updated April 2015
Jonathan E. MacDonald
Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
[email protected]
Academic Positions
Aug. 2010 – present
Jan. 2008 – Aug. 2010
Nov. 2007
Sep. 2006 – Jan. 2007
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Post-Doc researcher (Juan de la Cierva), Center for Theoretical
Linguistics, Department of Spanish Philology, Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona
Superior research technician, Department of the Theory of Languages
and Communication Science, Universidad de Valencia
Visiting Lecturer, Department of English Studies, University of
Cyprus
Education
2006
1998
PhD Linguistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
Dissertation Title: The Syntax of Inner Aspect
Dissertation Advisor: Professor Daniel L. Finer
BA Double Major: Philosophy; Hispanic Literature, magna cum laude
SUNY Albany, Albany, NY, USA
Publications
Book
2008. The syntactic nature of inner aspect: a Minimalist perspective. [Linguistik
Aktuell/Linguistics Today series] Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Articles, Proceedings & Book Chapters
In preparation. Anticausative and passive se: Synchronic Romanian maps to diachronic Spanish
(tentative title) (with Matthew Maddox)
In preparation. Brazilian Portuguese passive and impersonal se. (tentative title) (with Janayan
Carvalho & Matthew Maddox)
In preparation. An account of ungrammatical impersonal se lo sequences in Honduran Spanish.
tentative title) (with Jeriel Melgares).
In preparation. Clausal referentialtiy: implications for embedded answers and sluicing (with
Carlos de Cuba).
In preparation. An aspectual asymmetry and the syntax-semantics interface (tentative title)
2015. Extended projections of V: mood and aspect. in The Handbook of Parameters edited by
Antonio Fábregas, Mike Putnam & Jaume Mateu. London: Bloomsbury
MacDonald – CV
2/8
2015. A case of Multiple Agree: Accusative, not dative, se. In Romance Linguistics 2012.
Selected papers from the 42nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Cedar
City, Utah, 20-22 April 2012, by Smith, Jason and Tabea Ihsane (eds.) [RLLT 7], 275-288.
2015. A Movement Analysis of Some Double Object Constructions. Proceedings of the 32nd
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. Ulrike Steindl et al., 276-285. Somerville,
MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
2014. Aspectual Interpretatin and Calculation. In R. Campos-Astorkiza & J. Franco (eds),
Papers in linguistics by the BIDE generation, Anuarion del Seminario de Filología Vasca
“Julio de Urquijo” XLVI-I, 213-225.
2013. On the referential status of embedded polarity answers in Spanish. (with Carlos de Cuba)
Selected Proceedings of the 16th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro,
Gillian Lord, Ana de Prada Pérez, and Jessi Elana Aaron (eds.) 312-323. Cascadilla
Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA
2012. Referentiality in Spanish CPs. (with Carlos de Cuba) In Agreement, Information Structure
and the CP. Edited by Victoria Camacho-Taboada, Ángel Jiménez-Fernández, Javier MartínGonzález & Mariano Reyes-Tejedor. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2012. Nouns affect aspect syntactically. Proceedings of the 29th West Coast Conference on
Formal Linguistics. Coyote Papers: Working Papers in Linguistics
2012. Empty categories and ellipsis. (with Jose Maria Brucart). In The Handbook of Hispanic
Linguistics [Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics series] edited by J.I. Hualde, A. Olarrea, &
E. O’Rourke, 579-602. Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell.
2011. The phrase structure of phase verbs: An initial contrastive analysis of English and Russian.
Acta Lingüística Hungarica 58.3: 261-276.
2011. (With Barbara Ürögdi) Against Stativizing Negation, Expletive Negation and NPI-until.
Acta Lingüística Hungarica 58.3: 203-220.
2011. Proximal and distal: Rethinking linguistic form and use for clinical purposes (with Carlos
Hernández Sacristán, & Vicent Rosell Clari). Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 25.1: 37-52.
