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= Jaklin Kornfilt = Jaklin Kornfilt (IPA) is a linguist and professor at Syracuse University. She was born on August 27, 1946 (still alive).

Personal Life
(1) the person's life and career


 * Peoplepill.com. “About Jaklin Kornfilt: Linguist: Biography, Facts, Career, Wiki, Life.” Peoplepill.com, peoplepill.com/people/jaklin-kornfilt. // Biography on Kornfilt; the info contained here is identical to that of her Wiki article.
 * “Interview with Dr. Kornfilt (Spring 2018).” The Maxwell School of Syracuse University, 3 Apr. 2019, www.maxwell.syr.edu/moynihan/mesp/spring_2018_newsletter/Interview_with_Dr__Kornfilt/. // An interview with Kornfilt posted by Syracuse University. She describes her own background and research interests, explaining why she studies Turkish and Turkic languages.
 * “Jaklin Kornfilt.” College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University, Syracuse University, thecollege.syr.edu/people/faculty/kornfilt-jaklin/. // Kornfilt's official Syracuse University profile page. Gives a thorough overview of her published work and research interests, as well as the latest copy of her CV.
 * “ Humboldt Research Award.” Alexander Von Humboldt-Stiftung, www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/sponsorship-programmes/humboldt-research-award. // Describes the Humboldt Research Award. Kornfilt won in 2010.
 * Enslin, Rob. “SU Linguist Lands Coveted Humboldt Research Award.” SU News, Syracuse University, 5 May 2010, news.syr.edu/blog/2010/05/05/humboldt-research-award/. // Syracuse article describing her winning the Humboldt Research Award for her groundbreaking research in Turkish syntax and morphology, as well as in cross-linguistic perspectives. Also mentions the project she is using the Award funds to work on: “Cross-Linguistic Syntax and Semantics of Specificity and Partitivity.”
 * Enslin, Rob. “SU's Jaklin Kornfilt Co-Edits Prestigious Linguistics Journal.” SU News, Syracuse University, 10 Feb. 2012, news.syr.edu/blog/2012/02/10/lingua/. // Syracuse University article. Describes how she organized and led a linguistics working group of The Central New York Humanities Corridor, an interdisciplinary partnership with Syracuse University, Cornell, and the University of Rochester from 2005 to 2010.
 * Enslin, Rob. "What's in Word?" SU News, Syracuse University, 27 Oct, 2011, https://archive.is/20121212114333/http://asnews.syr.edu/newsevents_current/News/jaklin_kornfilt_profile.html /. // A very, very, very, very good source. A detailed biographical profile of Kornfilt conducted yet again by none other than Rob Enslin. Definitely deserves a second, third, fourth... read.; pulled from the Wikipedia article, under the sources at the bottom.
 * Cavar, Damir. “Featured Linguist: Jaklin Kornfilt.” The LINGUIST List, Official Linguist List Blog, 5 Apr. 2016, blog.linguistlist.org/fund-drive/featured-linguist-jaklin-kornfilt/. // Brief autiobiographical post about Kornfilt's childhood and days as a student, her initial motivations for studying linguistics, and her journey to Harvard. Posted by the Linguist List.
 * Leffert, Catherine. “SU Faculty Detail Stances on Grading Reliability.” The Daily Orange, 21 Feb. 2017, dailyorange.com/2017/02/su-faculty-detail-stances-on-grading-reliability/. // A minor article quoting Kornfilt about grading politices at Syracuse. Also gives a glimpse of Kornfilt's perspective as a professor. Taken from a student newspaper, The Daily Orange.

Comparative Grammar, Natural Language, Linguistic Theory
A book by Robert Freidin, including two chapters: "NP-Movement and 'Restructuring' J. Kornfilt." and "Some Other Possible Cases of Nonlocal Dependencies: Comments on the Paper by Jaklin Kornfilt W. Harbert"

Trace Theory
"The essays collected in this book result from recent work in trace theory, the starting point being Chomsky's proposals to permit syntax to over-generate profusely and then to provide most of the significant reduction in the form of a system of filters and constraints on logical form. They all address various aspects and implications of his article, "On Binding, "which is reprinted here. Equally important, the essays demonstrate the applicability of Chomsky's proposals to a number of different languages.Heny writes that "editorial work on the volume brought me to a realization of the far-reaching implications of the approach to linguistic analysis underlying Chomsky's "On Binding. "It constitutes a radical break with his previous work, of a very exciting and promising kind." Heny's Introduction goes on to describe the shift in Chomsky's position over the last ten years in lucid and straightforward fashion, identifying the striking new properties of this framework and making the collection generally more accessible to a wider audience. Contents: Introduction; "On Binding, "Noam Chomsky; "Finiteness and Boundedness in Turkish, "Lelan George and Jaklin Kornfilt; "Nominative Marking in Italian Infinitives and the Nominative Island Constraint, "Luigi Rizzi; "Empty Subjects, Case and Agreement and the Grammar of Dutch, "Eric J. Reuland; "Binding, Quantifiers, Clitics and Control," Richard S. Kayne; "Government and Relativisation in Celtic," Stephen Harlow; "Germanic Word Order and the Format of Surface Filters," Joan Maling and Annie Zaenen; "Ouechua Word Structure," Pieter Muysken; "Index."Frank Heny is Professor of Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language, and Head of the Institute of General Linguistics at the University of Groningen, Holland."

