Patricia Schneider-Zioga

University of California, Irvine
Department of Linguistics

pzioga@uci.edu

Research Interests:

• anti-agreement, theory of chain formation, the articulated left edge
• syntax of Bantu languages; Austronesian languages; (Modern) Greek, especially clitic-doubling
• dyslexia and dysgraphia: syllable as the locus of phonological deficit in dyslexia; architecture of the mental lexicon; structure of the orthographic lexicon 

Selected Papers and Abstracts:

ANTI-AGREEMENT

“The Case of Anti-Agreement” MIT WPIL AFLA 8 Proceedings, MIT, Cambridge, MA 2002

"Anti-agreement and the Fine Structure of the Left Periphery," University  of California Irvine Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 6 (2000)

“An Argument in Favor of Agreement Phrase,”  in Proceeding from the Eastern States Conference on Linguistics 1996, edited by Virginia Montapayne and Anthony D. Green, Cornell University (1996).

"Specifier/Head Agreement in Kinande," Cahiers Linguistiques d'Ottawa, Vol. 23 (1995).

THE ARTICULATED LEFT EDGE

"The Left Edge: Topic, Focus, and CP," in Papers from the Second International Congress on Greek Linguistics. John Benjamins Press. (1996)

"Anti-agreement and the Fine Structure of the Left Periphery," University  of California Irvine Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 6 (2000)  

CLITIC DOUBLING

"A Predication Analysis of Clitic Pronouns in Greek," Proceedings from Nels 28 (1998)

"The Structural Representation of Clitic-Doubling Constructions in Modern Greek," FLSM 4, Papers from the Fourth Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of Midamerica, edited by Alice Davison, et al. Department of  Linguistics, University of Iowa (1993).

CASE

"Relativized Minimality and Case in Modern Greek," the Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of Midamerica, Indiana Linguistics Club (1992).

DYSLEXIA AND SYLLABLE STRUCTURE

"Syllable as a Locus of deficit in atypical language" (abstract) with Fusa Katada (Waseda University, Japan) (in preparation).