Polynesian Syntax and its Interfaces
Edited by Lauren Clemens and Diane Massam
Author Information
Lauren Clemens, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University at Albany, State University of New York,Diane Massam, Emeritus Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
Lauren Clemens is Assistant Professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York, in the Department of Anthropology's Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science. Her work focuses on formal syntax, prosody, and the interface between them, and draws primarily on data from the Polynesian and Mayan language families. Her research has been published in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry, Language, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, and Syntax.
Diane Massam is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. Her main research interests are in argument structure, case, predication, word order, and nominal structure, with a focus on the Niue language and on register in English. She is the author of Niuean: Predicates and Arguments in an Isolating Language (OUP, 2020), editor of Count and Mass Across Languages (OUP, 2012), and co-editor, with Jessica Coon and Lisa deMena Travis, of The Oxford Handbook of Ergativity (OUP, 2017).
Contributors:
Sandra Chung, University of California, Santa Cruz
Lauren Clemens, University at Albany, State University of New York
James Collins, University of Sydney
Julianne Doner, University of Toronto
Vera Hohaus, University of Manchester
Jens Hopperdietzel, University of Manchester
Diane Massam, University of Toronto
David J. Medeiros, California State University, Northridge
Yuko Otsuka, Sophia University Tokyo
Elizabeth Pearce, University of Melbourne
Maria Polinsky, University of Maryland, College Park
Eric Potsdam, University of Florida
Rebecca Tollan, University of Toronto
