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

Research Interests: Comparative Syntax of Indic Languages (especially Hindi-Urdu and Kashmiri); Wh-movement and the A-bar system; Ergativity; Causative constructions; also Appalachian English


Curriculum Vitae [ pdf ]


current projects

Wh-expletives in Hindi-Urdu: the vP phase
     2010. Linguistic Inquiry 41 (1).        [pdf]

Rightward Scrambling in Hindi-Urdu
     manuscript 2009     [ pdf ]

The causative verbal domain and the Kashmiri causative
       talk at UCSC 2008         [ pdf ]
       manuscript 2009          [ pdf ]

Unexpected Left Dislocation: an English Corpus Study
      2007. Journal of Pragmatics 39 (5).         [ pdf ]

Discourse Function(s) of Rightward Scrambling in Hindi-Urdu
       manuscript, coming soon
       [ pdf ]

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

Other Projects
Anthropology writing and older Linguistics downloads


teaching and other interests

LING 166/ANTH 142 Syntax

ANTH 028/LING 028 Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

Philosophy of Teaching

Vermont Adaptive Skiing

Vermont Amateur Soccer League