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CURRICULUM VITAE Karlos Arregi August 2021

1 Personal history and professional information

Address: Department of The University of Chicago 1115 E 58th St Chicago, IL 60637

E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/karlos

Current position: Professor Department of Linguistics and the College 7/2021–present The University of Chicago Previous positions: Associate Professor Department of Linguistics and the College 7/2012–6/2021 The University of Chicago Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics and the College 7/2008–6/2012 The University of Chicago Assistant Professor Departments of Linguistics and of 8/2004–5/2008 Spanish, Italian and Portuguese University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Visiting Assistant Professor Departments of Linguistics and of 8/2002–5/2004 Spanish, Italian and Portuguese University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Other positions: Instructor Eastern Summer School 7/2019–8/2019 University of Wrocław Instructor Faculty of Philosophy and Letters 8/2018 University of Buenos Aires Instructor Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute 6/2013–7/2013 University of Michigan Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy 9/2005–12/2005 Masachusetts Institute of Technology Education: Graduate: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1997–2002 Ph.D. in Linguistics, September 2002 Dissertation: Focus on Basque Movements Dissertation Committee Chair: David Pesetsky Undergraduate: University of Deusto 1993–1997 Licenciatura (B.A.) in English Philology with Honors, June, 1997

Research interests

Syntax, , and their interface with and ; Basque, Spanish, and Romance Linguistics.

Grants and fellowships

“Doctoral Dissertation Research: Syntactic ergativity in West Circassian” (co-PI: Ksenia Er- shova), National Science Foundation BCS-1749299, 2018–2020. “Doctoral Dissertation Research: The structure of complex verbal expression in Ndebele” (co- PI: Asia Pietraszko), National Science Foundation BCS-1551787, 2016–2018. “Doctoral Dissertation Research: Non-verbal predication and the of information struc- ture in Wolof” (co-PI: Martina Martinovic),´ National Science Foundation BCS-1349105, 2014–2016. Doctoral Research Training Grant, awarded by the Department of Education of the Basque Govenrment. 1998–2001.

Honors and awards

Fellow, Linguistic Society of America. Awarded in 2016.

2 Publications

Work in progress

1. Karlos Arregi and Andrew Nevins. Submitted. Morphotactics: An overview of positional constraints and repairs. Submitted to Artemis Alexiadou, Ruth Kramer, Alec Marantz, and Isabel Oltra-Massuet (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Distributed Morphology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Book

1. Karlos Arregi and Andrew Nevins. 2012. Morphotactics: Basque auxiliaries and the structure of Spellout. Dordrecht: Springer.

Journal articles

1. Karlos Arregi and Emily Hanink. 2021. Switch reference as index agreement. Natural Lan- guage and Linguistic Theory, Online First. 2. Karlos Arregi, Itamar Francez, and Martina Martinovic.´ 2021. Three arguments for an indi- vidual concept analysis of specificational sentences. Natural and Linguistic Theory 39:687–708.

2 3. Karlos Arregi and Asia Pietraszko. 2021. The ups and downs of head displacement. 52:241–289. 4. Karlos Arregi and Andrew Nevins. 2018. Beware Occam’s syntactic razor: Morphotactic analysis and Spanish mesoclisis. Linguistic Inquiry 49:625–683. 5. Karlos Arregi and Andrew Nevins. 2014. A monoradical approach to some cases of disupple- tion. 40:311–330. 6. Karlos Arregi. 2010. Ellipsis in split questions. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 28:539–592. 7. Karlos Arregi and Andrew Nevins. 2006. A Distributed Morphology analysis of present tense auxiliaries in Zamudio. Euskalingua 9:146–156. 8. Isabel Oltra-Massuet and Karlos Arregi. 2005. Stress-by-structure in Spanish. Linguistic Inquiry 36:43–84. 9. Karlos Arregi. 2003. Clausal pied-piping. Natural Language Semantics. 11:115–143.

Book chapters

1. Karlos Arregi and Andrew Nevins. 2017. Presyntactic morphology or postsyntactic morphol- ogy and explanatoriness in the Basque auxiliary. In Vera Gribanova and Stephanie Shih (eds.) The morphosyntax-phonology connection: Locality and directionality at the interface, 401– 418. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2. Karlos Arregi. 2016. Chapter 10: Focus projection theories. In Caroline Fery´ and Shinichiro Ishihara (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Information Structure, 185–202. Oxford: Oxford Univer- sity Press. 3. Karlos Arregi and Andrew Nevins. 2013. Contextual neutralization and the Elsewhere Princi- ple. In Ora Matushansky and Alec Marantz (eds.) Distrubuted Morphology today: Morphemes for Morris Halle, 199–221. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 4. Karlos Arregi and Andrew Nevins. 2008. Agreement and clitic restrictions in Basque. In Roberta D’Alessandro, Susann Fischer and Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson (eds.) Agreement restrictions, 49–86. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 5. Karlos Arregi. 2007. Syntax and semantics of split questions. In Jose´ Camacho, Nydia Flores- Ferran,´ Liliana Sanchez,´ Viviane Deprez,´ and Mar´ıa Jose´ Cabrera (eds.) Romance Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the 36th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), 15–28. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 6. Karlos Arregi. 2006. Reconstruction and Condition C in Spanish: A non-structural account. In Nuria Sagarra and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (eds.) Selected proceedings of the 9th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, 1–12. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 7. Karlos Arregi. 2006. Stress and islands in Northern Bizkaian Basque. In Jose´ Ignacio Hualde and Joseba A. Lakarra (eds.) Studies in historical and Basque linguistics dedicated to the memory of R.L. Trask, 81–106. Donostia: Diputacion´ Foral de Gipuzkoa. 8. Karlos Arregi and Naiara Centeno. 2005. Determiner sharing and cyclicity in wh-movement. In Randall Gess and Edward Rubin (eds.) Theoretical and experimental approaches to Ro- mance linguistics: Selected papers from the 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Lan- guages (LSRL), 1–19. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

