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Curriculum Vitae Sara Thomas Rosen
Personal
Education
Address: Office of the Provost
1450 Jayhawk Blvd.
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
Department of Linguistics
1541 Lilac Lane
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66044-3177
Phone: Voice (785) 864-4904 Fax (785) 864-4463
e-mail: rosen@ku.edu
Ph.D. Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1985-1989
1990 Linguistics and Cognitive Science
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, attended 1982-1985
Applied Psycholinguistics
M.Ed. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1982 Special Education
BA honors University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1981 Psychology
Dissertation
"Argument Structure and Complex Predicates"
Thesis Supervisor: Jane Grimshaw

Professional Employment
Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, The University of Kansas, 2011-present
Dean of Graduate Studies, The University of Kansas, 2007 – 2011
Chair of Department, Linguistics, The University of Kansas, 2000 - 2007
Professor, Department of Linguistics, The University of Kansas, 2006 – present
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, The University of Kansas, 1996 - 2006.
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, The University of Kansas, 1991 - 1996.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland, 1990 -
1991.
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Post-Doctoral Fellow, SSHRCC (Canada Council) Grant 410-88-0624 ―Argument Structure‖
to Université du Québec à Montréal (Anna Maria DiSciullo) September, 1989 -
August, 1990.
Responsibilities as Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
The Office of the Provost has the administrative and operational responsibility for the
Lawrence and Edwards campuses including academic and student programs and business
operations. The office is responsible for the formulation and implementation of academic
and administrative policies and goals working in concert with the vice provosts and deans
and in cooperation with University Governance. The Senior Vice Provost for Academic
Affairs reports to the Provost and coordinates various academic programs to enhance and
support the academic mission of the university.
Work with the academic deans and facilitate communication and interaction with the
Office of the Provost
Supervise directors of Office of Compliance, Continuing Education, International
Programs, Center for Service Learning, Center for Online and Distance Learning,
Student Affairs, and offices in academic affairs, including Office of the First-Year
Experience, Center for Service Learning, Center for Undergraduate Research,
Undergraduate Advising Center, Writing Center, Academic Achievement and Access
Center, Career Center, and KU Info/Learning Studios

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Serve on committees and assist in the development and administration of policies
and budgets affecting academic affairs and the entire campus as assigned by the
Provost
Develop and track performance indicators, establish goals; oversee reporting of
academic affairs data to Kansas Board of Regents
Oversee academic program approval and program review for Kansas Board of
Regents including community college articulation agreements and out-of-district
course approvals; serve on the Transfer and Articulation Advisory Council for the
Kansas Board of Regents including serving as chair of the TAAC 2012-2013
Responsible for the development of successful assessment mechanisms, assessment
of learner outcomes, and accreditation
Supervise Assistants to the Provost for Academic Affairs
Goals in Academic Affairs
Implementation of Bold Aspirations, the strategic plan for the university
Oversee the implementation, process, and timelines of the strategic plan to improve
recruitment, retention, and time to degree for undergraduate and graduate programs
on the Lawrence and Edward’s campuses, increase faculty scholarly activity, and
faculty and student participation in community engaged scholarship.
Institute a new core curriculum for all undergraduate students at the
university
Launch the KU Core curriculum, a 21 st Century curriculum based upon goals that
cover essential skills, critical and integrative thinking, and values that will prepare
students for the modern workplace and for life-long learning.
Expand institutional support for experiential learning and first year
educational experiences
Provide focused experiential learning and first-year educational experiences for
students, including first-year seminars, common book program, living-learning
communities, block enrollment, and service learning, undergraduate research, and
study abroad experiences.
Implement Learner Outcomes Assessment
Establish goals and processes to assess student learning at all program levels; ensure
that curricular decisions reflect student learning assessment.

