Ash Asudeh
he/him/his
Professor of Linguistics
PhD, Stanford University, 2004
- Office Location
- 506 Lattimore Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Overview
Ash Asudeh’s main current research program concerns morphology and a new theory that he has developed with Nadeem Siddiqi (Carleton University), called Lexical-Realizational Functional Grammar. LrFG is the result of an unlikely marriage between Distributed Morphology (DM) and Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). It shares traits of both its parent frameworks. Like LFG, it is a declarative, representational and constraint-based theory that is well-suited to modelling nonconfigurationality. Like DM, it provides a realizational, morphemic view of word-formation and is good at modelling complex morphological structures including those found in polysynthetic languages and other languages that display significant morphological complexity.
Research Interests
- Syntax
- Semantics
- Pragmatics
- Logic, Language, and Computation
- Cognitive Science
Courses Offered (subject to change)
- LING 112: Language and Persuasion
- LING 204(W)/404: History of Linguistic Thought
- LING 261/461: Constraint-Based Syntax
- LING 265(W)/465: Formal Semantics
- LING 526: Morphological Theory