Curriculum Vitae

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Personalia

Full name: Luis Alberto Vicente Tojo
Birth: February 25, 1979, in Bilbao, Spain (currently age 31).
Current position: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Department of Linguistics, Universität Potsdam.

Education

2002-2007: PhD in Linguistics, Leiden University
2005: Visiting student at UMass Amherst
1998-2002: BA in English Philology, University of Deusto.
1999: Certificate of Proficiency in Basque.

Academic appointments

Since Jan. 2009: Lecturer and researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Universität Potsdam.
Jan. 2008 - Dec. 2008: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UC Santa Cruz.
Aug. 2007 - Dec. 2007: Lecturer (Universitair Docent), Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Research areas

Theoretical syntax, interfaces of syntax with semantics and morpho-phonology.
Grammar of Spanish, Basque, and Hungarian
The formal theory of movement and clause structure, ellipsis, coordination, predicate fronting.

Selected publications

Depiante, Marcela, and Luis Vicente. to appear. El movimiento y la morfología del verbo, in Brucart & Gallego (eds.), El movimiento de constituyentes, Visor Libros, Madrid.
Vicente, Luis. 2010. A note on the movement analysis of gapping, Linguistic Inquiry 41.3.
Vicente, Luis. 2010. On the syntax of adversative coordination, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 28.2:381-415.
Vicente, Luis. 2009. A note on the copy vs. multidominance theories of movement. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 8: Spelling Out Universal Grammar (eds. Gallego & Fortuny), 75-97. Barcelona.
Vicente, Luis. 2009. An alternative to remnant movement for partial predicate fronting, Syntax 12.2, 180-213.
Lipták, Anikó, and Luis Vicente. 2009. Pronominal doubling under VP topicalization, Lingua 119, 650-686.
Rodrigues, Cilene, Andrew Nevins, and Luis Vicente. 2009. Cleaving the interactions between sluicing and P-stranding, in Wetzels & Torck (eds.) Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 245-270.
Vicente, Luis. 2006. Short negative replies in Spanish. In Los & van de Weijer (eds.) Linguistics in the Netherlands 23, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 199-210.
Vicente, Luis. 2005. Licensing objects with and without movement. In Alderete et al (eds.) Proceedings of WCCFL 24, Cascadilla Press, 362-369.
de Vos, Mark, and Luis Vicente. 2005. Coordination under Right Node Raising. In Alderete et al (eds.) Proceedings of WCCFL 24, Cascadilla Press, 97-104.

Selected talks

(2010) Indefinites and the expression of reciprocity, DGfS 2010.
(2010) A hybrid theory of Right Node Raising (with Matt Barros). PLC 34, ZAS (invited).
(2010) Past counterfactual necessity in Spanish root infinitives. CGG 20.
(2009) Semantically triggered verb doubling in Spanish unconditionals (with Josep Quer). CGG 19.
(2009) Ellipsis requires information structure parallelism (with Marcela Depiante). LSA 2009.
(2009) An argument in favour of a vP phase boundary in raising, passive, and unaccusative predicates (with Naiara Centeno). LSA 2009.
(2008) Verb fronting in Mandaring Chinese (with Lisa Cheng). UC Santa Cruz (invited).
(2008) Syntactic isomorphism and non-isomorphism under ellipsis. UC Berkeley (invited).
(2008) On the availability of copular clauses as sources for clausal ellipsis. CLS 44.
(2008) Word order variation as prosodically-driven movement in Basque. University of Chicago (invited).
(2007) On the syntax of DP but coordination. NELS 38.
(2007) Preposition stranding under sluicing in Western Romance (with Cilene Rodrigues and Andrew Nevins). CCG 17.
(2007) El movimiento del verbo y la sintaxis de los objetos en euskera. University of the Basque Country (invited).
(2006) Preposition stranding and the syntax of Spanish sluicing. Going Romance 20.
(2006) Pronominal doubling under VP topicalization (with Anikó Lipták). Oxford (invited).
(2005) Licensing objects with and without movement. WCCFL 24.
(2005) Towards a unification of head and phrase movement. Going Romance 18 and LSRL 35.
(2005) Coordination under Right Node Raising (with Mark de Vos). WCCFL 24.
(2004) Word order, clause structure, and movement operations in Basque. GLOW 27.
(2003) Basque as a head-initial language. ConSOLE 13.
(2003) Inversion, reconstruction, and the structure of relative clauses. LSRL 33.

Teaching experience

Theoretical: introduction to syntax, syntax of verbs, syntax and semantics of ellipsis.
Language-specific: Spanish, Basque.
Non-theoretical: research methods, computer skills.

Academic service

Paper reviewer for Lingua, Syntax, Probus, Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, The Linguistic Review, John Benjamins, Elsevier.
Abstract reviewer for BIDE, ConSOLE, FAMLi.
Member of the SOLE Board (2004-2007).

Computer skills

Good working knowledge of LaTeX.
Basic knowledge of the bash shell, html, and R.

Outside academia