Peter Cole (linguist)
Peter Cole | |
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| Born | 1941 |
| Died | 2023 |
| Nationality | American |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois |
| Thesis | (1873) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguist |
| Institutions | University of Illinois, University of Delaware |
| Main interests | syntax, generative grammar, linguistic typology |
| Website | Personal webpage |
Peter Cole (1941–2023) was an American linguist who made notable contributions to comparative grammar, in particular to the study of Hebrew, Quechua, Chinese and Malay syntax.
Education and career[edit]
Cole attended Bard College and first worked as an English teacher in Mexico, Venezuela and Israel.[1] He went on to study linguistics at Southern Illinois University, and received his PhD degree from the University of Illinois in 1973 (supervised by Jerry Morgan) .[2] After teaching there for 15 years, he moved to the University of Delaware, where he worked until his retirement in 2019.[3]
Scientific contributions[edit]
Peter Cole's main contributions have been to the study of comparative syntax, especially with respect to relative clauses (e.g. Cole et al. 1977; Cole 1987), switch-reference (e.g. Cole 1983), and reflexive constructions (e.g. Cole et al. 1990; Cole et al. 2006; Cole et al. 2015).
He did fieldwork on several varieties of Quechua (e.g. Cole 1982) and on several varieties of Malay (e.g. Cole & Son 2004; McKinnon et al. 2011).
For many years, Cole was an associate editor of the journal Linguistic Inquiry.
Personal life[edit]
Cole was married to linguist Gabriella Hermon, with whom he coauthored numerous works.
Selected works[edit]
Books[edit]
- Cole, Peter & Sadock, Jerrold M. (eds.). 1977. Grammatical relations (Syntax and Semantics 8). New York: Academic Press.
- Cole, Peter. 1982. Imbabura Quechua (Lingua Descriptive Studies 5). Amsterdam: North-Holland.
- Cole, Peter & Hermon, Gabriella & Huang, C.-T. James (eds.). 2001. Long-distance reflexives. San Diego: Academic Press.
Selected articles[edit]
- Cole, Peter & Harbert, Wayne & Sridhar, Shikaripur N. & Hashimoto, Sachiko & Nelson, Cecil & Smietana, Diane. 1977. Noun phrase accessibility and island constraints. In Cole, Peter & Sadock, Jerrold M. (eds.), Grammatical relations (Syntax and Semantics 8), 27–46. New York: Academic Press.
- Cole, Peter. 1983. Switch-reference in two Quechuan languages. In Haiman, John & Munro, Pamela (eds.), Switch-reference and universal grammar, 1–16. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
- Cole, Peter. 1987. The structure of internally headed relative clauses. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 5(2). 277–302.
- Cole, Peter & Hermon, Gabriella & Sung, Li-May. 1990. Principles and parameters of long-distance reflexives. Linguistic Inquiry 1–22.
- Cole, Peter & Son, Min-Jeong. 2004. The argument structure of verbs with the suffix -kan in Indonesian. Oceanic Linguistics 43(2). 339–364.
- Cole, Peter & Hermon, Gabriella & Huang, C.-T. James. 2006. Long-distance binding in Asian languages. In Everaert, Martin & van Riemsdijk, Henk (eds.), The Blackwell companion to syntax, 21–84. Malden, MA: Blackwell. (doi:10.1002/9780470996591.ch39)
- Cole, Peter & Hermon, Gabriella & Yanti. 2015. Grammar of binding in the languages of the world: Innate or learned? Cognition 141. 138–160. (doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2015.04.005)
- McKinnon, Timothy & Cole, Peter & Hermon, Gabriella. 2011. Object agreement and “pro-drop” in Kerinci Malay. Language 87(4). 715–750.
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