Julie Anne Legate (born 1972) is a professor in the department of linguistics at the

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Education and research

Legate earned her B.A. from

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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 th ...

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–N ...

, under the supervision of

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and Sabine Iatridou. She works in the areas of

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and morphology. 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 producti ...

, beginning with a focus on Acehnese, a language spoken in

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, but also including evidence from structures in

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, 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 o ...

-like constructions.

Honors

Since 2015 Legate has been editor-in-chief of the journal ''

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''.

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,

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. 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/9780262028141.001.0001Victoria 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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Legate, Julie 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