D. Terence Langendoen
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Positions held
August 2008-present, Expert, Division of Information & Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation
May 2006-August 2008, Linguistics Program Director, Division of Behavioral & Cognitive Sciences, National Science Foundation (on half-time detail to the Office of Cyberinfrastructure, October 2006-August 2008)
2005-present, Professor
Emeritus, Department of Linguistics,
1988-2005, Professor,
Department of Linguistics, University of
1969-1988, Professor,
Ph.D. Programs in English and Linguistics,
1969-1987, Professor, Department of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York (Associate Director, Linguistics Program, 1977-1982; Director, 1982-1987)
1968-1969, Associate
Professor, Department of Linguistics, The
1964-1968, Assistant
Professor, Department of Linguistics, The
1963-1964, Lecturer in
Linguistics,
Visiting positions at City University of Hong Kong (spring 1998, fall 2008), IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (summer 1964, academic year 1986-1987), Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht (spring 1977, Fulbright Senior Lectureship), University of Massachusetts at Amherst (summer 1974), University of California at Santa Cruz (summer 1973), State University of New York at Buffalo (spring 1970, summer 1971), Rockefeller University (academic year 1968-1969) and University of Pennsylvania (fall 1967)
Education
1964, Ph.D. in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1961, S.B. in Humanities and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Honors and awards
Fellow, Association for Psychological Science, 2007
Fellow, Linguistic
Society of
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2002
Partner in Education,
Fellow,
Selected professional memberships
American Association for the Advancement of Science (Chair, Section Z: Linguistics & Language Science, 2000)
Association for Computational Linguistics
Association for Psychological Science
Linguistic Society of
Selected grants and contracts
Planning Grant for a
Professional Master's Degree Program in Human Language Technology at the
E-MELD: Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Language Data. National Science Foundation BCS - 0094934, 2001-2005 (co-PI)
Editor, Linguistics Abstracts. Blackwell Publishing, 1997-2005 (contract)
Graduate Research Traineeship for Cognitive Science: Language and Cognition. National Science Foundation BCS - 9256886, 1993-1997 (co-PI)
Text Encoding Initiative. National Endowment for the Humanities, 1989-1992 (subcontract to chair the Analysis and Interpretation Working Group)
Workshop on Syntax and Semantics: Logical Form and its Semantic Interpretation. National Science Foundation BCS - 8519578, 1986-1987 (co-PI)
Linguistics in the Undergraduate Curriculum. National Endowment for the Humanities, 1985-1987 (PI)
Other professional activities
Member of the Advisory Committee for the Open Language Archives Community, 2004-2006.
Member of the Advisory Board for the Linguist List, 2002-present.
Book review editor for the Linguist List, 2001-2006.
Member of the Executive Council for the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Second Language Acquisition & Teaching of the University of Arizona, 2000-2002.
Member of the Advisory Board for the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics at the Center for Applied Linguistics, 1999-2003.
Editor of the Explaining Linguistics book series published by Blackwell, 1997-2005.
Academic consultant for the Equinox Films project entitled The Human Language Series directed by Gene Searchinger, 1986-1995.
Director of the LSA Linguistic
Institute held at
Consulting editor for Linguistics Abstracts, 1985-1996; Editor, 1997-2005; Emeritus editor, 2006-present.
Member of the Board of Trustees (ex officio) for the Center for Applied Linguistics, 1984-1988.
Member of the Editorial Board for Computational Linguistics, 1983-1985.
Member of the Seminar in the History and Philosophy of Science at Columbia University, 1981-1988.
Member of the University
Faculty Senate of the City
Member of the Associate Editorial Board for Language, 1977-1980.
Member of the Editorial Board for Discourse Processes, 1976-1993.
Member of the Board of Associate Editors for Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 1975-2000.
Co-editor of Language and Thought book series published by Harvard University Press, 1974-1988.
Member of the Board of Consulting Editors for Foundations of Language, 1974-1979.
Consulting editor for linguistics for the T. Y. Crowell Company, 1972-1979.
Member of the Associate Editorial Board for Linguistic Inquiry, 1969-1972.
Member of External Evaluation Teams for the Departments of Linguistics at Boston University, Cornell University, Louisiana State University, Montclair State College, State University of New York at Stony Brook, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Georgia, University of Iowa, and University of Pennsylvania, various times 1983-2005.
Member of Review Panels for the American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Science Foundation, various times 1988-2006.