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Launch the Center for Online and Distance Learning
Establish the center and ensure its success in establishing and expanding online
courses and online degree programs. Determine the goals, priorities, and strategies
for moving forward with course redesign, creating of hybrid courses, and the
creation of online graduate certificate programs and degree programs.
Articulation and transfer policies and processes
Create Council for Articulation and Transfer Policies, and ensure appropriate
transfer agreements with community colleges in the Regents system. Create a process
that makes transfer agreements transparent and ensures smooth transition to the
four year institution. Work with Kansas Board of Regents Transfer and Articulation
to institute state-wide system of transfer.
Major Accomplishments in Graduate Studies
Reorganized and Directed Office of Graduate Studies. Responsibilities included: Ensure the highest
standards in graduate education and program development. Develop graduate program
policy and program standards, review existing programs, approve new programs, manage
admissions, curricular and graduation requirements. Collect graduate admissions, progress to
degree and completion data, and report program data to the individual programs and the
academic community. Develop evidence-based best practices in graduate education and help
schools/College and departments to implement best practices.
Created the Executive Council of Graduate Faculty and its role in graduate
education.
Council oversees, reviews, advises the graduate dean on Graduate Studies policy
Council advises the graduate dean on Board of Regents program review and on final
review of programs
Council reviews and recommends new program proposals for approval
Established mechanisms for collecting data on graduate students and
graduate programs.
Graduate Progress to Degree module in Kyou Portal collects and verifies milestone
toward degree data and enrollment data on all graduate students
Doctoral Completion Survey collects completion data in parallel with other AAU
schools
Graduate Student Satisfaction Survey provides data on current students reported in
DEMIS AIMS report
Redesigned graduate applications and admissions processes.
Developed on-line paperless admissions process
Developed on-line letters of recommendation
Developed electronic admission decisions letters
Streamlined processing of international documents with International Student and
Scholar Services

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Developing new application review module for department review and admission
decisions
Instituted Graduate Studies’ professional staff roles and responsibilities.
Assistant dean – application/admissions processes, recruitment, fellowship funding,
data collection and reporting
Policy professional – development of university-wide policy, program approval and
program review processes, electronic thesis/dissertation submission process,
degree completion
Programming and professional development – preparing future faculty programs,
GTA and responsible scholarship training, research events, GTA and GRA
appointment process
Applications and admissions – data entry, staff training, application credential
evaluations
Restructured Fellowship Disbursement.
Enhanced diversity/minority recruitment
Facilitated recruitment in order to boost promising doctoral programs
Facilitated completion and curricular reform in select departments
Established the Office of Professional Military Graduate Education.
Developed collaborations and established collaborative academic and research
programs with the Army
Initiated academic degree and training programs tailored to the needs of the Army
Officer corps
Grants, Honors, and Awards
Probing the syntax-discourse interface: The role of person in events and speech acts.
Collaborator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
standard research grant awarded to Elizabeth Ritter at the University of Calgary,
2005-2007.
NSF ADVANCE Leadership Institute for Senior Women Faculty. Participant 2005-
2006 academic year.
Intensive workshop on leadership roles for women in science. Training in
leadership styles, conflict negotiations, barriers to academic leadership for
women, networking for women in science.
Senior Administration Fellow, University of Kansas, 2004-2005 Academic Year.
Seminar-style training for senior administration at the University of Kansas.
Attended meetings with senior administrators, including Chancellor Hemenway,
Provost Shulenburger, Vice Chancellors for External Affairs, Student Success,
and other senior administrators at the University.
J. Michael Young Academic Advising Award, University of Kansas, 2002-2003.

Book
Excellence in Teaching Award, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of
Kansas, May 1999.
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Post-Lexical Semantics: At the Interface between the Lexicon and Syntax.
Collaborator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
research grant awarded to Elizabeth Ritter at the University of Calgary, 1994-
1996.
Argument Mapping. General Research Fund Award, University of Kansas, 1995.
Inferring the Innateness of Syntactic Knowledge. General Research Fund Award,
University of Kansas, 1994.
Thematic and Aspectual Arguments. General Research Fund Award, University of
Kansas, 1993.
Event Structure. New Faculty Research Fund Award, University of Kansas, 1992.
Rosen, S.T. (1990) Argument Structure and Complex Predicates. Outstanding
Dissertations in Linguistics Series V, New York: Garland Publishing Co.
Refereed Journal Publications and Book Chapters
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. (2010) Animacy in Blackfoot: Implications for Event
Structure and Clause Structure. In Malka Rappaport-Hovav, Edit Doron and
Ivy Sichel, eds. Syntax, Lexical Semantics and Event Structure.
Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 124-152.
Rosen, S.T. (2007) Structured Events, Structured Discourse. In Ramchand & Reiss
(eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 181-208.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen (2005) Agreement without A positions: Another look at
Algonquian. Linguistic Inquiry, 36:648-660.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen (2005) Topic or Aspect: Functional heads, features and the
grammatization of events. In P. Kempchinsky & R. Slabokova (eds.),
Aspectual Inquiries Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 21-40.

