Jason Merchant
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| Academic background | |
| Education | University of California, Santa Cruz (PhD) Yale University (BA) |
| Thesis | (1999) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguistics |
Jason Merchant is the Lorna Puttkammer Straus Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and Vice Provost for Academic Appointments and Graduate Education at the University of Chicago, as well as Faculty Director of UChicagoGRAD.[1]
Education and career
Merchant earned his PhD in linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1999, and his BA summa cum laude in linguistics at Yale University in 1991.[2] He held postdoctoral fellowships at Northwestern University and the University of Groningen, prior to joining the University of Chicago in 2001. Merchant became Vice Provost in 2018.[3]
Awards and Fellowships
Merchant has been a Fulbright fellow in Utrecht, a DAAD fellow at the University of Tübingen, and an Onassis Fellow at the University of Thessaloniki. In 2012, he was awarded the Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching[4] and in 2019 the Distinguished Graduate Student Alumni Award from the University of California, Santa Cruz.[5]
Research
Merchant is a linguist who has worked on the syntax and semantics of ellipsis and historical semantics and legal interpretation.[6]
Selected publications
- The syntax of silence: Sluicing, islands, and the theory of ellipsis. Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Sluicing: Cross-linguistic explorations. (ed. with Andrew Simpson). Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Voice and ellipsis. Linguistic Inquiry 44.1, 77-108 (2013).
References
- ^ "Vice Provost Jason Merchant". provost.uchicago.edu.
- ^ "Jason Merchant Department of Linguistics". home.uchicago.edu.
- ^ "Jason Merchant cv" (PDF). home.uchicago.edu.
- ^ "Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching".
- ^ "The Humanities Institute".
- ^ "Historical Semantics and Legal Interpretation". Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society.