The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou, Hagit Borer, and Florian Schafer
Author Information
Artemis Alexiadou, Professor and Chair, Institute of English Linguistics, University of Stuttgart,
Hagit Borer, Professor and Chair of Linguistics, Queen Mary, University of London,
Florian Schafer, Researcher, Department of Linguistics, University of Stuttgart
Artemis Alexiadou is Professor of Theoretical and English Linguistics at the Universitat Stuttgart. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1994 from the University of Potsdam. Her research interests lie in theoretical and comparative syntax, morphology, and most importantly in the interface between syntax, morphology, the lexicon, and interpretation. Her work has been published in several journals, edited volumes, and conference proceedings.
Hagit Borer is Professor and Chair of Linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics at MIT, and has held professorial positions at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include syntax, morphosyntax, the syntax-semantics interface, and the acquisition of syntax by children.
Florian Schafer is researcher at the the collaborative research centre (Sonderforschungsbereich) SFB 732 'Incremental Specification in Context' at the University of Stuttgart. He studied General and Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Potsdam and finished his dissertation on the (anti-) causative alternation in 2007 at the University of Stuttgart. His main research interests are in the theories of syntax, morphology, and lexical semantics and the interaction of these modules of grammar.
Contributors:
Víctor Acedo-Matellán, Universidade do Minho
Paolo Acquaviva, University College Dublin
Artemis Alexiadou, University of Stuttgart
Elena Anagnostopoulou, University of Crete
Marijke De Belder, KU Leuven
Hagit Borer, Queen Mary, University of London
Edit Doron, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Noam Faust, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ángel J. Gallego, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Nicola Lampitelli, University of Tours
Lisa Levinson, Oakland University
Jean Lowenstamm, Université Paris Diderot
Jaume Mateu, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Malka Rappaport Hovav, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Antje Roßdeutscher, University of Stuttgart
Yota Samioti, University of Crete
Florian Schäfer, University of Stuttgart