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Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
Rosenwald 224C
(773) 702-8522
Teaching at UChicago since 2018
Research Interests: Syntax, Syntax-Morphology Interface, Syntax-Semantics Interface
Dr. Erik Zyman's research is in theoretical syntax, and it’s driven by the following questions: (1) What principles, elementary operations, and atomic elements determine how lexical items can and can’t be combined to form larger syntactic units? (2) Which of those are universal, which vary crosslinguistically, and why? (3) What are their cognitive (and other) underpinnings? Erik is interested in many syntactic processes and phenomena: (External and Internal) Merge, constituency, selection, projection, adjunction, phases and (anti)locality, clause structure and functional sequences, “wordhood” and (anti)mirror effects, and more. In short, he seeks to characterize the elementary operations that build syntactic structures and to determine why they have the properties they do. His research languages have included English, Latin, and P’urhepecha, among others. Overloud th u presets.
Recent Publications
Selected Articles/Chapters:
- Zyman, Erik. In production. “In Situ Mixed Wh-Coordination and the Argument/Adjunct Distinction.” Glossa.
- Zyman, Erik, and Nick Kalivoda. 2020. “XP- and X⁰-movement in the Latin Verb: Evidence from Mirroring and Anti-Mirroring.” Glossa.
- Zyman, Erik. 2018. “Quantifier Float as Stranding: Evidence from Janitzio P’urhepecha.” Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 36:991-1034.
- Zyman, Erik. 2018. “Gestures and Nonlinguistic Objects Are Subject to the Case Filter.” Snippets 32:6-8.
- Zyman, Erik. 2018. “Interjections Select and Project.” Snippets 32:9-11.
- Zyman, Erik. 2018. “Super-Local Remove in Nominal Preposing Around ‘Though.’ ” Snippets 33:13-15.
- Zyman, Erik. 2017. “P’urhepecha Hyperraising to Object: An Argument for Purely Altruistic Movement.” Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, Vol. 2. Ed. Patrick Farrell. 53:1-15.
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2019-2020 Course Offerings
Seminar: Syntax (LING 46000) - Autumn 2019
This course is an advanced graduate seminar in syntax. Through readings from the primary research literature, we will investigate the nature, properties, and precise formulation of some of the elementary (and perhaps some not-so-elementary) operations that build the syntactic structures of human language.
2020-2021 Course Offerings
Syntax 1 (LING 30201) - Autumn 2020
This course is an advanced survey of topics in graduate syntax examining current syntactic theory through detailed analysis of a range of phenomena and readings from the primary research literature.
Seminar: Syntax (LING 46000) - Winter 2021 Snagit 4 1 0 – screen capture utility. Popclip 1 5 8 79.
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Seminar on topics related to syntax; topic TBD.
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Advanced Syntax (LING 20202) - Spring 2021
Course Description: TBD.
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A note about the movie: This clip, and other clips elsewhere on this site, are taken from a high speed x-ray movie of Kenneth N. Stevens. The original 35 mm cineradiography film was made by Sven Öhman and Kenneth Stevens at the Wenner-Gren Research Laboratory at Norrtull’s Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, as described in an abstract of a paper by S. E. G. Öhman and K. N. “Cineradiographic studies of speech: procedures and objectives.” J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 35, 1889 (1963), and in K. N. Stevens and S. E. G. Öhman “Cineradiographic studies of speech.” Quarterly Progress and Status Report, Speech Transmission Laboratory, KTH, Stockholm, 2/63, 9-11 (1963).The film was converted to DVD format and distributed at a conference at MIT in June 2004, honoring Professor Stevens, From Sound To Sense: 50+ Years of Discoveries in Speech Communication. The film was part of the poster Articulatory KENematics: Revisiting the Stevens cineradiography, K.G. Munhall (Queen's University), M. Tiede (Haskins Laboratories), J. Perkell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), A. Doucette (Industrial Light & Magic), & E. Vatikiotis-Bateson (University of British Columbia). The original film was described and analyzed in detail by Joseph S. Perkell in Physiology of speech production: results and implications of a quantitative cineradiographic study.Cambridge, Mass: M.I.T. Press (1969).