Heidi Harley

Heidi B. Harley
Born (1969-09-26) September 26, 1969 (age 55)
Oregon
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisSubjects, events, and licensing (1995)
Doctoral advisor
Academic work
DisciplineLinguistics
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsUniversity of Arizona
Websiteheidiharley.com

Heidi Britton Harley (born September 26, 1969) is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona.[1] Her areas of specialization are formal syntactic theory, morphology, and lexical semantics.[2]

Career

Harley was born in Oregon, but was raised in St. John's, Newfoundland. She earned her B.A. in Linguistics and English at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1991. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics and Philosophy in 1995 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology,[3] under the supervision of Alec Marantz.

Harley is one of the main researchers working in the theory of Distributed morphology. She has published over thirty articles on morphological theory, syntax, and semantics, including articles in the journals Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Lingua, Morphology Yearbook, and Studia Linguistica.[4] She is the editor of three volumes of collected papers, the editor of two special issues of journals, and is the author of a textbook on morphological theory (Harley 2005).

Honors

The Linguistic Society of America has named Harley as one of the 2019 LSA Fellows, a group whose membership is determined by their "distinguished contributions to the discipline."[5]

She taught at the 2015 Linguistic Summer Institute organized by the LSA.[6] She has been an invited teacher at other major summer schools in linguistics throughout the world including Ireland and Brazil.

Specializations

Selected publications

  • Heidi Harley. 1995. Subjects, Events and Licensing. PhD Dissertation, MIT.[7]
  • Heidi Harley and Rolf Noyer. 1999. Distributed morphology. Glot International, Volume 4, Issue 4, April 1999.
  • Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley, and MaryAnn Willie, eds. 2003. Formal Approaches to Function: In honor of Eloise Jelinek, John Benjamins Publishers. ISBN 9781588113481
  • Andrew Carnie, Sheila Dooley, and Heidi Harley. 2005. Verb First: On the Syntax of Verb Initial Languages, John Benjamins. ISBN 9781588116109
  • Heidi Harley. 2005. English Words. Blackwell Publishers.[8][9] ISBN 978-0631230328
  • Daniel Siddiqi and Heidi Harley, eds. 2016. Morphological Metatheory. Amsterdam: Benjamins. doi:10.1075/la.229 ISBN 9789027267122

References

  1. ^ "Heidi Harley | The Department of Linguistics". linguistics.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  2. ^ "Heidi Harley". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  3. ^ "Alumni and their Dissertations – MIT Linguistics". linguistics.mit.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  4. ^ "Heidi Harley". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  5. ^ "Introducing the LSA Fellows, Class of 2019". Linguistic Society of America. 1 August 2018. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
  6. ^ "Heidi Harley | The Linguistic Summer Institute 2015". lsa2015.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  7. ^ Harley, Heidi Britton (1995). Subjects, events, and licensing (PhD thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/11073.
  8. ^ Review by Michelle Troberg, The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique, 54(1), March/mars 2009, pp. 186–188.
  9. ^ Review by Tatiana Ivankova, World Englishes, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 393–394, 2007.