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Name:	John  B Whitman
Institution:	Cornell University
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Linguistic Field(s):	Syntax
Subject Language(s):	Japanese
Selected Publications:
Announced on LINGUIST :	Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives. Volume 1  Category Neutrality  Proto-Japanese  Grammatical Change
Reviewed on LINGUIST :	Grammatical Change
Dissertation Director * of:	Focus Projection and Wh-Head Movement (Yuko Yanagida, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	The Acquisition of Japanese Numeral Classifiers (Kasumi Yamamoto, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	The Morphosyntax and Morphophonology of Japanese Predicates (Kunio Nishiyama, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	The Acquisition of Verb Second Grammar in Child Swedish: Continuity of Universal Grammar in Wh-questions, topicalization and verb raising (Lynn Santelmann, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	Ergativity and Word Order in Austronesian Languages (Edith Aldridge, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	The Relevance of Gradability in Natural Language: Chinese and English (Zhiguo Xie, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	Identifying Auxiliaries in First Language Acquisition Evidence From A New Child French Corpus (Cristina Dye, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	The Phonetics and Phonology of Stop Lenition in Korean (David Silva, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese: Synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives (Kazuha Watanabe, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	The Syntax of the Meronymic Construction (Ignazio Mirto, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	Old Portuguese in Hebrew Script: Convention, contact, and convivência (Devon Strolovitch, Author)
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