Ken Safir (aka Kenneth Safir)
Professor II
Ph.D., MIT 1982
Office: Room 204, 18 Seminary Place
732-932-7097
safir@ruccs.rutgers.edu

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Research Interests

The architecture of syntactic theory The contribution of syntactic form to the distribution of anaphoric forms and their interpretations Theoretically informed linguistic typology

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Selected Work

Safir, Ken. 2003-2008. Anaphora in the African Languages. NSF BCS 0303447 NSF BCS-0523102 Safir, Ken. in preparation. Strict Readings. Ms. Safir, Ken. in preparation. Coconstrual and Narrow Syntax. Ms. Safir, Ken. in preparation. The Varieties of Coconstrual: Indexical Generic Pronouns. Ms. Safir, Ken. 2005. Person, Context and Perspective. Italian Journal of Linguistics. (Rivista di Linguistica) 16.1. Safir, Ken. 2004. Introducing Exxtension. To appear in the Proceedings of the Fifth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Keio University. Download abstract: [rtf] Safir, Ken. 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] Safir, Ken. 2005. Abandoning Coreference. In J. L. Bermudez (ed.) Thought, Reference and Experience: Themes from the Philosophy of Gareth Evans. Oxford: Oxford University Press.. Safir, Ken. 2004. The Syntax of (In)dependence. MIT Press. Safir, Ken. 2004. The Syntax of Anaphora. Oxford University Press Safir, Ken. 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 ] Safir, Ken. 1999. Vehicle Change and Reconstruction in A'-chains. in Linguistic Inquiry 30: 587-620. Download (abstract): [wpd ] Safir, Ken. 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 ] Safir, Ken. 1996. Derivation, Representation and Resumption: The Domain of Weak Crossover. Linguistic Inquiry 27.2. Download (abstract): [wpd ] Safir, Ken. 1996. Semantic Atoms of Anaphora. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 15:545-589. Download (abstract): [wpd ] Safir, Ken. 1996. Abstract Incorporation vs. Abstract Cliticization. Proceedings of the 1995 Meeting of the CLS. Safir, Ken.1993. Perception, Selection, and Structural Economy. Natural Language Semantics 2, 47-70. Safir, Ken. 1992. Implied Non-coreference and the Pattern of Anaphora. Linguistics and Philosophy 15, 1-52.