Caroline Heycock

Caroline Heycock (FBA)

Professor

Linguistics and English Language
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Email: caroline.heycock@ed.ac.uk

Street: Room 2.10A, Dugald Stewart Building
City: 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
Post code: EH8 9AD

Currently I do not have a personal office and all meetings are virtual.

Within the university, the simplest platform for this is Teams. Right now the best way to arrange this is to email me, giving me some idea of when you are(n't) available.

Teaching & PhD supervision

Undergraduate teaching

In 2021-22 I will be the Course Organiser for Linguistics & English Language 1A (LASC08022), running in Semester 1.

I will be on research leave in Semester 2.

Postgraduate teaching

In 2021-22 I will be the Course Organiser for Introduction to Syntax (LASC11085), running in Semester 1.

I will be on research leave in Semester 2.

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Current PhD students supervised

Danny Bate
Thorin Berge
Amir Bin Mustaffa
Mirella Blum

Research

Research summary

Syntactic theory, syntactic variation and change, Germanic, Japanese

Research activities

NYI Global Institute of Cultural, Cognitive and Linguistic Studies 30 Jun 2022 to 15 Jul 2022
Adverbial clauses: Between subordination and coordination 21 May 2022
Where is When? 26 Apr 2022
The unbearable lightness of 'be' 25 Apr 2022
Before and After When 8 Apr 2022

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Projects

Project activity

Latest research grants/projects

Publications

Person effects in agreement with Icelandic low nominatives: An experimental investigation 27 Dec 2022 In: Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-022-09564-z
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)
Deriving ‘late merge’ with External Remerge (14 pages) 22 Dec 2022
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published)
Copular sentences 6 Jan 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118788516.sem055
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published)
Cross-Linguistic Influence on L2 before and after extreme reduction in input: The case of Japanese returnee children 18 Sep 2020 In: Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.560874
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
(Morpho)syntactic variation in agreement: Specificational copular clauses across Germanic 11 Feb 2020 In: Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02994
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
The Scots Syntax Atlas 1 Dec 2019
Research output: › Web publication/site (Published)
Restrictions on "low" person agreement in Dutch specificational copular constructions (16 pages) Nov 2019 In: Linguistics in the Netherlands, vol. 36, pp. 130-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/avt.00028.har
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Syntactic variation and auxiliary contraction: The surprising case of Scots Sep 2019 In: Language, vol. 95, pp. 421-455
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.0.0236
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Relative reconstructions: Can we arrive at a unified picture? (26 pages) 1 Nov 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783050095158
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published)
A remark on Béjar & Kahnemuyipour 2017: Specificational subjects do have phi-features Aug 2018 In: Journal of Linguistics, vol. 54, pp. 611-627
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226718000117
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)

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This article was published on 3 Jun, 2023