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Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (on leave until Fall 2010) Office: 642 Baldy Hall Phone: (716) 645-2177 ext. 713 Email: vanvalin@buffalo.edu IntroductionRobert D. Van Valin, Jr., Professor, received his Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at the University of Arizona, Temple University, and the University of California, Davis, and has been a visiting faculty member at Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Sonora, and the University of Zagreb. In 2006 he received the Research Award for Outstanding Scholars from Outside of Germany from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His research is focused on theoretical linguistics, especially syntactic theory and theories of the acquisition of syntax and the role of syntactic theory in models of sentence processing. He is the primary developer of the theory of Role and Reference Grammar. He has done research on two American Indian languages, Lakhota (Siouan) and Yatee Zapotec (Oto-Manguean). Together with Daniel L. Everett (University of Manchester) he has an NSF-funded project on information structure and syntax in selected Amazonian languages. He has recently begun a project with colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, on Neurotypology, which involves Role and Reference Grammar and language processing. He is the co-author of Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar (Cambridge UP, 1984), the editor of Advances in Role and Reference Grammar (Benjamins, 1993), the primary author of Syntax: Structure, Meaning & Function (Cambridge UP, 1997), and the author of An Introduction to Syntax (Cambridge UP, 2001). His most recent book is Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface (Cambridge UP, 2005). He is the general editor of the Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology series (Oxford UP). He has published articles on syntax, universal grammar, language typology, language acquisition, and neurolinguistics. Some recent publications:
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