3 9. Karlos Arregi. 2001. Person and number inflection in Basque. In Pablo Albizu and Beat- riz Fernandez´ (eds.), On Case and Agreement. Kasu eta komunztaduraren gainean, 71–111. Bilbao: Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. 10. Karlos Arregi. 1999. Person and number morphology in Basque. In Vivian Lin, Cornelia Krause, Benjamin Bruening, and Karlos Arregi (eds.), Papers in morphology and Syntax, Cycle two, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 34, 229-264. MITWPL, MIT, Cambridge, MA.

Conference proceedings

1. Karlos Arregi and Andrew Murphy. To appear. Parasitic gaps in ditransitives and Antilocality. To appear in Gabriela de la Cruz Sanchez, Ryan Walter Smith, Luis Irizarry, Tianyi Ni, and Heidi Harley (eds.) WCCFL 39: Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 2. Karlos Arregi and Asia Pietraszko. To appear. Unifying Long Head Movement with phrasal movement: A new argument from spellout. To appear in Katie Martin, Daniel Reisinger, and Rachel Soo (eds.), WCCFL 38: Proceedings of the 38th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 3. Karlos Arregi and Asia Pietraszko. 2019. Do-support as spellout of split head chains. In Maggie Baird and Jonathan Pesetsky (eds.), NELS 49: Proceedings of the Forty-Ninth An- nual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Volume One, 63–72. GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 4. Karlos Arregi and Emily Hanink. 2018. Switch reference in Washo as multiple subject agree- ment. In Sherry Hucklebridge and Max Nelson (eds.) NELS 48: Proceedings of the Forty- Eighth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Volume One, 39–48. GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 5. Karlos Arregi and Asia Pietraszko. 2018. Generalized Head Movement. In Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 3, 5:1–15. 6. Karlos Arregi and Peter Klecha. 2015. The morphosemantics of past tense. In Thuy Bui and Deniz Ozyıldız¨ (eds.) NELS 45: Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Volume One, 53–66. GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 7. Karlos Arregi. 2013. The syntax of comparative numerals. In Seda Kan, Claire Moore- Cantwell, and Robert Staubs, NELS 40: Proceedings of the Fortieth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Volume One, 45–58. GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 8. Karlos Arregi and Andrew Nevins. 2007. Obliteration vs. impoverishment in the Basque g-/z- Constraint. In Tatjana Scheffler, Joshua Tauberer, Aviad Eilam, and Laia Mayol (eds.) Pro- ceedings of the 30th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 13.1, 1–14. Penn Linguistics Club, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 9. Karlos Arregi and Gainko Molina-Azaola. 2004. Restructuring in Basque and the theory of agreement. In Vineeta Chand, Ann Kelleher, Angelo J. Rodr´ıguez, and Benjamin Schmeiser (eds.) WCCFL 23: Proceedings of the 23rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 43–56. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 10. Karlos Arregi. 2003. Clitic Left Dislocation is contrastive topicalization. In Elsi Kaiser and Sudha Arunachalam (eds.) Proceedings of the 26th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Penn

4 Working Papers in Linguistics 9.1, 31–44. Penn Linguistics Club, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Reviews

1. Karlos Arregi and Jose´ Ignacio Hualde. 2008. Review of Company Company, Concepcion,´ ed.: Sintaxis historica´ de la lengua espanola.˜ Primera parte: La frase verbal. Folia Linguistica Historica 29:145–159.

Books edited

1. Karlos Arregi, Zsuzsanna Fagyal. Silvina Montrul and Annie Tremblay (eds.). 2010. Ro- mance linguistics 2008: Interactions in Romance. Selected papers from the 38th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Urbana-Champaign, April 2008. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2. Karlos Arregi, Vivian Lin, Cornelia Krause and Benjamin Bruening. 1999. Papers in Mor- phology and Syntax, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 33–34. MITWPL, MIT, Cambridge, MA.

