Joan Maling

Professor Emerita of Linguistics and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems

maling@brandeis.edu

Departments/Programs

Psychology

Degrees

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D.
Goucher College, B.A.
Goethe Institute, Cert.

Expertise

Linguistics. Syntactic theory. Historical syntax. Metrics. Syntactic theory. Icelandic syntax. Korean syntax.

Profile

Professor Maling teaches theoretical linguistics. Her primary research interest is the syntax of modern Icelandic, especially the relation between morphological case and grammatical functions on the one hand and thematic roles on the other.

Awards and Honors

National Science Foundation Research Grants (1993)

Editor-in-Chief, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory (1987)

Fulbright Scholar Grant (1987)

Managing Editor, Studies in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory (1987)

Co-Editor, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory (1983 - 1986)

National Science Foundation Research Grants (1978)

American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship (1977)

Scholarship

Maling,Joan M & Heike and Weise. "Beers, kaffi and Schnaps: Different grammatical options for 'restaurant talk' coercions in three Germanic languages." J. Germanic Linguistics 17. 1 (2005).

Maling,Joan M. Case and Grammatical Functions: Structural vs. Hierarchical Approaches to Case Assignment. Proc. of Proceedings of the 2004 LSK International Conference. Seoul: Linguistic Society of Korea, Yonsei Institute of Language & Information Studies, 2004.

Maling,Joan M. From Passive to Active: Syntactic Change in Progress in Icelandic. Proc. of Proceedings of the 2004 LSK International Conference. Seoul: Linguistic Society of Korea, Yonsei Institute of Language & Information Studies, Seoul, 2004.

Maling,Joan M, co-ed with A. Zaenen. "Modern Icelandic Syntax." Academic Press (1990).