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Andrew Simpson

Professor of Linguistics & East Asian Languages and Cultures

Contact Information
Office: GFS 310D
Phone: (213)740-3640
E-mail: andrew.simpson@usc.edu

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Curriculum Vitae
 

Education

  • Ph.D. Linguistics, University of London, 12/1995

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

  • Reader in Linguistics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), 9/1/1999-12/31/2006  

Description of Research

Research Specialties
Comparative syntax of East Asian, Southeast Asian, and South Asian languages: Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Burmese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Hindi, Bengali.

Publications

Book
  • Simpson, A. A., Austin, P. A. (2007). Endangered Languages. Endangered Languages/Linguistische Berichte.
  • Simpson, A. A., Li, Y. (2003). Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation: Perspectives from Asian Languages. Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation: Perspectives from Asian Languages/Routledge-Curzon.
  • Simpson, A. A. (2000). Wh-Movement and the Theory of Feature-Checking. Wh-Movement and the Theory of Feature-Checking/John Benjamins.
Book Chapter
  • Simpson, A. A., Watkins, J. (2006). Constituent Focus in Burmese: a Phonetic and Perceptual Study. (Vol. 27-66). Canberra: Studies in Burmese Linguistics/Pacific Linguistics.
  • Simpson, A. A. (2004). The EPP, Fossilized Movement, and Reanalysis. (Vol. 161-190). Diachronic Clues to Synchronic Grammar/John Benjamins.
  • Simpson, A. A. (2003). On the Status of Modifying DE and the Structure of the Chinese DP. (Vol. 74-101). Stanford: On the Formal Way to Chinese Languages/CSLI.

Service to the Profession

Editorships and Editorial Boards
  • Joint General Editor, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2003-  
Professional Offices
  • Editorial Board , Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 2001-2007  
Professional Memberships
  • Journal of Linguistics, 2005-  
  • Editorial Board, 2004-