Peter Cole
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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 and/or dialects in order to
determine what
possibilities can exist in human language. This general approach has
become known among Generative Grammarians as "comparative syntax", but
it is also closely akin to linguistic typology.
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.
Additional Affiliation
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Linguistics
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Symposia and Workshops
Together with David Gil and Uri Tadmor, I have been a member of the
coordinating committee of ISMIL, the annual International Symposium on
Malay/Indonesian Linguistics.
This website contains tools for use in field linguistics and language
description. Most of the items on the website are questionnaires
designed to assist in eliciting data in such a fashion that the data
will be comparable across languages. The idea behind the website is
that field linguistics should be typologically informed and that the
results of field work should be of typological interest. The
questionnaires and other tools presented there help the field linguist
understand what questions might be of typological (and theoretical)
interest and guide the linguist in both eliciting data and extracting
information from naturalistic texts. In addition, the site would like
to include "elicitation kits", allowing the researcher to present movie
clips and similar language stimuli to native speaker consultants to see
how they would describe the event shown. The number of elicitation kits
available is still very limited, but we hope that more will be
available in the future. Information is also included on books and
articles that provide down-to-earth guidance to the field linguist.
The site is edited by Peter Cole (MPI EVA and the University of
Delaware) and Jeff Good (SUNY Buffalo), and the webpage coordinator is
Claudia Schmidt (MPI EVA).
Some Recent and Not So Recent Papers
Recent Books and Editorships:
- Malay/Indonesian from a Pan-Austronesian Perspective
(edited by P. Cole and Gabriella Hermon), Special issue of
Lingua, volume 118, number 10, 2008
- Anaphoric Expressions in the Peranakan Javanese of
Semarang. (Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon, Chonghyuck Kim,
Chang-yong Sim,Yassir Tjung) Lincom Studies in Asian Linguistics 72,
Lincom Europa (LINCOM GmbH, Gmunder Str. 35, D-81379 München),
2007.
- Anaphoric Expressions in Peranakan Javanese : a Comprehensive
Database. (P. Cole, G. Hermon, C. Kim, C. Sim, Y. Tjung, and
Y.Tsai) University of Utrecht, The Netherlands (electronic
publication). http://languagelink.let.uu.nl/anatyp/, 2006.
Recent Articles and Papers:
- The Acquisition of WH Questions in Jakarta Indonesian. (Peter
Cole, David Gil, Gabriella Hermon and Uri Tadmor), Festschrift for
Soenjono Dardjowidjojo. [This is a different work from the 2003
festschrift.] 2008
- Auxiliary Fronting in Peranakan Javanese, (Peter Cole, Yurie Hara
and Ngee Thai Yap), Journal of Linguistics, 44: 1-43. 2008
- VP Raising in a VOS Language. (Peter Cole and Gabriella Hermon).
To appear in Syntax, Fall 2008.
- An Event-Based Account of –kan Constructions in Standard
Indonesian, (M.J. Son, and Peter Cole). Language 84: 3-42. 2008
- Malay/Indonesian Syntax from an Austronesian Perspective: an
Introduction, (Peter Cole and Gabriella Hermon), Lingua 118, 10.
2008
- Voice in Malay/Indonesian. (P. Cole , G. Hermon and Yanti),
Lingua 118, 10. 2008
- Headless Relative Clauses and WH Questions in Singapore Malay (P.
Cole, G. Hermon and N. Aman). In Uyechi, L. Lian Hee Wee (eds.)
Reality Exploration and Discovery: Pattern Interaction in Language
& Life, Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI),
Stanford, California. 2008
- A Binding Theory Exempt Anaphor (Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon,
Yassir Tjung, Chang-Yong Sim, Chonghyuck Kim), in E. Koenig & V.
Gast (eds.), Reciprocals and Reflexives: Typological and Theoretical
Explorations. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
192. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2008
- Syntactic Decomposition of Events in Korean and Standard
Indonesian. (M.J. Son and Peter Cole.) In Event Structures in
Linguistic Form and Interpretation, Johannes Dölling, Tatjana
Heyde-Zybatow and Martin Schäfer, (eds.), Language, Context and
Cognition 5: 55-80, Mouton-de Gruyter. 2008
- Relativization in Aresian Dialects. (Peter Cole and
Gabriella Hermon) [Satirical piece in informal online festschrift
for Bernard Comrie.] 2007
- Is There Pasif Semu in Jakarta Indonesian? (Peter Cole,
Gabriella Hermon and Yassir Tjung), Oceanic Linguistics 45: 64-90. 2006
- 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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