Associate Professor, Director, Linguistics, Director, English Honors Program basilico@uab.edu
University Hall 5037
(205) 934-8588

Research and Teaching Interests: Theoretical linguistics, cognitive science, neurolinguistics

Office Hours: By appointment

Education:

• Ph.D., University of Arizona, Linguistics (minor in Cognitive Science)

Dr. David Basilico is the Director of the Linguistics Program at UAB. His primary research interest is in syntactic theory, and more specifically the relationship between syntax and semantics. He is currently investigating the relationship between argument structure, event structure, and syntactic representation. He has investigated phenomena as diverse as internally headed relative clauses, the dative alternation, existential constructions, particle verbs, the antipassive, and noun incorporation, among others. Although his primary language of investigation is English, Dr. Basilico has also worked with data from languages such as Spanish, Lakhota, Inuktitut, Frisian, and Russian.

Dr. Basilico’s publications have appeared in Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Lingua, and other linguistics journals.

In addition to his work in theoretical linguistics, Dr. Basilico also has an interest in cognitive science and neurolinguistics — the relation between language and the brain.