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Director
Professor Benedicto is a syntactician and directs the Indigenous and Endangered Languages Lab (IELLab) at Purdue.
Her work reflects a combined interest for the formal analysis of Human Language, with an interest to explore the linguist’s (the scientist, more generally) social responsibility towards the language community they work with.
As a formal syntactician, her research interests focus on issues around the Syntax-Semantics interface in the framework of Generative Grammar, in particular on the relation between the abstract core properties observed in human languages and the great diversity in which those properties are manifested.
Her main theoretical interests center around the feature specification of functional projections in the clausal structure. More specifically, she works on the morpho-syntactic phenomena that correlate with the functional syntactic architecture of a language: Switch Reference systems in Serial Verbal Constructions, modality, evidentiality, ... She is currently involved in several research projects on Mayangna (a Misumalpan language), on Sign Languages, and on Motion Predicate.
Eunice Opoku (Spring 2021-present) - Akan
Kathleen Wagner (Fall 2023-present) - Minority Languages in Italy
Regan Honeycutt (Beginning Fall 2024)
Undergraduate Research Trainees
Isabella Davis (Fall 2023 - present) - American Sign Language (ASL)
Daniella Simon (Fall 2023 - present) - American Sign Language (ASL)
Collin Reagin (Spring 2024 - present) - Mayagna Project
BRAZIL
Anderson Almeida
COSTA RICA
Guillermo González (UCR-Turrialba)
Freddy Obando Martinez (UCR-Turrialba)
CUBA
Alicia Calderón Verde (Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brasil)
Gilma Cervantes (CENDSOR)
Marianela Garau (Universidad de La Habana, Cuba)
Ariel Hernández (CENDSOR)
Yoel Moya (CENDSOR)
Abrahan Perez Herrada (CENDSOR)
Rita Simón Valdés (CENDSOR)
HONG KONG
Prof. Gladys Tang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
ITALY
Prof. Chiara Branchini (Università Ca´Foscari - Venezia)
Dr. Lara Mantovan (Università Ca´Foscari - Venezia)
MEXICO
Nestor Hernandez-Green (UNAM, Mexico City)
Alejandra Capistran (UAM-Iztapalapa)
Gabriela García Salido (UNAM, Mexico City)
Michael Knapp (INAH, Mexico City)
Antonio Victoria-Sebastián (CIESAS, Mexico)
NICARAGUA
Mayangna Yulbarangyang Balna:
Elizabeth Salomón (URACCAN - Bilwi)
Demetrio Antolín (MINED)
Modesta Dolores (MINED)
Gloria Fendly (MINED, retired)
Tomasa Gómez †
Honorary/Past Members
| René Zúñiga Argüello (2023) Professor, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica |
Limon Kryol |
| Pin-Hsi Chen Lecturer, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen |
Taiwan Mandarin & Hakka |
| Neda Taherkanhi | Tati |
| Kwaku Osei-Tutu Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Ghana |
Ghanian Student Pidgin |
| Eric Follett |
Mayangna Project |
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Ethan Myers, |
Mayangna - MesoSpace Project |
| Carol Chun Zheng 郑纯 |
SwaTawWe (China) |
| Rachelle Henderson |
Mayangna Project |
| Ager Gondra Assistant Professor, College of Arts and Science University of Miami |
Euskera Syntax |
| Alyson Eggleston Director of Evaluation & Associate Professor, Penn State College of Medicine |
Mayangna Project |
| Sunny Park-Johnson Associate Professor, Director of Bilingual and ESL Minors Department of Leadership, Language and Curriculum Bilingual-Bicultural Education DePaul University |
Korean-English Bilingual Acquisition |
| Ricard Vinas de Puig Associate Professor, College of Charleston |
Mayangna Project |
| Jason Overfelt Email, joverfelt.net Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Oakland University |
Tigrinya Language Project |
| Nahor Haddish-Berhane Senior Director and Group Leader at the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson |
Tigrinya Language Project |
| Yin Ling Cheung Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
Hokkien Language |
Past Graduate Research Trainees
Multilingual Acquisition Project
Pin-Hsi Chen (Summer 2017)
Carmen Octavio (Spring 2013 & 2016)
Heather Offerman (Spring & Fall 2013)
Kathryn Wadas (Fall 2013)
Daniela Marinho Ribeiro (Spring 2013)
Linguistic Ideologies Project
Nan Zhang 张楠 (Spring 2016-2017)
Past Undergraduate Research Trainees
Akan|Multilingual Acquisition Project|Mayangna Project|Motion Predicates in Sign Languages Project|Korean-English Bilingual Acquisition Project
*Wilke's Scholar, ⸸Dammon Scholar
| Xiaorong Zhang (2014-2015) | Multilingual Acquisition |
| Hongbin Cun (2012) | Endangered Languages |
| Elizabeth Salomón (Fall 2009) | Mayangna Project |