here - Luis Vicente

Department Linguistik
Universität Potsdam
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24-25
14776 Golm
Germany
Luis Vicente
T [+49] (0)331 977 2734
u [+49] (0)331 977 2807
B vicente@uni-potsdam.de
Í luisvicente.net
Education
09.2002–05.2007 PhD in Linguistics (Leiden University, Netherlands).
Dissertation: The syntax of heads and phrases: a study of verb (phrase) fronting.
Committee: Lisa Cheng, Anikó Lipták, Johan Rooryck, Idan Landau, Ricardo Etxepare.
01.2005–05.2005 Visiting graduate student (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA).
09.1998–06.2002 BA (cum laude) in English Philology (University of Deusto, Spain).
Thesis: Prenominal relatives in Basque and Antisymmetry.
09.2000–06.2001 Erasmus/Socrates Student (University of Manchester, UK).
Employment
2009–present Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany.
04.2011–08.2011 Temporary W3 Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany.
01.2008–12.2008 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa
Cruz, USA.
08.2007–12.2007 Lecturer, Department of Romance Languages, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
03.2003–06.2005 Research assistant, “The syntax, semantics, and phonology of the left periphery”, P.I.s:
A. Lipták (Leiden) and I. Kenesei (Budapest).
Grants and Awards
07.2011–06.2015 “The syntactic representation of Information Structure and the Architecture of the Grammar”
(P.I., with G. Fanselow), project A1 of SFB632,e398,000 (German Science Foundation)
08.2008–08.2009 Offer of a Visiting Assistant Professorship in Hispanic Linguistics, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, USA (declined).
01.2008–12.2008 “Focus and quantification under ellipsis”, postdoctoral research grant,e28,000 (Basque
Government, Department of Education & Research)
09.2003–06.2007 Predoctoral fellowship. e18,000/year (Basque Government, Department of Education
& Research).
01.2005–05.2005 Travel grant to visit UMass Amherst,e4,500 (Dutch Science Foundation)
07.2002 Best student of the 2002 English Philology Class; entailed a fellowship for graduate
studies at the University of Deusto (declined).
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Research areas
Syntax and semantics of English, Spanish, and Basque.
Ellipsis, coordination, parentheticals, linearization, resumption.
Formal, computational, and mathematical modeling of language variation.
Publications
Summary
Monographs 1
Journal articles (published) 7
Journal articles (submitted) 4
Edited volumes 4
Book chapters 6
Conference proceedings 5
Book notices and reviews 8
Total 35
Citations 344
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Monographs
1 Vicente, Luis. 2007. The syntax of heads and phrases: a study of verb (phrase) fronting.
Utrecht: LOT (ISBN: 978-90-78328-25-4).
Journal articles
7 Cheng, Lisa, and Luis Vicente. 2013. Verb doubling in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of
East Asian Linguistics 15(1):1–37.
(doi:10.1007/s10831/012/9095-6)
6 Vicente, Luis. 2013. On the causes of Superiority effects in Spanish: preliminary results
and prospects. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 12:283–300.
(http://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/v12-vicente)
5 Vicente, Luis. 2010. On the syntax of adversative coordination. Natural Language and
Linguistic Theory 28(2):381–415.
(doi:10.1007/s11049-010-9094-0).
4 Vicente, Luis. 2010. A note on the movement analysis of gapping. Linguistic Inquiry
43(3):509–517.
(doi:10.1162/ling_a_0008)
3 Vicente, Luis. 2010. A note on the copy vs. multidominance theories of movement.
Catalan Journal of Linguistics 9:75–98
(http://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/142)
2 Vicente, Luis. 2009. An alternative to remnant movement for partial predicate fronting.
Syntax 12(2):180–213.
(doi:10.1111/j.1467-9612.2009.00126.x)
1 Lipták, Anikó, and Luis Vicente. 2009. Pronominal doubling under predicate topicalization.
Lingua 119(5):650–686
(doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2007.11.007)
Journal articles (submitted)
4 Vicente, Luis. 2014. On the distribution of headless XP movement and ellipsis: a reply
to Funakoshi (submitted to Linguistic Inquiry).