Invited Reviews
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Hornstein, N., S.T. Rosen and J. Uriagereka (2002) Integrals. In J. Uriagereka,
Derivations: Exploring the Dynamics of Syntax. London: Routledge,
179-191.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen (2001) The Interpretive Value of Object Splits. Language
Sciences 23: 425-451.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen (2000) Event Structure and Ergativity. In C. Tenny & J.
Pustejovsky (eds.) Events as Grammatical Objects, CSLI, Stanford: 187-
238.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen (1998) Delimiting Events in Syntax. In W. Geuder & M.
Butt (eds.), The Projection of Arguments: Lexical and Syntactic
Constraints, CSLI, Stanford: 135-164.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen (1997) The Function of Have. Lingua, 101: 295-321.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen (1996) Strong and Weak Predicates: Reducing the Lexical
Burden. Linguistic Analysis, 26: 1-34.
Rosen, S.T. (1996) Events and Verb Classification. Linguistics, 34: 191-223.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen (1993) Deriving Causation. Natural Language and
Linguistic Theory, 11: 519-555.
Di Sciullo, A.M. and S.T. Rosen (1991) Constructions à prédicats légers et quasilégers.
Révue Québécoise de Linguistique: Structures d’arguments et
propriétés grammaticales, 20: 13-37.
Di Sciullo, A.M. and S.T. Rosen (1990) Light and Semi-Light Verb Constructions.
In K. Dziwirek, P. Ferrell & E. Mejías-Bikandi (eds.) Grammatical
Relations: A Cross-Theoretical Perspective, CSLI, Stanford University:
109-126.
Grimshaw, J. and S.T. Rosen (1990) Obeying the Binding Theory. In Lyn Frazier
and Jill de Villiers (eds.), Language Processing and Acquisition, Kluwer
Academic Publishers.
Grimshaw, J. and S.T. Rosen (1990) Knowledge and Obedience: The
Developmental Status of the Binding Theory. Linguistic Inquiry, 21: 187-
222.
Rosen, S.T. (1989) Two Types of Noun Incorporation: A Lexical Analysis.
Language, 65: 294-317.

Web Publications
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Rosen, S.T. (1999) The Syntactic Representation of Linguistic Events. A State-ofthe-Article.
Glot International, 4, 3-10.
Rosen, S.T. (1998) Review of Carol Tenny Aspectual Roles and the Syntax-
Semantics Interface. Language, 74 (4), 847-850.
Rosen, S.T. (1992) Review of Suzanne Flynn and Wayne O’Neil (eds.), Linguistic
Theory in Second Language Acquisition. Language, 68 (1), 202-206.
Rosen, S.T. (2003) On the Aspectual Nature of Subject Splits. Published on the
website for the Workshop on the Philosophy-Linguistics Interface: The
Structure of Events and States.
Reprinted Articles
Rosen, S.T. (2003) The Syntactic Representation of Linguistic Events. In L. Cheng
& R. Sybesma (eds.), The 2 nd State of the Article Book. Mouton de
Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 323-365. Reprinted from Glot International, 4, 3-10.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen (2002) Strong and Weak Predicates: Reducing the Lexical
Burden. In Kensei Sugayama (ed.) Studies in Lexical Semantics. Tokyo:
The Eihosa Ltd. Reprinted from Linguistic Analysis, 26, 1-34.
Proceedings and Working Papers
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. (2012) Possessors as External Arguments: Evidence from
Blackfoot. Proceedings of the 42 nd Algonquian Conference, St. John’s University,
Newfoundland.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. (2003) Agreement without A Positions: A Closer Look at
Algonquian. Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistics Association, 2003.
Linn, M.S. and S.T. Rosen. (2001) The Functional Projections of Subject Splits.
Proceedings of the 2001 Texas Linguistic Society Conference: The Role of Agreement
in Natural Language.
Hornstein, N., S.T. Rosen, and J. Uriagereka. (1996) Integral Predication. In J.
Camacho, L. Choueiri, & M. Watanabe (eds.), Proceedings of WCCFL 14, 169-
184. Stanford, CSLI.

