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Heidi Britton Harley (born September 26, 1969) is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona.[1] Her areas of specialization are formal syntactic theory, morphology, and lexical semantics.[2]

Heidi B. Harley
Born	(1969-09-26) September 26, 1969 (age 53) Oregon
Academic background
Alma mater	Memorial University of Newfoundland MIT
Thesis	Subjects, events, and licensing (1995)
Doctoral advisor	Alec Marantz Leslie Saxon
Academic work
Discipline	Linguistics
Sub-discipline	morphology Syntax Distributed Morphology
Institutions	University of Arizona
Website	heidiharley.com

Career

Harley was born in Oregon, but was raised in St. John's, Newfoundland. She earned her B.A. in Linguistics and English at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1991. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics and Philosophy in 1995 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology,[3] under the supervision of Alec Marantz.

Harley is one of the main researchers working in the theory of Distributed morphology. She has published over thirty articles on morphological theory, syntax, and semantics, including articles in the journals Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Lingua, Morphology Yearbook, and Studia Linguistica.[4] She is the editor of three volumes of collected papers, the editor of two special issues of journals, and is the author of a textbook on morphological theory (Harley 2005).

Honors

The Linguistic Society of America has named Harley as one of the 2019 LSA Fellows, a group whose membership is determined by their "distinguished contributions to the discipline."[5]

She taught at the 2015 Linguistic Summer Institute organized gy the LSA.[6] She has been an invited teacher at other major summer schools in linguistics throughout the world including Ireland and Brazil.

Specializations

• Syntax
• Distributed Morphology
• Argument Structure
• Lexical semantics

Selected publications

• Heidi Harley. 1995. Subjects, Events and Licensing. PhD Dissertation, MIT.[7]
• Heidi Harley and Rolf Noyer. 1999. Distributed morphology. Glot International, Volume 4, Issue 4, April 1999.
• Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley, and MaryAnn Willie, eds. 2003. Formal Approaches to Function: In honor of Eloise Jelinek, John Benjamins Publishers. ISBN 9781588113481
• Andrew Carnie, Sheila Dooley, and Heidi Harley. 2005. Verb First: On the Syntax of Verb Initial Languages, John Benjamins. ISBN 9781588116109
• Heidi Harley. 2005. English Words. Blackwell Publishers.[8][9] ISBN 978-0631230328
• Daniel Siddiqi and Heidi Harley, eds. 2016. Morphological Metatheory. Amsterdam: Benjamins. doi:10.1075/la.229 ISBN 9789027267122

References

External links

• Harley's website
• Heidi Harley on Twitter
• Heidi Harley publications indexed by Google Scholar

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