Judy Bernstein
Professor • Department of
Degrees
Specialization
comparative syntax, Romance languages, morphology-syntax interface, stigmatized and minority languages
Representative Publications
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
An effect of residual T-to-C movement in varieties of English;
Word Order Change; Oxford University Press;
2018
Sardinian descendants of 'ipse' in comparative relief;
, Capitoli di morfosintassi delle varietà romanze d’Italia: teoria e dati empirici (Supplementi al Bollettino, 21);
Volume
Representative Presentations
The Morphological Complexity of Demonstratives
Modern Romance Split DP Systems in their Historical Context
Historical Development and Semantic Mapping of Modern Romance Split DP Systems
La sintaxis de los nombres propios con artículo definido en español
Emphatic pronouns and the development of definite articles: Evidence for a layered DP in early Romance
Fellowships, Grants and Research
The Grammatical Feature ‘person’ across Languages and Time, Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship (Italy)
The Comparative Morpho-Syntax of Appalachian English, National Science Foundation (NSF) grant
A Systematic Study of the Syntax of Appalachian English, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship
The Exceptional Nature of the Noun Phrase in Walloon: Its Significance for Comparative Romance Syntax, NSF dissertation grant
Notable Courses Taught
Understanding Human Language
Structure of Language
Stigmatized Englishes
Romance Languages in Diaspora
ESL Reading, Writing
General Linguistics (Graduate)
Structure of American English (Graduate)
Contrastive Analysis of Native and Target Languages (Graduate)
Language Diversity, Loss and Change (Graduate)