3 Presentations

Plenary talks

1. Karlos Arregi. “The ups and downs of head displacement”, plenary talk at the VIII Encuentro de Gramatica´ Generativa, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (August 2018). 2. Karlos Arregi. “Split ergativity and embedding: Evidence from Basque”, plenary talk at the Workshop on Formal Linguistics, V CIEL (Congresso Internacional de Estudos Lingu´ısticos), University of Bras´ılia, Brazil (August 2016). 3. Karlos Arregi. “How to sell a melon: Postsyntactic mesoclisis in Spanish imperatives”, plenary talk at the 45th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Campinas, Brazil (May 2015). 4. Karlos Arregi. “Fission, markedness and rule generalization in Basque clitic morphology”, plenary talk at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, The University of Chicago (April 2013). 5. Karlos Arregi. “The best theory is a modular theory”, plenary talk at the Workshop on the Representation and Selection of Exponents, University of Tromsø, Norway (June 2012). 6. Karlos Arregi. “Different features, same grammar: Evidence for crossmodularity from Basque morphology”, plenary talk at the Third annual meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (April 2011). 7. Karlos Arregi. “Identity in morphology: 3-3 effects in Basque and Romance clitics”, ple- nary talk at the 2011 Purdue Linguistics Association Symposium, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana (April 2011). 8. Karlos Arregi. “Split questions”, plenary talk at the Bilbao-Deusto Student Conference in Linguistics (BIDE 06), University of Deusto, Bilbao, Basque Country (June 2006).

5 Other invited talks

1. Karlos Arregi. “When heads chains split: Do-support crosslinguistically”, Linguistics Seminar Series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (February 2020). 2. Karlos Arregi. “Subject and object case in Basque”, Linguistics Colloquium Series, University of Florida, Gainesville (November 2018). 3. Karlos Arregi. “Generalized Head Movement”, Linguistics Colloquium Series, Southern Uni- versity of Illinois Carbondale (March 2018). 4. Karlos Arregi. “Is Basque an ergative language?”, IGRA (Interaction of Grammatical Building Blocks) Colloquium Series, Leipzig University (May 2017). 5. Karlos Arregi. “Is Basque an ergative language?”, Linguistics Colloquium Series, University of Maryland, College Park (April 2017). 6. Karlos Arregi. “Is Basque an ergative language?”, Linguistics Seminar Series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (April 2017). 7. Karlos Arregi. “Split ergativity and embedding: Evidence from Basque”, UChicago Linguistic Research Forum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (March 2017). 8. Karlos Arregi. “Paradigmatic order in Nuer”, Lingusitics Speaker Series, University of Penn- sylvania (November 2016). 9. Karlos Arregi. “Split ergativity”. Three lectures given the Workshop on Formal Linguistics, V CIEL (Congresso Internacional de Estudos Lingu´ısticos), University of Bras´ılia, Brazil (Au- gust 2016). 10. Karlos Arregi. “The Basque language and people: Intriguing origins, complex context”, Year of Europe Lecture Series, University of Kentucky, Lexington (February 2016). 11. Karlos Arregi. “The syntactic and postsyntactic derivation of agreement: Basque and be- yond”, Linguistics Seminar Series, University of Kentucky, Lexington (February 2016). 12. Karlos Arregi. “How to sell a melon: Mesoclisis in Spanish plural imperatives”, Linguistics Colloquium Series, University of Utah, Salt Lake City (April 2015). 13. Karlos Arregi. “How to sell a melon: Mesoclisis in Spanish plural imperatives”, Linguistics Colloquium Series, Massachusetts Insitute of Technology, Cambridge (November 2014). 14. Andrew Nevins and Karlos Arregi. “Root suppletion and the allomorphic transparency of categorizing heads”, Allomorphy: Its logic and limitations, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (July 2014). 15. Karlos Arregi and Andrew Nevins. “Nonadjacent allomorphy is feature-insensitive in Basque auxiliaries”, Allomorphy: Its logic and limitations, Hebrew University , Jerusalem, Israel (July 2014). 16. Karlos Arregi and Andrew Nevins. “Workshop on Distributed Morphology”. Six lectures given at the University of Geneva , Switzerland (May 2014). 17. Karlos Arregi. “The syntactic and postsyntactic derivation of agreement”, Linguistics Guest Speaker Series, University of Toronto, Canada (March 2014). 18. Karlos Arregi. “Clitics vs. agreement in Basque”, Syntax/Semantics Project talk, University of Toronto, Canada (March 2014). 19. Karlos Arregi. “The syntactic and postsyntactic derivation of agreement”, Linguistics Speaker

