Peter Spiros Eric Jenks - Linguistics - University of California, Berkeley

Peter Spiros Eric Jenks
CONTACT
INFORMATION
Department of Linguistics jenks@berkeley.edu
1203 Dwinelle Hall http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/∼jenks/
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2650
EMPLOYMENT July 2012-present. Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
EDUCATION
JOURNAL
ARTICLES
CONFERENCE
PROCEEDINGS
2011-2012. Lecturer
Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
2006-2011. Harvard University
PhD, Linguistics
Dissertation: The Hidden Structure of Thai Noun Phrases
Committee: Maria Polinsky (chair), Gennaro Chierchia, C.-T. James Huang
2004-2006. Univeristy of California, San Diego
MA, Linguistics
Summer 2005. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Southeast Asian Summer Studies Institute
Thai, 2nd year
2001-2004. Dartmouth College
AB, magna cum laude, with honors, in Linguistics and Cognitive Science
To appear. Generalized clausal modifiers in Thai noun phrases. Syntax.
2011. High tone in Moro: Effects of prosodic categories and morphological
domains. [Peter Jenks and Sharon Rose]. Natural Language and Linguistic
Theory 29, 211-250.
To appear. Adjectives as Nominal Heads in Basaá. [Larry M. Hyman, Peter
Jenks, and Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso]. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual
Conference on African Linguistics.
2012. Thai quantifier float as quantifier raising. In Proceedings of GLOW in Asia
VIII, Gao Ming-le (Ed.), 198-204. Beijing Language and Culture University
Press: Beijing.
2012. Syllable weight and high tone in Moro. [Peter Jenks and Sharon Rose].
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society 45,
Volume I, R. Bochnak, N. Nicola, P. Klecha, J. Urban, A. Lemieux and C.
Weaver (Eds.), p. 271-285. Chicago Linguistics Society: Chicago.
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OTHER
PUBLICATIONS
To appear. Accessibility and demonstrative operators in Basaá relative clauses.
[Peter Jenks, Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso, and Larry Hyman]. In a
volume on relative clauses in the languages of Cameroon.
To appear. Noun phrases in Moro. In Languages of the Nuba Mountains, Thilo
Schadeberg and Roger Blench (Eds.).
2006. Control in Thai. Variation in Control Structures (Online Database).
http://accent.ucsd.edu/pdf/Thai Jenks UCSD 06.pdf
IN PROGRESS Submitted. Mobile object markers in Moro: The role of tone. [Sharon Rose and
Peter Jenks]
CONFERENCE
PRESENTATIONS
INVITED
PRESENTATIONS
2012. Adjectives as Nominal Heads in Basáa. [Larry M. Hyman, Peter Jenks,
and Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso]. 43rd ACAL. New Orleans, LA.
2012. Three Ways to Modify Classifiers in Thai (poster).
The 86th Meeting of the LSA. Portland, OR.
2011. Noun Phrases in Moro.
1st Nuba Mountains Languages Conference. Leiden, the Netherlands.
2010. Thai Quantifier Float as Quantifier Raising.
GLOW in Asia 8. Beijing, China.
2010. Deriving adposition and noun phrase structure in Moro.
41st ACAL. Toronto, Canada.
2010. Evidence for the syntactic diversity of numeral classifiers (poster).
The 84th Annual Meeting of the LSA. Baltimore, MD.
2009. Syllable weight and high tone in Moro. [Peter Jenks and Sharon Rose].
The 45th Meeting of CLS. Chicago, IL.
2009. The morphosyntax of filler-gap constructions in Moro. [Farrell Ackerman,
George Gibbard, Peter Jenks, Laura Kertz, and Sharon Rose]. 40th ACAL.
Urbana-Champaign, IL.
2006. Stress and Tone in Moro. [Peter Jenks and Sharon Rose].
37th ACAL. Eugene, OR.
2005. Thai, Mandarin Chinese, and the SVO question.
The 4th Meeting of the ALT. Padang, Indonesia.
2012. Definiteness and Movement in Moro Noun Phrases.
Syntax and Morphology Circle, Stanford University.
2011. Classifier Licensing in Thai and Structural Economy.
S-Circle, University of California, Santa Cruz.
2009. Toward a Typology of Numeral Classifiers.
Annual Homecoming Lecture, Dept. of Linguistics, Dartmouth College.
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OTHER
PRESENTATIONS
TEACHING
2009. Two kinds of classifier languages.
Syntax Supper, CUNY Grad Center.
