Heidi Britton Harley (born September 26, 1969) is a

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at the

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. Her areas of specialization are formal syntactic theory, morphology, and lexical semantics.

Career

Harley was born in

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, but was raised in St. John's, Newfoundland. She earned her

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in Linguistics and English at

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in 1991. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics and Philosophy in 1995 from

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, under the supervision of

Alec Marantz Alec Marantz (born January 31, 1959) is an American linguist and researcher in the fields of syntax, morphology, and neurolinguistics. Until 2007, he was Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

. Harley is one of the main researchers working in the theory of

Distributed morphology In generative linguistics, Distributed Morphology is a theoretical framework introduced in 1993 by Morris Halle and Alec Marantz.Halle, Morris & Alec Marantz. 1993. 'Distributed Morphology and the Pieces of Inflection.' In The View from Buildin ...

. She has published over thirty articles on morphological theory, syntax, and semantics, including articles in the journals ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''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 textbook on morphological theory (Harley 2005).

Honors

The

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has named Harley as one of the 2019 LSA Fellows, a group whose membership is determined by their "distinguished contributions to the discipline." She taught at the 2015 Linguistic Summer Institute organized gy the LSA. She has been an invited teacher at other major summer schools in linguistics throughout the world including Ireland and Brazil.

Specializations

Syntax In linguistics, syntax () is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure ( constituenc ...

Distributed Morphology In generative linguistics, Distributed Morphology is a theoretical framework introduced in 1993 by Morris Halle and Alec Marantz.Halle, Morris & Alec Marantz. 1993. 'Distributed Morphology and the Pieces of Inflection.' In The View from Buildin ...

*Argument Structure *

Lexical semantics Lexical semantics (also known as lexicosemantics), as a subfield of linguistic semantics, is the study of word meanings.Pustejovsky, J. (2005) Lexical Semantics: Overview' in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, second edition, Volumes 1-14Ta ...

Selected publications

* Heidi Harley. 1995. Subjects, Events and Licensing. PhD Dissertation, MIT. * Heidi Harley and Rolf Noyer. 1999. Distributed morphology. ''Glot International,'' Volume 4, Issue 4, April 1999. *

Andrew Carnie Andrew Carnie (born April 19, 1969) is a Canadian professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona. He is the author or coauthor of eight books and has papers published on formal syntactic theory and on linguistic aspects of Scottish Gael ...

, Heidi Harley, and MaryAnn Willie, eds. 2003. ''Formal Approaches to Function: In honor of Eloise Jelinek,'' John Benjamins Publishers. ISBN 9781588113481 *

, Sheila Dooley, and Heidi Harley. 2005. ''Verb First: On the Syntax of Verb Initial Languages,'' John Benjamins. ISBN 9781588116109 * Heidi Harley. 2005. ''English Words.'' Blackwell Publishers.Review by Tatiana Ivankova, World Englishes, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 393–394, 2007. ISBN 978-0631230328 * Daniel Siddiqi and Heidi Harley, eds. 2016. ''Morphological Metatheory.'' Amsterdam: Benjamins.

References

External links

Harley's website
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