6 Series, Georgetown University, Washington, DC (February 2014). 20. Karlos Arregi. “Markedness and rule generalization in Basque clitic morphology”, Linguis- tics Colloquium Series, University of California, Santa Cruz (April 2013). 21. Karlos Arregi, Neil Myler, and Bert Vaux. “Number marking in Western Armenian: A non-argument for outwardly-sensitive phonologically conditioned allomorphy”, Forum on Dis- tributed Morphology, 2013 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, Massachusetts, (January 2013). 22. Karlos Arregi. “Contextual neutralization”, Workshop on Locality and Directionality at the Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface, Stanford University, California (October 2012). 23. Karlos Arregi. “Basque plural clitics: A case study in crossmodular parallelism”, Workshop on Basque Linguistics, University of Illinois at Chicago (May 2012). 24. Karlos Arregi. “Fission and impoverishment across modules”, Linguistics Colloquium Series, University of Connecticut, Storrs (December 2011). 25. Karlos Arregi. “Basque plural clitics: A case study in crossmodular parallelism”, Colloquium Series, CSIC-LyCC (Centro Superior de Inverstigaciones Cient´ıficas-Lingu¨´ıstica y Ciencia Cognitiva), Madrid, Castille (September 2011). 26. Karlos Arregi. “Morpheme displacement and copying in a modular theory of morphology”, Approaches to the Lexicon (Roots III) Conference, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (June 2011). 27. Karlos Arregi. “The constituent structure of comparative numerals”, Linguistics Colloquium Series, Michigan State University, East Lansing (December 2009). 28. Karlos Arregi. “Morpheme metathesis and reduplication in the Basque verb”, Talks in Lin- guistics, University of Illinois at Chicago (March 2009). 29. Karlos Arregi. “on the structure of words: Basque and beyond”, Franke Institute Every Wednesday Lunch Series for Faculty, The University of Chicago (February 2009). 30. Karlos Arregi. “The structure of sentence fragments: Evidence from split questions”, Lin- guistics Colloquium Series, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago (October 2008). 31. Karlos Arregi. “Modularity in morphology: The case of Basque finite auxiliaries”, Linguistics Colloquium Series, The University of Chicago (February 2008). 32. Karlos Arregi and Andrew Nevins. “Ergative proclisis in Basque: Wackernagel-driven metathe- sis”, Workshop on Morphology and Argument Encoding, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (September 2007). 33. Karlos Arregi. “The role of syntactic complexity in Basque prosody”, Language Universals and Linguistic Fieldwork Series, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (September 2007). 34. Karlos Arregi. “Basque is right-headed”, Linguistics Colloquium Series, The University of Chicago (February 2006). 35. Karlos Arregi. “Stress and islands in Northern Bizkaian Basque”, Workshop on the Syntax- Phonology Interface, University of Masachusetts at Amherst (November 2005). 36. Karlos Arregi. “Stress and islands in Northern Bizkaian Basque”, Linguistics Colloquium Series, University of Delaware, Newark (October 2005). 37. Karlos Arregi. “Basque is right-headed”, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Basque Country (Jan-

7 uary 2005). 38. Karlos Arregi. “Movement and coreference: Evidence from Spanish”, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (January 2004). 39. Karlos Arregi. “The syntax of focus in Basque”, McGill University, Montreal,´ Quebec´ (April 2003). 40. Karlos Arregi. “The semantics of clausal pied-piping”, University of Ottawa, Canada (Febru- ary 2003).

Conference presentations

1. Karlos Arregi and Andrew Murphy. “Antilocality and argument-internal parasitic gaps” (poster), 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, The University of Arizona, Tucson (online, April 2021). 2. Karlos Arregi and Andrew Murphy. “Antilocality and argument-internal parasitic gaps” (flash talk), 44th GLOW Conference (online, April 2021). 3. Karlos Arregi and Asia Pietraszko. “Unifying long head movement with phrasal movement: A new argument from spellout”, 38th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, The Uni- versity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (March 2020). 4. Karlos Arregi and Asia Pietraszko. “Periphrasis is not failure of word building” (poster), 2020 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana (January 2020). 5. Karlos Arregi and Emily Hanink. “Reference tracking via agreement: Evidence from Washo switch reference” (poster), 42nd GLOW Conference, University of Oslo, Norway (May 2019). 6. Karlos Arregi and Emily Hanink. “Reference tracking via agreement: Evidence from Washo switch reference”, Workshop on Dependency in Syntactic Covariance, Leipzig University, Ger- many (April 2019). 7. Karlos Arregi and Asia Pietraszko. “Do-support as spellout of split head chains” (poster), North East Linguistic Society 49, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (October 2018). 8. Karlos Arregi and Asia Pietraszko. “Generalized Head Movement”, 2018 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah (January 2018). 9. Karlos Arregi and Emily Hanink. “Switch reference in Washo as multiple agreement” (poster), North East Linguistic Society 48, University of Iceland, Reykjavik (October 2017). 10. Emily Hanink and Karlos Arregi. “Switch reference in Washo as inverse marking”, 22nd Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (April 2017). 11. Karlos Arregi and Peter Klecha. “The morphosemantics of past tense”, North East Linguistic Society 45, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, (October–November 2014). 12. Karlos Arregi, Itamar Francez, and Martina Martinovic.´ “Specificational subjects are indi- vidual concepts”, Sinn und Bedeutung 19, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, (September 2013). 13. Karlos Arregi. “The syntax of comparative numerals”, North East Linguistic Society 40, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (November 2009). 14. Karlos Arregi and Andrew Nevins. “A principled order to postsyntactic operations”, 17th

