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Karlos Arregi

Department of Linguistics
University of Chicago
1010 E 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
USA

Office: Classics 314C
Phone: (773) 834-9910
E-mail: karlos [at] uchicago [dot] edu

I'm an assistant professor at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. I got my Ph.D. in linguistics at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. I am from the Basque Country, where I obtained my BA in English at the Universidad de Deusto.

My Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, 62K).

Research Interests

• Syntax, the syntax-semantics and syntax-phonology interfaces.
• Morphology.
• Basque and Romance Linguistics.

Some of the following papers are available for download. This is all work in progress, so comments are welcome. They are all PDF files. In order to view them, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.

• 2008. (with Andrew Nevins) "A Principled Order to Postsyntactic operations." (186K, 28pp.)
• 2008. (with Andrew Nevins) "Agreement and Clitic Restrictions in Basque." In Roberta D'Alessandro, Susann Fischer and Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson (eds.) Agreement Restrictions, 49-86. New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
• 2007. "Ellipsis in Split Questions." Under review in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. (255K, 60pp.)
• 2007. (with Andrew Nevins) "Obliteration vs. Impoverishment in the Basque g-/z- Constraint." In Proceedings of the 26th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 13.1:1-14. Penn Linguistics Club, Philadelphia. (70K, 16pp.)
• 2007. "Syntax and Semantics of Split Questions." In José Camacho, Nydia Flores-Ferrán, Liliana Sánchez, Viviane Déprez, and María José Cabrera (eds.) Romance Linguistics 2006: Selected Papers from the 36th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), 15-28. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• 2006. "Reconstruction and Condition C in Spanish: A Non-structural Account." In Nuria Sagarra and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (eds.) Selected Proceedings of the 9th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, 1--12. Somerville, Mass.: Cascadilla Press. (381K, 12)
• 2006. "Stress and Islands in Northern Bizkaian Basque." In José Ignacio Hualde and Joseba A. Lakarra (eds.) Studies in Historical and Basque Linguistics Dedicated to the Memory of R. L. Trask, 81-106. Donostia: Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa. (248K, 24pp.)

• 2006. (with Andrew Nevins) "A Distributed Morphology Analysis of Present Tense Auxiliaries in Zamudio." Euskalingua 9:146--156. (139K, 11pp.)
• 2005. (with Isabel Oltra-Massuet) "Stress-by-Structure in Spanish." Linguistic Inquiry 36.1:43-84

• 2005. (with Naiara Centeno) "Determiner Sharing and Cyclicity in Wh-movement." In Randall Gess and Edward Rubin (eds.), Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics, 1-19. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

• 2004. (with Gainko Molina-Azaola) "Restructuring in Basque and the Theory of Agreement." In Proceedings of the 23rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 43-56. Sommerville, Mass.: Cascadilla Press. (81K, 14pp.)

• 2004. "The Have / Be Alternation in Basque." (86K, 23pp.)

• 2003. "Clausal Pied-Piping." Natural Language Semantics 11.2:115-143.

• 2003. "Clitic Left Dislocation is Contrastive Topicalization." In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 9.1:31-44. Philadelphia: Penn Linguistics Club. (136K, 14pp.)

• 2001. "Spanish Reciprocals." Handout of a talk given at the Fourth MIT/UConn/UMass Semantics Workshop at the University of Connecticut. (64K, 11pp.)

• 2001. "Focus and Word Order in Basque." (216K, 38pp.)

• 2001. "Person and Number Inflection in Basque." In P. Albizu and B. Fernández (eds.), On Case and Agreement. Kasu eta Komunztaduraren gainean. Bilbo: Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. (168K, 41pp.)
  [This is a revised version of a paper which appeared in MITWPL 34 (1999).]

• 2000. "Definite Articles As Relative Operators." (136K, 17pp.)

• 2000. "Tense in Basque". (120K, 26pp.)

• 2000. "How the Spanish Verb Works." Handout of a talk given at LSRL 30, at the University of Florida, Gainesville. (112K, 27pp.)

• 1998. "Spanish el que Relative Clauses and the Doubly Filled COMP Filter." (112K, 24pp.)

• 1998. "Double Genitives in English." Handout of a talk given at MIT. (21K, 5pp.)

Teaching

Courses Taught at the University of Chicago

2008-2009:

Language and the Human (HUMAN 17000, Undergraduate, Fall)

Syntax II (LING 20500/30500, Graduate/undergraduate, Winter)

Seminar on Morphology (title TBA, Graduate, Winter)

Syntax III (LING 20550/30550, Graduate/undergraduate, Spring)

Courses Taught at the University of Illinois

2007-2008:

Syntax I (LING 501, graduate, Fall)

Spanish Syntax (SPAN 432, graduate/undergraduate, Fall)

Formal Semantics I (LING 507, graduate, Spring)

Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics (SPAN 302, undegraduate, Spring)

2006-2007 (Fall 2006 on leave):

Syntax II (LING 541, graduate, Spring)

Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics (SPAN 302, undegraduate, Spring)

2005-2006 (Fall 2005 on leave):

Practicum (LING 504, graduate, Spring)

Spanish Syntax (SPAN 552, graduate, Spring)

2004-2005:

Seminar in Linguistic Analysis: Morphology (LING 591, graduate, Fall)

Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics (SPAN 302, undegraduate, Fall)

Syntax II (LING 541, graduate, Spring)

Seminar in Romance Linguistics: Topics in Romance Syntax (SPAN 557/LING 559, graduate, Spring)

2003-2004:

Seminar in Linguistic Analysis: Morphology (LING 403, graduate, Fall)

Spanish Syntax (SPAN 352, graduate/undergraduate, Fall)

Introduction to General Linguistics (LING 400, graduate, Spring)

Seminar in Spanish Synchronic Linguistics: The Syntax-Semantics Interface (SPAN 450, graduate, Spring)

2002-2003:

Elements of Syntax (LING 201, undegraduate, Fall)

Topics in Syntactic Theory: The Minimalist Program (LING 481, graduate, Fall)

Seminar in Linguistic Analysis: The Syntax-Phonology Interface (LING 403, graduate, Spring)

Seminar in Spanish Synchronic Linguistics: Spanish Sytnax II (SPAN 450, graduate, Spring)

Courses Taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fall 2005:

Topics in Syntax: Topics in Basque Syntax (24.921, graduate)

Workshop in Syntax and Semantics (24.969, graduate)

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