Caroline Heycock FBA FRSE is a Scottish syntactician and professor of linguistics at the University of Edinburgh.[1]
Heycock received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991, with a dissertation entitled Layers of predication: The non-lexical syntax of clauses.[2]
Heycock is known for her work in theoretical syntax, with particular reference to English, Faroese and the other Germanic languages, and to Japanese. Topics on which she has conducted notable research include reconstruction phenomena, equatives and other copular constructions, particularly pseudoclefts, the syntax and semantics of (especially) nominal conjunction, and syntactic attrition in the native language of advanced learners of a second language.[3] In 2019 she was a co-author of a work examining the possible position of contractions in Scots English, focusing on the use of a "locative discovery expressions" in which speakers can utter both "there it's there" and "there its".[4]
She has been an editor-in-chief of the Journal of Linguistics, published by Cambridge University Press for the Linguistic Association of Great Britain and is currently on its editorial board.[5] She is a member of the Scots Syntax Atlas Project Team.[6]
Recognition
editIn July 2019 Heycock was elected Fellow of the British Academy.[7] She was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2022.[8]
Selected publications
edit- Caroline Heycock. 1995. "Asymmetries in reconstruction," Linguistic inquiry. 547–570.
- Caroline Heycock, Anthony Kroch. 1999. "Pseudocleft connectedness: Implications for the LF interface level,"
- Linguistic inquiry, 30(3), 365–397.
- Ianthi Tsimpli, Antonella Sorace, Caroline Heycock, Francesca Filiaci. 2004. "First language attrition and syntactic subjects: A study of Greek and Italian near-native speakers of English,"
- International Journal of Bilingualism 8 (3), 257–277.
- Caroline Heycock. 2006. "Embedded root phenomena," 2006.The Blackwell companion to syntax,
- Gary Thoms, David Adger, Caroline Heycock, Jennifer Smith. 2019. "Syntactic variation and auxiliary contraction: The surprising case of Scots," Language. 95 (3), 421–455.
References
edit- ^ "Caroline Heycock". The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
- ^ Heycock, Caroline (1 January 1991). "Layers of predication: The non-lexical syntax of clauses". Dissertations Available from ProQuest: 1–304.
- ^ "Caroline Heycock – Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- ^ Eureka Alert, the American Association for the Advancement of Science 8-Aug-2019. Posted by the Linguistic Society of America "Great Scots! 'It's' a unique linguistic phenomenon" https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/lsoa-gs080819.php
- ^ "Journal of Linguistics". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
- ^ "Project team". Scots Syntax Atlas. 20 April 2016. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- ^ "New Fellows 2019" (PDF). The British Academy. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 July 2019. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
- ^ "Professor Caroline Heycock". Fellows. Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 31 October 2022.