Invited Talks
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Ritter, E. & S.T. Rosen. (1995) The Incompatibility of Lexical Derivation and Post-
Lexical Arguments. University of Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 17, 11-15.
Hornstein, N., S.T. Rosen, and J. Uriagereka. (1995) Integrals. University of Maryland
Working Papers in Linguistics, 2.
Rosen, T.J. and S.T. Rosen. (1994) Inferring the Innateness of Syntactic
Knowledge. In E. Clark (ed.), Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth Annual Child
Language Research Forum, 71-81. Stanford, CSLI.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. (1994) The Status of Causer Arguments. In C. Dyck
(ed.) Proceedings of the 1993 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic
Association. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, University of Toronto,
557-572.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. (1993) The Independence of External Arguments.
Proceedings of WCCFL XII, Stanford, CSLI.
Rosen, S.T. (1992) The Case of Subjects in the Romance Causative. Kansas Working
Papers in Linguistics, 17, 79-113.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. (1991) On Certain Differences between Have and Make.
Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, 11, 61-74.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. (1990) Causative have. Proceedings of NELS, GLSA,
Amherst, MA.
Rosen, S.T. (1990) Restructuring Verbs are Light Verbs. Proceedings of WCCFL IX,
CSLI, Stanford.
Rosen, S.T. (1989) The Argument Structure and Phrasal Configuration of Romance
Causatives. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 11.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. Possessors as Arguments: Evidence from Blackfoot.
Invited talk, Workshop on Nominal Dependents. Banff, May 2010.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. Not at this Workshop We Won’t: An Investigation into
Information Structure and the Syntax of Not-Topics. Invited talk, Workshop
on Interfaces, University of Calgary, February 2007.

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Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. Event Structure in Blackfoot. Invited talk, Workshop on
Syntax, Lexicon and Event Structure, Israel Association for Theoretical
Linguistics, July 2006.
Rosen, S.T. Are Subject Splits Event Related? Invited talk, Workshop on the
Philosophy-Linguistics Interface: The Structure of Events and States.
University of Southern California, February 14-16, 2003.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. Objects and EPP Features. Invited talk, Workshop on
Aspect, University of Northern Iowa. May 2002.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. Event Structure and Ergativity. Paper presented at the
Workshop on Events as Grammatical Objects in Syntax and Semantics, LSA
Summer Institute at Cornell, June 1997.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. The Function of Have. Paper presented at the Workshop
on the Syntax of Possession and the Verb Have, 28th Annual Meeting of the
Societas Linguistica Europaea in Leiden, The Netherlands, September 1995.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. Strong and Weak Predicates: Reducing the Lexical
Burden. Invited address, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,
Nijmegen, The Netherlands, September 1995.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. Strong and Weak Predicates: Reducing the Lexical
Burden. Invited address, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands,
September 1995.
Conferences and Colloquia
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. The Argument Structure of Inalienable Possession. Paper
presented at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics, University of Alberta,
October 2011.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. Possessors as External Arguments: Evidence from
Blackfoot. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January,
2011.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. Possessors as External Arguments: Evidence from
Blackfoot. 42 nd Algonquian Conference, St. John’s University,
Newfoundland, October 2010
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. Possessors as Arguments: Evidence from Blackfoot.
Invited talk, Workshop on Nominal Dependents. Banff, May 2010.
Rosen, S.T. and A. Yamamoto. Language Universals and Language Diversity.
Invited address, University of Kansas OSHER Institute, March 2005.

Rosen, S.T. Two Kinds of Subjects, Two Kinds of Objects. Invited address,
University of Kansas Child Language Proseminar, 2003.
Rosen, S.T. Animacy Agreement. Invited address, University of Kansas
Colloquium, November 2003.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. Agreement without A Positions: A Closer Look at
Algonquian. Paper presented at the Canadian Linguistics Association,
Halifax, NS, June 3, 2003.
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Linn, M.S. and S.T. Rosen. The Functional Projections of Subject Splits. The 2001
Texas Linguistic Society Conference: The Role of Agreement in Natural
Language. March 2001.
Rosen, S.T. Subject Case and Agreement Across Languages. Invited address,
University of Kansas Child Language Proseminar, February 2001.
Rosen S.T. Object Agreement. Invited address, University of Kansas Child
Language Proseminar, February 1999.
Rosen, S.T. The Semantics of Syntax. Invited address, University of Kansas
Experimental Psychology Proseminar, October 1998.
Rosen, S.T. Initiation or Delimitation: The organization of events across languages.
Invited address, University of Kansas Colloquium, February 1998.
Rosen, S.T. The Syntax of Events. Invited address, Child Language Proseminar,
University of Kansas, February 1996.
Rosen, S.T. The Function of Have. Invited address, University of Kansas
Colloquium, November 1995.
Rosen, S.T. and T.J. Rosen. What do we Know? Problems in Testing for Language
Knowledge. Presentation to the Student Association of Undergraduate
Linguists, University of Kansas, April 1995.
Hornstein, N., S.T. Rosen, and J. Uriagereka. Integral Predication. Paper presented
at the Workshop on Predication, West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics, March 1995.
Rosen, S.T. Post-Lexical Semantics. Invited address, Child Language Pro-Seminar,
University of Kansas, February 1995.
Rosen, S.T. and T.J. Rosen. Predictions and Interpretations in the Study of
Children’s Syntactic Knowledge. University of Kansas Linguistics
Colloquium, September 1994.