Member of the Program Committees for various conferences and meetings including the Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting, CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, North-East Linguistic Society Annual Meeting, West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, and Western Conference on Linguistics, various times 1981-2005.
PhD dissertations supervised
Martínez
Fabian, Constantino (2006) Yaqui
Coordination.
Bruno, Ana Carla (2003) Waimiri Atroari Grammar:
Some Phonological, Morphological, and Syntactic Aspects.
Farrar, Scott (2003) An Ontology for Linguistics on the Semantic
Web.
Ohno,
Kazutoshi (2003)
The Interpretation of Focalizers in Japanese and
English.
Lewis, William D. (2002) A Distributional and Theoretic Study of P2
Clitic Cluster Changes in South Slavic.
Chen, Danny C.-C. (2000) A Quantificational Theory of Aspect for
English and Chinese.
Muadz,
Husni (1991) Coordinate
Structures: A Planar Representation.
Sookgasem,
Prapa (1990). Morphology,
Syntax and Semantics of Auxiliaries in
Levinson, Joan P. (1986) The History of Punctuation.
Eisenstein, Miriam (1979)
The Development of Dialect Discrimination
and Steroeotyping in Adult Learners of English as a
Second Language.
Ritter, John (1978) The Status of Chomsky's Theory of
Transformational-Generative Grammar.
Nunberg,
Geoffrey (1978) The Pragmatics of
Reference.
Malisdorf,
Zafrira (1976) Complementation
in Hebrew.
Berkovits,
Rochele (1976) Interaction of Bias, Context and
Intonation in the Perception of Surface Structure Ambiguity.
Ioup,
Georgette (1975) The Treatment of Quantifier Scope in a
Transformational Grammar.
Kalish-Landon,
Dore, John (1972) The Development of Speech Acts.
Selected publications
Note: For complete list of publications, some with links, see Publications.
Langendoen, D. Terence (in press) Just how big are natural languages? The Linguistic Review.
Farrar, Scott & D.
Terence Langendoen (in press) An OWL-DL implementation of GOLD: An ontology for
the Semantic Web. Linguistic Modeling of
Information and Markup Languages: Contributions to Language Technology, ed.
by Andreas Witt & Dieter Metzing.
Langendoen, D. Terence (2008) Coordinate grammar. Language 84.691-709.
Langendoen, D. Terence
& Constantino Martínez Fabian (2006) Los paradigmas nominales de yaqui y la teoria de la estructura paradigmática. Memorias del VIII
Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Tomo I, ed. by
Zarina Estrada Fernández.
Langendoen, D. Terence (2006) Disjunctive numerals of estimation. Style 40.46-55.
Simons, Gary F., William D. Lewis, Scott Farrar, D. Terence Langendoen, Brian Fitzsimons & Hector Gonzalez (2004) The semantics of markup: Mapping legacy markup schemas to a common semantics. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2004), 25-32. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Langendoen, D. Terence
(2003) Merge. Formal Approaches to
Function in Grammar: In Honor of
Eloise Jelinek, ed. by Andrew Carnie, Heidi
Harley & Mary Willie, 307-318.
Farrar, Scott & D. Terence Langendoen (2003) A linguistic ontology for the Semantic Web. GLOT International 7(3).97-100.
Langendoen, D. Terence
& Joël Magloire (2003)
The logic of reflexivity and reciprocity. Anaphora:
A Guidebook, ed. by Andrew Barss, 237-263.
Langendoen, D. Terence
(2002) Sequence structure. The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and Information into the 21st
Century, vol. 2: Computability of
Language and Computer Applications, ed. by Bruce Nevin & Stephen M.
Johnson, 61-75.
Langendoen, D. Terence (2002) Linguistics in the 21st century: Review of The Handbook of Linguistics, ed. by Mark Aronoff & Janie Rees-Miller. Journal of Linguistics 38.627-643.
Langendoen, D. Terence (2002) Review of Where Mathematics Comes From by George Lakoff & Rafael Núñez. Language 78.170-172.
Langendoen, D. Terence (2001) Review of Is the Best Good Enough? Optimality and Competition in Syntax ed. by Pilar Barbosa et al. Language 77.842-844.
Langendoen, D. Terence (2001) Review of New Directions in the Study of Language and Mind by Noam Chomsky. Language 77.583-585.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1999) Review of How the Mind Works, by Steven Pinker. Language 75.136-138.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1998) Limitations on embedding in coordinate structures. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 27.235-259.
