Peter Hallman

 

University of California, Los Angeles

 

 

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Curriculum Vita

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Peter Hallman

Department of Linguistics
University of California, Los Angeles
3125 Campbell Hall
Los Angeles, CA  90095
USA

Phone:  (310) 825-8966
Email:  peter.hallman@ucla.edu

 

 

Professional Experience

 

 

2007-present

Assistant Professor in Residence, University of California, Los Angeles

2005-2007

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

2004-2005

Richard H. Tomlinson Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University

2003-2004

Visiting Assistant Professor, McGill University

2001-2003

Visiting Assistant Research Professor, University of Michigan

2000-2001

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Texas

 

Education

 

 

1997-2000

University of California at Los Angeles.  Degree received:  Ph.D.

 

Dissertation advisor:  Dominique Sportiche

1994-1997

University of California at Los Angeles.  Degree received:  MA.

1988-1993

University of Minnesota.  Degree received:  BA (Summa cum Laude).

 

 

Fellowships

 

 

 

2004-2005

Richard H. Tomlinson Postdoctoral Fellowship, McGill University.

1999-2000

Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA.

1995-1998

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Grant.

1994-1995

Presidents Fellowship, UCLA.

1992

Birkelo Scholarship, University of Minnesota.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal Articles (refereed)

Hallman, Peter (2008). "Proportions in Time: Interactions of Quantification and Aspect," Natural Language Semantics 17:1, 29-61.

Hallman, Peter (2004). "NP-Interpretation and the Structure of Predicates," Language 80:4, 707-747.

Hallman, Peter (2004). "Symmetry in Structure Building," Syntax 7:1, 79-100.

Chapters in Books (refereed)

Hallman, Peter (2002)  "Passive in English and Arabic," in Sabrina Benjaballa, ed., Morphology 2000, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam.

Hallman, Peter (1999)  "On Locality and Discontinuity:  Agreement as Across the Board Movement," in Abbas Benmamoun, ed., Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XII, 45-82, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam.

Hallman, Peter (1997)  "Reiterative Syntax," in James R. Black and Virginia Motapanyane, eds., Clitics, Pronouns and Movement, 87-131, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam.

Papers in Proceedings, Working Papers and Encyclopedias

Hallman, Peter (to appear) "Quantifiers in Arabic," entry in the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Brill Academic Publishers, Amsterdam.

Hallman, Peter (2006) "On a Categorial Distinction between Stative and Eventive Verbs," in Christopher Davis, Amy Rose Deal and Youri Zabbal, eds., Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistics Society, GLSA, Amherst, Mass.

Hallman, Peter (2006) "Interfaces in Arabic," entry in the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Brill Academic Publishers, Amsterdam.

Hallman, Peter (2004) "Constituency and Agency in VP," in Benjamin Schmeiser, Vineeta Chand, Ann Kelleher and Angelo Rodriquez, eds., Proceedings of the 23rd West Coast Conferent on Formal Linguistics, 304-317, Cascadilla Press, Somerville, Mass.

Hallman, Peter (2000)  "Verb-Final as a Subcase of Verb-Second," in M. Hirotani,  A. Coetzee, N. Hall and J.-Y. Kim, eds., Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistics Society, GLSA, Amherst, Mass.

Hallman, Peter (2000)  "The Structure of Agreement Failure in Lebanese Arabic," in Roger Billerey, ed., Proceedings of the 19th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 178-190, Cascadilla Press, Somerville, Mass.

Hallman, Peter (1999)  "Arabic Word Syntax," in Luca Storto, ed., Syntax at Sunset 2:  UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 3, 59-95, Department of Linguistics, UCLA, Los Angeles.

Hallman, Peter (1996)  "German Complex Complementizers," in Edward Garrett and Felicia Lee, eds., Syntax at Sunset:  UCLA Working Papers in Syntax and Semantics, vol. 1, 89-108, Department of Linguistics, UCLA, Los Angeles.

Hallman, Peter (1996)  "Is Inflectional Syntax a Morphology Licensing System or a Feature Licensing System?," in Florian Menz and Martin Prinzhorn, eds., Wiener Linguistische Gazette, vol. 57-59, 101-120, Linguistics Institute of the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

Invited Talks

"Generativity in the Medieval Arabic Linguistic Tradition." 'Friends of Linguistics at the University of Toronto' Guest Lecture. January 18, 2007.

"What Are Theta-Roles Assigned To, Exactly?" Linguistics Colloquium, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. January 13, 2006.

"Keeping Things in Proportion: Interactions of Cumulativity and Proportionality." Linguistics Colloquium, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. November 25, 2005.

"Scope, Case and Linking in Double Object Constructions." Linguistics Colloquium, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. March 15, 2005.

"The Temporal Significance of Do-So and its Consequences for Subject Licensing." Linguistics Undergraduate Colloquium Series, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. November 13, 2003.

"A-Movement and Definiteness in Null Subject Languages." Linguistics Colloquium, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. May 9, 2003.

"Arabic and the Universality of the Mapping Hypothesis."  Linguistics Colloquium, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.  March 7, 2003.

"Verb Movement and Asymmetric Coordination in West Germanic."  Linguistics Colloquium, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.  March 21, 2002.

"On Certain Inversion Phenomena in the Germanic Languages."  Verb-Second Workshop, Holland Institute of Linguistics (HIL), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.  January 28, 1998.

Conference Presentations

"On the Duration of States." 9th International Conference on Tense, Aspect and Modality (Chronos), Paris, France. September 2-4, 2009.

"Definiteness in Inuktitut." California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics (CUSP) First Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. May 23-24, 2009.

"Incorporation of Null Arguments in Inuktitut." Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA. January 4-7, 2007.

"On Transitivity and Causativity in Arabic and English." Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM. January 5-8, 2006.

"A Categorial Distinction Between Stative and Eventive Verbs." North Eastern Linguistics Society Annual Meeting (NELS 36), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.  October 28-30, 2005.

"Constituency and Agency in VP." West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 23), Davis, CA. April 23-25, 2004.

"A Pragmatic Analysis of Presuppositionality."  Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.  January 2-5, 2003.

"Stage- and Individual-Level Objects and Complex Predicates."  Michigan Linguistics Society (MLS) Annual Meeting, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.  October 19, 2002.

"Two Truth Conditions for the English Progressive."  Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB7), Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.  October 3-5, 2002.

"The Logical Form of Existential-There Constructions."  Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.  January 4-7, 2001.

"Passive Morphology in Classical and Lebanese Arabic and English."  Ninth International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, Austria.  February 25-27, 2000.

"The Structure of Agreement Failure in Lebanese Arabic."  West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 19), Los Angeles, CA.  February 5-7, 2000.

"Quantified Objects as Underlying Subjects."  Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.  January 6-9, 2000.

"Verb Final as a Subcase of Verb Second" (Poster).  North Eastern Linguistics Society Annual Meeting (NELS 30), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.  October 22-24, 1999.

"Principled Concordance."  Twelfth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.  March 6-8, 1998.

"A Unified Account of Parallel and Asymmetric Verb Second."  Tagung der Generativen Germanistik des Süden (GGS), Institute of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.  May 8-10, 1997.

"The Position of German Main Verbs is Invariant."  Germanic Linguistics Third Annual Conference (GLAC 3), UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.  April 25-27, 1997.


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