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LATIN AMERICANIST FACULTY

Name: John Moore
Professor and Chair, Linguistics
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1991
Field of Expertise: Moore's research interests include Spanish syntax, causative and restructuring constructions, and lexical semantics

Region of Interest: Spain

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Selected Publications:

  • with Maria Polinsky, eds. The Nature of Explanation in Linguistic Theory. Chicago: SLI and University of Chicago Press, 2003.
  • "Language-internal explanation: the distribution of Russian impersonals," with D. Perlmutter, Language, 78.4, 619-650, 2002.
  • With Farrell Ackerman. Gender and Proto-properties and Grammatical Encoding: A Correspondence Theory of Argument Selection. CSLI and University of Chicago Press, 2001.