James N. Collins

Ph.D. Student; Department of Linguistics, Stanford

I'm a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford. My interests primarily relate to syntax, semantics, the syntax-semantics interface and the applicability of modern linguistic theory in analysing less-studied languages.

Current Research Interests:

  • Case, ergativity and voice
  • The semantics of indefinites
  • Processing, pragmatic and grammatical models of island violation effects.
  • Austronesian languages, particularly Polynesian and Philippine languages