Caroline Heycock is a Scottish syntactician and

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at the

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. Heycock received her PhD from the

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in 1991, with a dissertation entitled ''Layers of predication: The non-lexical syntax of clauses''. Heycock is known for her work in theoretical syntax, with particular reference to English, Faroese and the other

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, and to

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. Topics on which she has conducted notable research include reconstruction phenomena, equatives and other copular constructions, particularly pseudoclefts, the syntax and semantics of (especially) nominal conjunction, and syntactic attrition in the native language of advanced learners of a second language. In 2019 she was a co-author of a work examining the possible position of contractions in Scots English, focusing on the use of a "locative discovery expressions" in which speakers can utter both "there it's there" and "there its". She has been an

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of the ''

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'', published by

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for the Linguistic Association of Great Britain and is currently on its editorial board. She is a member of the Scots Syntax Atlas Project Team.

Recognition

In July 2019 Heycock was elected

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. She was elected to the

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in 2022.

Selected publications

* Caroline Heycock. 1995. "Asymmetries in reconstruction," ''Linguistic inquiry.'' 547–570. * Caroline Heycock, Anthony Kroch. 1999. "Pseudocleft connectedness: Implications for the LF interface level," * ''Linguistic inquiry,'' 30(3), 365–397. * Ianthi Tsimpli, Antonella Sorace, Caroline Heycock, Francesca Filiaci. 2004. "First language attrition and syntactic subjects: A study of Greek and Italian near-native speakers of English," * ''International Journal of Bilingualism'' 8 (3), 257–277. * Caroline Heycock. 2006. "Embedded root phenomena," 2006.''The Blackwell companion to syntax,'' * Gary Thoms, David Adger, Caroline Heycock, Jennifer Smith. 2019. "Syntactic variation and auxiliary contraction: The surprising case of Scots," ''Language.'' 95 (3), 421–455.

References

External links

YouTube: Generative Syntax with Prof Caroline Heycock
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