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Jason Kandybowicz (born 1978) is an American
linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...
, since 2022 Full Professor of Linguistics at The
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He received his
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from
UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...
in 2006 as an advisee of Hilda Koopman. Kandybowicz has researched several endangered and understudied West African languages, including
Nupe Nupe may refer to: *Nupe people, of Nigeria *Nupe language, their language *The Bida Emirate, also known as the Nupe Kingdom, their former state *A member of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity in the United States *National Union of Public Employees (Ne ...
, Krachi, Ikpana and
Asante Twi Asante, also known as Ashanti, Ashante, or Asante Twi, is one of the principal members of the Akan dialect continuum. It is one of the four mutually intelligible dialects of Akan which are collectively known as Twi, the others being Bono and Aku ...
. Working within the
generative grammar Generative grammar, or generativism , is a linguistic theory that regards linguistics as the study of a hypothesised innate grammatical structure. It is a biological or biologistic modification of earlier structuralist theories of linguistic ...
framework, he has written several important books and scientific journal articles about Niger-Congo languages and the syntax-phonology interface. He has made a number of media appearances, including interviews for podcasts and the
British Broadcasting Company The British Broadcasting Company Ltd. (BBC) was a short-lived British commercial broadcasting company formed on 18 October 1922 by British and American electrical companies doing business in the United Kingdom. Licensed by the British Genera ...


Selected bibliography


Books

* (2023) ''Ikpana Interrogatives'' (with Bertille Baron, Philip T. Duncan, and Hironori Katsuda) * (2020) ''Anti-contiguity: A Theory of Wh- Prosody'' * (2018) ''African Linguistics on the Prairie'' (with Travis Major, Philip T. Duncan, and Harold Torrence) * (2017) ''Africa's Endangered Languages: Documentary and Theoretical Approaches'' (with Harold Torrence) * (2008) ''The Grammar of Repetition: Nupe Grammar at the Syntax-Phonology Interface''


Articles

*(2024) Absence of Clausal Islands in Shupamem (with Hagay Schurr, Abdoulaye Laziz Nchare, Tysean Bucknor, Xiaomeng Ma, Magdalena Markowska, and Armando Tapia). ''Languages'' 9.1 (7): 1–35. *(2023) Salvation by Deletion in Nupe (with Gesoel Mendes). ''Linguistic Inquiry'' 54: 299–325. *(2023) Integrated Non-restrictive Relative Clauses in Shupamem (with Abdoulaye Laziz Nchare). ''Natural Language and Linguistic Theory'' 41: 655–677. *(2022) Sluicing and Focus Related Particles in Brazilian Portuguese and Nupe (with Gesoel Mendes). ''Revista Linguíʃtica'' 18: 39–61. *(2022) Managing Data for Theoretical Syntactic Study of a Language (with Philip T. Duncan, Harold Torrence, and Travis Major). In Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Bradley McDonnell, Eve Koller, and Lauren Collister (eds.) ''The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management'', pp. 523–530. MIT Press. *(2021) Predicate Fronting with Verb Doubling in Krachi: A Parallel Chains Analysis (with Harold Torrence). In Vera Lee-Schoenfeld and Dennis Ott (eds.) ''Parameters of Predicate Fronting: Cross-linguistic Explorations of V(P)-initial Clauses'', pp. 131–156. Oxford University Press. *(2021) Documenting the Ikpana Interrogative System (with Bertille Baron, Philip T. Duncan, and Hironori Katsuda). ''Journal of African Languages and Linguistics'' 42: 63–100. *(2017) On Prosodic Variation and the Distribution of Wh- In-situ. ''Linguistic Variation'' 17: 111–148. *(2017) The Role of Theory in Documentation: Intervention Effects and Missing Gaps in the Krachi Documentation Record (with Harold Torrence). In Jason Kandybowicz and Harold Torrence (eds.) ''Africa's Endangered Languages: Documentary and Theoretical Approaches'', pp. 187–205. Oxford University Press. *(2015) Wh- Question Formation in Krachi (with Harold Torrence). ''Journal of African Languages and Linguistics'' 36: 253–286. *(2015) On Prosodic Vacuity and Verbal Resumption in Asante Twi. ''Linguistic Inquiry'' 46: 243–272. *(2013) Ways of Emphatic Scope Taking: from Emphatic Assertion in Nupe to the Grammar of Emphasis. ''Lingua'' 128: 51–71. *(2011) How ''Why'' is Different: ''Wh''- In-situ in Krachi (with Harold Torrence). ''Snippets'' 23: 5–6. *(2009) Embracing Edges: Syntactic and Phono-syntactic Edge Sensitivity in Nupe. ''Natural Language and Linguistic Theory'' 27: 305–344. *(2007) On Fusion and Multiple Copy Spell-Out: The Case of Verbal Repetition. In Norbert Corver and Jairo Nunes (eds.) ''The Copy Theory of Movement'', pp. 119–150. John Benjamins Publishing Company. *(2008) Externalization and Emergence: On the Status of Parameters in the Minimalist Program. ''Biolinguistics'' 3: 94–99. *(2003) On Directionality and the Structure of the Verb Phrase: Evidence from Nupe (with Mark C. Baker). ''Syntax'' 6: 115–155.


References


External links


''Scientist'' podcast interview''BBC World Service'' interview''Scientists of New York'' interviewWorks by Jason Kandybowicz in libraries (WorldCat catalog)Jason Kandybowicz's website
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