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Rosen, T.J. and S.T. Rosen. Inferring the Innateness of Syntactic Knowledge. Paper
presented at the Stanford Child Language Research Forum, April, 1994.
Rosen, S.T. Lexical Semantics at LF. Invited address, University of Washington
Linguistics Department, Seattle, January 1994.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. Weak and Strong Predicates. Paper presented at the
Linguistic Society of America, January 1994.
Page, J. and S.T. Rosen. Current Issues in Linguistics and Philosophy. University of
Kansas Linguistics Colloquium, November 1993
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. The Status of Causer Arguments. Canadian Linguistic
Association, May 1993.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. The Independence of External Arguments. WCCFL XII,
April 1993.
Rosen, S.T. Problems in Language Learning and Learnability. Invited address, Child
Language Proseminar, University of Kansas, March 1993.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. Arguments at Different Levels. Invited address presented
at the Workshop on Theta-Roles, University of Kansas, January 1993.
Rosen, S.T. Events and the Acquisition of Verb Arguments. Invited address to the
Child Language Proseminar, University of Kansas, April 1992.
Rosen, S.T. Events and the Acquisition of Verb Arguments. Invited address,
Brandeis University Linguistics Program & Department of Psychology, April
1992.
Rosen, S.T. Psych Verbs and Argument Alignment. Invited address, Georgetown
University, February 1992.
Rosen, S.T. Psych Predicates and Argument Alignment. University of Kansas
Linguistics Colloquium, December 1991.
Rosen, S.T. Parameters of Language and Learnability. Invited address to the
Experimental Psychology Proseminar, Dept. of Psychology, University of
Kansas, November, 1991.
Rosen, S.T. Acquiring Principle B: What is chance behavior and what can it tell us?
University of Maryland Linguistics Colloquium, December 1990.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. Causative have. Paper presented at NELS, Université du
Québec à Montréal, October 1990.

Work in Progress
Rosen, S.T. Restructuring Verbs are Light Verbs. Paper presented at WCCFL,
Stanford University, March 1990.
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Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. On Certain Differences between Have and Make. Paper
presented at the Workshop on Lexical-Syntactic Relations, University of
Toronto, February 1990.
Di Sciullo, A.M. and S.T. Rosen. Light and Semi-Light Verb Constructions. Paper
presented at the Conference on Grammatical Relations, San Diego, January
1990.
Rosen, S.T. Argument Structure Merger: Romance Causatives. Université du
Québec à Montréal Colloquium, December 1989.
Rosen, S.T. The Status of the Evidence on the Acquisition of Binding. Boston
University Psycholinguistics Colloquium, April 1989.
Rosen, S.T. The Argument Structure and Phrasal Configuration of Romance
Causatives. Paper presented at the First International Student Conference in
Linguistics, MIT, February 1989.
Grimshaw, J. and S.T. Rosen. Antecedents for Pronouns and the Development of
Principle B. Paper presented at the Workshop on Processing in Language
Acquisition, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, May 1988.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. Animacy in Blackfoot: Evidence from Possessive DPs.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. Discourse/Animacy -based Agreement in the Left
Periphery.
Ritter, E. and S.T. Rosen. Contrast in the left periphery.
Teaching Experience
Graduate Teaching
Beginning Syntax
Advanced Syntax
Seminar on Argument Structure and the Lexicon
Seminar on Parameters and Knowledge of Language.

