Professor Caroline Heycock FBA

Theoretical linguistics; syntax; the syntax of Germanic languages; the syntax of Japanese

Elected 2019

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2019
Sections: Linguistics and Philology
Website: https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/caroline-heycock

Current post

Professor of Syntax, University of Edinburgh

Past appointments

University of Edinburgh Reader in Linguistics

1999 - 2007

University of Delaware Assistant Professor in Linguistics

Yale University Assistant Professor in Linguistics

Oakland University Assistant Professor in Linguistics

Publications

Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian

Edited by Hoskuldur Thrainsson, Caroline Heycock, Hjalmar P. Petersen and Zakaris Svabo Hansen - Published in 2017 by John Benjamins Publishing Company

How variational acquisition drives syntactic change: The loss of verb movement in Scandinavian

Caroline Heycock and Joel Wallenberg - Published in 2013 by Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics

Detecting the late stages of syntactic change: the loss of V-to-T in Faroese

C Heycock, A Sorace, Z Hansen, F Wilson & S Vikner - Published in 2012 by Language

Friends and Colleagues: Coordination, plurality and the structure of DP

Caroline Heycock and Roberto Zamparelli - Published in 2005 by Natural Language Semantics

Coordinated Bare Definites

Caroline Heycock and Roberto Zamparelli - Published in 2003 by Linguistic Inquiry

Asymmetries in Reconstruction

Caroline Heycock - Published in 1995 by Linguistic Inquiry

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Joan Bresnan FBA

Empirical foundations of syntax; corpus and experimental studies of variation in English grammar; cognitive architectures of grammar; the dynamics of probabilistic grammar; linguistic typology; Bantu morphosyntax; lexical-functional grammar

Professor Elizabeth Traugott FBA

Historical linguistics; semantic change, cognitive and interactional pragmatics; theories of grammaticalisation and construction grammar

Professor Robin Cooper FBA

Linguistics

Professor Caroline Heycock FBA

Current post

Past appointments

University of Edinburgh Reader in Linguistics

1999 - 2007

University of Delaware Assistant Professor in Linguistics

Yale University Assistant Professor in Linguistics

Oakland University Assistant Professor in Linguistics

Publications

Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian

Edited by Hoskuldur Thrainsson, Caroline Heycock, Hjalmar P. Petersen and Zakaris Svabo Hansen - Published in 2017 by John Benjamins Publishing Company

How variational acquisition drives syntactic change: The loss of verb movement in Scandinavian

Caroline Heycock and Joel Wallenberg - Published in 2013 by Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics

Detecting the late stages of syntactic change: the loss of V-to-T in Faroese

C Heycock, A Sorace, Z Hansen, F Wilson & S Vikner - Published in 2012 by Language

Friends and Colleagues: Coordination, plurality and the structure of DP

Caroline Heycock and Roberto Zamparelli - Published in 2005 by Natural Language Semantics

Coordinated Bare Definites

Caroline Heycock and Roberto Zamparelli - Published in 2003 by Linguistic Inquiry

Asymmetries in Reconstruction

Caroline Heycock - Published in 1995 by Linguistic Inquiry

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Joan Bresnan FBA

Professor Elizabeth Traugott FBA

Professor Robin Cooper FBA

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Professor Caroline Heycock FBA

Current post

Past appointments

University of Edinburgh Reader in Linguistics

1999 - 2007

University of Delaware Assistant Professor in Linguistics

Yale University Assistant Professor in Linguistics

Oakland University Assistant Professor in Linguistics

Publications

Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian

Edited by Hoskuldur Thrainsson, Caroline Heycock, Hjalmar P. Petersen and Zakaris Svabo Hansen - Published in 2017 by John Benjamins Publishing Company

How variational acquisition drives syntactic change: The loss of verb movement in Scandinavian

Caroline Heycock and Joel Wallenberg - Published in 2013 by Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics

Detecting the late stages of syntactic change: the loss of V-to-T in Faroese

C Heycock, A Sorace, Z Hansen, F Wilson & S Vikner - Published in 2012 by Language

Friends and Colleagues: Coordination, plurality and the structure of DP

Caroline Heycock and Roberto Zamparelli - Published in 2005 by Natural Language Semantics

Coordinated Bare Definites

Caroline Heycock and Roberto Zamparelli - Published in 2003 by Linguistic Inquiry

Asymmetries in Reconstruction

Caroline Heycock - Published in 1995 by Linguistic Inquiry

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Joan Bresnan FBA

Professor Elizabeth Traugott FBA

Professor Robin Cooper FBA

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