Agreement
"The status of agreement is a core issue in current morphological and syntactic theory. The collection of papers in this volume focuses on important issues, such as the nature of the relation between syntax and morphology in determining agreement relations; whether and which syntactic configurations are relevant for determining agreement; the relevance of verbal agreement for the purposes of EPP; the inquiry into the existence of connections between verbal and DP-internal agreement; on the morphological and syntactic distinction of person, number and gender agreement; how and why AGREE and Spec,head relations trigger different agreement effects; and the type of relation that exists between head-movement and morphological agreement. The data collected come from a wide variety of languages and the studies presented discuss innovative and thought-provoking ideas for dealing with agreement phenomena."



Major Accomplishments
(2) their major accomplishments (all of the following were authored by Kornfilt)

Thesis: "Case Marking, Agreement, and Empty Categories in Turkish", Harvard University (1984)


 * Kornfilt, Jaklin. Turkish. Routledge, 2013. // Her seminal work on a descriptive grammar of Turkish, part of the Descriptive Grammar series
 * Kornfilt, Jaklin. "Turkish and the Turkic languages." The world’s major languages 2 (1990). // Her contribution to the book, The World's Major Languages. Other sections of the book include "Indo-European Languages," "Uralic Languages," and "Korean"; each of them surveys various level of scope of the languages, from phonology to morphology to syntax and pragmatics.
 * George, Leland, and Jaklin Kornfilt. "Finiteness and boundedness in Turkish." Binding and filtering 105 (1981): 127. // Jaklin's exploration Turkish using concepts of transformation introduced by Chomsky in his article, "Conditions on Transformation."
 * Kornfilt, Jaklin. "Scrambling, subscrambling, and case in Turkish." Word order and scrambling 125155 (2003). // Jaklin's contribution to the discussion of scrambling (free word order) in various language case studies.
 * Von Heusinger, Klaus, and Jaklin Kornfilt. "The case of the direct object in Turkish: Semantics, syntax and morphology." Turkic languages 9 (2005): 3-44. // Investigates the interaction between semantic parameters and morphological constraints in determining the distribution of the accusative case marker-(y)I in Turkish. She shows that the accusative case marker can indicate the referential property of the direct object (such as specificity) in clearly defined morphological environments in a reliable fashion; in other contexts, it is not a reliable indicator of properties like specificity.
 * Bayer, Josef, and Jaklin Kornfilt. "Against scrambling as an instance of Move-alpha." (1994): 17-60. // Her analysis of scrambling in German, arguing against the notion that scrambling is tied to the syntactic models of A'-movement and A-movement, and offering an alternative account of scrambling that is not based on syntactic movement at all.
 * Borsley, Robert D., and Jaklin Kornfilt. "Mixed extended projections." The nature and function of syntactic categories. Brill, 1999. 101-131. // Her analysis of constructions that are basically clausal but also have certain nominal properties (ie I heard about [his leaving early]). Such constructions are found in Turkish as well, which she explores within a version of Principles and Parameters theory (P&P), which, following Grimshaw (1991), recognizes some functional categories as inherently verbal and others as inherently nominal. She suggests that all such constructions involve what Grimshaw calls a "mixed extended projection," a structure in which a verb is associated with one or more nominal functional categories.
 * Khoo, Christopher SG, et al. "Automatic extraction of cause-effect information from newspaper text without knowledge-based inferencing." Literary and Linguistic Computing 13.4 (1998): 177-186. // This study investigated how effectively cause-effect information can be extracted from newspaper text using a simple computational method (i.e. without knowledge-based inferencing and without full parsing of sentences). An automatic method was developed for identifying and extracting cause-effect information in Wall Street Journal text using linguistic clues and pattern matching. The set of linguistic patterns used for identifying causal relationships was based on a through review of the literature and on an analysis of sample sentences from the Wall Street Journal.
 * Kornfilt, Jaklin, and John Whitman. "Afterword: Nominalizations in syntactic theory." Lingua 121.7 (2011): 1297-1313. // This afterword constructs a working typology of nominalizations, based on but not restricted to the papers collected in this special issue. The typology is based on what we call the Functional Nominalization Thesis (FNT), a version of the model of “mixed projections” proposed in Borsley and Kornfilt (2000). We examine two alternatives to the FNT, the framework of Panagiotidis and Grohmann (2009) and Bresnan's (1997) head-sharing approach of nominalizations.
 * Kornfilt, Jaklin. "Subject case in Turkish nominalized clauses." Syntactic structures and morphological information 7 (2003): 129. // Her argument of how the distinction between adjunct and argument can also determine the Case of the subject in certain syntactic domains. More generally, the paper explores the relationship between morphology and syntax.

