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I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at Emory University. I also serve as a part-time faculty member in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Southern Maine.
My research is divided between synchronic and diachronic morphosyntactic phenomena. I work primarily with Galician (Romance).
In 2021-2022, I was a VAP at the University of Arizona. Before joining UoA, I defended my dissertation, Language acquisition and endogenous grammar change: the rise of the Galician complementizer agreement, from the University of Georgia. You can find it here.
Feel free to send me an e-mail! brian.gravely@icloud.com
News and updates
August 2024 — New *OPEN ACCESS* publication with Tim Gupton!
Our chapter in the “Special Issue: New Developments in Galician Linguistics” in Languages has just appeared! We review two interface phenomena in Galician, one dealing with subject position as it relates to clitic placement and another that deals with allomorphy of determiner clitics at the syntax-PF interface.
May 2024 — [with Carlos Krapp López] Presentation on postverbal copular agreement in English (CGG2024)
Carlos Krapp López and I presented at the 33rd Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG33), held by the Universidad de Alcalá, where we argued that there exists an interaction-satisfaction condition on certain copular constructions in English that can lead to non-canonical postverbal agreement patterns (specifically, those in which the preverbal constituent is a cleft). You can find our PowerPoint here.
February 2024 — Presentation on allocutive agreement (CHAMP2)
I presented (virtually) at Charting Honorifics and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes (CHAMP2), held by the University of Göttingen, where I argued that languages that show allocutive agreement restrictions are best modeled by failed Agree (Preminger 2014). You can find the handout here.
December 2023 — New publication with Tim Gupton!
Our chapter on the first syntactic approach to the Brazilian Portuguese cadê has just been published by De Gruyter in Wh-exclamatives, Imperatives and Wh-questions.
October 2023 — [With Daniel Greeson] Presentation on cross-linguistic DP2 agreement in partitive constructions
Daniel Greeson and I presented our paper A layering approach to DP2 agreement at NWAV51’s special Workshop on Variation & Syntactic Theory. You can check out the handout here.
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