3 Vicente, Luis. 2014. Morphological case mismatches under sluicing (submitted to
Snippets).
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2 Vicente, Luis. 2013. Past counterfactuality in Spanish imperatives and its implications
for the analysis of imperatives (under revision for Semantics & Pragmatics).
1 Barros, Matthew, and Luis Vicente. 2011. The eclectic nature of Right Node Raising
(under revision for Linguistic Inquiry).
Book chapters
6 Vicente, Luis. to appear. Sluicing and its subtypes. In van Craenenbroeck and Temmerman
(eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
5 Depiante, Marcela, and Luis Vicente. 2012. El movimiento y la morfología del verbo.
In Brucart and Gallego (eds.) El movimiento de constituyentes, 95–106. Madrid: Visor
Libros.
4 Rodrigues, Cilene, Andrew Nevins, and Luis Vicente. 2009. Cleaving the interactions
between sluicing and P-stranding. In Torck and Wetzels (eds.) Romance Languages
and Linguistic Theory 2006, 245–270. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
3 Vicente, Luis. 2008. El movimiento del verbo y el análisis antisimétrico del euskera. In
Arteatx et al. (eds.) Antisimetria hipotesia vs. buru parametroa: euskararen oinarrizko
hurrenkera ezbaian, 157–181. Leioa: Universidad del País Vasco.
2 Vicente, Luis. 2006. Short negative replies in Spanish. In Los and van de Weijer (eds.)
Linguistics in the Netherlands 23. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1 Vicente, Luis. 2004. Inversion, reconstruction, and the structure of relative clauses. In
Auger et al. (eds.) Contemporary approaches to Romance linguistics, 316–335. Amsterdam:
John Benjamins.
Conference proceedings and working papers
5 Barros, Matthew, and Luis Vicente. 2011. Right Node Raising requires both ellipsis
and multidominance. In Friedman (ed.) University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in
Linguistics 17(1):1–9.
4 Vicente, Luis. 2005. Towards a unified theory of movement: an argument from Spanish
predicate clefts. In Salzmann and Vicente (eds.) Leiden Working Papers in Linguistics
2(3):43–67.
3 Vicente, Luis. 2005. Licensing objects with and without movement. In Alderete et al.
(eds.) Proceedings of WCCFL 24, 362–369.
2 Vicente, Luis, and Mark de Vos. 2005. Coordination under Right Node Raising. In
Alderete et al. (eds.) Proceedings of WCCFL 24, 97–104.
1 Vicente, Luis. 2004. Derived vs. base-generated OV. In Arsenijević et al. (eds.) Leiden
Working Papers in Linguistics 1(1):83–96.
Edited volumes
4 Blaho, Sylvia, Erik Schoorlemmer, and Luis Vicente. 2007. Proceedings of ConSOLE
XIV.
3 Blaho, Sylvia, Erik Schoorlemmer, and Luis Vicente. 2005. Proceedings of ConSOLE
XIII.
2 Salzmann, Martin, and Luis Vicente. 2005. Leiden Working Papers in Linguistics 2(3).
1 Blaho, Sylvia, Luis Vicente, and Mark de Vos. 2004. Proceedings of ConSOLE XII.
Book notices and reviews
8 Vicente, Luis. to appear. Culicover: “Grammar and complexity”. LinguistList.
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7 Vicente, Luis. 2013. Merchant and Simpson: “Sluicing: crosslinguistic perspectives”.
Language 89(3):653-655.
6 Vicente, Luis. 2011. Gallego: “Phase theory”. Journal of Linguistics 47(3):719–724.
5 Vicente, Luis. 2005. Hualde and Ortiz de Urbina: “A grammar of Basque”. Lingua
116(8):1138–1141.
4 Vicente, Luis. 2005. Di Sciullo: “UG and external systems”. LinguistList 16.3500.
3 Vicente, Luis. 2005. Hawkins: “Efficiency and complexity in grammars”. LinguistList
16.1542.
