CURRICULUM VITAE JUDITH AISSEN Contact information · Department of Linguistics · [email protected] Stevenson College, UCSC 831-459-2386 (message) Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://people.ucsc.edu/ aissen/ Summary of education · Harvard University, 1974, PhD, Linguistics · Yale University, 1972, MA, Linguistics (awarded retroactively) · Fordham University, 1969, BA, English Literature, summa cum laude Summary of professional career · Professor Emerita of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz, 2016- · Research Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz, 2010-2016 · Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz, 1987-2010 · Visiting Professor of Linguistics, Linguistic Institute, Summer 2005 (MIT) · Visiting Professor of Linguistics, Special Joint Summer School (Linguistics Society of Amer- ica/ Deutsche Gesellschaft f¨urSprachwissenschaft), D¨usseldorf,2002. · Visiting Professor of Linguistics, Linguistic Institute, Summer 1987 (Stanford University) · Associate Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz, 1983-1987 · Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Yale University, 1978-1983 · Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara, 1980-1981 · Visiting Lecturer in Linguistics, UCLA, 1978 · Lecturer in Linguistics, Harvard University, 1974-1976 · Instructor in Linguistics, Harvard University, 1973-1974 Professional honors, including grants and scholarships · Recipient of the 2019 Kenneth L. Hale Award, Linguistic Society of America · Invitation to hold Hale Chair, Summer LSA Institute 2015, University of Chicago [declined] · Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America, elected 2008 · NSF Grant #SBR-9818177, 1999-2003, Collaborative Research in `Optimal Typology' Syn- tactic Markedness Hierarchies in Optimality Theory. · Committee on Teaching Award, UCSC Academic Senate, June 1999 · NSF Grant #SBR-9630305, 1996-1998, The Syntax of Obviation in Mayan. · Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, 1996-1997 · Presidential Fellowship in the Humanities, UC Office of the President, 1996-1997 · NSF Grant, 1986-1988 (with G.K. Pullum and W. Ladusaw) · Faculty Research Grants, UCSC Academic Senate, 1983-1997 Date: August 27, 2020. 1 August 27, 2020 · Morse Fellowship, 1982-83 · Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center, 1982-1983 · Whitney-Griswold Faculty Research Grant, Summer 1982 · Tinker Foundation Travel Grant, Summer 1982 · Yale College Distinguished Teaching Prize, May 1982 · Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant for Linguistic Fieldwork, Summer 1980 · ACLS Fellowship for Recent Ph.D. Recipients, July 1977-December 1977 · Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, Mass. 1976-1977 Administrative positions · Graduate Director, Linguistics Department UCSC, 2006-2010 · Acting Chair, Linguistics Dept. UC Santa Cruz, 2001-2002 · Chair, Linguistics Board, UC Santa Cruz, 1991-1994 · Director, Syntax Research Center, UC Santa Cruz, 1987-90 · Director, Undergraduate Studies, Yale University, 1981-82 · Head Tutor in Linguistics, Harvard University, 1973-76 Other professional activities · Member, External review committee, Linguistics Dept. University of Kansas, February 2011 · Member, Awards Committee, Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2008-2010 · Editorial Board, UC Publications in Linguistics, 2007-present · Advisory Board, eLanguage, 2006-2013 · Consultant Board, Advances in Optimality Theory, Equinox Publishers, 2005-present · Chair and member, Nominating Committee, LSA 2008 · Member, Nominating Committee, LSA, 2005-2007 · Member, Executive Committee, LSA, 1995-1998 · Member, Linguistics in the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee of the LSA, 1986-1988 · Member, Nominating Committee, LSA, 1989-1992 · Associate Editor, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 1987-1990 · Associate Editor, Language, 1986-1988 · Associate Editor, Syntax and Semantics, Academic Press, 1980-? · Editor, Mayan Linguistics Newsletter, 1981-1986 · Editorial Board, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 1982-1987 · Editorial Board, Studies in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 1982-1987 · Organizer (with Jack DuBois), West Coast Mayan Symposium, April 1981 · Organizer, Taller Maya VI, Summer 1982 · Member, Visiting Committee to the Harvard Linguistics Department, 1982-1988 Other recent teaching · Instructor for Project on the morpho-syntax and semantics of Headless Relative Clauses in Mesoamerican languages - 2017-2018 (https://sites.google.com/view/mesoamerican) · At CIESAS Sureste, San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico · Seminar: Information Structure, October-November, 2018 · Seminar: Focus and Clefts, April 2017 · Seminar: Relative Clauses, September 2015, June, 2013 · Seminar: Interrogatives, Topic, and Focus, Jan-Feb, 2012 · Seminar: Complementation, March, 2011 · Seminar: Ditransitives, Summer, 2010 2 August 27, 2020 · Workshop I: Complementation, Summer, 2006 · At 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (U Hawaii) · Master class on 'Documenting topic and focus', Februrary 2015 · At OKMA, Antigua, Guatemala · Instructor, Workshop II: Complementation, Summer 2007 Published books · 1987, Tzotzil clause structure, Reidel Publishers, Dordrecht. · 1979, The syntax of causative constructions, Garland Publishers: NY. Edited books · 2017, The Mayan Languages, Judith Aissen, Nora C. England, and Roberto Zavala Mal- donado, eds. Routledge. · 2010, La predicaci´onsecundaria en lenguas de mesoam´erica , Judith Aissen and Roberto Zavala, eds. CIESAS, Mexico City. · 1976, Harvard studies in syntax and semantics II, Judith Aissen and Jorge Hankamer, eds. Harvard Linguistics Department, Cambridge, MA. Articles in professional journals · to appear (2021), with Telma Can Pixabaj. Nominalization and the expression of manner in K'iche'. International Journal of American Linguistics 87(1). · to appear. Documenting topic and focus. Language Documentation & Conservation. · 2004, with Joan Bresnan. Remarks on explanation and description in grammar. Studies in Language 28:580-283. · 2003. Differential object marking: Iconicity vs. economy. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 21:435-483. · 2002, with Joan Bresnan. Optimality and functionality: Objections and refutations. Nat- ural Language & Linguistic Theory 20:81-95. · 1999. Subject choice and markedness in Optimality Theory, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 17:673-711. · 1999. Inverse and agent focus in Tzotzil. Language 75:451-485. · 1997. On the syntax of obviation. Language 73:705-750. · 1996. Pied piping, abstract agreement, and functional projections in Tzotzil. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 14:447-491. · 1994. Tzotzil auxiliaries. Linguistics 32:657-690. · 1992. Topic and focus in Mayan. Language 68:43-80. · 1989. Agreement controllers and Tzotzil comitatives. Language 65:518-536. · 1974. Verb raising. Linguistic Inquiry 5:325-366. · 1972, with Jorge Hankamer. Shifty subjects: A conspiracy in syntax? Linguistic Inquiry 3:501-504. · 1970, with John Kimball. \I think, you think, he think". Linguistic Inquiry 2:241-246. Chapters in books · to appear (2020), with Gilles Polian. Headless relative clauses in Tseltalan. Headless Rela- tive Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages, Ivano Caponigro, Harold Torrence, and Roberto Zavala, eds. Oxford University Press. · 2017. Correlates of ergativity in Mayan. OUP Linguistics Handbook of Ergativity, Jessica Coon, Diane Massam, and Lisa Travis, eds. Oxford University Press. 3 August 27, 2020 · 2017. Complementation in Mayan. The Mayan Languages, Judith Aissen, Nora England, and Roberto Zavala, eds. Routledge. · 2017. Information structure in Mayan. The Mayan Languages, Judith Aissen, Nora Eng- land, and Roberto Zavala, eds. Routledge. · 2017. Agent focus and passive in Tsotsil. Asking the right questions: Essays in honor of Sandra Chung. Jason Ostrove, Ruth Kramer, and Joseph Sabbagh, eds. UC Santa Cruz. 139-157. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8255v8sc · 2017. Special clitics and the right periphery in Tsotsil, On looking into words (and beyond). Claire Bowern, Laurence Horn, and Raffaella Zanuttini, eds. Language Science Press. · 2011. On the syntax of agent focus in K'ichee', Proceedings of Formal Approaches to Mayan Linguistics, Kirill Shklovsky, Pedro Mateo Pedro, and Jessica Coon, eds. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics Vol 63, 1-16. Cambridge, MA: MITPL. · 2010, with Roberto Zavala. Introducci´on. La predicaci´onsecundaria en lenguas de mesoam´erica, Judith Aissen and Roberto Zavala, eds. CIESAS, Mexico City. · 2009. Depictives and serialization in Tzotzil. Hypothesis A/Hypothesis B: Linguistic Ex- plorations in Honor of David M. Perlmutter. Donna B. Gerdts, John Moore, and Maria Polinsky, eds. MIT Press, 1-17. · 2004. Differential coding, partial blocking, and bidirectional OT. BLS 29, Pawel Nowak and Corey Yoquelet, eds. · 2001. Subject choice and markedness in Optimality Theory. Optimality- theoretic syntax, Jane Grimshaw, Geraldine Legendre, and Sten Vikner, eds. MIT Press, 61-96, [reprinted]. · 2000. yi and bi: Proximate and obviative in Navajo. Papers in Honor of Ken Hale. Endangered and Less Familiar Languages Working Papers 1, Andrew Carnie, Eloise Jelinek, and MaryAnn Willie, eds. MITWPL, 129-150. · 2000. Prosodic conditions on clitics and anaphora in Jakaltek. The Syntax of Verb-Initial Languages, Andrew Carney and Eithne Guilfoyle, eds. Oxford University Press, 185-200. · 1999. Logical subject and external possessor in Tzutujil, External Possession, D. Payne and I. Barshi, eds, John Benjamins, 167-193. · 1991. Relational grammar. Trends in Present Day Linguistics, Flip Droste, ed. John Benjamins, 63-102. · 1990. Toward a theory of agreement