Adam I. Cooper

Department of Linguistics

203 Morrill Hall

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY 14853-4701

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Phonology, Historical Linguistics (Indo-European), Syntax.

 

 

Current Focus

Syllable theory, syllable structure and syllabification, particularly in Proto-Indo-European and its early daughter languages.

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

Conference Proceedings

·         to appear. with Effi Georgala. Dative Loss and its Replacement in the History of Greek. In Ans van 

    Kemenade and Nynke de Haas (eds.), Historical Linguistics 2009. Selected Papers from the 19th International 

    Conference on Historical Linguistics, Nijmegen, 10–14 August 2009. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

·         to appear. Challenging locality in constraint indexation: Epenthesis in the Vedic perfect. In NELS 40: Proceedings 

     of the 40th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. Amherst, MA: GLSA.

·         to appear. Stop Co-Occurrence in the Proto-Indo-European Root: A New Perspective. In NELS 39: Proceedings of

     the 39th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. Amherst, MA: GLSA.

·         2009. Similarity Avoidance in the Proto-Indo-European Root. In Laurel MacKenzie (ed.), University of Pennsylvania 

     Working Papers in Linguistics 15:1, Article 8. Available at: http://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol15/iss1/8.

 

Other Publications

·         to appear. with Draga Zec. Syllables. In Mark Aronoff (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies Online: Linguistics.

·         2011. with Wayles Browne, Alison Fisher, Esra Kesici, Nikola Predolac, and Draga Zec, eds. Formal Approaches to

     Slavic Linguistics 18: The Second Cornell Meeting 2009. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, University of

     Michigan.

·         2008. Review of Philomen Probert, Ancient Greek Accentuation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). Classical

     World 101.2: 258-259.

 

 

PRESENTATIONS

 

Papers

·         2011. Nucleus Selection in Proto-Indo-European. The 30th Meeting of the East Coast Indo-European Conference, 

     Harvard University, Jun. 10.

·         2011. Syllable-Informed Phonotactics and the Development of *tj in Ancient Greek. The 85th Annual Meeting of 

     the Linguistic Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA, Jan. 9.

·         2010. Studies in the Syllabification of Ancient Greek Consonant Clusters: Syllabic Writing and the Rhythm Rule. 

     The 29th Meeting of the East Coast Indo-European Conference, Cornell University, June 18.

·         2010. Constraint indexation, locality and epenthesis in Vedic Sanskrit. The 84th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic

     Society of America, Baltimore, MD, Jan. 8.

·         2009. Challenging locality in constraint indexation: Epenthesis in the Vedic perfect. The 40th Meeting of the North

     East Linguistic Society, MIT, Nov. 13.

·         2009. with Effi Georgala. On the Loss of Dative in Greek. The 19th International Conference on Historical

     Linguistics, Nijmegen, Aug. 14. 

·         2009. Manner Co-Occurrence in the Proto-Indo-European Root: A New Perspective. The 83rd Annual Meeting of

     the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 9. 

·         2008. Similarity Avoidance and Reconstructed PIE Root Structure. The 13th International Conference of the Society

     of Indo-European Studies, Salzburg, Sept. 25.

·         2008. Assessing Similarity Avoidance in the Evaluation of PIE Root Structure Constraints. The 32nd Annual Penn

     Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Feb. 23.

 

Posters

·         2012. Proto-Indo-European Sonorant Syllabicity as a Directional Syllabification Effect. The 86th Annual Meeting of

     the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, OR, Jan. 7.

·         2008. Stop Co-Occurrence in the Proto-Indo-European Root: A New Perspective. The 39th Meeting  of the North

     East Linguistic Society, Cornell University, Nov. 8.

·         2008. with Effi Georgala. On the Loss of Dative Case in Greek. The 10th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference,

     Cornell University, Aug. 8.

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

·         Instructor, LATIN 1020: Introductory Latin II (Winter 2012 Directed Study; Elmira College, Elmira, NY).

·         Instructor, LATIN 1010: Introductory Latin I (Fall 2011; Elmira College, Elmira, NY).

·         Instructor, LATIN 1201: Introduction to Latin (Fall 2010).

·         Teaching Assistant, LINGUISTICS 3302: Introduction to Phonology (Spring 2010).

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

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

·         Instructor, First-Year Writing Seminar (Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007).

·         Teaching Assistant, First-Year Writing Seminar (Summer 2005).

 

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

·         Research Assistant for Prof. Draga Zec (2011-).

·         Research Assistant for Prof. Michael Weiss (2005-2006, 2009-2010, 2011).

 

 

 

OTHER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

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

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

 

 

 

SERVICE

·         Member, Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 18 Organizing Committee (2008-2010).

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

·         Member, Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) 10 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 January 17, 2012.