2 Vicente, Luis. 2004. Hornstein: “Move! A minimalist theory of construal”. Lingua
114(5):635–644.
1 Vicente, Luis. 2004. Aboh: “The morphosyntax of complement-head sequences”. LinguistList
15.2565.
Unpublished manuscripts
10 Saab, Andrés, and Luis Vicente. in progress. Contextual restriction of sluicing sites.
9 Vicente, Luis. in progress. Focus effects in parenthetical as-clauses.
8 Vicente, Luis. in progress. In search of a missing clause.
7 Vicente, Luis. in progress. Conditions on ellipsis beyond parallelism.
6 Vicente, Luis. 2010. Does Spanish have a true universal quantifier
5 Vicente, Luis. 2010. Indefiniteness and the expression of reciprocity in Spanish.
4 Quer, Josep, and Luis Vicente. 2009. A free choice analysis of Spanish unconditional
clauses.
3 Vicente, Luis. 2008. Syntactic isomorphism and non-isomorphism under ellipsis.
2 Centeno, Naiara, and Luis Vicente. 2008. An argument in favor of a vP phase boundary
in raising, passive, and unaccusative predicates.
1 Vicente, Luis. 2005. Word order variation in Basque as prosodically-driven movement.
Talks
Summary
Peer-reviewed 27
Invited/keynote 18
Other 17
Total 62
Peer-reviewed
27 Focus effects in parenthetical as-clauses. Sinn und Bedeutung 19, University of Göttingen,
Germany. September 2014.
26 Expanding the taxonomy of parenthetical as-clauses. SALT 24, New York University,
USA. May 2014 (poster, unable to attend).
25 Conditions on ellipsis beyond parallelism. Workshop “Ellipsis 2012”, University of Vigo,
Spain. November 2012.
24 A structural paradox with Collins Conjunctions. Workshop “The syntax and semantics
of sharing”, University of Nantes, France. November 2012.
23 Does Spanish have a universal quantifier Going Romance 25, Utrecht University,
Netherlands. December 2011.
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22 Pronominal reference in multidomination structures (with Matthew Barros). Workshop
“Peculiar binding configurations”, University of Stuttgart, Germany. September 2010.
21 Right Node Raising requires both ellipsis and multidominance (with Matthew Barros).
PLC 34, University of Pennsylvania, USA. March 2010.
20 Past counterfactual necessity in Spanish root infinitives. CGG 20, Pompeu-Fabra University,
Spain. March 2010.
19 Indefiniteness and the expression of reciprocity. Workshop “Indefinites”, DGfS 2010.
Humboldt University, Germany. February 2010.
19 Semantically triggered verb doubling in Spanish unconditionals (with Josep Quer). CGG
19, University of the Basque Country, Spain. April 2009.
17 An argument in favor of a vP phase boundary in raising, passive, and unaccusative verbs
(with Naiara Centeno), LSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA. January 2009.
16 Ellipsis requires Information Structure parallelism (with Marcela Depiante). LSA Annual
Meeting, San Francisco, USA. January 2009.
15 On the availability of copular clauses as sources for clausal ellipsis. CLS 44, University
of Chicago, USA. April 2008.
14 On the syntax of DP but coordination. NELS 38, University of Ottawa, Canada. October
2007.
13 Preposition stranding under sluicing in Western Romance (with Andrew Nevins and
Cilene Rodrigues). CGG 17, University of Girona, Spain. June 2007.
12 Preposition stranding and the syntax of Spanish sluicing. Going Romance 20, Free
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. December 2006.
11 Negative fragments and the syntax of constituent negation. BIDE’06, University of
Deusto, Bilbao. June 2006.
10 A-movement in ditransitive constructions: implications for Case theory. LAGB Annual
Meeting, Cambridge University, UK. September 2005.
9 Coordination under Right Node Raising (with Mark de Vos). WCCFL 24, Simon Frasier
University, Canada. April 2005.
8 Object licensing with and without movement. WCCFL 24, Simon Frasier University,
Canada. April 2005.
