Daniel Greeson

Hi!

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I'm a PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics at Stony Brook University, which I joined in 2021, and am co-advised by Paco Ordóñez and Sandhya Sundaresan. My primary research interest is syntax and its interfaces with semantics and phonology, and I tend work a lot on Spanish, Portuguese, and English.

I am currently working on my doctoral thesis about syntactic locality and thematic structure, Raising, un-roled: A-movement and the θ-criterion. I previously completed a BA–MA program in Linguistics at Michigan State University,  advised by Cristina Schmitt. My MA thesis focused on the syntactic and semantic properties of pronouns in Romance languages. While at MSU, I also worked in the MSU Language Acquisition Lab to look at how kids learn the different properties of subject pronouns in Spanish. 

I love showing that deep down, all languages share many deep similarities with each other despite an incredible amount of variation in the surface. A lot of my work on variation comes from Romance languages, but I also think it can be fun to take a closer look at boring old English and convince people that it has fun things like nasal harmony and hyperraising. 

You can look at a copy of my CV here.