Heidi Harley
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Heidi B. Harley (born September 26, 1969) is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She is the author or coauthor of three books, and has several papers published on formal syntactic theory, morphology, and lexical semantics.
Career
Harley is one of the main researchers working in the theory of Distributed morphology. She has published over thirty articles on morphological theory syntax and semantics, including articles in the journals Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Lingua, Morphology Yearbook, and Studia Linguistica.
She is the editor of three volumes of collected papers, the editor of two special issues of journals, and is the author of a major textbook on morphological theory. She has been an invited teacher at major summer schools in linguistics throughout the world including Ireland and Brazil.
Specializations
- Syntax,
- Distributed Morphology,
- Argument Structure,
- Lexical semantics
Education
- B.A. in Linguistics and English: Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1991
- Ph.D. in Linguistics and Philosophy: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995
Personal life
She was born in Oregon, but was raised in St. John's, Newfoundland.
External links
- Personal homepage
- Formal Approaches to Function: In honor of Eloise Jelinek, John Benjamins Publishers, 2003, (with Andrew Carnie and MaryAnn Willie)
- Verb First: On the Syntax of Verb Initial Languages, John Benjamins Publishers, 2005, (with Andrew Carnie and Sheila Dooley)
- English Words, Blackwell Publishers.