2009. Thai clausal predicates and the syntax of the RELATOR.
Vienna Institute for Linguistics, University of Vienna.
2008. Prosodic boundaries and the Thai right periphery.
Comparing Prosody Grammatically Workshop, Harvard University.
2007. Issues in Moken reflexives.
Southeast Asian Program Graduate Conference, Cornell University.
2011. The Classifier-Modifier Construction: Evidence for a null determiner in
Thai.
Syntax and Semantics Circle, University of California, Berkeley.
2010. Floating Thai Quantifiers.
Ling-Lunch, MIT.
2006. On the Thai Classifier-Modifier Construction.
Harvard Linguistic Theory Reading Group, Harvard University.
at UC Berkeley (as Instructor)
EXPERIENCE Spring 2012 Syntax and Semantics II
Introduction to Syntax and Semantics
Fall 2011 Syntax Seminar: Determiners
at Harvard University
Logical Semantics
Spring 2009 Introduction to Syntax
TA for Prof. C.-T. James Huang
Spring 2009 Undergraduate Tutorial: Understanding Syntactic Variation
Instructor
Fall 2009 Second Language Acquisition
TA for Prof. Wesley Jacobsen
Fall 2009 Undergraduate Tutorial: Tone and Autosegmental Phonology
Instructor
Spring 2009 Second Language Acquisition
TA for Prof. Maria Polinsky
Spring 2009 Undergraduate Tutorial: Tone and Autosegmental Phonology
Instructor
Fall 2008 Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
TA for Prof. Andrew Nevins
Fall 2008 Field Methods: Somali
TA for Prof. Andrew Nevins
Fall 2007 Knowledge of Language
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GRANTS
AWARDS
TA for Prof. Maria Polinsky
at University of California, San Diego
Spring 2006 Languages and Cultures of the U.S.
TA for Prof. Maria Polinsky
Winter 2005 Introduction to Linguistics
TA for Prof. Amelia Arvaniti
Fall 2005 Language and Culture of Signed Languages
TA for Prof. David Perlmutter
Spring 2005 Semantics
TA for Prof. Chris Barker
at Dartmouth College
Spring 2004 Introduction to Linguistics
TA for Prof. Timothy Pulju
Winter 2004 Intermediate German
Drill Instructor
2012. Professional Development Grant, UC Berkeley. $1,084.
2005. Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship: Thai. U.S. Department of
Education.
2004-2005. Dean’s Fellow. University of California, San Diego.
2008-2010. Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University.
Spring 2010 Tutorial: Understanding Syntactic Variation
Fall 2009 Second Language Acquisition
Spring 2009 Second Language Acquisition
Fall 2008 Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
2004. Outstanding Graduate in Linguistics. Dartmouth College.
RESEARCH 2008-2010. Graduate Student Researcher. Moro Language Project, University of
EXPERIENCE California, San Diego. NSF grant BCS-0745973. PIs: Farrell Ackerman (UCSD)
and Sharon Rose (UCSD).
SERVICE
2006-2007. Graduate Student Researcher. Variation in Control Structures,
University of California, San Diego. NSF grant BCS-0131946 and BCS-0131993.
PIs: Maria Polinsky (UCSD) and Eric Potsdam (University of Florida).
June-July 2006, June-July 2007. Fieldwork on Moken (Austronesian) in Ranong,
Thailand. Sponsored by UCSD Dean’s Summer Travel Fellowship and Harvard
Summer Research Fellowship.
2012–. Reviewer, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
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LANGUAGES
2010. Reviewer, Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 17, Harvard
University.
2010. Reviewer, Generative Linguistics in the Old World 34, Vienna.
2008–. Reviewer, Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society.
2007-10. Organizer, Workshop on Language Universals and Linguistic
Fieldwork, Harvard University.
2004-6. Representative for the Department of Linguistics, University of
California, San Diego Graduate Student Association.
English Native
Thai Heritage
German Advanced
Spanish Basic
Mandarin Chinese Basic
Moro (Kordofanian) Fieldwork (in San Diego, 2005-2010)
Fijian (Austronesian) Fieldwork (at Harvard, 2/2008-5/2008)
Burmese (Tibeto-Burman) Fieldwork (at Harvard, 2/2007-5/2007)
Moken (Austronesian) Fieldwork
(in Ranong, Thailand, 6-7/2006, 6-7/2007)
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