emily walker manetta


Assistant Professor of Linguistics
University of Vermont

Department of Anthropology
509 Williams Hall
72 University Place
Burlington, VT 04505
USA

Email: emily.manetta at uvm.edu


Interests: Theoretical Syntax, Comparative Indo-Aryan Linguistics, Wh-movement, Ergativity, Pamiri Languages (Eastern Iranian), Sociolinguistic Field Research (Central/South Asia, South Philadelphia, West Virginia)

Dissertation: Peripheries in Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu
University of California, Santa Cruz (June 2006)

downloadable files

Curriculum Vitae (back up soon) [ pdf ]

Wh-expletives in Hindi-Urdu: the vP phase
       presented at LSA 2006        [ pdf]
     manuscript under review        [ pdf]

Unexpected Left Dislocation: an English Corpus Study
      Journal of Pragmatics. 'Formal and Philosophical Aspects of Pragmatics',       vol 39, nr. 5.
      May 2007     [ pdf ]

Full and Partial Wh-movement in Kashmiri
     manuscript 2005     [ pdf ]

The Minimalist A-bar System
       presented at LSA 2005         [ pdf ]

Feature Stacking: The Kashmiri Clause Edge
       presented at GLOW in Asia, October 2005 in New Delhi
       [ pdf ]


teaching and other interests

Structure of Romance Languages (Syllabus 2006)

Introduction to South Asian Languages
(Syllabus 2006)


Philosophy of Teaching

Vermont Adaptive Skiing

Santa Cruz Rays Soccer