EdithAldridgeAssociate Professoraldr@uw.edu(206)685-4845GUG 415FOffice Hours: By appointmentFields of Interest Austronesian Chinese Historical Linguistics Syntax Background and ExperienceSummaryPhD 2004, Cornell UniversityProf. Aldridge has two main research concentrations. The first one is diachronic Chinese syntax. She collects sentences from Classical and Middle Chinese texts in order to perform synchronic analysis of the grammars of these respective times in order to identify processes and catalysts for the changes observed between the two periods. The other main prong of Prof. Aldridge’s research is comparative Austronesian syntax, where she focuses primarily on Philippine languages (especially Tagalog) and Formosan languages, which are the aboriginal languages of Taiwan. She gathers the Formosan data through fieldwork. Prof. Aldridge teaches a variety of courses, primarily in the areas of syntax and historical linguistics. Websites: Faculty Website Research Download Full CV (180.92 KB) Selected: Undergraduate, Honors Theses Goertzel, Ari, "Construct in Place: A Cross-Categorical Approach to Hebrew Construct States". Honors Thesis, U of Washington, 2017/2018. Selected: Publications, Journal Articles 2016. Ergativity from subjunctive in Austronesian languages. Language and Linguistics 17.1:27- 62. 2015.「上代日本語における疑問詞の位置について」[Wh-word positions in Old Japanese]. NINJAL Project Review 5.3:122-134. 2015. A Minimalist Approach to the Emergence of Ergativity in Austronesian Languages. Linguistics Vanguard 1.1: 313–326. Research Advised: Undergraduate Honors Theses Sola-Llonch, Elizabeth. "Ergative Case in Hindi/Urdu". Honors Thesis, U of Washington, 2017/2018. Gwin, Ian. "The Development of Question Particles in Estonian Polar Questions: A Minimalist Analysis". Honors Thesis, U of Washington, 2017/2018. Christopher Sundita. "The Development of Tagalog 'um.'" Honors Thesis, U of Washington, 2010/2011. Research Advised: Graduate Dissertations Chak-Lam Colum Yip. 2018. Evidence for DP in Chinese from Reduplicative Classifiers and DP-Internal Structural Phenomena. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Washington. Li, Yin. 2015. The Diachronic Development of Passive Constructions from Archaic Chinese to Modern. Doctoral dissertation, University of Washington. Research Advised: Graduate Masters Theses Russell L. Tanenbaum. "Rethinking the syntactic constraints on Fuzhou tone sandhi: a Distributed Morphology-based approach." MA Thesis. U of Washington, 2012. Yin Li. "Two Kinds of Mandarin Applicatives and Their Passivization Pattern." MA Thesis. U of Washington, 2012. Courses Taught Winter 2019 LING 416 A: History of the Chinese Language LING 508 A: Syntactic Theory II LING 516 A: History of the Chinese Language Autumn 2018 LING 507 A: Syntactic Theory I LING 599 B: Linguistics Colloquium Spring 2018 LING 410 A: Historical Linguistics LING 461 A: Syntax I LING 510 A: Introduction to Historical Linguistics Autumn 2017 LING 507 A: Syntactic Theory I LING 580 E: Problems In Linguistics LING 580 F: Problems In Linguistics LING 599 B: Linguistics Colloquium Winter 2017 LING 462 A: Syntax II LING 508 A: Syntactic Theory II Autumn 2016 LING 461 A: Syntax I - Course Website LING 580 C: Problems In Linguistics - Course Website LING 580 D: Problems In Linguistics - Course Website LING 599 B: Linguistics Colloquium - Course Website Winter 2016 LING 462 A: Syntax II LING 508 A: Syntactic Theory II Autumn 2015 LING 454 A: Methods In Comparative Linguistics LING 580 C: Problems In Linguistics LING 580 D: Problems In Linguistics LING 599 C: Linguistics Colloquium Spring 2015 LING 509 A: Syntactic Theory III - Course Website LING 580 A: Problems In Linguistics - Course Website LING 580 B: Problems In Linguistics Winter 2015 LING 461 A: Syntax I Autumn 2014 LING 599 B: Linguistics Colloquium Related News Related News Prof. Edith Aldridge hosts Modality in Classical Chinese workshop - Nov 1, 2018 Alli Germain Defends Dissertation Entitled "Non-nominative Subjects in Russian and Lithuanian: Case, Argument Structure, and Anaphor Binding" - Dec 1, 2017 Edith Aldridge Awarded Nostrand Endowed Professorship - Oct 21, 2016 The 24th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) - Oct 8, 2016 Tibusungu Vayayana and Richard Wright present talk on Tsou language of Taiwan at "Language Shift in the Sinophone World" Workshop - Nov 13, 2015 Edith Aldridge teaches course at 2015 Linguistics Summer Institute - Jun 18, 2015 Share: Print PDF