2010. Syntax and Aspect: The aspectual influence of the noun phrase: (a)telicity, (a)symmetry,
incrementality and universality. Language and Linguistics Compass 4.9: 831-845. (Invited)
2010. (with Susana Huidobro). The lack of Spanish non-argumental clitic doubling In C.
Borgonovo, M. Español-Echevarría, & P. Prévost. Selected Proceedings of the 12th
Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. 50-62. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
2010. Minimalist variability in the verb phrase. In (eds) Duguine, M., S. Huidobro & N.
Madariaga. Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations from a Cross-Linguistic
Perspective. 69-88. Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2010. (with Angelina Markova). Bulgarian and Variation in Inner Aspect. in G. Zybatow, P.
Dudchuk, S. Minor, & E. Pshehotskaya (eds) Formal Studies in Slavic Linguistics,
Proceedings of FDSL 7.5. 225-242. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
2010. Variation, aspectual interpretation and phase verbs. In Novi Sad Generative Syntax
Workshop Proceedings. edited by J. Bailyn, C. de Cuba, I. Mitrović, R. Šević & L.
Subotić. University of Novi Sad, Filozofski fakultet.
2009. Inner Aspect and Phases. In Explorations of Phase Theory: Features and Arguments.
(Interface Explorations 18.) 207-230. K. Grohmann (ed) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
2008. Domain of Aspectual Interpretation. Linguistic Inquiry 38 (1): 128-147.
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2007. The Independence of Case and Aspect. In Proceedings of ConSOLE XIV. S. Blaho, E.
Schoorlemmer and L. Vicente (eds), 189-202. http:www.sole.leidenuniv.nl
2006. Non-reflexive Non-argumental Clitic Pronouns of Spanish. In Proceedings of Western
Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) 2004. A. Alcazar, R. Mayoral Hernández & M.
Temkin Martínez (eds).
2006. Agreement with Asp° and the Independence of Case. In Proceedings of 36th Annual
Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistics Society. C. Davis, A.R. Deal, and Y. Zabbal (eds),
454-465. UMass: GLSA.
2006. Null Directional Prepositions in Romanian and Spanish. In New Perspectives in Romance
Linguistics Vol.1: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics. Selected Papers from
the 35th Linguistics Symposium on Romance Linguistics. J.P. Montreuil and C. Nishida
(eds), 169-185. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2004. Spanish Reflexive Pronouns: A Null Preposition Hypothesis. In WCCFL 23 Proceedings.
G. Garding and M. Tsujimura (eds), 528-540. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Book reviews
In progress. Iberia: An international journal of theoretical linguistics. Review of Julio VillaGarcia’s The syntax of multiple-que sentences in Spanish, John Benjamins.
2013. Language 89.4. Review of Matthew Husband’s (2012) On the Compositinal Nature of
States.
2012. Journal of Linguistics 48.1. Review of John Bower’s (2010) Argument Relations. MIT
Press.
Presentations
2015
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2013
Anti-causative, passive and impersonal se: the role of pro from Latin to Spanish. Talk at
Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), UNICAMP, Brazil (with
Matthew Maddox).
Spanish aspectual se as an indirect object reflexive: evidence from (a)telicity, bare nouns
and leísta PCC repairs. University of Illinois at Chicago Talks in Linguistics (Invited)
Spanish aspectual se: (a)telicity, bare nouns and the PCC. Talk in Spanish Linguistics
Symposium series at Univeristy at Wisconsin, Madison (Invited).
Spanish impersonal and passive se. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS), Purdue
University
A derivational approach to the double object construction: inner aspect and prosody.
Western Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 32, Univeristy of Soutern
California
On the ungrammatical impersonal se lo sequence in Spanish. (with Christopher Eager),
Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting, Minnesota
Truncation in the Spanish left-periphery: Fragment answers and recomplementation.
