Marjorie Pak I am on the faculty of the Program in Linguistics at Emory University. My research interests are in syntax, morphology, and the syntax-phonology interface, as well as Huave and Bantu linguistics. I direct a self-instructional language program at Emory, called SILS. I earned my doctorate from the UPenn Department of Linguistics in 2008. OFFICE: Modern Languages 207 (office hours TBA) PHONE: 404-727-8077 EMAIL: mgpak at emory dot edu ADDRESS: Emory Linguistics, 532 Kilgo Circle Ste. 202C, Atlanta, GA 30322 curriculum vitae

DISSERTATION:

The postsyntactic derivation and its phonological reflexes
Completed July 2008. Committee: David Embick (supervisor), Mark Liberman, Rolf Noyer.   [pdf] (1.4MB)


DOWNLOADABLE PAPERS:
See my CV for other papers and presentations; email me if you'd like a copy of a handout or manuscript.

Pre-nominal a in San Mateo Huave
Presented at the I Jornada de Estudios Huaves, UNAM, Mexico City, September 2010.   [paper]

A-movement locality and intervention effects in Luganda
In Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 2008, pp. 361-369.   [paper]

Relative clauses without CPs in Luganda
Presented at the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 2007), University of California, San Diego, Dec. 2007   [paper]

Phrasal tone domains in San Mateo Huave (2007)
To appear in the Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.   [paper] | [about huave]

French phrasal phonology in a derivational model of PF
(M. Pak and M. Friesner) In Proceedings of NELS 36, vol. 2, 2006, pp. 480-491.   [paper] | [poster]

Explaining branchingness effects in phrasal phonology
In Proceedings of the 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 2005, pp. 308-316. [paper]

Infinitive marking with for: a diachronic account
Presented at the 29th Penn Linguistics Colloquium. In Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 12.1, 2006, pp. 293-306. [paper]


COURSES TAUGHT AT EMORY:
All Emory course homepages are on Blackboard. If you don't have Blackboard permissions and would like to see a course syllabus, email me.


LING-242, Languages of the World (Spring 2011)

LING-385, Linguistics Research Workshop (Spring 2011)

LING-212, Structure of Human Language: Morphology and Syntax (Fall 2010, Spring 2009)

LING-214, Meaning in Human Language: Semantics and Pragmatics (Fall 2011, Spring 2010)

LING-201, Foundations of Linguistics (Fall 2009, Summer 2009)

LING-340S, Linguistic Variation and Change (Fall 2008)


COURSES TAUGHT ELSEWHERE:

LIN120: Sociolinguistics (Franklin and Marshall College, Spring 2008)

LING-001-601: Introduction to Linguistics (UPenn College of General Studies, Fall 2007)

LING-102: Introduction to Sociolinguistics (UPenn College of General Studies, Summer 2007)


LINKS: (for students and advisees)

Ethnologue: Languages of the World
The Language Log
The Linguist List
How I got into linguistics, and what I got out of it (by Bill Labov)
The Harvard Guide to Collegiate Happiness