Archangeli,
Diana & D. Terence Langendoen, eds. (1997) Optimality Theory: An Overview.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1997) Review of English for the Computer: The SUSANNE Corpus and Analytic Scheme, by Geoffrey Sampson. Language 73.600-603.
Langendoen, D. Terence & Gary F. Simons (1995) A rationale for the Text Encoding Initiative recommendations for feature-structure markup. Computers and the Humanities 29.191-205.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1995) Review of The Linguistics Wars, by Randy Harris. Language 71.583-588.
Langendoen, D. Terence
(1995) Review of Grammatical Theory in the
Langendoen, D. Terence
& Constantino Martínez Fabian (1994) Sobre las llamadas
cláusulas relativas en yaqui. Memorias del III Encuentro de Lingüística en el Noroeste, ed. by Zarina
Estrada Fernández, Max Figueroa Esteva
& Gerardo López Cruz, 443-464.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1994) Review of A Theory of Language and Information: A Mathematical Approach, by Zellig Harris. Language 70.585-588.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1993) Review of Natural Language and Universal Grammar, by John Lyons. Language 69.825-828.
Langendoen, D. Terence, Dana McDaniel & Yedidyah Langsam (1989) Preposition-phrase attachment in noun phrases. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 18.533-548.
Langendoen, D. Terence
& Yedidyah Langsam
(1987) On the design of finite-state transducers for parsing phrase-structure
languages. Mathematics of Language,
ed. by Alexis Manaster-Ramer, 191-236.
Xu, Liejiong & D. Terence Langendoen (1985) Topic structures in Chinese. Language 61.1-27.
Langendoen, D. Terence
& Paul M. Postal (1984) The Vastness
of Natural Languages.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1982) On a class of not ungrammatical constructions. Journal of Linguistics 18.107-112.
Langendoen, D. Terence
& Edwin Battistella (1982) The interpretation of predicate reflexive and
reciprocal expressions in English. Proceedings
of NELS 12, ed. by James Pustejovsky and Peter
Sells, 163-173.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1982)
The grammatical analysis of texts. Text
Processing: Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 51, ed. by Sture
Allén, 161-205.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1981) The generative capacity of word-formation components. Linguistic Inquiry 12.320-322.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1981) Review of Presupposition, ed. by Chung-Kyu Oh and David Dinneen. Language 57.214-220.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1980) Review of On understanding grammar, by Talmy Givón. Contemporary Psychology 25.365-366.
Nuclear, D. Terence
(1979) On revising and extending wh-movement. Lingua
Pranca, ed. by Thomas Ernst and Evan Smith,
34-37.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1979) More on locative-inversion and the structure-preserving hypothesis. Linguistic Analysis 5.421-437.
Langendoen, D. Terence
(1979) Discussion of papers by Yakov Malkiel and E. M. Uhlenbeck. The
European Background of American Linguistics, ed. by Henry M. Hoenigswald, 145-59.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1978) The logic of reciprocity. Linguistic Inquiry 9.177-197.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1978) Review of Essays on Form and Interpretation, by Noam Chomsky. Journal of Philosophy 75.270-279.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1978) Review of Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory, by Noam Chomsky. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 7.155-158.
Langendoen, D. Terence
& Geoffrey K. Pullum (1977) Presupposition
stranding in English: A problem and a mystery. CLS Book of Squibs, ed. by S. Fox, et al., 64-65.
Katz, Jerrold J. & D. Terence Langendoen (1976) Pragmatics and presupposition. Language 52.1-17.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1976) On the weak generative capacity of infinite grammars. CUNYForum 1.13-24.
Langendoen, D. Terence
(1976) Some problems in the description of English accentuation. Studies in the Sound Pattern of English,
ed. by Geoffrey K. Pullum & Didier Goyvaerts, 205-218.
Bever,
Thomas G., Jerrold J. Katz & D. Terence Langendoen, eds. (1976) An Integrated Theory of Linguistic Ability.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1976) A case of apparent ungrammaticality. An Integrated Theory of Linguistic Ability, 183-193.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1976) Review of Explaining Linguistic Phenomena, ed. by David Cohen. Language 52.690-696.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1975) Finite-state parsing of phrase-structure languages and the status of readjustment rules in grammar. Linguistic Inquiry 6.533-554.
Langendoen, D. Terence
(1975) Acceptable conclusions from unacceptable ambiguity. Testing Linguistic Hypotheses, ed. by David Cohen and Jessica R.
Wirth, 111-127.
