Elisabeth Selkirk

Elisabeth O. Selkirk (b. 1945) is a theoretical linguist specializing in phonological theory and the syntax-phonology interface. She is currently a professor emerita in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.[1] She was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2012.[2]

Selkirk received her PhD in Linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, under the supervision of Morris Halle.[3] She served as Head of the Linguistics Department at UMass beginning in 1998.[4]

Selkirk's work has focused on organizing phonological units into prosodic structure, as well as how phonology interacts with other parts of the grammar, including morphology and syntax. A volume of essays examining the phonology of many languages was published in her honor in 2011.[5]

Selected publications
  • Selkirk, E. (2011). The Syntax-Phonology Interface. In J. Goldsmith, J. Riggle, and A. Yu, eds., The Handbook of Phonological Theory, 2nd edition, 435-484. Oxford: Blackwell.[6]
  • Selkirk, E. (2003). The Prosodic Structure of Function Words. In J. McCarthy, ed. Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader, Blackwell Publishing, 2003.[7]
  • Selkirk, E. (2003). Sentence phonology. In William Frawley and William Bright, The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd edition. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.[8]
  • Selkirk, E. (2000). The interaction of constraints on prosodic phrasing. In M. Horne, ed., Prosody: Theory and Experiments, 231-261. Kluwer.
  • Selkirk, E. (1982). The Syntax of Words. Cambridge (MA): MIT Press.

References
  1. "Emeritus, Adjunct, and Allied Faculty | Linguistics | UMass Amherst". www.umass.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
  2. "LSA Fellows By Name | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
  3. "MIT Department of Linguistics: Graduate Program: Dissertation". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
  4. "New Faculty and Department Head Changes Announced at UMass Amherst". News and Media Relations. January 10, 2016.
  5. "Prosody Matters: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Selkirk". Equinox Publishing. Archived from the original on April 26, 2015. Retrieved January 10, 2016.
  6. Selkirk, Elisabeth (2011-01-01). "The Syntax-Phonology Interface". In Goldsmith, John; Riggle, Jason; Yu, Alan C. L. (eds.). The Handbook of Phonological Theory. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 435–484. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.222.5571. doi:10.1002/9781444343069.ch14. ISBN 9781444343069.
  7. "Wiley: Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader - John J. McCarthy". www.wiley.com. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
  8. "Sentence Phonology". Sentence Phonology - Oxford Reference. Oxford University Press. 2003. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195139778.001.0001. ISBN 9780195139778.
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