Judy Bernstein Professor • Department of Language Literature Culture and Writing View CV Dr. Judy B. Bernstein completed a Ph.D. in Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation focused on crosslinguistic comparisons across several Romance languages. In recent work she has focused on the morpho-syntax of definite articles and demonstratives in mainstream Romance languages like French, Italian, and Spanish, as well as understudied Romance varieties like Walloon, Sardinian, Catalan, and Picard. Dr. Bernstein has also studied syntactic variation between General American English and vernacular forms of American English, such as Appalachian English and African American English. Before completing the Ph.D. in Linguistics, Dr. Bernstein was employed as a high school teacher of Spanish and then English as a Second Language (ESL). Degrees PhD Linguistics, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY MA Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Hunter College, New York, NY BA Spanish and Psychology (double major), magna cum laude, University at Albany, Albany, NY Specialization comparative syntax, Romance languages, morphology-syntax interface, vernacular and understudied languages, language acquisition Representative Publications The role of person in Ibero- and Gallo-Romance demonstratives; , Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory (RLLT); to appear; Two D heads: Cartographic Evidence from Romance; The Oxford Handbook of Syntactic Cartography; Oxford University Press; to appear; On the (non)isomorphism of Romance definite articles and clitic pronouns: a diachronic perspective; , Journal of Historical Syntax; 2025 Emphatic pronouns and the development of definite articles: Evidence for a layered DP in early Romance; , Journal of Historical Syntax; 2021 On the Emergence of Personal Articles in the History of Catalan; Cycles in Language Change; Oxford University Press; 2019 Representative Presentations Up and Down Demonstratives Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG) 50 Padova, Italy, 2025 Deixis and Person in Romance Demonstratives Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) 54, Brigham Young University Provo, UT 2024 Addressing Romance Vocatives Comparatively Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) 53, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) Paris, France, 2023 On the DP Status of Vocative Expressions in Romance Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG) 48, University of Florence Florence, Italy, 2023 Two D heads: Cartographic Evidence from Romance Mapping Syntax - Universals, Variation, Acquisition, and Change, University of Oxford Oxford, UK, 2022 Fellowships, Grants and Research Multilingualism and Stigma: a Syntactic Approach, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center, 2022-2023 Fellowship The Grammatical Feature ‘person’ across Languages and Time, Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship (Italy), 2007-2008 The Comparative Morpho-Syntax of Appalachian English, National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, 2006-2008 A Systematic Study of the Syntax of Appalachian English, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship, 2003-2004 The Exceptional Nature of the Noun Phrase in Walloon: Its Significance for Comparative Romance Syntax, National Science Foundation (NSF) dissertation grant, 1992 Notable Courses Taught Understanding Human LanguageStructure of LanguageStigmatized EnglishesCross-Linguistic Approach to Bilingual Development/BilingualismRomance Languages in DiasporaESL Reading, WritingGeneral Linguistics (Graduate)Structure of American English (Graduate)Cross-linguistic Considerations of L2 Development in the Bilingual Classroom (Graduate)Language Diversity, Loss and Change (Graduate) Email 973 720 2807 339 Grant Hall By appointment
