Instructor in Linguistics

Research Interests

Syntactic, semantic and morphological theory; Nez Perce language; field linguistics; native languages of North America; philosophy of language.

Representative Publications:

The origin and content of expletives: evidence from "selection", Syntax 12(4), 2009.

Ergative case and the transitive subject: a view from Nez Perce. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, to appear. 

Events in space. Proceedings of SALT 18, 2008.

Mailing Address
Department of Linguistics
313 Boylston Hall
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138

Office Telephone: (617) 496-4516
E-mail: ardeal@fas.harvard.edu