8 Colloquium on Generative Grammar, University of Girona, Catalonia (June 2007). 15. Karlos Arregi and Andrew Nevins. “Obliteration vs. impoverishment in the Basque g-/z- Constraint”, 16th Colloquium on Generative Grammar, Madrid, Castille (April 2006). 16. Karlos Arregi. “Syntax and semantics of split questions”, 36th Annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey (March-April 2006). 17. Karlos Arregi and Andrew Nevins. “Obliteration vs. impoverishment in the Basque g- /z- Constraint”, 30th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (February 2006). 18. Karlos Arregi. “Condition C and reconstruction in Spanish: A non-structural account”, 9th Hispanic Linguistic Symposium, Pennsylvania State University, University Park (November 2005). 19. Karlos Arregi and Gainko Molina-Azaola. “Restructuring in Basque and the theory of agree- ment”, 23rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, University of California, Davis (April 2004). 20. Karlos Arregi and Naiara Centeno. “Determiner sharing and cyclicity in wh-movement”, 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Utah, Salt Lake City (March 2004). 21. Karlos Arregi. “Nuclear stress and syntactic structure”, 1st North American Syntax Confer- ence, Concordia University, Montreal,´ Quebec´ (May 2003). 22. Karlos Arregi. “Clitic Left-Dislocation is contrastive topicalization”, 32nd Linguistic Sym- posium on Romance Languages, University of Toronto, Canada (April 2002). 23. Karlos Arregi. “Movement, focus and scope in Basque”, Syntax Discourse Interface Work- shop, 25th GLOW Colloquium, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands (April 2002). 24. Karlos Arregi. “Clitic Left-Dislocation is contrastive topicalization”, 26th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (March 2002). 25. Karlos Arregi. “Clausal pied-piping: Reconstruction or indirect dependency?”, 2002 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, California (January 2002). 26. Karlos Arregi. “Spanish reciprocals”, Fourth MIT/UMass/Uconn Semantics Workshop, Uni- versity of Connecticut, Storrs (November 2001). 27. Karlos Arregi. “Word order and focus in Basque” (poster), North East Linguistic Society 32, City University of New York and New York University (October 2001). 28. Karlos Arregi. “On the non-existence of the preverbal focus position in Basque”, 24th GLOW Colloquium, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal (April 2001). 29. Karlos Arregi and Isabel Oltra-Massuet. “Stress-by-structure in Spanish”, First North Amer- ican Phonology Conference, Concordia University, Montreal,´ Quebec´ (April 2000). 30. Karlos Arregi and Isabel Oltra-Massuet. “The morphology of stress in Spanish”, 10th Collo- quium on Generative Grammar, Universidad de Alcala,´ Castille (April 2000). 31. Karlos Arregi. “How the Spanish verb works”, 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Florida, Gainesville (February 2000).

9 4 Teaching and advising: The University of Chicago

Courses taught

2021–2022 (Winter and Spring on leave): Language and the Human I (HUMA 17000, Undergraduate, Fall) Introduction to Linguistics (LING 20001, Undergraduate, Fall) 2020–2021: Research Seminar (LING 47900, Graduate, Fall) Language and the Human II (HUMA 17100, Undergraduate, Winter) Research Seminar (LING 47900, Graduate, Winter) Morphology (LING 31000, Graduate, Spring) 2019–2020: Syntax I (LING 30201, Graduate, Fall) Philosophical Perspectives II (HUMA 11600, Undergraduate, Winter) Seminar on Syntax and Semantics: Control (LING 46050, Graduate, Spring; cotaught with Itamar Francez) 2018–2019: Research Seminar (LING 47900, Graduate, Fall) Philosophical Perspectives II (HUMA 11600, Undergraduate, Winter) Research Seminar (LING 47900, Graduate, Winter) Morphology (LING 31000, Graduate, Spring) 2017–2018 (Winter and Spring on leave): Language and the Human I (HUMA 17000, Undergraduate, Fall) Morphology (LING 31000, Graduate, Fall) 2016–2017: Syntactic Analysis-1 (LING 30201, Graduate, Fall) Research Seminar (LING 47900, Graduate, Fall) Language and the Human II (HUMA 17100, Undergraduate, Winter) Research Seminar (LING 47900, Graduate, Winter) 2015–2016: Seminar on Morphology and Semantics: Morphosemantics (LING 52700, Graduate, Fall; co- taught with Itamar Francez) Syntactic Analysis-2 (LING 30202, Graduate, Winter) Morphology (LING 31000, Graduate, Spring)

10 2014–2015: Language and the Human I (HUMA 17000, Undergraduate, Fall) Introduction to Linguistics (LING 20001, Undergraduate, Fall) Syntactic Analysis-2 (LING 30202, Graduate, Winter) Seminar on Syntax: Ergativity (LING 46000, Graduate, Winter) 2013–2014 (Winter and Spring on leave): Syntactic Analysis-1 (LING 30201, Graduate, Fall) Seminar in Syntax: Head Finality (LING 46000, Graduate, Fall) 2012–2013: Introduction to Syntax (LING 20201, Undergraduate, Fall) Language and the Human II (HUMA 17100, Undergraduate, Winter) Research Seminar (LING 47900, Graduate, Winter) Seminar in Morphology: Distributed Morphology (LING 52900, Graduate, Spring) 2011–2012: Syntactic Analsis-1 (LING 30201, Graduate, Fall) Seminar in Syntax: The Syntax of Agreement (LING 46000, Graduate, Fall) Language and the Human II (HUMA 17100, Undergraduate, Winter) Morphology (LING 21000/31000, Graduate/undergraduate, Spring) 2010–2011: Seminar in Syntax: Basque Syntax (LING 46000, Graduate, Fall) Language and the Human II (HUMA 17100, Undergraduate, Winter) Syntactic Analysis-2 (LING 30202, Graduate, Winter) Morphology (LING 21000/31000, Graduate/undergraduate, Spring) 2009–2010 (Winter and Spring on leave): Language and the Human I (HUMA 17000, Undergraduate, Fall) Syntactic Analysis-1 (LING 30201, Graduate, Fall) 2008–2009: Language and the Human I (HUMA 17000, Undergraduate, Fall) Syntax 2 (LING 20500/30500, Graduate/undergraduate, Winter) Syntax 3 (LING 20550/30550, Graduate/undergraduate, Spring) Seminar in Morphology: Distributed Morphology (LING 52900, Graduate, Spring)

