Julie Anne Legate (born 1972) is a professor in the department of linguistics at the

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Education and research

Legate earned her B.A. from

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in 1995 and her M.A. from the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

in 1997. She received her Ph.D. from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

in 2002, writing a dissertation on the

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, under the supervision of

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and Sabine Iatridou. She works in the areas of

syntax In linguistics, syntax ( ) is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure (constituenc ...

and

morphology Morphology, from the Greek and meaning "study of shape", may refer to: Disciplines *Morphology (archaeology), study of the shapes or forms of artifacts *Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies, ...

. Her work investigates the structural representation of

voice The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound produ ...

, beginning with a focus on Acehnese, a language spoken in

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

, but also including evidence from structures in

Celtic Celtic, Celtics or Keltic may refer to: Language and ethnicity *pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia **Celts (modern) *Celtic languages **Proto-Celtic language *Celtic music *Celtic nations Sports Foot ...

, Scandinavian, and

Slavic Slavic, Slav or Slavonic may refer to: Peoples * Slavic peoples, an ethno-linguistic group living in Europe and Asia ** East Slavic peoples, eastern group of Slavic peoples ** South Slavic peoples, southern group of Slavic peoples ** West Slav ...

, broadening current cross-linguistic understanding of

passive Passive may refer to: * Passive voice, a grammatical voice common in many languages, see also Pseudopassive * Passive language, a language from which an interpreter works * Passivity (behavior), the condition of submitting to the influence of ...

-like constructions.

Honors

Since 2015 Legate has been editor-in-chief of the journal ''

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory ''Natural Language & Linguistic Theory'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering theoretical and generative linguistics. It was established in 1983 and originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Since 2004 the journal is pub ...

''.

Key publications

Articles and chapters

JA Legate and CD Yang. 2002. Empirical re-assessment of stimulus poverty arguments. ''The Linguistic Review'' 19, 151–162. https://doi.org/10.1515/tlir.19.1-2.151. JA Legate. 2003. Some interface properties of the phase. ''Linguistic Inquiry'' 34(3), 506–516. Legate, J. A., & Yang, C. 2007. Morphosyntactic Learning and the Development of Tense. ''Language Acquisition'' ''14''(3), 315–344. JA Legate. 2008. Morphological and abstract case. ''Linguistic Inquiry'' 39, 55–101. . JA Legate. 2012. Subjects in Acehnese and the Nature of the Passive. ''Language'' 88(3), 495–525. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2012.0069 JA Legate, Faruk Akkus, Milena Sereikaite,

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. 2020. On Passives of Passives. ''Language'' 96, 771–818.

Books

JA Legate. 2014. ''Voice and v: Lessons from Acehnese.'' (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262028141.001.0001Victoria Chen, 2016. "To See a World in a Grain of Sand: Review of Legate (2014)" Oceanic Linguistics 55: 1, 290-297.

References

External links

* Faculty page at the University of Pennsylvania. http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~jlegate/ * Video: Ehu International Workshop on Ergative Languages "Types of Ergativity" https://ehutb.ehu.es/video/58c66541f82b2b0f2e8b459a {{DEFAULTSORT:Legate, Julie Canadian women linguists Linguists from the United States Living people MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni University of Toronto alumni University of Pennsylvania faculty Canadian academic journal editors Linguists of Austronesian languages 1972 births