Sandra Chung

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Sandra Chung is an American linguist known for her influential work on syntax, Austronesian languages, and the interface between grammar and semantics.

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instanceOf linguist
person
academicDegree PhD in linguistics
affiliation University of California system
awardReceived Guggenheim Fellowship
Linguistic Society of America Fellow NERFINISHED
citizenship American
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
educatedAt Harvard University
Yale University
employer University of California, Santa Cruz NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork Austronesian languages NERFINISHED
linguistics
semantics
syntax
gender female
hasAcademicAdvisor Noam Chomsky NERFINISHED
hasPublished "Chamorro Grammar" NERFINISHED
"Restriction and Saturation" NERFINISHED
"The Design of Agreement: Evidence from Chamorro" NERFINISHED
works on predicate-initial word order
works on wh-agreement
influenced research on Austronesian syntax
studies of grammar–semantics interface in lesser-described languages
influencedBy generative grammar
knownFor empirical work based on understudied languages
integrating fieldwork with theoretical linguistics
languageStudied Austronesian languages NERFINISHED
Chamorro NERFINISHED
Maori
memberOf Linguistic Society of America NERFINISHED
nativeLanguage English
notableFor contributions to syntactic theory
research on Austronesian languages
work on the interface between grammar and semantics
notableStudent Judith Aissen NERFINISHED
occupation linguist
positionHeld Chair of the Linguistics Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz
researchInterest agreement
ellipsis
event semantics
polysynthesis
wh-movement
workLocation Santa Cruz, California NERFINISHED

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Theodore B. Fernald doctoralAdvisor Sandra Chung