Research Statement
I am interested in the theory of the structure of language, at linguistic, psychological, and anatomical levels of abstraction.
Research Keywords
- Laos
Presentations
- Dative Experiencers and (Non-)Obligatory Clitic-Doubling in Bolognese, Invited talk at Anglia Ruskin - Cambridge Romance Linguistics Seminars, University of Cambridge. , Presented, 2019.
- E. Rubin & A. Kaplan. Lexical Selection in Bolognese Clitic Allomorphy. Going Romance 35, University of Amsterdam.
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Presented, 2021.
https://aclc.uva.nl/content/events/events/2021/12/... - Partitive Clitics with Bolognese Unergative Verbs. Going Romance 35, University of Amsterdam.
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Presented, 2021.
https://aclc.uva.nl/content/events/events/2021/12/... - E. Rubin & A. Kaplan. Segmental and Prosodic Influences on Bolognese Epenthesis. Epenthesis and Beyond, Stony Brook University.
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Presented, 2021.
https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/epenthesis/prog... - Agree, Expletives, and Person Restrictions in Bolognese. Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 51, UIUC.
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Presented, 2021.
https://publish.illinois.edu/lsrl51atuiuc/program/ - PCC Effects with Expletives and Non-Associate Post-Verbal Subjects in Bolognese. Going Romance 34, Université Paris 8/Online, Paris, France.
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Presented, 2020.
https://www.sfl.cnrs.fr/going-romance-34-main-sess... - Low Focus, Free Inversion, and Phase Heads in Bolognese, at Cambridge Italian Dialects Syntax Morphology Meeting 14, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
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Presented, 2019.
https://cidsm.ff.cuni.cz/programme/ - When low Foc0 is a Phase Head, at Cambridge Comparative Syntax 8, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England.
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Presented, 2019.
https://recos-dtal.mml.cam.ac.uk/conference/CamCoS... - CLS 2017: Adverbial Nominals and Case.
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Presented, 2017.
http://chicagolinguisticsociety.org/public/CLS53_S... - Accusative Case and Maximality.
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Presented, 2009.
http://muconf.missouri.edu/malc/MALCPROGRAM.pdf - Obligatory Clitic-Doubling in a Non-Clitic-Doubling Language, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Southern California. Other, Presented, 2017.
- NELS 49, Free inversion with blocking of Agree by low Foc0: Evidence from Bolognese. Poster, Presented, 2018.
- Clitic-doubling with Type 3 Psych-Verbs in Bulgnais. At the 31st Going Romance, Bucharest, Romania.
Poster,
Presented, 2017.
http://gromance.litere.ro/programme.html - Licensing Adverbial Nominals, at the 34th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Pavia, Italy.
Poster,
Presented, 2017.
http://www.nets.iusspavia.it/igg43/ - “Uniform Structural Licensing of NP Adverbials,” at the 17th International Conference on Generative Grammar, Seoul, Korea.
Poster,
Presented, 2015.
http://www.kggc.org/modules/bbs/index.php?code=not... - "Minimalist Bare-NP Adverbs" at 16th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar.
Poster,
Presented, 2014.
http://www.kggc.org/modules/bbs/index.php?code=not...
Grants, Contracts & Research Gifts
- Bolognese Dialect Research. PI: - 2017. Total project budget to date:
Languages
- French, Functional.
- Spanish, Functional.
- Latin, Functional.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453), Functional.
- Romanian, Basic.
- German, Basic.
- Italian, Fluent.
Geographical Regions of Interest
- Italy
Publications
- Edward J. Rubin (date unknown). “Romanian Nominal Structure, Proforms, and Genitive Case Checking,” in Current Issues in Romance Languages, D. Cresti, T. Satterfield, and C. Tortora (Eds), John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 276-289.. Current Issues in Romance Languages. Accepted, .
- Edward J Rubin (date unknown). Free inversion with blocking of Agree by low Foc0: Evidence from Bolognese. Vol. 3. GLSA University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Accepted, .
- Edward J. Rubin (date unknown). “Uniform Structural Licensing of NP Adverbials,” in Proceedings of the 17th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, T.-S. Kim and S. Ha (Eds), Korean Generative Grammar Circle, Seoul, pp. 426-441. Uniform Structural Licensing of NP Adverbials. Accepted, .
- Edward J. Rubin (date unknown). Obligatory dative clitic-doubling of type III experiencers in Bulgnaiṡ. Linguistic Society of America. Accepted, .
- Edward J. Rubin (date unknown). PCC Effects with Expletives and Non-Associate Postverbal Subjects in Bolognese. Isogloss. Accepted, .
- Gess, Randall and Edward Rubin (date unknown). Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 272. John Benjamins, Amsterdam. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Accepted, .
- A. F. Kaplan (date unknown). Proceedings of the 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Cascadilla Press, Somerville MA. (with A. F. Kaplan, A. S. Kaplan, and M. McCarvel). Proceedings of the 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Accepted, .
- Edward J. Rubin (date unknown). "Determining Pair-Merge", Linguistic Inquiry 34.4. Linguistic Inquiry. Accepted, .
- Edward J. Rubin (date unknown). “The Role of Functional Categories in Bilingual Children's Language Mixing and Differentiation,” in World Englishes 15.3, pp. 385-393. (with A. Toribio.). World Englishes. Accepted, .