Adam I. Cooper

Graduate Student, Department of Linguistics

203 Morrill Hall

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY 14853-4701

Research Interests:

Indo-European Historical Linguistics, Phonology.

 

 

Current Focus:

Syllable theory and structure in Proto-Indo-European and its daughter languages.

 

 

Teaching Experience:

·         Teaching Assistant, LINGUISTICS 3301: Introduction to Phonetics (Fall 2009).

·         Teaching Assistant, LINGUISTICS 101: Introduction to Linguistics (Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Spring 2008).

·         Instructor, Freshman Writing Seminar (Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007).

 

 

Other Work:

·         Research Assistant for Prof. Michael Weiss (2005 - 2006, 2009 -).

·         Grader, LINGUISTICS 3314: Introduction to Historical Linguistics (Spring 2009).

·         Grader, LINGUISTICS 109: English Words: Histories & Mysteries (Spring 2005).

 

 

Presentations:

·         ‘Challenging locality in constraint indexation: Epenthesis in the Vedic perfect’. Paper presented at the 40th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, MIT,  November 13, 2009.

·         With Effi Georgala. ‘On the Loss of Dative in Greek’. Paper presented at the XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen, August 14, 2009. 

·         ’Manner Co-Occurrence in the Proto-Indo-European Root: A New Perspective’. Paper presented at the 2009 Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco Hilton, January 9, 2009. 

·         ‘Stop Co-Occurrence in the Proto-Indo-European Root: A New Perspective’. Poster presented at the 39th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Cornell University, November 8, 2008.

·         ‘Similarity Avoidance and Reconstructed PIE Root Structure’. Paper presented at the XIIIth International Conference of the Society of Indo-European Studies, University of Salzburg,  September 25, 2008.

·         With Effi Georgala. ‘On the Loss of Dative Case in Greek’. Poster presented at the 10th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference, Cornell University, August 8, 2008.

·         ‘Assessing Similarity Avoidance in the Evaluation of PIE Root Structure Constraints’. Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, February 23, 2008.

 

Publications:

·         ‘Stop Co-Occurrence in the Proto-Indo-European Root: A New Perspective’. Paper to be published in NELS 39: Proceedings of the 39th Meeting of North East Linguistic Society.

·         ‘Similarity Avoidance in the Proto-Indo-European Root’. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 15: Iss. 1, Article 8. Available at: http://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol15/iss1/8.

·         Review of Probert, Philomen. (2006). Ancient Greek Accentuation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. In Classical World 101.2 (2008), 258-259.

 

Service:

·         Member, Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 18 Organizing Committee (2008 -).

·         Member, North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 39 Organizing Committee (2008).

·         Member, Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) X Organizing Committee (2008).

·         Representative for Linguistics, Graduate and Professional Students Council of Representatives (Fall 2007 – Spring 2008).

·         President, Cornell Linguistics Circle (CLC) (Fall 2005 - Spring 2007).

If you would like to send me electronic mail, please send it to ac244@cornell.edu.

Department of Linguistics

Cornell University

Created on July 6, 2006. Last updated November 24, 2009.