Caroline Heycock (FBA)
Professor
- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: caroline.heycock@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room 2.10A, Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Availability
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.
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 summary
Syntactic theory, syntactic variation and change, Germanic, Japanese
Research activities
Project activity
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English contracted negation revisited: Evidence from varieties of Scots
In:
Language
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Person effects in agreement with Icelandic low nominatives: An experimental investigation
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)
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published) -
Copular sentences
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
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
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
Research output: › Web publication/site (Published) -
Restrictions on "low" person agreement in Dutch specificational copular constructions
(16 pages)
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
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)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783050095158
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published)