hopkins University. After receiving his Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992, he taught in the Linguistics department at the University of Delaware, and at two previous LSA institutes. Bob's departmental meanderings have led him to pursue an interdisciplinary path of research, applying insights from mathematical formalization and computational modeling to problems in syntactic theory, language acquisition and processing. Some of his publications are Phrase Structure Composition and Syntactic Dependencies (MIT Press); (with K. Vijay-Shanker) “Primitive C-Command,” in Syntax; and “Structural Complexity and the Time Course of Grammatical Development,” in Cognition.

Tree Adjoining Grammar in Grammatical Theory | LSA.234
TR 10:10-11:50
Three Week Course | Second Session