Jason Kandybowicz

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Jason Kandybowicz
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Born1978 (age 4647)
Alma mater UCLA, Rutgers University
Scientific career
Fields Syntax, generative grammar, fieldwork
Institutions CUNY Graduate Center, University of Kansas, University of Texas at Arlington, Swarthmore College
Doctoral advisor Hilda Koopman

Jason Kandybowicz (born 1978) is an American linguist, since 2022 Full Professor of Linguistics at The CUNY Graduate Center. He received his Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles in 2006 as an advisee of Hilda Koopman. [1] Kandybowicz has researched several endangered and understudied West African languages, including Nupe, Krachi, Ikpana and Asante Twi. [2] [3] Working within the generative grammar framework, he has written several important books [4] and scientific journal articles about Niger-Congo languages and the syntax-phonology interface. [5] He has made a number of media appearances, including interviews for podcasts [6] and the British Broadcasting Company [7]

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Selected bibliography

Books

Articles

References

  1. "Jason Kandybowicz". www.gc.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  2. National Science Foundation public awards announcement
  3. University of Kansas feature article
  4. "The grammar of repetition : Nupe grammar at the syntax-phonology interface /". worldcat.org. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  5. Jason Kandybowicz CV - March 2022
  6. "Scientist podcast interview". scientistpodcast.org. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  7. "BBC interview for International Mother Tongue Day. Episode: "Nigeria's 'Democracy' Buses". Original air date: February 21, 2019". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  8. Ikpana Interrogatives. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023-06-16. ISBN   9780192845009.
  9. Anti-contiguity: A Theory of Wh- Prosody. New York: Oxford University Press. 2020-11-01. ISBN   9780197509746.
  10. African Linguistics on the Prairie. Berlin: Language Science Press. 2018-06-16. ISBN   978-3-96110-036-1.
  11. Africa's Endangered Languages: Documentary and Theoretical Approaches. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2017-08-07. ISBN   9780190256340.
  12. "The Grammar of Repetition". benjamins.com. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  13. "The Grammar of Repetition Book Review". Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 32 (1). 2011. doi:10.1515/jall.2011.005. ISSN   1613-3811.
  14. Schurr, Hagay; Kandybowicz, Jason; Nchare, Abdoulaye Laziz; Bucknor, Tysean; Ma, Xiaomeng; Markowska, Magdalena; Tapia, Armando (2024). "Absence of Clausal Islands in Shupamem". Languages. 9 (7): 7. doi: 10.3390/languages9010007 .
  15. Mendes, Gesoel; Kandybowicz, Jason (2023-03-21). "Salvation by Deletion in Nupe". Linguistic Inquiry. 54 (2): 299–325. doi:10.1162/ling_a_00434.
  16. Kandybowicz, Jason; Nchare, Abdoulaye Laziz (2023). "Integrated Non-restrictive Relative Clauses in Shupamem". Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 41 (2): 655–677. doi:10.1007/s11049-022-09551-4. S2CID   252666567.
  17. Mendes, Gesoel; Kandybowicz, Jason (2022). "Sluicing and Focus Related Particles in Brazilian Portuguese and Nupe". Revista Linguíʃtica. 18 (1): 39–61. doi: 10.31513/linguistica.2022.v18n1a55445 .
  18. Duncan, Philip T.; Torrence, Harold; Major, Travis; Kandybowicz, Jason (18 January 2022). "Managing Data for Theoretical Syntactic Study of a Language". doi:10.7551/mitpress/12200.003.0050.
  19. "Predicate Fronting with Verb Doubling in Krachi: A Parallel Chains Analysis".
  20. Kandybowicz, Jason; Baron, Bertille; Duncan, Philip T.; Katsuda, Hironori (2021-10-14). "Documenting the Ikpana Interrogative System". Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 42 (1): 63–100. doi:10.1515/jall-2021-2016. ISSN   1613-3811. S2CID   238747955.
  21. "On Prosodic Variation and the Distribution of Wh- In-situ". benjamins.com. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  22. "The Role of Theory in Documentation: Intervention Effects and Missing Gaps in the Krachi Documentation Record".
  23. Torrence, Harold; Kandybowicz, Jason (2015-12-01). "Wh- question formation in Krachi". Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 36 (2). doi:10.1515/jall-2015-0011. ISSN   1613-3811. S2CID   152199267.
  24. Kandybowicz, Jason (2015-04-01). "On Prosodic Vacuity and Verbal Resumption in Asante Twi". Linguistic Inquiry. 46 (2): 243–272. doi:10.1162/LING_a_00181. ISSN   0024-3892. S2CID   57564111.
  25. Kandybowicz, Jason (2013-05-01). "Ways of emphatic scope-taking: From emphatic assertion in Nupe to the grammar of emphasis". Lingua. SI: Polarity emphasis: distribution and locus of licensing. 128: 51–71. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2012.10.017.
  26. Kandybowicz, Jason; Torrence, Harold (2011). "How Why is Different: Wh- In-situ in Krachi" (PDF). Snippets. 23: 5–6.
  27. Kandybowicz, Jason (2009-05-01). "Embracing edges: syntactic and phono-syntactic edge sensitivity in Nupe". Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 27 (2): 305–344. doi:10.1007/s11049-009-9064-6. ISSN   0167-806X. S2CID   92992550.
  28. "On Fusion and Multiple Copy Spell-Out".
  29. Kandybowicz, Jason (2009-01-20). "Externalization and Emergence: On the Status of Parameters in the Minimalist Program". Biolinguistics. 3 (1): 093–098. doi: 10.5964/bioling.8687 . hdl: 1808/17409 . ISSN   1450-3417. S2CID   2066083.
  30. Kandybowicz, Jason; Baker, Mark C. (2003-08-01). "On Directionality and the Structure of the Verb Phrase: Evidence from Nupe". Syntax. 6 (2): 115–155. doi:10.1111/1467-9612.00058. ISSN   1467-9612.