7 Unifying head and phrase movement: evidence from Spanish predicate clefts. LSRL 35,
University of Texas, Austin, USA. February 2005.
6 Towards a unification of head and phrase movement: an argument from Spanish predicate
clefts. Going Romance 18, Leiden University, Netherlands. December 2004.
5 Towards a typology of OV languages. LAGB Annual Meeting, University of Surrey, UK.
September 2004.
4 Word order, clause structure, and movement operations in Basque. GLOW 27, Aristotle
University, Greece. April 2004.
3 Basque as a head-initial language. ConSOLE XII, University of Patras, Greece. December
2003.
2 Inversion and relative clauses in Spanish and English. LSRL 33, University of Indiana,
Bloomington, USA. April 2003.
1 Relativization strategies in Spanish and English. XII Manchester Postgraduate Conference,
University of Manchester, UK. March 2013.
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Keynote and invited
18 The syntax and semantics of conjunction-internal as-parentheticals. University of
Leipzig, Germany. July 2013.
17 Conjunction-internal as-parentheticals. Leiden University, Netherlands. May 2013.
16 In search of a missing clause. Workshop “Parentheticals and ellipsis”, DGfS 2013,
University of Potsdam, Germany. March 2013.
15 Problemas de linearización con estructuras parentéticas. University of the Basque Country,
Spain. February 2012.
14 Horn amalgams and Collins conjunctions: some notes on the syntax and linearization
of parentheticals. Workshop “Quirky ellipsis”, University of Groningen, Netherlands.
November 2011.
13 Untangling Spanish reciprocal pronouns. Queen Mary University of London, UK. June
2011.
12 Towards a hybrid theory of Right Node Raising: an interim report (with Matthew Barros).
ZAS Berlin, Germany. February 2010.
11 Verb fronting in Mandarin Chinese (with Lisa Cheng). University of California, Santa
Cruz, USA. October 2008.
10 Syntactic isomorphism and non-isomorphism under ellipsis. University of California,
Berkeley, USA. October 2008.
9 On the syntax of adversative coordination. University of Leipzig, Germany. August
2008.
8 Copular clauses, focus structure, and the syntactic identity condition on ellipsis. University
of Potsdam, Germany. August 2008.
7 Prosodically-conditioned word order variation in Basque. University of Chicago, USA.
April 2008.
6 On the syntax of DP but coordination. Leiden University, Netherlands. October 2007.
5 On the syntax of DP but coordination. BIDE’07, University of Deusto, Spain. June
2007.
4 Preposition stranding under sluicing in Western Romance (with Andrew Nevins and
Cilene Rodrigues). Utrecht University, Netherlands. June 2007.
3 La sintaxis de los objetos en euskera: prerrequisitos para un análisis antisimétrico. University
of the Basque Country, Spain. February 2007.
2 Pronominal doubling under predicate topicalization (with Anikó Lipták). ZAS Berlin,
Germany, February 2006.
1 Pronominal doubling under predicate topicalization (with Anikó Lipták). Oxford University,
UK, February 2006.
Non-refereed
17 The interaction of factors facilitating displacement to the left periphery (with Marta
Wierzba and Gisbert Fanselow). SFB632 Internal Workshop, University of Potsdam,
Germany. October 2013.
16 A hybrid theory of Right Node Raising (with Matt Barros). GGS 2010, Free University
of Berlin, Germany. April 2010.
15 Indefinites and the expression of reciprocity in Spanish. TINdag 2010, Utrecht University,
Netherlands. February 2010.
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14 Semantically triggered verb doubling in Spanish unconditionals (with Josep Quer).
Potsdam-Leipzig morphology workshop, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany. March
2009.
13 Conditions on the remnants of Spanish NP ellipsis. TABUdag 2007, University of Groningen,
Netherlands. June 2007.
12 Verb fronting in Mandarin Chinese (with Lisa Cheng). TABUdag 2007, University of
Groningen, Netherlands. June 2007.
11 Two non-analyses of but coordination. TINdag 2007, Utrecht University, Netherlands.
February 2006.
