office: 82A McReynolds phone: 573-882-8814 email: carstensv@missouri.edu office hours: M & W 2-2:45 and
by appointment
Research and teaching areas:
linguistics; generative syntax
Vicki Carstens
Vicki Carstens teaches linguistics and is chair of MU’s interdepartmental linguistics program. Her research area is generative syntax, within Noam Chomsky’s Minimalist framework. Much of her work explores the theoretical implications of grammatical agreement and word order phenomena in Eastern Bantu languages. Her articles have appeared in the journals Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Syntax, The Linguistic Review, and Language.
Education
PhD 1991, University of California Los Angeles
Selected Publications
Carstens, Vicki. "Agree and EPP in Bantu." Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (2005): 219-279
Carstens, Vicki. "Rethinking Complementizer Agreement: Agree with a Case-Checked Goal." Linguistic Inquiry (2003) 34.3: 393-412
Carstens, Vicki. "Antisymmetry and word order in serial verb constructions." Language (2002) 78.1: 3-50
Carstens, Vicki. "Multiple Agreement and Case-Deletion: Against Φ-(In)Completeness." Syntax (2001) 4: 147-163
Carstens, Vicki. "Concord in minimalist theory." Linguistic Inquiry (2000) 31.2: 319-355
Carstens, Vicki. "Null nouns in Bantu locatives." The Linguistic Review (1997) 14.4: 361-410
Courses Taught
English 1060: Human Language
English 4004/7004; Ling/Anthro 4870: Linguistic Field Methods
English 4600/7600: Structure of American English
English 4640/7640: Syntax
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