The morphosyntax of Grassfields Bantu languages.
Currently, my narrow syntactic interests are the syntax of prepositions
and locative expressions, why questions and focus constructions, the
right and left peripheries of IP and DP, The syntax of TAM, the syntax of
bipartite negations, the Internal syntax of DP and Greenberg's Universal
20 in Shupamem.
Syntax, morpho-syntax. Phonology/syntax interface. Shupamem tone.
Second language acquisition and pedagogy.
2006 Biloa, Edmond & Abdoulaye Laziz Nchare. La grammaire minimaliste de Noam Chomsky. Cameroon University Press...
Fall 2011 Teaching assistant for Language Change, NYU Linguistics Department. Professor John Costello...
2011 Ph. D in Linguistics, New York University
Dissertation: The Grammar of Shupamem
Committee: Chris Collins (Chair), Richard Kayne, Anna Szabolcsi, Gregory Guy, Ray
Dougherty, Jeff Good (SUNY Buffalo).
Defense date: 6-23-2011, Expected filing date: 12-20-2011.
2011 NYU-GSAS Teaching and Learning Program (Certificate II): Supervisor K. Talvacchia....