Curriculum Vitae
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Personalia
- Full name: Luis Alberto Vicente Tojo
- Birth: February 25, 1979, in Bilbao, Spain (currently age 29).
- Current position: Postdoctoral research fellow, UC Santa Cruz
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.
Employment
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.
Some publications
- (to app.) Vicente, Luis. A note on the representation of A-bar chains at the syntax-LF interface, in Gallego & Fortuny (eds.), Spelling Out Universal Grammar, special issue of Catalan Journal of Linguistics
- (to app.) Vicente, Luis. On the syntax of adversative coordination, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
- (2009) Lipták, Anikó, and Luis Vicente. Pronominal doubling under VP topicalization, Lingua.
- (2009) Vicente, Luis. An alternative to remnant movement for partial predicate fronting, Syntax
- (2009) Rodrigues, Cilene, Andrew Nevins, and Luis Vicente. Cleaving the interactions between sluicing and P-stranding, in Wetzels & Torck (eds.) Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 245-270.
- (2006) Vicente, Luis. Short negative replies in Spanish. In Los & van de Weijer (eds.) Linguistics in the Netherlands 23, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 199-210.
- (2005) Vicente, Luis. Licensing objects with and without movement. In Alderete et al (eds.) Proceedings of WCCFL 24, Cascadilla Press, 362-369.
- (2005) de Vos, Mark, and Luis Vicente. Coordination under Right Node Raising. In Alderete et al (eds.) Proceedings of WCCFL 24, Cascadilla Press, 97-104.
Some talks
- (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.
Academic service
- Paper reviewer for Lingua, Syntax, Probus, NLLT John Benjamins, Elsevier.
- Abstract reviewer for BIDE, ConSOLE.
- Member of the SOLE Board (2004-2007).
Outside academia