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Professor Caroline Heycock FBA

Theoretical linguistics; syntax; the syntax of Germanic languages; the syntax of Japanese
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
Linguistics
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 Jane Stuart-Smith FBA

Phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics, sociophonetics; language variation and change, speech and social meaning, media influence on language change; English, especially Scottish English/Scots and British Asian

Jane Stuart-Smith FBA (credit (credit Elizabeth Stuart-Smith))

Professor Daniel Harbour

Theoretical linguistics, especially morphosemantics, morphosyntax and typology; underdocumented languages, especially Afroasiatic, Kiowa-Tanoan and South Caucasian; writing systems, their linguistic structure and decipherment.

Daniel Harbour FBA

Professor Matthew Baerman FBA

Morphology, especially unusual or theoretically challenging inflectional systems. West Nilotic languages, Seri (isolate), and Slavic languages

Professor Matthew Baerman FBA

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