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Caroline Heycock

Professor of Syntax
Dugald Stewart Building
3 Charles Street
Edinburgh
EH8 9AD

Tel: +44 131 651 1999/650 3961
Fax: +44 131 650 6883
heycock@ignorethisbit.ling.ed.ac.uk.

Research interests

My work is in the area of theoretical syntax, with particular reference to English and the other Germanic languages, and to Japanese. The topics that I am interested in tend to be at the borderline of syntax and semantics. Recent and current research topics include reconstruction phenomena, equatives and other copular constructions, particularly pseudoclefts, the syntax and semantics of (especially) nominal conjunction, and syntactic attrition in the native language of advanced learners of a second language. Together with Antonella Sorace and Zakaris Svabo Hansen, I have been working on a 3-year project investigating variation and change in the syntax of Faroese.

Some publications

For papers on Faroese, please look at papers and presentations sections of the project on verb movement in Faroese.
My publications are listed on Edinburgh's Research Explorer.

Research-related roles

Research Advisor for Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh.
Member of the Northern Scholars Committee.
Co-Editor-in-Chief, with Nigel Fabb, of the Journal of Linguistics. Published by CUP for the Linguistic Association of Great Britain. If you don't have one already, take out a subscription and consider submitting your articles to us.
Member of Editorial Board of Linguistic Inquiry.
Member of Editorial Board of Lingua.
Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
Member of Editorial Board of Iberia.
Member of the Network for Scandinavian Dialect Syntax, part of the larger ScanDiaSyn project.
One of the organisers of the North East Syntax Society (NESS).
Co-organiser with Peter Ackema and Rhona Alcorn of the 23rd Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, June 12-13 2008.
Member of the Syntax and Semantics and the Developmental Linguistics research groups at Edinburgh.

Teaching 2012-2013

Introduction to Syntax (MSc)
Syntactic Theory and English Syntax
Lectures in LEL 1, LEL 2D, LEL 2E

Reliable and unreliable guides

If you are under stress

Loch Scavaig, just after dawn
Loch Etive, late afternoon
Skye from Mallaig
The Ring of Brodgar, Orkney
Something less Scottish
Farewell and Hello again
And a nightcap

Linguistics and English Language

The University of Edinburgh

School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences