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Patricia Schneider-Zioga, Ph.D.

Lecturer
Department of English

Teaching interests: Phonetics and Phonology, Morphology, Linguistic Field Methods, Introduction to Research for Linguistics graduate students, linguistics for educators, English grammar

Research interests: Dyslexia as a disorder of phonological prosody; Minimalist syntax, in particular long distance dependencies, agreement and anti-agreement, pronominal clitics and related syntactic phenomena such as clitic doubling and clitic left dislocation; languages of interest: Kinande and other Bantu languages, Wolof, Modern Greek, Austronesian languages including Chamorro, Palauan, Tagalog and Kapampangan.

Brief biography: I received my Ph.D. in linguistics at USC (1994). My dissertation "The Syntax of Clitic Doubling in Modern Greek" was directed by Joseph Aoun. I have recently published an article on anti-agreement in the journal: "Natural Language and Linguistic Theory." A paper of mine on the syntax of resumption is to appear as a chapter in the volume "Merging Features," published by Oxford University Press. I recently presented a talk at CUNY's Phonology Forum that addressed the forum's question of whether the syllable exists as a formal unit of analysis.