(with Carlos de Cuba). Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting, Minnesota
Impersonal, passive and aspectual se: the PCC & the periphrastic passive (with
Christopher Eager), Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS), University of Ottowa
CP referentiality in Spanish: embedded fragment answers and sluicing. (with Carlos de
Cuba) 23rd Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG), University of Madrid, Spain
MacDonald – CV
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Embedded fragment answers, sluices and referentiality in Spanish. (with Carlos de Cuba)
Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), CUNY Graduate Center.
“Spanish que: Sluicing vs. embedded answers.” Invited talk at University of Iowa’s
Department of Spanish and Portuguese’s Colloquium.
On the referential status of embedded polarity answers in Spanish. (with Carlos de Cuba)
Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS), University of Florida
A case of Multiple Agree: Accusative, not dative, se. 42nd Linguistics Symposium on
Romance Langauges (LSRL), Cedar City, Utah.
Dative se is accusative, not dative. Invited talk at Illinois Language and Lingusitics
Society (ILLS) 4, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.
Some syntactic features of inner aspect. Invited talk to Calgary Univeristy Linguistics
Department Colloquium Series, Calgary, Canada.
The aspectual influence of the noun: a (syntactic) asymmetry. Invited talk to the Stony
Brook Linguistics Colloquium Series. Stony Brook University.
Nouns affect aspect syntactically. Poster presentation at 29th West Coast Conference on
Formal Lingusitcs. Universty of Arizona.
CP recursion and referentiality. (with Carlos de Cuba). 21st Colloquium on Generative
Grammar. Seville, Spain.
Some syntax in inner aspect: the aspectual role of the noun phrase. Talk given as part of
the Center for Theoretical Linguistics Seminar Series.
Syntax and the aspectual influence of the noun. Workshop on Tense and Aspect.
University of Lisbon, Portugal
The Spanish “aspectual” reflexive: illustrating an aspectual asymmetry. University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Invited).
Reducing "stativizing negation" to an LF scope configuration. (with Barbara Ürögdi).
Talk presented at Sarajevo Linguistic Gathering 4 & SinFonIJA 2
Duratives, negation and reference time identification. (with Barbara Ürögdi). Talk
presented at Chronos 9: International Conference on Tense, Aspect and Modality
Against stativizing negation, expletive negation and NPI until. (with Barbara Ürögdi)
Talk given at 2nd Budapest Generative Syntax Workshop, Budapest, Hungary (Invited). Russian phase verbs and their aspectual relevance. Talk given at 2nd Budapest Generative
Syntax Workshop, Budapest, Hungary (Invited).
Variation and the CI interface: implications for event structure. Talk given at XVII
Colloquium on Generative Grammar in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
Operators in the TP-domain and Aspectual Interpretation. (with Barbara Ürögdi) Talk
given at XVII Colloquium on Generative Grammar in Vitoria-Gasteiz,, Spain.
La expresión sintáctica y semántica de la estructura eventiva con consecuencias para el
papel del homomorfismo. Charla dada como parte del Seminario de Lingüística Teórica
del grupo LyCC del Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales del CSIC. (Invited).
Bulgarian and Variation in Inner Aspect. (with Angelina Markova) Talk given at Formal
Descriptions of Slaivc Languages (FDSL) 7.5 at the Independent University of Moscow,
Russia
The lack of Spanish non-argumental clitic doubling. (with Susana Huidobro) Talk given
at Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2008 at Laval University, Quebec, Canada
The scope of a parameter and relativizing the micro/macro distinction. Talk given at
Revisiting Parameters: Holmberg and Platzack (1995) Reloaded at Lund University
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Two independent properties of English inner aspect. Talk given at Chronos 8
International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Modality at University of Texas
at Austin.
Inner Aspect: one part syntactic, one part semantic. Talk given as part of the Center for
Theoretical Linguistics Seminar Series.
Inner aspect and a minimalist conception of variation. Invited talk given at the second
Novi Sad Generative Syntax workshop.
