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Hagit Borer

Professor of Linguistics

Contact Information
Office: GFS 301H
Phone: (213)740-4870
E-mail: borer@usc.edu

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Education

  • Ph.D. , Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

  • Professor with tenure, University of Southern California, 1/1/1997-  
  • Professor with tenure, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 9/1/1990-1/1/1997  
  • Associate Professor with Tenure, University of California, Irvine, 9/1/1986-8/31/1990  
  • Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine, 9/1/1982-8/31/1986  

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Professor Borer's research spans three sub-areas of linguistics: comparative syntax, morphosyntax and language acquisition, taking as a starting point the study of the human language faculty within the generative approach. In recent years, she has been pursuing an approach which shifts the computational load from words to syntactic structure, viewing the mental lexicon as containing a minimal amount of grammatical information, with structural constraints determining traditional word properties such as syntactic category and argument structure. She has pursued the consequences of that approach for morphosyntax, for language acquisition, for the syntax-semantics interface, and for syntactic inter-language variation.

Honors and Awards

  • Visiting Senior Scientist, CNRS, Paris France, 5/15/2004-8/15/2004  
  • Belle van Zuylen Distinguished Visiting Chair, University of Utrecht, 9/2000-12/2000  
  • Post Doctoral Fellow, Sloan Foundation, University of California, Irvine, 1981-1982   
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