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Masha co-edits Handbook of Comparative Syntax

August 26, 2025 Linguistics

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31 pieces on the study of syntactic variety.

Congratulations to Masha Polinsky, who has joined Sjef Barbiers and Norbert Corver to edit the Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Syntax, with thirty-one chapters on how to understand what varies and does not in the syntax of human languages. Several Maryland students and alums assisted in the review process. and three are among the chapter authors: Tim Hunter *10 ("Computational approaches to syntactic variation," with Bob Frank), Brian Dillon *11 ("Syntactic dependency formation in sentence processing," with Mayaan Keshev), and Polina Pleshak ("Comparative syntax from formal and functional perspectives," with Maria Polinsky).