Verb orientation and P Incorporation. Poster presented at XVIII Colloquium on
Generative Grammar, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Two types of variation, both Minimalist. Talk given as part of the Center for Theoretical
Linguistics Seminar Series.
Two independent properties of English inner aspect: one universal, one variant. Invited
talk given at University of Novi Sad, Serbia.
Two Properties of Spanish Non-argumental Clitic Pronouns. (with Susana Huidobro)
Talk given at XVII Colloquium on Generative Grammar in Girona, Spain
Minimalist Variability in the Verb Phrase. Talk given at the Workshop on Argument
Structure and Syntactic Relations in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
Russian Aspect without AspP. Talk given at Formal Descriptions of Slavic Languages
2006 (FDSL 6.5) in Nova Gorica, Slovenia.
Deriving Achievements. Invited talk given at Cyprus Linguistics Forum at University of
Cyprus, Cyprus.
Aspectual Interpretation and Calcualtion. Invited talk given at Bilbao-Deusto Student
Conference in Linguistics 2006 (BIDE06) in Bilbao, Spain.
Inner Aspect and Phases. Poster presented at InterPhases in Nicosia, Cyprus.
The Independence of Case and Aspect. Talk given at ConSOLE XIV at the University of
the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
Agreement with Asp° and the Independence of Case. Poster presented at 36th Meeting of
the North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS 36) at University of Massachusetts, USA.
Inner Aspect and Iterative Interpretation. Talk given at CUNY/SUNY/NYU at New York
University, USA.
Mass nouns, Experiencer Subjects and the Syntax of Psych-achievements. Talk given at
the 28th Generative Linguistics of the Old World (GLOW) colloquium at Université de
Genéva, Switzerland.
Null Directional-Prepositions in Romanian and Spanish. Talk given at the 35th Linguistic
Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 35) at University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Motion Verbs and Reflexive Pronouns in Spanish. Talk given at the 79th annual meeting
of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA 79) in Oakland, California, USA.
Non-reflexive Non-argumental Clitic Pronouns of Spanish. Talk given at the 24th
Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 24) at University of Southern California,
USA.
Spanish Reflexive Pronouns: a Null Preposition Hypothesis. Talk given at the 23rd West
Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 23) at University of California at
Davis, USA.
Spanish Reflexive Pronouns: Limiting Location of Event. Talk given at the 78th annual
meeting of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA 78) in Boston, MA, USA.
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Spanish Aspectual Reflexives are not Aspectual: A Null Preposition Hypothesis. Invited
talk given at CUNY Syntax Supper, CUNY, USA.
Cue Weight Dependence on Vowel Space Distribution. Talk given at
CUNY/SUNY/NYU at NYU, USA.
University Teaching Experience
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Elements of Syntax
(University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Seminar of Romance Clitics
(University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Spanish Syntax
(University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Introduction to Hispanish Linguistics (University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Introduction to Hispanish Linguistics (University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Elements of Syntax
(University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Graduate Syntax 1
(University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Structure of Spanish
(University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Spanish Syntax
(University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Practicum
(University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Introduction to Hispanish Linguistics (University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Introduction to Linguistic Structure (University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Graduate Syntax 1
(University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Structure of Spanish
(University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign)
English Grammar: Advanced composition (Autonomous Univeristy of Barcelona)
Lexical, Syntactic and
Semantic issues of Inner Aspect
(University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
Introduction to Linguistics 1
(University of Cyprus)
Transformational Generative Grammar
(University of Cyprus)
Introduction to General Linguistics (grad. level) (Stony Brook University)
Phonetics (grad. level)
(Stony Brook University)
Introduction to Linguistics (TA)
(Stony Brook University)
Language in the USA
(Stony Brook University)
Syntax (TA)
(Stony Brook University)
Introduction to Linguistics (TA)
(Stony Brook University)
Phonetics (TA)
(Stony Brook University)
Language in the USA (TA)
(Stony Brook University)
ESL: Advanced Oral/Aural Skills
(Stony Brook University)
Teaching Experience in Private Sector
2007
2007
2006
2004
ESL: Extracurricular English for
Unemployed
ESL: A variety of classes from Beginning to
Advanced Level English
Commerical English: Adult Intermediate Level
Phonetics (Private tutor)
Awards and Scholarships
(Carpescar Levante, SL.)
