Anoop Mahajan
Ph.D., 1990, MIT
Professor and Chair
Department of Linguistics, UCLA
3125 Campbell Hall
Research Interests
General: Syntactic Theory, Linguistic Typology, Comparative Indo-European Syntax, Indic Linguistics.
Current research interests: Gapping, Remnant Movement and Elimination of Head Movement, Partial Wh-Movement, and Oblique subject phenomena.
Some Recent Publications:
Overt little v, Ergatives
and Antipassives in Hindi.
PP Positions and Basic Word Order.
Reverse Engineering Two Word Order
Generalizations.
Slooping in Hindi.
Restructuring in Hindi. Austin SALA 2003 paper. Revised 2007.
Agreement Spreading and Long Distance
Agreement in Hindi. 2006. UCLA ms.
(Evaluates arguments for movement
to SPEC or Agree based analysis of Hindi agreement).
Clause Structure in South Asian Languages. (Jointly
edited with Veneeta Dayal.)
Kluwer Publishers, Studies in Natural Language and
Linguistic Theory. 2004.
“On the origin of non-nominative subjects,” in Peri Bhaskararao and Karumuri Venkata Subbarao
eds., Nonnominative
Subjects. Typological Studies in
Language, 60. John Benjamins
Publishing Co, 2004.
“Word Order and (Remnant) VP Movement,” in S. Karimi ed. Word Order
and Scrambling. Blackwell Publishers, 2003.
Head Movement and Syntactic Theory. Syntax at Sunset 3, UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics 10, 2003.
"Complex Predicates
and Case in Hindi," ,”
in Proceedings of the Nanzan GLOW, ed. by M. Saito et
al, 275-296. 2001.
"Eliminating
Head Movement," The GLOW Newsletter
# 44, 2000, 44-45.
"Relative Asymmetries and Hindi Correlatives," in The Syntax of Relative Clauses, ed. by
A. Alexiadou, P. Law and C. Wilder, 201-229. 2000.
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
Amsterdam/Philadelphia.
"Oblique Subjects and Burzio's Generalization,"
to appear in Arguments and Case:
Explaining Burzio's Generalization, ed.
by E. Reuland, 77-100. 2000. John Benjamins
Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia.
"Towards a Unified Treatment of Wh-expletives in
Hindi and German," in Wh-Scope
Marking, ed. by U. Lutz, G. Muller and A. von Stechow,
317-332. 2000. John Benjamins Publishing Company,
Amsterdam/Philadelphia.
"Partial Movement and Successive Cyclicity,"
(with Gisbert Fanselow)",
in Wh-Scope Marking, ed. by U. Lutz, G.
Muller and A. von Stechow. 195-230.
2000. John Benjamins
Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia.
"Against a Rightward Movement Analysis of Extraposition and Rightward Scrambling in Hindi," Scrambling,
ed. by S. Tonoike, 93-124, 1997. Kurosio
Publishers,
"Universal
Grammar and the Typology of Ergative Languages," Studies on Universal
Grammar and Typological Variation, ed. by A. Alexiadou
and T.A. Hall, 35-57, 1997. John Benjamins Publishing Company,
Amsterdam/Philadelphia.
"Rightward Scrambling," Rightward Movement, ed. by D. Beerman, D. LeBlanc and H. van Riemsdijk, 185-213,1997. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia.
"Wh-Expletives and the Syntax of Partial Wh-Movement," Papers on Wh-Scope Marking, ed. by U. Lutz and G. Muller , 163-177, Arbeitspapiere des Sonderforschungsbereichs 340, July 1996, University of Stuttgart and University of Tubingen.
"Partial wh-movement Constructions in Hindi and German," (with G. Fanselow) Papers on Wh-Scope Marking, ed. by U. Lutz and G. Muller , 131-161, Arbeitspapiere des Sonderforschungsbereichs 340, July 1996, University of Stuttgart and University of Tubingen.
"Some wh-Asymmetries, Successive Cyclicity and Feature Attraction" (with G. Fanselow), in GLOW Newsletter, 36, Spring 96.
"Toward a Unified
Theory of Scrambling," Studies in Scrambling, ed. by N. Corver and H. van Riemsdijk,
301-330, 1995. Mouton
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"active
Passives," WCCFL 13, 1995. CSLI, Stanford.
"Against the Relevance of Subjacency at LF," Linguistic Inquiry 25.1,171-179, 1994.
"Specificity Condition and the CED", Linguistic Inquiry 23.3, 510-516. 1992.
Teaching
Graduate Syntax Seminar (Ling 252)
Graduate Syntax (Ling 200B, Ling 206)
Undergraduate Syntax (Ling 120B, Ling 165B)
Syntactic Typology (Ling 127, Ling 215)
Intro Linguistics (Ling 20)
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