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Chris Collins

Associate Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
New York University
719 Broadway, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10003

Email: cc116 at nyu dot edu
Phone: 212-992-8763
Fax: 212-995-4707

Curriculum Vitae

Education

1988-1993 Ph.D. in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis Title: Topics in Ewe Syntax
1982-1985 B.S. in Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1981-1982 Mathematics, University of Minnesota

Research Interests

Theory of Syntax
Syntax of African languages, including Ewe and the Khoisan languages.
Most recently, I have been working on N|uu, a click language of South Africa.
Sample sound file of N|uu: I will give Griet the donkey
English Syntax

Teaching

V61.0044 Field Methods
Syllabus Fall 2005 (Kabiye)

Sample sound files of Kabiye:
Esso said that he left
Which trees did he see?
V61.3320 Seminar: Lexical Categories

Recent Publications

[I have offprints of many of these articles. If you would like one, just let me know.]

To appear. Linkers and vP Structure. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (with Mark Baker),
to appear in volume 24 (2006).
To appear. A Fresh Look at Habitual Be in AAVE. In Ana Deumert and Stephanie Durrleman (eds.),
Structure and Variation in Contact Languages, Creole Language Library Series. John Benjamins.
2005. A Smuggling Approach to the Passive in English. Syntax, 8.2, pgs., 81-120.
2005. A Smuggling Approach to Raising in English. Linguistic Inquiry 36.2, 289-298.
2004. The Absence of the Linker in Double Object Constructions in N|uu. Studies in African Linguistics 33.2, pgs. 163-198.
2003. The Internal Structure of vP in Ju|’hoan and =Hoan. Studia Linguistica 57.1, 1-25.
2002. Multiple Verb Movement in =Hoan. Linguistic Inquiry 33.1, 1-29.
2002. Eliminating Labels. In Samuel Epstein and Daniel Seely (eds.),
Derivation and Explanation in the Minimalist Program. Blackwell.
2001. Aspects of Plurality in =Hoan. Language 77.3, 456-476.

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