Norvin
Richards
Professor of Linguistics, Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow
32-D868
MIT Linguistics and Philosophy
77 Massachusetts Avenue, 32-D808
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
This semester I'm co-teaching 24.951 (Introduction to Syntax) with Sabine Iatridou.
I am also deeply involved in the MIT Indigenous Language Initiative (MITILI).
some interests: wh-movement, crucially derivational properties of syntax, interaction between phonology and syntax, endangered languages, the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, Passamaquoddy, any of various issues in the syntax of Tagalog or other Austronesian languages.
Syntax, Endangered Languages, Austronesian Languages, Tagalog, Lardil, Wôpanâak, Passamaquoddy
Contiguity Theory (MIT Press, 2016)
Uttering Trees (MIT Press, 2010)
Movement in Language: Interactions and Architectures (Oxford University Press, 2001)
- Norvin, Richards. To appear. Anti-locality. In Kleanthes Grohmann and Evelina Leivada (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of the Minimalist Program..
- Richards, Norvin. To appear. Finding something to lean on. Language.
- Richards, Norvin. To appear. Reconstructing stress in Wopanaak. International Journal of American Linguistics.
- Richards, Norvin. 2023. Two kinds of bans on ergative extraction. ms., MIT.
- Richards, Norvin. 2023. Generalized Earliness.. ms., MIT.
- Richards, Norvin. 2023. Detecting Contiguity-Prominence. ms., MIT.
- Richards, Norvin. 2021. Immobile wh-phrases in Tagalog. Glossa 6(1): 139..
- Richards, Norvin. 2017. Some notes on Tagalog prosody and scrambling. Glossa 2(1), 21.
- Richards, Norvin. 2017. Deriving Contiguity. ms., MIT.
- Richards, Norvin. 2017. Contiguity Theory and pied-piping. ms., MIT.
- Richards, Norvin. 2017. Nuclear stress and the life cycle of operators. In Laura Bailey and Michelle Sheehan (eds.) Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure, pp. 217-240. Language Science Press, Berlin..