Peter Ackema
Linguistics and English
Language
University of Edinburgh
Dugald Stewart Building
Edinburgh EH8 9AD
UK
Tel. +44 131 6503495
Fax +44 131 6503962
e-mail packema@ling.ed.ac.uk.thisisnotrelevant
Teaching
This academic year (2011-2012),
I will be teaching or co-teaching the following courses. Follow the links to
find lecture notes. For full information on LEL1 and Linguistics 2Lh please consult
the courses’ WebCT pages and the course booklets on the LEL departmental web
pages (homepage at http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/).
Linguistics & English Language
1: Syntax
Linguistics 2Lh: Structure
and History of Western European languages
Current Issues in Morphology
DoS-matters
If you want to make an
appointment with me as your DoS it is best to arrange a time by sending me an
e-mail first (see e-mail address above). You are welcome to drop by my office
without an appointment at any time, but of course I cannot guarantee that I
will actually be present then.
Research
My work is in the area of
theoretical syntax and morphology. I am especially interested in topics that
concern the interaction between these two modules of grammar, such as
agreement, incorporation, correlations between the inflectional make-up of a
language and its syntactic behaviour (e.g. pro drop, verb movement), lexical
integrity effects, and phrasal derivation. A lot of this work is focused on
Dutch and the other Germanic languages, but not exclusively so. Here is a
complete list of publications.