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Joan Maling


Professor of Linguistics
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

email: maling@brandeis.edu

Professor Maling's research interests include syntactic theory and Germanic linguistics, with a special interest in modern Icelandic and Korean syntax. 

Professor Maling is currently on leave from Brandeis to serve as Director of NSF's Linguistics Program.


Representative Publications


Maling, J. (2001).  Dative: the heterogeneity of the mapping among morphological case, grammatical functions, and thematic roles.  Lingua  11: 419-464.

Maling, J. & Sigurjonsdottir, S. (2002).  "The new impersonal construction in Icelandic"  Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 5, pp.97-142

Maling, Joan (1993). Of nominative and accusative: The hierarchical assignment of grammatical case in Finnish. In A. Holmberg and U. Nikanne, eds., Case and other functional categories in Finnish syntax, Studies in Generative Grammar 39, Mouton de Gruyter, Dordrecht, 51-76.

Maling, Joan, and Kim, Soowon (1992). Case assignment in the inalienable possession construction in Korean. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 1, 1:37-68.

Maling, Joan, and Zaenen, Annie, eds. Modern Icelandic Syntax. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, (1990).