Julie Anne Legate (born 1972) is a professor in the department of linguistics at the
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...
.
Education and research
Legate earned her B.A. from
York University
York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...
in 1995 and her M.A. from the
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...
in 1997. She received her Ph.D. from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
in 2002, writing a dissertation on the
Warlpiri language
The Warlpiri ( or ) ( wbp, Warlpiri > waɭbɪ̆ˌɻi language is spoken by about 3,000 of the Warlpiri people from the Tanami Desert, northwest of Alice Springs, Central Australia. It is one of the Ngarrkic languages of the large Pama–Ny ...
, under the supervision of
Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American public intellectual: a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is ...
and
Sabine Iatridou.
She works in the areas of
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 ( constituency) ...
and
morphology
Morphology, from the Greek and meaning "study of shape", may refer to:
Disciplines
* Morphology (archaeology), study of the shapes or forms of artifacts
* Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies ...
. Her work investigates the structural representation of
voice
The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound production in ...
in
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 ( constituency) ...
, beginning with a focus on
Acehnese, a language spoken in
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
, but also including evidence from structures in
Celtic
Celtic, Celtics or Keltic may refer to:
Language and ethnicity
*pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia
**Celts (modern)
*Celtic languages
**Proto-Celtic language
* Celtic music
*Celtic nations
Sports Fo ...
,
Scandinavian, and
Slavic, broadening current cross-linguistic understanding of
passive
Passive may refer to:
* Passive voice, a grammatical voice common in many languages, see also Pseudopassive
* Passive language, a language from which an interpreter works
* Passivity (behavior), the condition of submitting to the influence of on ...
-like constructions.
Honors
Since 2015 Legate has been editor-in-chief of the journal ''
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
''Natural Language & Linguistic Theory'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering theoretical and generative linguistics. It was established in 1983 and originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Since 2004 the journal is p ...
''.
Key publications
Articles and chapters
JA Legate and
CD Yang. 2002. Empirical re-assessment of stimulus poverty arguments. ''The Linguistic Review'' 19, 151–162.
https://doi.org/10.1515/tlir.19.1-2.151.
JA Legate. 2003. Some interface properties of the phase. ''Linguistic Inquiry'' 34(3), 506–516.
Legate, J. A., &
Yang, C. 2007. Morphosyntactic Learning and the Development of Tense. ''Language Acquisition'' ''14''(3), 315–344.
JA Legate. 2008. Morphological and abstract case. ''Linguistic Inquiry'' 39, 55–101. .
JA Legate. 2012. Subjects in Acehnese and the Nature of the Passive. ''Language'' 88(3), 495–525.
https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2012.0069
JA Legate, Faruk Akkus, Milena Sereikaite,
Don Ringe. 2020. On Passives of Passives. ''Language'' 96, 771–818.
Books
JA Legate. 2014. ''Voice and v: Lessons from Acehnese.'' (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs). MIT Press.
https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262028141.001.0001[Victoria Chen, 2016. "To See a World in a Grain of Sand: Review of Legate (2014)" Oceanic Linguistics 55: 1, 290-297.]
References
External links
* Faculty page at the University of Pennsylvania. http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~jlegate/
* Video: Ehu International Workshop on Ergative Languages "Types of Ergativity" https://ehutb.ehu.es/video/58c66541f82b2b0f2e8b459a
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Women linguists
Linguists from the United States
Living people
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni
University of Toronto alumni
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Academic journal editors
Linguists of Austronesian languages
1972 births