(Business Class, SL.)
(Carpescar Levante, SL.)
Stony Brook, NY
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2009-2010 Grant from Spanish Ministry (Acciones complementarias) for the financing of the
eighteenth Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe
(ConSOLE 18) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
2008-2011 Juan de la Cierva post-doc research grant, Spanish Ministry of Education and
Science
2001-2006 Graduate Tuition Scholarship, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY
2003-2006 RAP (Resource Access Project) Funds, Graduate School Organization (GSO),
Stony Brook University
2005-2006 Sigma Xi Travel Grant
2006
SUNY-CWA-GSEU Professional Development Funds
Research Experience
2011-
Researcher on Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation Grant “The structure of
the sentential periphery” FFI2011-29440-C03-01, PI: Maria Lluïsa Hernanz
2008-2011 Researcher on Spanish Ministry of Education and Science Grant “Microvariation in
sentence structure” HUM2006-13295-C02-02, PI: José María Brucart
2004-2005 Research assistant on National Science Foundation Grant “Adaptive Spoken
Dialogue with Human and Computer Partners” N° 0325188 awarded to S.
Brennan, M. Huffman, R. Gerrig, A. Samuel, and A. Stendt of Stony Brook
University
2001
Research assistant on National Science Foundation Grant “Prosodic and
segmental features as determinants of phonetic form.” SBR 9600930 awarded to
M. Huffman of Stony Brook University
Professional Service and Affiliations
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2003 - pres.
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Abstract reviewer for LSA, WCCFL,
Article reviwer for Lingua, Canadian Journal of Linguistics, Semantics-Syntax
Interface
Book proposal referee, Cambridge University Press
Article reviwer for Syntax, Journal of Linguistics, Language Sciences, FinnoUgric Languages and Linguistics, and Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone
Linguistics, Abstract reviewer for LSA
Article reviwer for Syntax, Journal of Linguistics, Language Sciences
LSA Abstract reviewer
Article reviewer for Journal Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
Article reviewer for Proceedings of the Hispanic Linguistic Society 12
Article reviewer for Journal Language Acquistion
Scientific Committee of the XXIV Encuentro de la Asociación de Jóvenes
Lingüístas (Young Linguists Association Meeting)
Local co-organizer (with Clàudia Pons) of ConSOLE XVIII in Barcelona
8th CUNY/SUNY/NYU Abstract reviewer
Biolinguistics Editorial Task Team
FDSL 6.5 Abstract Reviewer
LSA Member
Assistant at Alice V. and David H. Morris International Symposium on Language
and Cognition at Stony Brook University
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6th CUNY/SUNY/NYU Abstract reviewer
5th CUNY/SUNY/NYU Abstract reviewer
Faculty-student liaison
Co-organizer of NELS 34 at Stony Brook University
Co-organizer of the Linguistics Colloquium Series at Stony Brook University
Student representative at Linguistics department retreat
Other Professional Experience
1998 - 2007
2006
2000 – 2005
Freelance Translator: Spanish-English. In collaboration with Leyenda
Traducciones S.L., Berlitz, y BOLT Traductores e Intérpretes, S. C. including
legal, journalistic, technical and philosophical translations.
Presenter for promotional DVDs for la Comunidad Valenciana
Language Learning and Resource Center technician, Stony Brook University,
Stony Brook, NY
Languages
English:
Spanish:
Catalan:
Native language.
Read, write and speak fluently.
Read, and understand basic.