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Biography
B.A. cum laude, Spanish Language and Literature with honors, Whitman College, 2008
MA, Linguistics, University of Washington, 2017
PhD, Linguistics, University of Washington, 2019
Curriculum Vitae
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Research
Selected Research
- Sugar, Alexander and Chughluk Abdilim. “The Double Life of Negation in Uyghur”. In Öner Özçelik and Amber Kennedy Kent (eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, CeLCAR.
- Alexander Sugar. "Verb-linking and Events in Syntax: The Case of Uyghur -(i)p Constructions." Diss. U of Washington, 2019.
- Sugar, Alexander; Abulimiti, Zaoreguli. Severing idiosyncratic case from the lexical verb in Uyghur-Chinese code switching. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, [S.l.], v. 4, p. 15:1-15, mar. 2019. ISSN 2473-8689. Available at: <https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/PLSA/article/view/4513>. Date accessed: 18 mar. 2019. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v4i1.4513. Download PDF
- Sugar, Alexander. 2018. A Restructuring Analysis of Uyghur Bleached V2 Constructions. In Betül Erbaşi, Sozen Ozkan, Iara Mantenuto (eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Turkish, Turkic, and the Languages of Turkey (Tu+3). UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics, 19. Download PDF
- Tash, Ahmatjan and Alexander Sugar. 2018. “Resultative Constructions in Uyghur as Verbal Adjunction”. Acta Linguistica Academica 65(1): 169-195. Download PDF
- Sugar, Alexander. 2017. Uyghur -ip as a verb linker in multiple constructions. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2, 16:1-14. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v2i0.4060 Download PDF
- Sugar, Alexander. 2017. Mandarin Chinese Verbs as Verbal Items in Uyghur Mixed Verbs. Languages 2, 1. Download PDF
- Opper, Michael and Alexander Sugar. To appear. “Truncation and Headedness in Chinese Compounding: A Dictionary-Based Study”. Proceedings of the 25th Annual North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Ann Arbor: MI: University of Michigan. Submitted 2013. Download PDF
- Sugar, Alexander. 2019. “Negation for Every Verb in Uyghur”. Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
Courses Taught
Additional Courses
Linguistics 461 - Syntax I, Summer 2015
Chinese 342 - The Chinese Language (Grader), Fall 2014
Spanish 201 - Intermediate Spanish, Fall 2014
Spanish 102 - Elementary Spanish, Summer 2014, Fall 2015
Spanish 103 - Elementary Spanish, Fall 2013, Winter, Spring 2014
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