Externally Funded Projects

The department has a long history of research projects supported by extramural funding agencies, such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), California Humanities, and Monterey Peninsula Foundation.

Current Projects

• Animacy and resumption at the border of cognition and grammar (National Science Foundation: 2020-2024)
  Ivy Sichel, Maziar Toosarvandani, and Matt Wagers
  
• Collaborative Research: Investigations into tone and stress in a complex prosodic system (National Science Foundation: 2016-2022)
  Ryan Bennett
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• Taking Flight: Conversations in and about the Oaxacan Languages of the Central Coast (California Humanities: 2017-2021)
  Pranav Anand and Maziar Toosarvandani
  Project Website 

Previous Projects

• Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory (National Science Foundation: 2018-2020)
  Junko Ito and Armin Mester
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• Collaborative Research: An ultrasound investigation of Irish palatalization (National Science Foundation: 2014-2020)
  Jaye Padgett, Grant McGuire, and Ryan Bennett
  Project Website
• Nido de Lenguas: Bringing indigenous languages into Monterey Bay classrooms (Monterey Peninsula Foundation: 2017-2019)
  Pranav Anand and Maziar Toosarvandani
  Project Website
• The landscape of negative concord: On the cross-linguistic variation of negatively marked expressions (Volkswagen Stiftung: 2016-2019)
  Ivy Sichel
  Project Website
• The implicit content of sluicing (National Science Foundation: 2015-2019)
  Pranav Anand, Jim McCloskey, and Daniel Hardt
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• Tools for linguistics self-discovery: Empowering California's Oaxacan communities (UCHRI, an Engaging Humanities grant: 2017-2018)
  Pranav Anand and Maziar Toosarvandani
  Project Website
• Demonstratives, deixis, and anaphora (Israel Science Foundation: 2015-2018)
  Ivy Sichel
• Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory (HR Research Cluster Grant 2017-2018)
  Junko Ito, Armin Mester, Maziar Toosarvandani, and graduate students Jenny Bellik and Nick Kalivoda
• Collaborative Research: RI: Processing opinion sharing dialogue in social media (National Science Foundation: 2013-2016)
  Pranav Anand, Marilyn Walker, et al.
• The real-time grammar of Chamorro wh-dependencies (National Science Foundation: 2013-2016)
  Matt Wagers and Sandra Chung
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• Language evidence for social goals: A linguistic approach to persuasion moves in discourse (IARPA Sociocultural Content in Language: 2009-2012)
  Pranav Anand
• Collaborative Research: Chamorro (National Science Foundation: 2008-2013)
  Sandra Chung
• Existentials at the interface (National Science Foundation: 2002-2005
  Sandra Chung and Jim McCloskey
• Optimal typology: Syntactic markedness hierarchies in Optimality Theory (National Science Foundation: 1999-2003)
  Judith Aissen