Measuring Grammatical Complexity
Edited by Frederick J. Newmeyer and Laurel B. Preston
Author Information
Frederick J. Newmeyer, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington,Laurel B. Preston, Graduate Student, University of Washington
Frederick J. Newmeyer specializes in syntax and the history of linguistics and has as his current research program the attempt to synthesize the results of formal and functional linguistics. He was Secretary-Treasurer of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) from 1989 to 1994 and its President in 2002. He has been elected Fellow of the LSA and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2011 he received a Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Emeritus Faculty.
Laurel B. Preston is a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research interests include temporal semantics, with particular attention to the temporal interpretation of nouns, and adult second language acquisition. Her current work investigates poverty-of-the-stimulus problems in second language acquisition.
Contributors:
Frederick J. Newmeyer, University of Washington
Laurel B. Preston, University of Washington
Theresa Biberauer, University of Cambridge
Damián Blasi, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Cristiano Chesi, Institute for Advanced Study, Pavia
Peter W. Culicover, The Ohio State University
Cecily Jill Duffield, University of Colorado at Boulder
David Gil, Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology
John A. Hawkins, University of California Davis
Anders Holmberg, Newcastle University
Ray Jackendoff, Tufts University
Lisa Matthewson, University of British Columbia
Lise Menn, University of Colorado
Steven Moran, University of Zurich
Andrea Moro, Institute for Advanced Study, Italy
Ljiljana Progovac, Wayne State University
Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge
Daniel Ross, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michelle Sheehan, University of Cambridge
Kaius Sinnemäki, University of Helsinki
Andreas Trotzke, University of Konstanz
Eva Wittenberg, Potsdam University
Jan-Wouter Zwart, University of Groningen