Nina Hyams is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include first language acquisition, especially development of morphosyntax, syntax, and the semantics of tense/aspect, and the relation between linguistic theory and language acquisition. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York in 1983. Recent publications include “Clausal Structure in Early Greek: A Reply to Varlokosta, Vainikka and Rohrbacher and A Reanalysis,” in The Linguistic Review; (with Teun Hoekstra) “Aspects of Root Infinitives,” in Lingua; “Now You Hear It, Now You Don't: The Nature of Optionality in Child Language,” Proceedings of the 25th Boston University Conference on Language Development; and (with Jill Gilkerson and Susie Curtiss) “On the Scope of Negation: A Preferential Looking Paradigm Study of Early Parameter Setting.”

Early (Morpho-)Syntactic Development in First Language Acquisition | LSA.126
MW 8:15-9:55
Three Week Course | First Session