11 Advising

Ph.D. dissertation committee chair: Matthew Hewett, Diagnosing resumptivity, in progress (cochair with Jason Merchant). Laura Stigliano, The silence of syntax: Ellipsis, identity, and island repair, in progress (cochair with Jason Merchant). Tran Truong, Heterogeneity in morphological contiguity, in progress. Jackie Lai, The nature of the postverbal field in Mandarin Chinese, 2021. Assistant Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Ksenia Ershova, Syntactic ergativity in West Circassian, 2019. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University. Asia Pietraszko, Inflectional dependencies: A study of complex verbal expressions in Ndebele, 2017. Assistant Professor, University of Rochester. Martina Martinovic,´ Feature geometry and head-splitting: Evidence from the Wolof clausal periphery, 2015. Assistant Professor, McGill University. Ph.D. dissertation committee member: Omer¨ Eren, Linguistic variation and complexity in Laz: Laz as a heritage language, in progress. Diane Rak, Polysemy and homonymy in the L2: Non-native processing of lexical semantic ambiguity, in progress. Michael Tabatowski, Negation, questions, and suggestion, in progress. Marina Ermolaeva, Learning syntax via decomposition, 2021. Jessica Kantarovich, Argument structure in language shift: Morphosyntactic variation and grammatical resilience in Modern Chukchi, 2020. Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Hu- manities, The University of Chicago. Emily Hanink, Structural sources of anaphora and sameness, 2018. Postdoctoral Researcher, The University of Manchester. Natalia Pavlou, Morphosyntactic dependencies and verb movement in Cypriot Greek, 2018. Special Scientist, University of Cyprus. Adam Singerman, Topics in the morphosyntax Tupar´ı, a Tup´ıan language of the Brazilian Ama- zon, 2018. Lecturer, Harvard University. Ryan Bochnak, Cross-linguistic variation in the semantics of comparatives, 2013. Assistant Professor, The University of British Columbia. Nikki Adams, The Zulu ditransitive verb phrase, 2010. Assistant Research Scientist, Center for Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland. Osamu Sawada, Pragmatic aspects of scalar modifiers, 2010. Associate Professor of Linguis- tics, Mie University. Kjersti Stensrud, Aspects of event composition in Norwegian and English, 2009. Digital Con- tent Manager, VisitOSLO.

12 MA thesis advisor: Nikita Bezrukov, Number marking mismatches in Modern Armenian: A Distributed Morphol- ogy approach, 2016. Brian Fell, Case and agreement in Ubykh, 2012. Mike Pham, Idiomatic root merge in Modern Hebrew blends, 2010. MA thesis reader: Younglee You, Scrambling and floating numeral quantifiers in Korean and Japanese, 2010. Patrick Rich, Licensing ne: From clausal negation to adversatives, 2009. BA thesis advisor: Christine Gu, Tibetan adjectives: Evidence against the Containment Hypothesis, 2021. DJ Douros, Person marking in Washo as agreement and clitic movement, 2019. Kate Mooney, The morphosyntax of pronominal clitics in Yulparija, a Pama-Nyungan lan- guage, 2017. Yadav Gowda, Non-local morphological effects in the Kannada verb, 2014. Qualifying paper reader: 2021: Akshay Aitha, Naomi Kurtz. 2020: Asimina Giannoula, Matthew Hewett, Naomi Kurtz. 2019: Omer¨ Eren, Michael Tabatowski, Yenan Sun. 2018: Laura Stigliano. 2017: Marina Ermolaeva, Jessica Kantarovich, Jackie Lai. 2016: Robert Lewis, Patrick Munoz, Tran Truong. 2015: Ksenia Ershova, Jacob Phillips, Adam Singerman. 2014: Ross Burkholder, Carlos Cisneros, Emily Coppess, Gallagher Flinn, Katie Franich, Ju- lian Grove, Mike Pham, Tamara Vardomskaya. 2013: Helena Aparicio Terrasa, Asia Pietraszko, Mike Pham. 2012: Chieu Nguyen. 2011: Jonathan Keane, Martina Martinovic,´ Chieu Nguyen, Julia Thomas. 2010: Ryan Bochnak, Arum Kang, Peter Klecha. 2009: Max Bane, Peter Klecha, Alice Lemieux.

