Research Statement
I am interested in formal aspects of syntax, its interfaces with morphology and semantics, and the structure of competence in general. I have special interest in the Romance family and particularly in its endangered minority languages and variation among them.
Research Keywords
- Syntax-Semantics Interface
- Syntax
- Romance Linguistics
- Morpho-Syntax
- Linguistic Micro-Variation
Presentations
- Rubin, E. & A. Kaplan. GSR and Suppletion in Bolognese Clitics. The 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Conference Paper,
Presented, 05/06/2023.
https://babel.ucsc.edu/wccfl41/#program - Rubin, E. & A. F. Kaplan. Categorial and Gradient Constraints on Clitic Allomorphy. American Meeting on Phonology, University of California, Los Angelos.
Conference Paper,
Presented, 10/22/2022.
https://linguistics.ucla.edu/amp2022/ - Rubin, E. Subject-Related Proclitics and Enclitics in all Persons. Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 52. University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Conference Paper,
Presented, 04/22/2022.
https://lsrl52.spanport.wisc.edu/program-abstracts... - E. Rubin & A. Kaplan. Lexical Selection in Bolognese Clitic Allomorphy. Going Romance 35, University of Amsterdam.
Conference Paper,
Presented, 12/03/2021.
https://aclc.uva.nl/content/events/events/2021/12/... - Partitive Clitics with Bolognese Unergative Verbs. Going Romance
35, University of Amsterdam.
Conference Paper,
Presented, 12/01/2021.
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.
Conference Paper,
Presented, 09/17/2021.
https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/epenthesis/prog... - Agree, Expletives, and Person Restrictions in Bolognese. Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 51, UIUC.
Conference Paper,
Presented, 04/29/2021.
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.
Conference Paper,
Presented, 11/26/2020.
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.
Conference Paper,
Presented, 05/27/2019.
https://cidsm.ff.cuni.cz/programme/ - When low Foc0 is a Phase Head, at Cambridge Comparative Syntax 8, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England.
Conference Paper,
Presented, 05/03/2019.
https://recos-dtal.mml.cam.ac.uk/conference/CamCoS... - Dative Experiencers and (Non-)Obligatory Clitic-Doubling in Bolognese, Invited talk at Anglia Ruskin - Cambridge Romance Linguistics Seminars, University of Cambridge. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/02/2019.
- NELS 49, Free inversion with blocking of Agree by low Foc0: Evidence from Bolognese. Poster, Presented, 10/06/2018.
- Clitic-doubling with Type 3 Psych-Verbs in Bulgnais. At the 31st Going Romance, Bucharest, Romania.
Poster,
Presented, 12/07/2017.
http://gromance.litere.ro/programme.html - Obligatory Clitic-Doubling in a Non-Clitic-Doubling Language, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Southern California. Other, Presented, 11/13/2017.
- CLS 2017: Adverbial Nominals and Case.
Conference Paper,
Presented, 05/25/2017.
http://chicagolinguisticsociety.org/public/CLS53_S... - Licensing Adverbial Nominals, at the 34th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Pavia, Italy.
Poster,
Presented, 02/16/2017.
http://www.nets.iusspavia.it/igg43/ - “Uniform Structural Licensing of NP Adverbials,” at the 17th International Conference on Generative Grammar, Seoul, Korea.
Poster,
Presented, 08/07/2015.
http://www.kggc.org/modules/bbs/index.php?code=not... - "Minimalist Bare-NP Adverbs" at 16th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar.
Poster,
Presented, 08/2014.
http://www.kggc.org/modules/bbs/index.php?code=not... - Accusative Case and Maximality.
Conference Paper,
Presented, 10/07/2009.
http://muconf.missouri.edu/malc/MALCPROGRAM.pdf
Grants, Contracts & Research Gifts
- Bolognese Dialect Research. PI: Edward Rubin. College of Humanities International Travel Fund, 06/13/2017 - 06/24/2017. Total project budget to date: $1,500.00
Languages
- Ancient Greek (to 1453), functional.
- French, functional.
- German, basic.
- Italian, fluent.
- Latin, functional.
- Romanian, basic.
- Spanish, functional.
Geographical Regions of Interest
- Italy
Publications
- Edward J. Rubin & Aaron Kaplan (2024). GSR and Suppletion in Bolognese Clitics. Cascadilla Press. Accepted, 01/16/2024.
- Rubin, E. & A. Kaplan. Segmental and Prosodic Influences on Bolognese Epenthesis. In L. Repetti, J. Y. Kim, V, Miatto, A. Petrovic (Eds.) Epenthesis and Beyond: Recent approaches to insertion in phonology and its interfaces. Language Science Press. Accepted, 12/15/2022.
- Edward J. Rubin & Aaron Kaplan (2022). Lexical Selection in Bolognese Clitic Allomorphy. Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics.
Published, 11/14/2022.
https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.223 - Rubin, Edward J. 2022. PCC effects with expletives and non-associate postverbal subjects in Bolognese. RLLT17, eds. Ora Matushansky, Laurent Roussarie, Michela Russo, Elena Soare & Sophie Wauquier. Special issue of Isogloss Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 8(2)/6, 116.
Published, 02/22/2022.
https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.128 - Rubin, Edward J. 2019. Free inversion with blocking of Agree by low Foc0: Evidence from Bolognese. In M. Baird and J. Pesetsky (eds.) NELS 49, Volume 3. Pgg. 97-106. GLSA, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Published, 12/06/2019.
http://glsa.hypermart.net - Edward J. Rubin (2018). Obligatory dative clitic-doubling of type III experiencers in Bulgnaiṡ. Linguistic Society of America.
Published, 03/03/2018.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v3i1.4299 - Proceedings of the 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Cascadilla Press, Somerville MA. (with A. F. Kaplan, A. S. Kaplan, and M. McCarvel).
Published, 03/09/2017.
http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/34/index.html - “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. Published, 10/2015.
- Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 272. John Benjamins, Amsterdam. Published, 09/2005.
- "Determining Pair-Merge", Linguistic Inquiry 34.4. Published, 09/2003.
- “The Role of Functional Categories in Bilingual Children's Language Mixing and Differentiation,” in World Englishes 15.3, pp. 385-393. (with A. Toribio.). Published, 09/1997.