Assistant Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2010

Dr. Timothy Gupton comes to UGA from the University of Iowa, where he completed his dissertation entitled “The syntax-information structure interface: subjects and clausal word order in Galician”. His primary research interest is theoretical syntax, in particular the syntax of subjects, clitics and left-peripheral elements. He employs a variety of experimental methods based primarily on second language acquisition research in order to elicit quantitative psycholinguistic grammar judgments from a larger number of participants than in typical theoretical syntactic research. These methods are crucial tools that he is working to refine and develop. His current research interests include the prosody of contrast, quantifier raising and scope relations, and the syntax-discourse-information structure interface. Languages of particular interest to him are Galician, Spanish, European Portuguese, Greek, and Catalan, but he has also worked with English, Mandarin Chinese and Korean.

Recent Publications:
“Object Clitics in Galician and Complications for Clausal Analyses”. In Geeslin, Kimberly and Manuel Díaz-Campos (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 14th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, 272-284. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Curriculum Vitae

Current Manuscripts:
The Preverbal Subject Debate

Presentations:
“March 9, 2012, TAW 3: Contrast and CLLD in the syntax-prosody interface”
Nov. 9, 2011 RL Colloquium: “Collaborative Learning in the Spanish Linguistics Classroom: A Pilot Project”

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