Carol Rosen
Professor
(PhD, Harvard University, 1981)
Department of Linguistics, 215 Morrill Hall, cgr1@cornell.edu, 255-0722
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Research
My research belongs to a recent tradition that seeks to build a theory of
universal grammar on a broad database, free of anglocentrism, and to find
out empirically what kinds of formalism can best reveal and explain the
regularities that run through the world's languages. This line of
research, based in relational grammar, is unconventional in that it
envisions non-spatial representations of abstract syntactic structure. My
current work centers on the typology of morphosyntactic rules and on the
serialization of clausemate predicates, a topic which bears on such areas
as auxiliaries, modals, and many constructions expressing causation,
possession, and predication. Home base for me is the Romance language
family, especially Italian. I regularly teach historical and comparative
Romance linguistics, an old discipline now strikingly renewed by current
theoretical approaches.
Graduate Fields Represented: Linguistics, Romance Studies, Cognitive Studies
Selected Publications
Rosen, C. (to appear). Auxiliation and serialization: On discerning
the difference. In A. Alsina, J. Bresnan, and P. Sells (Eds.),
Complex predicates.
Stanford: CSLI.
Rosen, C. (1990). Rethinking Southern Tiwa: The geometry of a triple
agreement language.
Language, 66, 669-713.
Rosen, C. (1990). Italian evidence for multi-predicate clauses. In K.
Dziwirek, P. Farrell, and E. Mejias-Bikandi (Eds.),
Grammatical relations:
A cross-theoretical perspective. Stanford: CSLI.
Rosen, C. & Wali, K. (1989). Twin passives, inversion, and
multistratalism in Marathi.
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 7,
1-50.
Rosen, C. & Davies, W. (1988). Unions as multi-predicate clauses.
Language, 64, 52-88.
