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411 Lorch Hall 611 Tappan Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Office Location(s): 411 Lorch Phone: 734.647.9701 Fax: 734.936.3406 sepstein@umich.edu Homepage
About: Samuel Epstein has a special interest in developing a restrictive, explanatory theory of syntactic properties common to all human grammars. He is also interested in methodological issues confronting syntactic theory formation and is more broadly interested in generative, mentalist explanation, and cognitive science. In addition to experimental adult second language acquisition research co-conducted in the past, Sam has recently conducted collaborative syntactic research with Professors Acrisio Pires, Hisatsugu Kitahara and Daniel Seely. Additional collaborative work includes experimental child first language acquisition research with Professor Kazuko Hiramatsu and experimental psycholinguistic research with Professor Rick Lewis.
He regularly teaches courses such as Language and Mind, Syntax (at the undergraduate and graduate levels). He also teaches graduate seminars on issues relating to syntax and linguistic theory, including most recently a seminar on competence and performance in psycholinguistic theory, co-taught with Rick Lewis (Psychology). Sam has supervised or co-supervised dissertations by (most recently) Konstantia Kapetangianni, Miki Obata, Gerardo Fernandez-Salgueiro and Catherine Fortin.
In addition to sitting on the editorial board of several academic journals, he is the co-founder and former co-editor of the journal Syntax.
