Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica

My research focuses mainly on comparative and diachronic syntax, with language concentrations in Austronesian, Chinese, and Japanese.

2021.09~ Research Fellow, Institute of Linguistics Academia Sinica, Taiwan
2019.07~2021.09 Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Linguistics Academia Sinica, Taiwan
2013.09~2021.06 Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept. of Asian Languages and Literature University of Washington
2007.09~2013.08 Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Asian Languages and Literature University of Washington
2005.09~2007.06 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Linguistics Northwestern University
2002.09~2005.06 Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics State University of New York at Stony Brook

2021: Special Outstanding Talent Award
ROC Ministry of Science & Technology
2020: Special Outstanding Talent Award
ROC Ministry of Science & Technology
2016-2019: Howard and Frances Nostrand Professor
University of Washington

Aug. 2022-Jul. 2024: Proto-Austronesian Alignment and the Development of Ergativity
(National Science and Technology Council Project)
Aug. 2020-Jul. 2022: Bounded Events in Rukai
(Ministry of Science and Technology Project)
Nov. 2018: Workshop on Modality in Classical Chinese
Amount: US$8,153
Funding agency: Confucius Institute
April 2017: Workshop on Comparative Formosan Linguistics (held in conjunction with AFLA 24)
Amount: US$10,307
Funding agency: Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation
(Conference/workshop grant #CS002-A-16)
June 2016-May 2018: Formosan Language Data Collection and Analysis
Amount: US$37,644
Funding agency: Linguistics Fund
Department of Linguistics, University of Washington
Sep. 2013-Mar. 2014: Fieldwork on Formosan Languages
Amount: US$29,979
Funding agency: Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation
(Junior Scholar Grant #JS015-A-12)
Sep. 1999-Dec. 2000: Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for fieldwork in Taiwan

Conference Organizing

2018: Organizer
Workshop on Modality in Classical Chinese
University of Washington
Co-chair, AFLA 24 Organizing Committee (with Matthew Pearson)
24th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association
Workshop on Comparative Formosan Linguistics
University of Washington
Workshop Co-organizer (with John Whitman, Satoshi Kinsui, Iku Nagasaki):
“Kakari-musubi from a comparative perspective”. September 2015,
National Institute for the Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL).
Co-chair, AFLA 9 Organizing Committee (with Abigail Cohn)
9th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association
Cornell University

