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: (a.m. only) +44-1865-280400/1
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.
Teaching
 Tutorial topics for FHS and graduate syntax
Events
 Syntax reading/discussion group: Weekly meetings during term: check the lecture list for time/place. 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
 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
Conventions for interlinear glosses: the Leipzig Glossing Rules