Ethan Poole
ejpoole@linguist.umass.edu
http://ethanpoole.com
Department of Linguistics
N408 Integrative Learning Center
University of Massachusetts
650 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, ma 01003
United States of America
Education
2012–present University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ph.D., Linguistics
June 2014 North American Summer School for Logic, Language & Information
University of Maryland, College Park
2008–2012 University of Minnesota
B.A., Linguistics ⋅ Scandinavian Languages & Finnish
Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Thesis: Phase-based telicity
Advisor: Hooi Ling Soh
June 2011 Háskóli Íslands (University of Iceland)
Summer course in Modern Icelandic
Publications
conference pro ceedings
2015 ‘Deconstructing quirky subjects’
Proceedings of NELS 45, ed. by Thuy Bui and Deniz Özyıldız, vol. 2, 247–256.
Amherst, MA: GLSA.
2015 ‘A configurational account of Finnish case’
Proceedings of PLC 38, ed. by David Wilson. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania.
edited volumes
2014 [with Hsin-Lun Huang & Amanda Rysling]
Proceedings of NELS 43
Amherst, MA: GLSA.
manuscripts
submitted [with Stefan Keine]
‘Intervention in tough-constructions revisited’
Ms., University of Massachusetts Amherst.
2015 ‘Implicit arguments’
Ms., University of Massachusetts Amherst.
2015 ‘Subjecthood’
Ms., University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Presentations
invited presentations
9 Oct 2014 ‘Deconstructing quirky subjects’
MIT
peer-reviewed presentations
upcoming ‘The locality of dependent case’
GLOW 39. Göttingen.
upcoming [with Stefan Keine & Jon Ander Mendia]
‘It’s tough to reconstruct’
GLOW 39. Göttingen. [poster]
upcoming [with Sakshi Bhatia]
‘Deriving subject and antisubject orientation’
Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 6. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
16 Oct 2015 [with Stefan Keine]
‘Syntactic vs. semantic intervention in tough-constructions’
NELS 46. Concordia University. [poster]
17 April 2015 [with Stefan Keine]
‘Intervention in tough-constructions’
GLOW 38. Paris.
31 Oct 2014 ‘Deconstructing quirky subjects’
NELS 45. MIT. [poster]
2 April 2014 ‘A configurational account of Finnish case’
GLOW 37. Brussels. [poster]
29 March 2014 ‘A configurational account of Finnish case’
PLC 38. University of Pennsylvania.
non-refereed presentations
15 Nov 2014 ‘Puzzles of partial control’
Southern New England Workshop in Semantics (SNEWS) 2014.
University of Massachusetts Amherst.
15 Nov 2014 [with Jon Ander Mendia & Megan Somerday]
‘Perfect asymmetries’
Southern New England Workshop in Semantics (SNEWS) 2014.
University of Massachusetts Amherst.
6 April 2012 ‘Phase-based telicity: Evidence from the partitive in Finnish and Northern Swedish’
University of Minnesota.
16 April 2011 ‘Verb-phrase pronominalisation in Mainland Scandinavian’
5th Annual Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium. Cornell University.
web development
16 April 2012 ‘Language and user-interface design’
MinneWebCon 2012. University of Minnesota.
11 April 2011 [with Ken Loomis & Tony Thomas]
‘Project tools in web development: A case study’
MinneWebCon 2011. University of Minnesota.
12 April 2010 [with Zachary Johnson, Kamran Ayub & Ken Loomis]
‘Improve user experience with informal user testing’
MinneWebCon 2010. University of Minnesota.
Grants & Honours
2012–present National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2011–2012 Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) for Finnish
2011 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, University of Minnesota
2010 Linguistic Service Award, Linguistic Society of America
Teaching
university of massachusetts amherst
Winter 2015 Teaching Assistant for Linguist 201: Introduction to Linguistic Theory
Instructor: Kyle Johnson
Spring 2014 Teaching Assistant for Linguist 201: Introduction to Linguistic Theory
Instructor: Kyle Johnson
Fall 2013 Teaching Assistant for Linguist 101: People and Their Language
Instructor: Margaret Speas
university of minnesota
Spring 2012 Grader for LING 5201: Syntactic Theory I
Instructor: Hooi Ling Soh
Spring 2012 Grader for LING 4201: Syntax I
Instructor: David Schueler
Service
2016–present NELS 47 Organising Committee
2014–present Publication Manager, Graduate Linguistics Student Association
University of Massachusetts Amherst
2013–present Editorial Board, Semantics-Syntax Interface
2014–2015 Colloquium Dinner Coordinator, Graduate Linguistics Student Association
University of Massachusetts Amherst
2009–2013 Webmaster, Linguistic Society of America
Reviewing Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
Semantics-Syntax Interface
Syntax
Abstract ConSOLE XXIV
Reviewing Workshop on Turkish, Turkic and the Languages of Turkey (Tu+ 1)
Professional Skills
Technical Python, LATEX, R, Haskell, Lisp (Clojure), PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML, SQL, Mercurial,
Linux (Debian), Mac OS X
Languages English (native), Swedish
Norwegian, Danish, Spanish
Finnish, Icelandic, Old Icelandic
German
Kaqchikel, Wolof
fluent
advanced
intermediate
basic
fieldwork
Last updated on 25 February 2016.