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Regularly taught classes

Fall 2009

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Recent seminars/special topics courses

Seminar in Typology and Language Universals (1999; 2005).
Seminar in Historical Linguistics (1998; 2005) .
Reading course/seminar in MINIMALISM - 2004 and 2001: Chomsky (1995), "Minimalist Inquiries", "Derivation by Phase", "Beyond Explanatory Adequacy" and anything else that seems relevant.
Language and Literature in the Renaissance, team-taught with Jean Brink in the spring of 2001.
Reading courses: Indo-European, Yiddish, Uto-Aztecan,Arabic Syntax, Old English, Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, Historical Linguistics, Japanese Syntax, language and gender,

Reading course/seminar in formal semantics (1999).

Other courses

Varieties of English at Groningen University, The Netherlands (1990-1994)
Seminar in Historical Linguistics at Groningen University
Comparative Grammar at Groningen University (1990-1994)
Politics of the English Language at Groningen University (1994)
Language and Gender team-taught with Marja van Tilburg at Groningen University
Lectures on Language in Canada/Quebec (1991-4).
Syntax at Groningen University (1990-1994)
Syntax at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada (1989-1990)
Advanced Syntax at McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1989)
Introduction to Linguistics at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada (1989-1990)
Humanities courses: `Human Being: being human', `The Revolting Cage', `Male-Female', `Current Ethical Issues' at John Abbott College, Ste Anne de Bellevue, Canada (1986-1989)