Reputation
(3) others' assessments of their work (all of the following were articles of Kornfilt cited by others, sources mentioning the impact of Kornfilt)


 * Takada, Aki. “Interview with Professor Tomoyuki Yoshida, Spring Term Grant Recipient.” Japan ICU Foundation, Japan ICU Foundation, 27 May 2016, www.jicuf.org/interview-with-professor-tomoyuki-yoshida-spring-term-grant-recipient/. // A passing remark made by a Professor Tomoyuki Yoshida about Kornfilt, his excitement to see her there. Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL), which was co-founded by Kornfilt.
 * Whaley, Lindsay J. Introduction to typology: The unity and diversity of language. SAGE publications, 1996. // Makes use of Kornfilt's "Turkish and Turkic Languages" article. An intro textbook to typology.
 * Lyovin, Anatole. An Introduction to the Languages of the World. Oxford University Press, USA, 1997. // Refers to Kornfilt's "Turkish and Turkic Languages" article. Broad overview of languages of the world.
 * Parodi, Teresa, Bonnie D. Schwartz, and Harald Clahsen. "On the L2 acquisition of the morphosyntax of German nominals." Linguistics 42.3 (2004): 669-705. // Analysis of German nominals. Comparisons are made to Jaklin's insights on Turkish nominals.
 * Haspelmath, Martin, and Andrea D. Sims. Understanding morphology. Routledge, 2013. // Intro to Morphology textbook. Draws heavily from examples of agglutination in Turkish, provided by Kornfilt.
 * Göksel, Aslı, and Celia Kerslake. Turkish: A comprehensive grammar. Routledge, 2004. // Another exhaustive overview of Turkish grammar. Draws from Kornfilt's examples.
 * Kayne, Richard S. Movement and silence. Oxford University Press, 2005. // Discusses movement and syntax. Refers to Kornfilt's discussion of Arg and movement, PP framework for understanding movement.
 * Pustet, Regina. Copulas: Universals in the Categorization of the Lexicon. OUP Oxford, 2003. // A book about copula, verbs. Draws examples and discussions of copulas from Kornfilt's work on Turkish grammar.
 * Şener, Serkan, and Daiko Takahashi. "Ellipsis of arguments in Japanese and Turkish." Nanzan Linguistics 6 (2010): 79-99. // Comparison of Japanese and Turkish. Author notes how Kornfilt observes that Turkish lacks multiple nominative constructions, whereas Japanese does not.
 * Chomsky, Noam, and Michael Kenstowicz. "Derivation by phase." An Annotated Syntax Reader (1999): 482. // A highly-cited work. Includes discussion of directionality, "head of a relative," etc. Involved cross-linguistic study, in which Chomsky draws examples and claims made by Kornfilt.

Exercise 5 Sources
Areas of clash: Conditions on Binding, Generative Linguistics, Agreement, Syntactic theory and first language acquisition, Syntax, Word Order, Theoretical Linguistics

// continue parsing Semantic Scholar for "review Jaklin Kornfilt", all three pages

// also look at HER papers and see who she debates, agrees with, disagrees with

// look for individual chapters, contributions to larger thematic works / handbooks, that contrast Kornfilt's contributions with other works in the same field.

Review of “Turkish” by Cemil Orhan Orgun

Review of "Turkish" by Steve Seegmiller from Montclair State University

Review of "NP-Movement and 'Restructuring'" by Jaklin Kornfilt, by Wayne Harbert. Part of a larger book called Current Issues in Comparative Grammar (1996) by Robert Freidin. ("Further Investigations into the Nature of Phrasal Compounding ")

Collaboration with Shigeru Miyagawa with Jaklin on "Wh-in-situ and Scrambling in the Context of Comparative Altaic Syntax."

F Heny's article "Binding and Filtering" surveys various strains and offshoots of theories from Chomsky's paper, "On Binding." One such offshoot is Jaklin's own paper, "Finiteness and Boundedness in Turkish"

Studies on Agreement is a book by João Costa and Maria Cristina Figueiredo Silva that surveys various opinions and cases relating to agreement. Kornfilt's contribution is "Chapter 8) Agreement: The (unique and local) syntactic and morphological licenser of subject Case".