Mary Dalrymple

Professor of Syntax and Fellow of Linacre College

Centre for Linguistics and Philology,
Walton Street,
Oxford, OX1 2HG

Tel: +44-1865-280403
Secretary Tel: +44-1865-280400
Fax: +44-1865-280412
E-mail: Email addresses in the Centre are of the form firstname.lastname@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests
My research centers mainly on syntax, the syntax-semantics interface, and semantics. I am particularly interested in the syntactic properties of human languages and how they can guide the process of assembling meanings of words and phrases into meanings of larger phrases and sentences.

I will hold a Leverhulme Research Fellowship during the 2012-2013 academic year.

Teaching
 Tutorial topics for FHS and graduate syntax
Events
 Syntax reading/discussion group: Weekly meetings during term: check the Weblearn page for more information. If you are interested in syntax, please come to listen or participate! Undergraduates are welcome.
Advanced Core Training in Linguistics: short graduate-level courses in core topics in linguistics, offered free of charge in the autumn and spring at University College London
Resources
 Electronic language resources in Oxford
Grants
 2010-2011: "Multimodal language documentation for Dusner, an endangered language of Papua" (co-investigator: Suriel Mofu). Leverhulme Trust, UK.
2009-2010: "On-line language documentation for Biak (Austronesian)" (co-investigator: Suriel Mofu). Economic and Social Research Council, UK.
2008-2010: "Understanding Indonesian: developing a machine-usable grammar, dictionary and corpus" (partner investigator; principal investigators I Wayan Arka, Australian National University; Avery Andrews, Australian National University; Jane Simpson, University of Sydney). Australian Research Council.
2008-2009: "Machine-readable grammatical resources for Indonesian" (co-investigator: Suriel Mofu). Economic and Social Research Council, UK.
2004-2007: "Verb-initial grammars: a multilingual/parallel perspective" (with Louisa Sadler, University of Essex). Economic and Social Research Council, UK.
2004-2006: "Noun phrase agreement and coordination" (with Louisa Sadler, University of Essex). Arts and Humanities Research Board, UK.
Publications
 Papers and publications
Linguistics on the web
 The Linguist List (http://www.linguistlist.org) provides a wealth of on-line information on language and linguistics.
The Stanford Linguistics Meta-Index (http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/links/linguistics.html) contains links to many linguistic websites.
The Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com) is a reference work containing information about the languages of the world.
The Glottopedia (http://www.glottopedia.org) is an on-line encyclopedia of linguistics, continuously being updated.
Advice
 How to write conference abstracts: model abstracts from the Linguistic Society of America; Mary Bucholtz's Tips for writing conference abstracts; Caroline Wiltshire's Tips on Writing Abstracts for Conferences
The importance of networking
The Linguist List Student Portal
Conventions for interlinear glosses: the Leipzig Glossing Rules