Seminar on Aspect and Argument Mapping.
Seminar on Minimalist Syntax.
Seminar on Optimality Theory in Syntax.
Seminar on Event Syntax.
Seminar on Methods in Linguistics Research.
Seminar on Topic and Focus
Seminar on A’ movement
Seminar on A movement and A positions
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Undergraduate Teaching
Beginning Syntax
Advanced Syntax
Undergraduate Seminar on Incorporation
Introduction to Linguistics
Introduction to Grammar and Cognitive Science
Language and Mind
Independent studies in language and innateness hypotheses, language as a cognitive
science, and causativization.
Theses Directed
Ph.D.
Mübeccel Taneri, Ph.D. with honors May 1993 The Morpheme -IL/(I)N: The Syntax of
Personal Passives, Impersonal Passives and Middles in Turkish.
In Lee, Ph.D. December 1994 Analysis of Korean Complex Predicates: An Argument
Structure Account.
Dongik Choi, Ph.D. with honors December 1996 An Optimality Theoretic Approach to
the Coreference between NPs.
Virginia Wang, Ph.D. May 1999 Delimitation: Evidence from Mandarin.
Supath Kookiattikoon, Ph.D. with honors May 2001. The Syntax of Classifiers in Thai.
Mary S. Linn, Ph.D. with honors May 2001. A Grammar of Euchee (Yuchi). (with
Akira Yamamoto)
Emad Al-Tamari, Ph.D. August 2001. Sentential Negation in English and Arabic: A
Minimalist Approach.
Osama Abdel-Ghafer, Ph.D. with honors December 2003. Copular Constructions in
Modern Standard Arabic, Modern Hebrew, and English.
Mohamad Galal, Ph.D. May 2004. A Minimalist Approach to Relative Clauses in Modern
Standard Arabic.
Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto, Ph.D. with honors May 2005. Focus at the Interface.
Maisoun Abu-Joudeh, Ph.D. May 2005. Multiple Feature Checking in Arabic.
Yan Ling, Ph.D. August 2005. Movement to the Left Periphery of vP.
Michael Putnam, Ph.D. in Germanic Languages May 2006. Prolific Scrambling (with
William Keel).
Khalaf Al-Shammiry, Ph.D. August 2008. The Clause Structure of Turaif Arabic.

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Jong-Il Kwon, Ph.D. May 2009. Topics in the Syntax and Semantics of Korean Embedded
Clauses. (with Harold Torrence)
M.A.
Elisa Vazquez-Iglesias, MA May 1995 A New Approach to the Binding Theory in Spanish.
Melissa Goodell, MA with honors August 1998 Marginal Questions in Optimality Theory.
Lisa Stewart, MA May 2001. Non-thesis.
Maria Carmen Parafita, MA with honors May 2002. Minimalist Approach to Galician
Inflected Infinitives.
Junko Maekawa Young, MA May 2002. Movement of the Object in English and Japanese in
Minimalist Program. (with Akira Yamamoto)
Gerardo Fernandez-Salguiero, MA with honors May 2003. On Agree.
Nina Radkevich, MA with honors August 2005. Multiple Wh in Russian.
Donald Englund, MA December 2006. The Syntactic Structure of the Focused Adverbial
Cognate Object in Biblical Hebrew.
Craig Turnbull-Sailor, MA August 2007.
Michelle Bridges, MA May 2008.
Kasper Schirer, MA May 2008.
B.A. Honors
Madeline Holler, Undergraduate Honors May 1995. Get and Aspect.
Jarromy Brune, Undergraduate Honors May 1997. Conjoined Structures and Case
Assignment in Conjunctions.
Ann Moser, Undergraduate Honors May 2003.
Service to the Profession
Member of the Endangered Languages Committee of the Linguistic Society of America.
2003.
Member of the Editorial Board for Syntax. 2003-2006.
Member of the Editorial Board for Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 1993-1996.
Reviewer for
Linguistic Inquiry
Language, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Syntax
Linguistics
Probus
Lingua
Journal of Linguistics
Journal for Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Cambridge University Press book proposals
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory edited by John Archibald
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences
Reviewer for grant applications for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada.
Reviewer for grant applications for the National Science Foundation.
Reviewer for grant applications from the Israel Science Foundation.
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Tenure & Promotion Evaluations
Peer Evaluation for Tenure Case, Laval University 1999.
Peer Evaluation for Tenure Case, Florida International University 2005.
Peer Evaluation for Promotion to Full Professor, University of Toronto
2003.
Peer Evaluation for Tenure Case, Florida International University, 2005.
Peer Evaluation for Promotion to Full Professor, Ben Gurion University of
the Negev 2007.
Peer Evaluation for Promotion to Full Professor, King Abdulaziz University,
Saudi Arabia 2009
Peer Evaluation for Promotion to Full Professor, University of Toronto,
2010
Co-chair: Ninth Annual Boston University Conference on Language
Development, Boston, Massachusetts, 1984.
Departmental Service
Chair of Linguistics Department, 2000-2007
Chair of Promotion Committee, 2008
Chair of Tenure Committee, 2010
Ph.D. Exam Coordinator, 1999-2002
Graduate Program Coordinator and Graduate School Representative, 2000-2001
Non-Indo-European Language Requirement Committee, 1991-94; 1998-2000; Chair
of committee, 1993-94, 2000
Budget Advisory Committee, 1991-1993, 1994-1996
Search Committee, Second Language position, 1994-1995
Sabbatical Leaves Committee Chair, 1994-1995
Graduate Teaching Assistant Committee. 1994-1996, 1999-2000; Chair of
committee, 1996-1997, 1998
Student Awards and Fellowships Committee, 1996-1997, 1998
Ad Hoc Committee on Undergraduate Minor, 1998-1999
Curriculum Committee chair, 1996-1997

Rosen - 17
Ad Hoc Committee on Graduate Program Review, 1995-1996
Peer Teaching Evaluation Committee Chair, 1993-94, 1999-2000
Ad Hoc Committee on the Ph.D. Written Examination, 1991-1992
Interim Ph.D. Examination Coordinator, Spring 1993
Honors Coordinator, 1992-1993
Applied Linguistics Curriculum Committee, 1992-1993
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee,1994-1995
Faculty Advisor for the Undergraduate Linguistic Student Association, 1992-1995,
2001-2005
Reviewer for Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1992-present
Graduate Studies Service
Midwestern Association of Graduate Studies Outstanding Thesis Award
Committee. 2008-2010
Council of Graduate Schools Arlt Book Prize Committee. 2008-2010.
Campus-wide Activities and Committees
University Service
Strategic Planning Steering Committee, 2010-2011
Strategic Planning Doctoral Education Work Group Chair, 2010-2011
University Governance
Senate Executive Committee and Faculty Executive Committee, May – June
2007
Faculty Senate, May – June 2007
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Standing Committees and other CLAS
Service
College Academic Council, 2006-2009
Member of the Jewish Studies Steering Committee, 1997-present
Supervised Hebrew instruction, 2004-2005
Committee on the Budget, 2002-2004
Member of Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising (CUSA), 1993-
1996; 1999-2000
Chair of CUSA, 1995-1996
Curricular Change Subcommittee, 1993-1995
Chair of Curricular Change Subcommittee, 1994-1995
Academic Standards Subcommittee, 1999-2000
Faculty Mentor Dean’s Scholar student, 1999-2001
Member of Philosophy Search Committee, 1998-1999

Member of the faculty of the Child Language Program
Reader for written Ph.D. exams, Child Language Program
Rosen - 18
Ad Hoc Committees
Reviewer for Journal of Undergraduate Research, The University of Kansas, June
2009
Chancellor’s Initiative 2015 Teaching and Learning Task Force, Spring 2008
Graduate and Post-doctoral Training Task Force, co-chair, Fall 2008
Provost’s Task force to examine the structure and function of the Graduate
School, Spring 2007
Dissertation Award Selection Committee (Graduate School), Spring 2006
Advisory Committee for Support of International Graduate Students, 2004present
GTA award Selection Committee (Graduate School), Spring 2004
Chair of the Classroom Space and Scheduling Task Force for CLAS. 2003-2004
Ad hoc Committee Member for review of Special Ph.D. Program, Summer 2001
Leadership Training
Senior Administrative Fellow, 2004-2005
NSF ADVANCE leadership training workshop, 2005-2006
Graduate Degree Committees
Ph.D. Examination Committees: Child Language Program, Psychology
Department, Speech Language and Hearing Department, English
Department
Master’s Thesis Committee for: School of Education—Teaching and Leadership
Ph.D. Thesis Committees for: Child Language Program, Psychology
Department, English Department, Speech Language Hearing Department
Community Service and Outreach
University of Kansas 2011 United Way Campaign Chair
University of Kansas 2010 United Way Campaign Vice Chair
Native American Languages: Diversity and Extinction. Presentation to Lawrence
Public School 5 th Grade class. October 2003.
University of Kansas Hillel Foundation Board of Directors, 1994-1996
Recording Secretary, 1994-95