Ken Safir (aka Kenneth Safir)
Professor II of Linguistics
Chairman of the Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University
Office: Room 204, 18 Seminary Place
732-932-7089
safir@ruccs.rutgers.edu

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Research Interests

The architecture of syntactic theory Anaphora and dependency in natural language   The syntax of African languages The syntax of Germanic languages

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Afranaph Project Safir, Ken. Director, Afranaph Project. 2003-present Supported by NSF BCS-0303447, NSF BCS-0523102, NSF BCS-0919086 and in partnership with the University of Utrecht Actual Clauses in Lubukusu (With Mark Baker and Justine Sikuku) Subject Agreement and Antecedent Agreement in Lubukusu Abstract (With Mark Baker and Justine Sikuku) Categories of Clausal Constituents in Lubukusu (With Mark Baker and Justine Sikuku) Sources of Symmetry in Bantu Double Object Constructions (With Mark Baker and Justine Sikuku) Complex Anaphora: Evidence for inside and outside voice (With Justine Sikuku) Lubukusu Anaphora Sketch (With Justine Sikuku) Kinande Anaphora Sketch (With Philip Mutaka) Ikalanga Anaphora Sketch (With Rose Letsholo) CiNsenga Anaphora Sketch (With Ron Simango) Yoruba Anaphora Sketch (With Oluseye Adesola) Afranaph Database  Selected Work

2011. One True Anaphor Ms.Rutgers University to appear Syntax, Binding and Patterns of Anaphora, in The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax. Also appears on the Afranaph Project website. 2010. Viable Syntax Biolinguistics 4:35-107 2010. How not to find linguistic universals. Lingua. 120:2723-2726. 2010. The typology of 'movement' as an epiphenomenon. Abstract. GLOW in Asia 8 2008. Coconstrual and Narrow Syntax. Syntax 11:330-355 In preparation.Person, Perspective and Anaphora. Book ms. 2005. Person, Context and Perspective. Italian Journal of Linguistics. (Rivista di Linguistica) 16.1. 2004. Introducing Exxtension. To appear in the Proceedings of the Fifth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Keio University. Download abstract: [rtf] 2004. On Person as a Model for Logophoricity. In Akinbiyi Akinlabi and Oluseye Adesola, eds. Proceedings of the 4th World Congress of African Linguistics. Ruediger Koeppe Verlag, Cologne, Germany. Download manuscript: [rtf] 2005. Abandoning Coreference. In J. L. Bermudez (ed.) Thought, Reference and Experience: Themes from the Philosophy of Gareth Evans. Oxford: Oxford University Press.. 2004. The Syntax of (In)dependence. MIT Press. 2004. The Syntax of Anaphora. Oxford University Press 2003. Anaphora, Movement and Coconstrual. In Lars-Olaf Delsing, Cecilia Falk, Gunlog Josefsson, and Halldor Sigurdsson (eds.) Grammar in Focus Volume II: Festschrift for Christer Platzack. Department of Scandinavian Languages, Lund University. Download (manuscript): [rtf ] 2002. Person, Perspective and Anaphora. ms.. Download (abstract): [wpd ] 1999. Vehicle Change and Reconstruction in A'-chains. in Linguistic Inquiry 30: 587-620. Download (abstract): [wpd ] 1998. Symmetry and Unity in the Theory of Anaphora In Atomism and Binding, Hans Bennis, Pierre Pica, and Johan Rooryck, eds. Foris Publications, Dordrecht. Download (abstract): [wpd ] 1996. Derivation, Representation and Resumption: The Domain of Weak Crossover. Linguistic Inquiry 27.2. Download (abstract): [wpd ] 1996. Semantic Atoms of Anaphora. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 15:545-589. Download (abstract): [wpd ] 1996. Abstract Incorporation vs. Abstract Cliticization. Proceedings of the 1995 Meeting of the CLS. 1993. Perception, Selection, and Structural Economy. Natural Language Semantics 2, 47-70. 1992. Implied Non-coreference and the Pattern of Anaphora. Linguistics and Philosophy 15, 1-52.