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My research focuses on the structure and meaning of language, especially the nature
of clausal finiteness. My dissertation examined the structure and meaning of specificational copular sentences, like She needs a vacation is what she needs, and how they
differ from other copular sentence types in their expression of finiteness. This work
studies variation in English, and variation across languages. I am also keenly interested
in fieldwork with endangered and understudied languages. I have worked on Garifuna,
Lubukusu, Totonac, Danyi Ewe, and Northern Zazaki.
Education
Position
20152016
Awards and
Grants
2014 2015
2013 2014
2011 2012
2007 2012
2009 2010
2008 2009
In revisions
Under review
Under review
2015
Experimental evidence for a tenseless declarative clause type in English. In Texas Linguistic Society XV Proceedings, 5:110119, eds.
Christopher Brown, Qianping Gu, Cornelia Loos, Jason Mielens,
and Grace Neveu. University of Texas at Austin.
2015
2011
The syntax of ne...que exceptives in French. In New York University Working Papers in Linguistics, 3:199230, eds. Neil Myler and
Jim Wood. New York University. [Refereed version]
2011
The syntax of ne...que exceptives in French. In Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, Proceedings of PLC34, 17.1:175184. University
of Pennsylvania.
2008
Garrison-Fletcher, Leigh, Carolina Barrera-Tobon, Teresa Fredericks, Elaine Klein, Gita Martohardjono, Edmund ONeill, and
Roco Ra
na. Literacy development among New York City Latino
students. In Proceedings from the 14th Congreso Internacional de
la ALFAL.
Edited Volume
2016
Manuscripts
ONeill, Teresa and Marcel den Dikken. And how a paratactic analysis of agreeing
how in Lubukusu. Reply to Carstens and Diercks 2013.
Publications
Invited
Presentations
2014
The English copula in the left periphery: non-canonical complementation patterns. The Graduate Center, CUNY. November, 2014.
2014
English copular amalgam sentences: implications for the structure of Finiteness. Yale University. September, 2014.
2014
Conference
Presentations
2016
2015
Separating Finiteness from Tense in copular sentences. Poster presented at the Workshop on Copulas Across Languages. University
of Greenwich, London. June 1819, 2015.
2015
Tortora, Christina, Frances Blanchette, Teresa ONeill, Steven Arriaga. Variation in Appalachian verb forms: Evidence for a general past. Paper presented at Formal Ways of Analyzing Variation
(FWAV2). University of Iceland. May 28, 2015.
2015
Montoya, Ignacio and Teresa ONeill. Engaging understudied languages through a science-core linguistics class. Presented at the Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society (RISLUS) Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context
(ILETC) Forum. City University of New York. May 8, 2015.
2015
A Topic Time coreference analysis of tense harmony in pseudoclefts. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic
Society of America. Portland, OR. January, 2015.
2014
2014
Demystifying double-is. Poster presented at the 38th Penn Linguistics Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania. March, 2014.
2013
2013
Tortora, Christina, Frances Blanchette, and Teresa ONeill. Variation in Appalachian verb forms: Evidence for a general past. Fifth
International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English. University of Texas at Austin. September, 2013.
2013
2011
2010
2010
Panel
Presentations
Other Talks
Teaching
Experience
2016
Martohardjono, Gita and Teresa ONeill. Why teach structural linguistic analysis to language teachers? Symposium: Linguistic foundations for second language teaching and learning. Linguistics in
Higher Education (LiHE) Committee. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Washington, D.C. January, 2016.
2012
2011
2011
2010
2015
2015
Columbia University
Syntax
Language Documentation and Field Methods (Northern Zazaki)
2009 2015
Analyzing Language
Languages of the World (typology)
Endangered and Minority Languages (with field methods)
Language in Context
Morphology
2015
2008 2013
2011
2007 2011
2011
2010
2009
2008
2008
Research and
Professional
Experience
2010
2012 2014
2011 2012
2007 2009
Academic
Service
Languages
2003 2009
Freelance Translator
Activities: Spanish to English and French to English translation
2001 2008
2014
2013
2009 2011
2010
2008 2009
2008
Native: English
Fluent: French, Spanish
Fair: Italian, German
Fieldwork: Garifuna, Lubukusu, Kinande, Totonac, Danyi Ewe, Northern Zazaki