Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. Office: 614 Baldy Hall Phone: (716) 645-0115 Email: vanvalin@buffalo.edu IntroductionRobert D. Van Valin, Jr., Professor, received his Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at the University of Arizona, Temple University, and the University of California, Davis, and has been a visiting faculty member at Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Sonora, and the University of Zagreb. He was Professor of General Linguistics at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, Germany from 2007 to 2017. In 2006 he received the Research Award for Outstanding Scholars from Outside of Germany from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2008 he received a research fellowship from the Max Planck Society to support the research group 'Syntax, typology and information structure'. His research is focused on theoretical linguistics, especially syntactic theory and the interaction of syntax and information structure from a cross-linguistic perspective. He is the primary developer of the theory of Role and Reference Grammar. He has done research on two American Indian languages, Lakhota (Siouan) and Yatee Zapotec (Oto-Manguean). Together with Daniel L. Everett (Bentley University) he had an NSF-funded project on information structure and syntax in selected Amazonian languages. He is the co-author of Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar (Cambridge UP, 1984), the editor of Advances in Role and Reference Grammar (Benjamins, 1993), the primary author of Syntax: Structure, Meaning & Function (Cambridge UP, 1997), and the author of An Introduction to Syntax (Cambridge UP, 2001). His most recent books are Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface (Cambridge UP, 2005) and, as editor, Investigations of the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface (Benjamins, 2008). He is the general editor of the Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology series (Oxford UP). He has published articles on syntax, universal grammar, language typology, language acquisition, information structure and neurolinguistics. For a complete list of publications see CV.Some recent publications:
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