10 And/but. SAM 3, Tilburg University, Netherlands. November 2006.
9 Exceptional cases of preposition stranding under sluicing. TABUdag 2006, University of
Groningen, Netherlands. June 2006.
8 Negation and ellipsis in Spanish. TINdag 2006, Utrecht University, Netherlands. February
2006.
7 On the typology of argument inversion. SAM 2, Utrecht University, Netherlands, November
2005.
6 Argument structure and A-movement in ditransitive constructions. TABUdag 2005,
University of Groningen, Netherlands. June 2005.
5 Predicate clefts crosslinguistically. SAM 1, Leiden University, Netherlands. November
2004.
4 Derived vs. base-generated OV. TABUdag 2004, University of Groningen, Netherlands.
June 2004.
3 The affirmative/negative alternation in Basque. TINdag 2004, Utrecht University,
Netherlands. February 2004.
2 On doing left peripheral things without left periphery. NWO/OTKA project meeting,
Budapest, Hungary. December 2003
1 Prenominal relatives in Basque and Antisymmetry. University of Deusto, Spain. June
2002.
Teaching
University of Potsdam
Fall 2014 Syntax: theories and models (double-length seminar, BA Linguistics).
Fall 2013 Syntax: theories and models (double-length seminar, BA Linguistics).
Language variation and change (MSc Linguistics).
Spring 2013 Grammar of Basque (BA Linguistics).
Fall 2012 Syntax: theories and models (double-length seminar, BA Linguistics).
Information Structure (MSc Linguistics).
Spring 2012 Introduction to typology (BA Linguistics).
Introduction to syntactic theory (MSc Linguistics).
Fall 2011 Introduction to typology (BA Linguistics).
Constraint-based theories of grammar (BA Linguistics).
Spring 2011 Intensional semantics (BA Linguistics).
Advanced typology: wh- constructions (BA Linguistics).
Syntax des Deutschen: Übungen (BA Linguistics, two groups).
Fall 2010 Advanced typology: lexical categories (BA Linguistics).
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Spring 2010 Syntax: theories and models (double-length seminar, BA Linguistics).
Basic computer skills for linguists (BA Linguistics).
Fall 2009 Grammar of Basque (BA Linguistics).
Ellipsis (MSc Linguistics).
Spring 2009 Grammar of Spanish (BA Linguistics).
Research methodology (MSc Linguistics).
University of Amsterdam
Fall 2007 Introducción a la lingüística hispánica (BA Hispanic Studies).
Aspectos de la sintaxis del español: estructura informativa (MA Hispanic Studies, with
Josep Quer).
Leiden University
Fall 2006 Introduction to minimalist syntax (MA Linguistics, TA for Lisa Cheng).
Fall 2004 The syntax of verbs (MA Linguistics).
Spring 2004 Basic readings of linguistic theory (BA Linguistics).
Spring 2003 Basic readings of linguistic theory (BA Linguistics).
Student supervision
Doctoral dissertations
2 Julia Bacskái-Atkári (2014, University of Potsdam, committee member).
The syntax of comparative constructions: operators, ellipsis, and functional left peripheries
(summa cum laude).
1 Naiara Centeno (2012, University of the Basque Country, main supervisor).
Gapping and determiner sharing in Spanish (cum laude).
MSc theses
3 Morag Segal (2014, University of Potsdam, reader).
Aspectual differences between the uses of the Active Participle and the Non-Past forms
of Israeli-Palestinian Arabic.
2 Beate Bergmann (2011, University of Potsdam).
The progressive in German: beim-constructions.
1 Maria Bachbal (2011, University of Potsdam).
Gapping im Deutschen.
BA theses
13 Heiko Friehe (2013, University of Potsdam).
The prominence of subjects as a trend in word order distributions.
12 Patricia Weber (2013, University of Potsdam).
Kontrolle im Deutschen.
11 Laura Seiffe (2013, University of Potsdam).
Scrambling und Akzentverschiebung in Deutschen Nebensätze.
10 Vivien Macketanz (2013, University of Potsdam).
Right Node Raising im Deutschen: eine empirische Untersuchung.
