Patrick Farrell, PhD
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Professor,
Linguistics
Office: 206 Sproul Hall
Telephone: 530-848-2874
Keywords: English syntax and semantics, linguistic theory
Office: 206 Sproul Hall
Telephone: 530-848-2874
| Email: | pmfarrell | @ | ucdavis.edu |
Keywords: English syntax and semantics, linguistic theory
Patrick Farrell received a BA in psychology from UC Santa Cruz and a PhD in linguistics from UC San Diego. His teaching repertoire includes syntactic theory, grammatical analysis, language universals and typology, phonology, and language pedagogy. His published work focuses primarily on issues in English and comparative syntax and semantics, from the perspective of a variety of theoretical frameworks, including role and reference grammar, cognitive grammar, relational grammar, natural semantic metalanguage, government-binding theory, and lexical-functional grammar. His book Grammatical Relations (Oxford University Press, 2005) provides an overview of how notions such as 'subject' and 'direct object' have been used in linguistic theory and how different frameworks have been and can be applied to complex phenomena involving these notions in a variety of languages. One strand of recent work is concerned with new approaches to grammatical relations based on comparative linguistic data; another focuses on the semantics of polysemous spatial words in English and other languages, particularly the preposition 'with' and the adjective 'close'.
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