enorcliffe at stanford dot edu

Linguistics Department
Margaret Jacks Hall
Building 460
Stanford CA 94305

I am a dissertating graduate student in Linguistics at Stanford University. My research examines syntactic variation from a processing and cross-linguistic perspective, with a focus on Yucatec (Mayan). I'm interested in questions about referential form choice and processing, resumption and long distance dependencies, reduction/omission phenomena and word order variation. In investigating these issues, I combine classical field work with experimental and quantitative methods. My dissertation is focussed in particular on morpho-syntactic variation in Yucatec long distance dependencies. When I'm not thinking about linguistics, I like to bang on drums.

Number of votes tallied in an online Greenpeace poll last fall to name a humpback whale in the South Pacific: 152 000
Percentage that favored the name "Mr Splashy Pants": 79
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