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Sandra Chung

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Sandra Chung
Academic background
Alma materHarvard University (AB, PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Cruz

Sandra (Sandy) Chung is an American linguist and distinguished professor emerita at the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[1] Her research focuses on Austronesian languages and syntax.[2]

Education

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Chung earned her A.B. and, in 1976, a Ph.D. at Harvard University, with a dissertation on the comparative syntax of Polynesian languages.[3]

Career

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At the University of California, Santa Cruz, she has served as chair of the Linguistics Department (1994–97, 2013–16), chair of the Philosophy Department (2002–04), and Faculty Assistant to the Executive Vice Chancellor (2004–11).[4]

Chung has made contributions to the study of syntax and semantics.[5] Much of her data comes from her own work with Chamorro speakers both in the continental U.S. and in Saipan. She has also worked on Māori. On the basis of Māori and Chamorro, she and William Ladusaw argued in Restriction and Saturation (MIT Press, 2003) that the number and kind of semantic combinatoric operations must be expanded beyond the typically assumed function application and abstraction.[6][7] Her other theoretical work has addressed topics in agreement, predicate-initial word orders, wh-movement, ellipsis (especially sluicing), and on wh-agreement (where she demonstrated that Chamorro shows overt morphological cues to Wh-movement), among many others.

Honors

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In 2007, Chung was selected as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.[8] She was invited to give a plenary lecture at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in 2008, where she spoke about combining primary (including documentary) research on understudied languages with theoretical linguistics, arguing that these two often competing interests can and should find a congenial home together.[9] In 2011, Chung served as president of the Linguistic Society of America.[10] Chung was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012.[11]

A Festschrift in her honor, Asking the Right Questions: Essays in Honor of Sandra Chung, was published in 2017.[12]

Books

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  • 2020. Chamorro Grammar. eScholarship: Open Access Publications from the University of California. xxii + 728 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.48330/E2159R
  • 2006. Estreyas Marianas: Chamorro. Tinige': Joaquin Flores Borja, Manuel Flores Borja, yan Sandra Chung. Saipan, CNMI: Estreyas Marianas Publications. 145 pages.
  • 2003. (co-authored with William A. Ladusaw) Restriction and Saturation. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 42. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. xiv + 173 pages.
  • 1998. The Design of Agreement: Evidence from Chamorro. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. xii + 423 pages. (paperback edition, 2000)
  • 1978. Case Marking and Grammatical Relations in Polynesian. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 401 pages.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Sandra Chung's Homepage". people.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  2. ^ Rappaport, Scott. "Sandra Chung to deliver 51st annual Faculty Research Lecture". UC Santa Cruz News. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
  3. ^ "Harvard Linguistics alumni 1970s". Retrieved 2018-06-17.
  4. ^ "Sandra Chung to deliver 51st annual Faculty Research Lecture". UC Santa Cruz News. Retrieved 2018-06-17.
  5. ^ "Sandra Chung Google Scholar citations". scholar.google.se. Retrieved 2018-06-17.
  6. ^ "Chung and Ladusaw propose and motivate an original and elegant solution to a longstanding problem in syntactic-semantic composition: how to deal with combinations that are neither function-argument application nor function composition. The fruit of a collaboration between two major researchers in the syntax and semantics of natural language, this study will have a lasting impact on the field." Emmon Bach, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and SOAS, University of London "Restriction and Saturation - the MIT Press". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
  7. ^ Chung, Sandra; Ladusaw, William A. (2003-10-24). Restriction and Saturation. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-26215-6.
  8. ^ "LSA Fellows By Name | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2018-06-17.
  9. ^ 'How Much Can Understudied Languages Really Tell Us About How Language Works?' Invited plenary lecture, 2008 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.[1]
  10. ^ "Presidents | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2018-06-17.
  11. ^ "American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)". news.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-17.
  12. ^ "Asking the Right Questions: Essays in Honor of Sandra Chung". 2017-03-01. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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