9 Andreas Schmidt (2012, University of Potsdam, reader).
Zur Verbkongruenz in appositiven Relativsätzen.
8 Sarah Manz (2012, University of Potsdam, reader).
NP scope in indefinite contexts: an analysis of Vietnamese.
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Manuscript
referee
Abstract referee
Grant referee
7 Andrea Präkels (2012, University of Potsdam).
Pseudocoordination in German.
6 Nadine Theiler (2012, University of Potsdam, reader).
Epistemic modals in conditional clauses.
5 Maria Pfeiffer (2011, University of Potsdam, reader).
Extraposition deutscher Relativsätze: eine kernsyntaktische Bewegungsanalyse.
4 Simone Pfeil (2011, University of Potsdam, reader).
Fokusstrategien in der Tschadsprache Ngizim: eine Korpusstudie.
3 Georg Höhn (2011, University of Potsdam).
The licensing of adnominal PPs: the case of Basque -ko.
2 Joseph deVeaugh-Geiss (2011, University of Potsdam).
The syntax of the focus markers solo and soltanto in Italian.
1 Verena Ehrenberg (2011, University of Potsdam).
Der Fall der Hindi Kausativ.
Service to the profession
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Inquiry, Language, Syntax, Lingua,
Probus, The Linguistic Review, Journal of Linguistics, Language Research, Linguistics,
John Benjamins, Elsevier, Oxford University Press, MIT Press.
GLOW, ESSLLI, DGfS, ConSOLE, FAMLi, BIDE, assorted one-off workshops.
Flemish Science Foundation, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
Organization DGfS 35 (2013), GLOW 35 (2012), ConSOLE XIV (2005), SAM 1 (2004).
Board member SOLE (2004-2006), Borealis (2012–).
Web design GLOW 35 (2012).
Computer knowledge
Advanced
Intermediate
Basic
LATEX
html, shell scripting
CSS, R, C(++), Python
Language knowledge
Native
Fluent
High intermediate
Basic
Reader
Research
Spanish
English, Basque
German
Dutch
French, Italian, Portuguese
Hungarian
Non-academic activities
Performer and light/sound technician for amateur and semi-professional theater
groups in Amsterdam (2003–2007)
Ad hoc volunteer translator for observatorio.info, an outreach project to translate
NASA’s “Astronomy Picture of the Day” archive (apod.nasa.gov/apod) into Spanish.
Road and trail running: 40:47 (10km); 1:33:49 (half marathon); 3:32:34 (marathon).
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Referees
Gisbert Fanselow
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
Universität Potsdam
KU Leuven HU Brussel
Department Linguistic Warmoesberg 26
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24-25 1000 Brussels
14476 Golm Belgium
Germany T [+32] 015 20 40 68
T [+49] (0)331 977 2898 B jeroen.vancraenenbroeck@hubrussel.be
B gisbert.fanselow@gmail.com
Lisa Cheng
Johan Rooryck
Leiden University
Leiden University
P.N. van Eyckhof 3 Van Wijkplaats 2
2311 BV Leiden 2311 BX Leiden
Netherlands
Netherlands
T [+31] (0)71 527 2104 T [+31] (0)71 527 2049
B l.l.cheng@hum.leidenuniv.nl B j.e.c.v.rooryck@hum.leidenuniv.nl
James McCloskey
Kyle Johnson
Humanities Academic Services University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Humanities One
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Cruz South College 124
Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Amherst, MA 01003-7130
United States
United States
T [+1] 831 459 4489 T [+1] 413 545 6840
B mcclosk@ucsc.edu B kbj@linguist.umass.edu
Ricardo Etxepare
Francisco Ordóñez
CNRS
Hispanic Languages & Literatures
Basque Text & Language Study Center SUNY Stony Brook
28 Rue Lormand 365 Melville Library N3026
64100 Bayonne Stony Brook, NY 11794-3371
France
United States
T [+33] 943 619 310 T [+1] 631 632 6942
B retxepare@gmail.com B fordonez@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
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