Peter Cole

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Department of Linguistics University of Delaware 46 East Delaware Avenue Newark DE 19716	pcole@udel.edu	(302) 831-6829	(302) 831-6896

Education

• Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Illinois 1973
• M.A. Linguistics, Southern Illinois, 1971

Research Interests

• the interface of linguistics with other cognitive sciences
• field linguistics and endangered languages
  
• comparative syntax
• linguistic theory
• Jambi Malay
  
• Malay/Indonesian, Toba Batak, Javanese, other Austronesian Languages of Indonesia and Malaysia, Quechua, Chinese, Hebrew
  
• voice, reflexives, questions, relative clauses, pronominals

The overriding goal of contemporary linguistics is to determine the range of variation possible in human languages. The studies I have engaged in involve the comparison of syntactic constructions in several languages in order to determine what possibilities can exist in human language. This general approach has become known as "comparative syntax".

Soon after getting my Ph.D. I spent a number of years concentrating on contemporary Hebrew. Later, I became interested in the Quechua languages (spoken in the Andean mountains of South America). While I have never lost interest in these languages, in recent years most of my work has been on Austronesian languages, especially Malay/Indonesian, Toba Batak and Javanese.

Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware

• General Information about the Program
• Events in Cognitive Science
  

Symposia and Workshops

• ISMIL 10
  
• International Symposia on Malay/Indonesian Linguistics
• International Workshop on the Evolution of Cognition
  

Some Recent and Not So Recent Papers

Link to Papers Available for Downloading

• How Irregular is WH in Situ in Indonesian?  (Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon and Yassir Tjung), Studies in Language 29: 553-581, 2005.

• Long Distance Anaphors in Asian Languages. (Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon and C.-T. James Huang), The Syntax Companion.  Blackwell, 2005.
  

• The Typology of Malay Reflexives. (Peter Cole and Gabriella Hermon), Lingua, Spring 2005.
  

• Subject and Nonsubject Relativization in Indonesian.  (Peter Cole and Gabriella Hermon), in the Journal of East Asian Linguistics 14.1, 2005.

• Event Structure in Korean and Standard Indonesian. (M.J. Son and Peter Cole), in Johannes Dolling & Tatjana Heyde-Zybatow (eds.), a selected paper for the proceedings of Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation, Mouton-de Gruyter, 2005.

• The Formation of Relative Clauses in Jakarta Indonesian: Data from adults and children. (Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon, and Yassir Tjung)  Presented at ISMIL 7, Nijmegen, June, 2003.  To appear in A. van Engelenhoven & H. Steinhauer (eds) Selected Studies on Indonesian/Malay Linguistics. Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (Kuala Lumpur) in cooperation with the International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden/Amsterdam), 2005.

• The Acquisition of WH Questions in Jakarta Indonesian. (Peter Cole, David Gil, Gabriella Hermon and Uri Tadmor), NUSA: Linguistic Studies in Indonesian and Languages in Indonesia 51. Jakarta :Badan Panyelenggara Seri NUSA, 2004.

• Logophoric Conditions on Long-Distance Reflexives and Pronouns in Singapore Chinese and Chaozhou Dialect.  (Cher Leng Lee, Peter Cole and Gabriella Hermon), in Chinese, Studies in Chinese Linguistics, Beijing Language Cultural University Press, Volume 14, number 3: 31-46, 2004.

• Malay Reflexives: An Apparent Exceptionality.  (Peter Cole and Gabriella Hermon), in Cakrawala Baru: Liber Amicorum untuk Prof. Soenjono Dardjowidjojo (a Festschrift for Soenjono Dardjowidjojo), edited by Bambang Kaswant Purwo and Katharina Endriati Sukamto.  Jakarta: Yasan Obor Indonesia, 2003.

• A Constraint on WH in situ in Javanese. (Cole, Peter, Gabriella. Hermon, Kozue Inoha and Yassir Tjung), Andra Rackowski, and Norvin Richards (eds.), Proceedings of Austronesian Formal Linguistics (AFLA),  MITWPL 44, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2003.

• A Unified Analysis of -kan in Standard Indonesian.  (Minjeong Son and Peter Cole) Proceedings of the 2002 Linguistic Society of Korea International Summer Conference, Volume II: Workshops on Complex Predicates, Inversion and OT Phonology.Seoul: Thaehaksa, 2002.

• The Acquisition of In-Situ WH-Questions and WH-Indefinites in Jakarta Indonesian.  (Peter Cole, David Gil, Gabriella Hermon and Uri Tadmor), BUCLD 25, 2001.

• Long Distance Reflexives:  the State of the Art.  (Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon and C.-T. James Huang), in Long Distance Reflexives, ed. Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon and C.-T. James Huang, 2001.

• Partial Wh-Movement:  Evidence From Malay.  (Peter Cole and Gabriella Hermon).  in U. Lutz, G. Müller and A. von Stechow, Wh-Scope Marking, Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000.

• The Typology of WH Movement: WH Questions in Malay (Peter Cole and Gabriella Hermon), Syntax 1:221-258 (Blackwell Publishers), 1998.

• Long Distance Reflexives in Singapore Malay: An Apparent Typological Anomaly (With Gabriella Hermon), Linguistic Typology 2, 1, 1998.

• VP Ellipsis and Malay Reflexives (With Gabriella Hermon), in IATL 5:  The Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference (Adam Zachary Wyner, ed.), the Israeli Association for Theoretical Linguistics, 39-54, 1998.
  

• Chaozhou Fangyan Zhong San Zhong Fanfu Wenju (Three Types of Yes/No Questions in a Teochew Dialect) (with Cher Leng Lee). In Chinese. In Yuyan Yanjiu, 1997.
  
  
• Yes/No Question in the Teochew of Singapore (with Cher Leng Lee). Journal of East Asian Linguistics 6:2, 1997.
  
  
• An Apparent Typological Anomaly: Long Distance Reflexives in Singapore Malay (with Gabriella Hermon). Recently submitted for publication, 1997.
  
  
• Long Distance Reflexives and Islandhood in Chinese. (Peter Cole and Li-May Sung)   Journal of Chinese Linguistics 25: 177-192, 1997.
  
  
• Antecedents and Blockers of Long Distance reflexives: the Case of Chinese Ziji (with Chengchi Wang). Linguistic Inquiry 27, 3, 1996.
  
  
• Language in the Andes. Editor (with Gabriella Hermon and Mario Daniel Martín). Newark, D.E.: Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, 1995.
  
  
• Is There LF Movement? (with Gabriella Hermon). Linguistic Inquiry 25, 239-262, 1994.
  
  
• Head Movement and Long Distance Reflexives (with Li-May Sung). Linguistic Inquiry 25, 355-406, 1994.
  
  
• Feature Percolation (with Gabriella Hermon and Li-May Sung. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 2:1, 1993.

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