Judy Bernstein
Professor • Department of
Degrees
Specialization
comparative syntax, Romance languages, morphology-syntax interface, stigmatized and minority languages, language acquisition
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
Two D heads: Cartographic Evidence from Romance
Revisiting Scandinavian 'double definiteness' and its implications for the structure of DP
Una asimetría entre pronombres clíticos y determinantes en ciertas lenguas románicas
Evidence for an Articulated DP Structure from the History and Diversity of Romance Languages
On the isomorphism of definite articles and clitic pronouns in Romance
Fellowships, Grants and Research
Multilingualism and Stigma: a Syntactic Approach, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center, 2022-2023
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 Language
Structure of Language
Stigmatized Englishes
Romance Languages in Diaspora
ESL Reading, Writing
General Linguistics (Graduate)
Structure of American English (Graduate)
Cross-linguistic Considerations of L2 Development in the Bilingual Classroom (Graduate)
Language Diversity, Loss and Change (Graduate)