Langendoen, D. Terence
(1975) Review of A Grammar of Contemporary English, by
Langendoen, D. Terence (1975) Review of Linguistic Speculations, by Fred Householder. Language 51.977-980.
Langendoen, D. Terence
(1974) Speak and talk: A vindication of syntactic deep structure. On Language, Culture and Religion (Festschrift for Eugene A. Nida), ed. by M. Black & William A. Smalley,
237-240.
Langendoen, D. Terence
& Thomas G. Bever (1973) Can a not unhappy person
be called a not sad one? A Festschrift
for Morris Halle, ed. by Stephen R. Anderson & Paul Kiparsky,
392-409.
Langendoen, D. Terence, Nancy Kalish & John Dore (1973) Dative questions: A study of the relation of acceptability to grammaticality of an English sentence type. Cognition 2.451-478.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1973) Review of Phrase and Paraphrase, by Lila & Henry Gleitman. American Journal of Psychology 86.207-212.
Langendoen, D. Terence
(1973) The problem of grammatical relations in surface structure. GURT 1973: Language and International
Studies, ed. by Kurt Jankowsky, 27-37.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1973) The problem of linguistic theory in relation to language behavior: A tribute and reply to Paul Goodman. Daedalus102(3).195-201.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1973) Review of From Deep to Surface Structure, by Marina K. Burt. Language 49.714-725.
Langendoen, D. Terence
& Thomas G. Bever (1972) The interaction of
speech perception and grammatical structure in the evolution of language. Linguistic Change and Generative Theory,
ed. by Robert P. Stockwell and Ronald K. S. Macaulay,
32-95.
Fillmore, Charles J.
& D. Terence Langendoen, eds. (1971) Studies
in Linguistic Semantics.
Langendoen, D. Terence & Harris B. Savin (1971) The projection problem for presuppositions. Studies in Linguistic Semantics, 55-62.
Bever, Thomas G. & D. Terence Langendoen (1971) A dynamic model of the evolution of language. Linguistic Inquiry 2.433-463.
Langendoen, D. Terence
(1971) Presupposition and assertion in the semantic analysis of nouns and verbs
in English. Semantics: An
Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics, and Psychology, ed. by
Danny D. Steinberg and Leon A. Jakobovits, 341-344.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1970) The 'can't seem to' construction. Linguistic Inquiry 1.25-35.
Langendoen, D. Terence
(1970) The accessibility of deep structure. Readings
in English Transformational Grammar, ed. by Roderick A. Jacobs & Peter
S. Rosenbaum, 99-104.
Langendoen, D. Terence
(1970) Essentials of English Grammar.
Langendoen, D. Terence
(1970) The use of expletive 'it' in construction with expressions of place and
time. Actes du Dixième Congrès Internationale des Linguistes 2, 911-918. Bucharest:
Éditions de l'Académie de la République Socialiste de Roumanie
Langendoen, D. Terence
(1969) The Study of Syntax: The
Generative-Transformational Approach to the Structure of American English.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1969) Review of In Memory of J. R. Firth, ed. by Charles E. Bazell et al. Foundations of Language 5.391-408.
Langendoen, D. Terence
(1968) The
Langendoen, D. Terence (1967) Mundari verb conjugation. Linguistics 32.39-57.
Langendoen, D. Terence
(1967) The copula in Mundari. The Verb
'Be' and Its Synonyms 1, ed. by John W. M. Verhaar,
pp. 75-100.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1966) Review of What Is Language? by Robert M. W. Dixon. Language 43.742-751.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1966) A restriction on Grassmann's Law in Greek. Language 42.7-9.
Langendoen, D. Terence
(1966) The syntax of the English expletive 'it'. Monograph Series on Language and Linguistics 19, ed. by Francis P. Dinneen, 207-216.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1966) A note on the linguistic theory of M. Terentius Varro. Foundations of Language 2.33-36.
Langendoen, D. Terence (1964) Review of Studies in Linguistic Analysis, ed. by J. R. Firth. Language 40.305-321.
Some non-professional activities
Member of the bass/baritone section of Choralis, Falls Church VA, 2007-present.
Member of the Board of Directors of the Tucson Chamber Artists, 2006-present.
Member of the bass/baritone section of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra Chorus, 2003-2006.
Member of the Board of Directors of the Miramonte Neighborhood Association, Tucson AZ, 2001-2006 (Vice-President 2002-2003; Secretary 2003-2006).
Member of the bass/baritone section of the Tucson MasterSingers, 1999-2006.
Previously, I was a member
of various singing and performance groups including the