Heidi B. Harley is an Professor

Professor

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 of Linguistics

Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....

 at the University of Arizona

University of Arizona

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. She is the author or coauthor of three books, and has several papers published on formal syntactic theory

Syntax

In linguistics, syntax is the study of the principles and rules for constructing phrases and sentences in natural languages....

, morphology

Morphology (linguistics)

In linguistics, morphology is the identification, analysis and description, in a language, of the structure of morphemes and other linguistic units, such as words, affixes, parts of speech, intonation/stress, or implied context...

, and lexical semantics. She was born in Oregon

Oregon

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, but was raised in St. John's, Newfoundland

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

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. She is one of the main researchers working in the theory of Distributed morphology

Distributed morphology

In generative linguistics, Distributed Morphology is a framework for theories of morphology introduced in 1993 by Morris Halle and Alec Marantz. The central claim of Distributed Morphology is that there is no unified Lexicon as in earlier generative treatments of word-formation...

. She has published an over 30 important articles on morphological theory syntax and semantics, including articles in the journals Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Lingua, Morphology Yearbook, Studia Linguistica. She is the editor of three volumes of collected papers, the editor of two special issues of journals, and is the author of a major textbook on morphological theory. She has been an invited teacher at major summer schools in linguistics throughout the world including Ireland and Brazil.

Specializations

• Syntax
  Syntax
  In linguistics, syntax is the study of the principles and rules for constructing phrases and sentences in natural languages....
  
  ,
• Distributed Morphology
  Distributed morphology
  In generative linguistics, Distributed Morphology is a framework for theories of morphology introduced in 1993 by Morris Halle and Alec Marantz. The central claim of Distributed Morphology is that there is no unified Lexicon as in earlier generative treatments of word-formation...
  
  ,
• Argument Structure,
• Lexical semantics
  Lexical semantics
  Lexical semantics is a subfield of linguistic semantics. It is the study of how and what the words of a language denote . Words may either be taken to denote things in the world, or concepts, depending on the particular approach to lexical semantics.The units of meaning in lexical semantics are...
  
  

Education

• B.A.
  Bachelor of Arts
  A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
  
   in Linguistics and English: Memorial University of Newfoundland
  Memorial University of Newfoundland
  Memorial University of Newfoundland, is a comprehensive university located primarily in St...
  
  , 1991
• Ph.D.
  Ph.D.
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   in Linguistics and Philosophy: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
  
  , 1995

External links

• Personal homepage
• Formal Approaches to Function: In honor of Eloise Jelinek, John Benjamins Publishers, 2003, (with Andrew Carnie
  Andrew Carnie
  Andrew Carnie is a Canadian professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona. He is the author or coauthor of eight books, and has several papers published on formal syntactic theory and on the linguistic aspects of the Scottish Gaelic and Irish languages. He was born in Calgary, Alberta...
  
   and MaryAnn Willie)
• Verb First: On the Syntax of Verb Initial Languages, John Benjamins Publishers, 2005, (with Andrew Carnie
  Andrew Carnie
  Andrew Carnie is a Canadian professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona. He is the author or coauthor of eight books, and has several papers published on formal syntactic theory and on the linguistic aspects of the Scottish Gaelic and Irish languages. He was born in Calgary, Alberta...
  
  and Sheila Dooley)
• English Words, Blackwell Publishers.