5 Teaching and Advising: Other Institutions

Courses taught at the University of Illinois 2007–2008: Syntax I (LING 501, graduate, Fall) Spanish Syntax (SPAN 432, graduate/undergraduate, Fall) Formal Semantics I (LING 507, graduate, Spring)

13 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics (SPAN 302, undergraduate, Spring) 2006–2007 (Fall 2006 on leave): Syntax II (LING 541, graduate, Spring) Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics (SPAN 302, undergraduate, Spring) 2005–2006 (Fall 2005 on leave): Practicum (LING 504, graduate, Spring) Spanish Syntax (SPAN 552, graduate, Spring) 2004–2005: Seminar in Linguistic Analysis: Morphology (LING 591, graduate, Fall) Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics (SPAN 302, undergraduate, Fall) Syntax II (LING 541, graduate, Spring) Seminar in Romance Linguistics: Topics in Romance Syntax (SPAN 557/LING 559, graduate, Spring) 2003–2004: Seminar in Linguistic Analysis: Morphology (LING 403, graduate, Fall) Spanish Syntax (SPAN 352, graduate/undergraduate, Fall) Introduction to General Linguistics (LING 400, graduate, Spring) Seminar in Spanish Synchronic Linguistics: The Syntax-Semantics Interface (SPAN 450, grad- uate, Spring) 2002–2003: Elements of Syntax (LING 201, undegraduate, Fall) Topics in Syntactic Theory: The Minimalist Program (LING 481, graduate, Fall) Seminar in Linguistic Analysis: The Syntax-Phonology Interface (LING 403, graduate, Spring) Seminar in Spanish Synchronic Linguistics: Spanish Syntax II (SPAN 450, graduate, Spring) Teaching evaluation (University of Illinois): Included in the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students for LING 481 (Fall 2002), SPAN 450 (Spring 2003, ranked as Outstanding), LING 400 (Spring 2004), LING 559/SPAN 557 (Spring 2005), SPAN 552 (Spring 2006), LING 541 (Spring 2007), LING 501 (Fall 2007), LING 507 (Spring 2008). Courses taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Fall 2005: Topics in Syntax: Topics in Basque Syntax (24.921, graduate) Workshop in Syntax and Semantics (24.969, graduate) Fall 1999 (as TA): Introduction to Syntax (24.951, graduate)

14 Courses taught at other institutions Eastern Generative Grammar Summer School (July–August 2019): When heads move The syntax of switch reference (cotaught with Emily Hanink) University of Buenos Aires (August 2018): Teor´ıa del Caso: interacciones en la sintaxis y despues´ (cotaught with Andres´ Saab) 2013 Linguistic Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (June–July 2013): Introduction to morphostyntax Advising at the University of Illinois Ph.D. dissertation chair: Antje Muntendam, Linguistic transfer in Andean Spanish: Syntax or pragmatics?, 2009. As- sociate Professor, Florida State University. Antonio Reyes-Rodr´ıguez (directed by Rakesh Bhatt), Shifts, voices and positionings in po- litical discourse: A comparative analysis of creating allies and enemies through linguistic choices, 2009. Associate Professor, Washington and Lee University. Alicia Burga, Spanish subjects, 2008. Ph.D. dissertation committee member: Alyssa Martoccio, The acquisition of differential object marking in L2 Spanish learners, 2012. Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Denver. Archna Bhatia, Agreement in the context of coordination: Hindi as a case study, 2011. Re- search Scientist, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Gognition. Benjamin Slade, Alternatives, choices, history: Being an investigation into the diachrony and synchrony of interrogatives, indefinites, disjunction, and focus in Sinhala and other lan- guages, 2011. Associate Professor, The University of Utah. Eugene Chung, Semantic representations for spatial expressions, 2011. Assistant Professor Korea University. Silvia Perpin˜an,´ On L2 grammar and processing: The case of oblique relative clauses and the null-prep phenomenon, 2010. Researcher, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. Wooseung Lee, The role of case-marked noun phrases in clause structure building, 2009. As- sociate Professor, Konkuk University. Letania Ferreira, High initial tones and plateaux in Spanish and Portuguese neutral declara- tives: Consequences to the relevance of F0, duration and vowel quality as stress correlates, 2008. Ju Hyeon Hwang, Negative sensitive items: Conditions, constraints, and consequences, 2008. Associate Professor, Hanyang University. Bo Kyoung Kim, Case assignment on adverbial NPs in Korean, 2008. Yunchul Yoo, “Extra” accusatives in Korean and their implications for Japanese, 2008.

15 Youngju Choi, Dependent Marking Parameter: Coordination, clefting, fragments and scram- bling in Korean and Japanese, 2007. Professor, Chosun University. Keun Young Shin, Partitive structures, 2007. Associate Professor, Chonnam National Univer- sity. Rebecca Foote, A psycholinguistic investigation of agreement in Spanish and English monolin- guals and bilinguals, 2006. Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas. Brent Henderson, The syntax and typology of Bantu relative clauses, 2006. Associate Professor, University of Florida. Margaret Russell, The syntax and placement of Wolof clitics, 2006. Advising at other institutions Ph.D. dissertation committee member: Livia Camargo Souza (Rutgers University), Switch-reference as anaphora, 2020. Ager Gondra (Purdue University), Basque relative clauses: Head raising, case and micro- variation within Bizkaiera, 2013. Assistant Professor, Unversity of Miami. Bradley Hoot (University of Illinois at Chicago), Presentational focus in heritage and mono- lingual Spanish, 2012. Associate Professor, DePaul University. Veronica´ Gonzalez´ (The Pennsylvania State University), Spanish clitic climbing, 2008.

6 Service

Service at the University of Chicago

Department of Linguistics: Director of Graduate Studies (2015–present). Instructor in Syntax Search Committee (2019). Tenure-track Syntax Search Committee (2018). Postdoctoral Instructor in Syntax Search Committee (2018). Director of the Program in Basque Studies (2011–2018). Graduate Curriculum Review Committee (2015/2016). Graduate Admissions Committee (2011/2012, 2014/2015). Colloquium organizer (2008–2015). Committee for Research Fund in Honor of Rella I. Cohn (2012). Computational Linguistics Search Committee (2008/2009). Other administrative units: Member of the Council of the University Senate (2019–2021). English Proficiency Policy Working Group (Office of the Provost, 2020). Dean of Students Search Committee (Division of the Humanities, 2019). Curriculum Balance Committee (Division of the Humanities, 2016). UCM/Erasmus+ Selection Committee (Office of the Provost, 2016).

16 Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship Committee (Division of the Humanities, 2012). Stuart Tave Teaching Fellowship committee (Division of the Humanities, 2012).

Service at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Department of Linguistics: Student Evaluation and Examination Committee (2004–2008). Co-organizer of the UIUC Syntax-Semantics Reading Group (2004–2008). Linguistics Seminar/Club Faculty Advisor (2004–2005, 2006–2008). Advisory Committee (2007–2008). Library Committee (2004–2007). Faculty Senate Representative (2005–2006). Member of the organizing committe of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Linguistic Society, UIUC, October 13–15, 2006. Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese: Spanish Linguistics Area Review Committee on Graduate Performance and Progress (2004– 2008). Policy and Development Committee (2004–2005, 2007–2008). Advisory Committee (2007–2008). Lectures and Arrangements Committee (2007–2008). Member of the organizing committe of the 38th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, UIUC, April 4–6, 2008. Curriculum Committee (2006–2007). Faculty Senate Representative (2007). Graduate Recruitment and Admissions Committee (2004–2005). Alternate Affirmative Action Officer (Spring 2005).

Professional service

Editorial board: Associate editor of Language (2013–2015). Service for the Linguistic Society of America: Member of the Executive Director Performance Review Committee (2018). Codirector (with Alan Yu) of the 2015 Linguistic Institute (2013–2015). Member of the LSA Program Committee (2013–2015). Member of the LSA Committee on Linguistic Institutes and Fellowships (2013; as member of the Review-Only Subcommittee: 2017, 2019).

17 Service for the National Science Foundation: Review of collaborative research proposal (2011). Reviewing for journals: Folia Linguistica Historica: 2007. : 2017, 2018 (three times). International Journal of Bilingualism: 2011. : 2019. Journal of the International Phonetic Association: 2009. Language: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016. Language Research: 2007. : 2005, 2006, 2008 (twice), 2012, 2013, 2014. Linguistic Inquiry: 2004, 2006 (twice), 2007, 2009 (twice), 2010 (twice), 2011, 2012 (three times), 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019. Linguistics: 2004, 2005. The Linguistic Review: 2002, 2003. Morphology: 2009, 2010. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: 2003, 2005, 2010, 2016, 2018, 2019. Natural Language Semantics: 2009. Probus: 2017. Revue canadienne de linguistique/Canadian Journal of Linguistics: 2021. Studia Linguistica: 2003. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences: 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008. Syntax: 2006, 2007, 2014, 2017, 2018. Reviewing for academic presses: Cascadilla Press: 2004. Elsevier: 2007. John Benjamins: 2006, 2010, 2013, 2018. MIT Press: 2012. Mouton de Gruyter: 2007. Oxford University Press: 2006, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2019, 2021. Reviewing for conferences: Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS): 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA): 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021. Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC): 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 (twice), 2020, 2021.

18 Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE): 2016. Diacrhonic Generative Syntax Conference (DiGS): 2014. Colloquium on Generative Grammar: 2014, 2018, 2020. Conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Acquisition: 2018. Encuentro de Gramatica´ Generativa: 2018. Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody: 2011. Exploring the Interfaces (ETI): 2014. Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW): 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019. Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW Asia): 2012, 2014, 2016. Linearising Constituents Across Domains 2020: 2020. Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL): 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2020, 2021. North East Linguistic Society (NELS): 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021. Prosody 2008: 2008. Rencontres d’Automne de Linguistique Formelle: 2018. Roots: 2017. Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar: 2020. UIC Bilingualism Forum: 2010, 2014, 2016. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL): 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 (twice), 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 (twice), 2019. Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL): 2007, 2008. Workshop on Linguistic Variation at the interfaces: 2017.

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