Invited Talks

June 2023: “Proto-Austronesian Interrogative Pronouns and Their Development”
The workshop on Cross-disciplinary Studies in East and Southeast Asian Historical Linguistics
Vietnam National University, Hanoi
Aug. 2022: “Two dimensions of Austronesian voice”
Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia) 13
Chinese University of Hong Kong
June 2022: “Diachronic origins of the Nuclear Austronesian applicatives”
14th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages & Linguistics Conference
Leibniz Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) and Humboldt University, Berlin
May 2022: 「先秦漢語中「NP而VP」小句與對比焦點」
The 28th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-28)
Chinese University of Hong Kong
May 2022: “Differential object marking in Proto-Austronesian”
31st Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asia Linguistics Society (SEALS)
University of Hawaii, Manoa
Dec. 2021: “Conflating A and A’ dependencies in Austronesian case and extraction”
Workshop on “Crossing boundaries: Empirical and theoretical aspects of A-dependencies in complementation”
46th Austrian Linguistics Conference
(OELT: Österreichische Linguistik-Tagung)
June 2021: “The Austronesian Nominative Extraction Restriction in Cross Linguistic Perspective”
Overseas Linguistic Frontier Research Seminar Series
（海外語言學家的前沿研究系列講座）
Center for Linguistic Sciences, Beijing Normal University
（北京師範大學語言科學研究中心）
May 2021: 「淺談台灣南島歷史語言學」
(Introduction to Formosan Historical Linguistics)
台灣國立清華大學南大校區台灣語言研究與教學研究所
Institute of Taiwan Languages and Language Teaching
National Tsinghua University
March 2021: 「從先秦漢語到中古漢語中賓語主題移位的發展」
(Development of object topicalization from Archaic to Middle Chinese)
第十屆國際古漢語語法研討會
(10th International Symposium on Ancient Chinese Grammar; ISACG-10)
北京語言大學 (Beijing Language and Culture University)
Sept 2019: 上古漢語否定句中代詞賓語前置的句法分析
(Syntactic analysis of pronoun fronting in negated clauses in Archaic Chinese)
北京大學中文系 (Beijing University, Beijing, China)
Sept 2019: 古漢語中的移位限制及其來源 (Origin of the locality restriction in Archaic Chinese)
社會科學院語言學研究所 (Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China)
Sept 2019: 上古漢語中人稱代詞與格位標記 (Pronominal case in Archaic Chinese)
首都師範大學中文系 (Capital Normal University, Beijing, China)
Sept 2018: 台灣南島語言的研究對歷史語言學的貢獻
[How research on Formosan languages contributes to historical linguistics]
When the West met the East: Early Western Accounts of the Languages of the
Sinosphere and their Impact on the History of Chinese Linguistics
National Tsinghua University, Taiwan
June 2018: Reconstructing Proto-Austronesian Alignment
Diachronic Generative Syntax (DIGS) 20
York University, UK
May 2018: VOS versus VSO in Austronesian Languages
Workshop on Object-before-subject Languages
Harvard University
March 2018: 古漢語與南島語言中的移位限制
[The extraction restriction in Archaic Chinese and Austronesian languages]
Department colloquium presentation
National Tsinghua University, Taiwan
March 2018: “The extraction restriction across Austronesian languages”
Workshop on Current Issues in Comparative Syntax: Past, Present, and Future
National University of Singapore
Aug. 2017: “Extraction asymmetries and the nature of case”
Workshop on Quirks of Subject Extraction
National University of Singapore
March 2017: “Variation in Extraction Possibilities in Malay/Indonesian”
Syntax Reading Group
Department of Linguistics
Cornell University
March 2017: “Case and parameter change in Chinese”
Cornell Linguistics Circle Colloquium
Department of Linguistics
Cornell University
Feb. 2017: “Extraction asymmetries in ergative and accusative languages”
GLOW in Asia
National University of Singapore
Feb. 2017: “Parameter change in Early Middle Chinese”
Colloquium presentation
Simon Fraser University
July 2016: 先秦漢語從句的名物化
[Nominalization of embedded clauses in Late Archaic Chinese]
International Symposium on Ancient Chinese Grammar (ISACG) 9
Humboldt University, Berlin
June 2016: “ϕ-Feature Competition: The Austronesian Extraction Restriction and its Origin”
Austronesian Formal Linguistic Association (AFLA) 23
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (東京外国語大学)
April 2016: “ϕ-Feature Competition: A unified approach to the Austronesian extraction restriction”
Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 52
University of Chicago
April 2016: “ϕ-Feature Competition and the Origin of the Austronesian Extraction Restriction”
Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica (中央研究院語言學研究所), Taipei
April 2016: “Grammaticalization of the verb yi 已 as an aspectual marker in Middle Chinese” (with Barbara Meisterernst)
Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
(國立中正大學語言學研究所)
March 2016: 変体漢文の語順の派生過程 [Hentai kanbun word order derivation].
淡江大學日本語文學系創系50週年黃憲堂教授紀念國際學術研討會
[Huang Xiantang Memorial Symposium].
Japanese Department, Tamkang University, Taiwan
(淡江大學日本語文學系)
Nov. 2015: “The status of Austronesian languages in Taiwan”
Language Shift in the Sinophone World
University of Washington
Sept 2015: “Two focus constructions in Old Japanese kakari-musubi”
Kakari-musubi from a Comparative Perspective
Institute for the Japanese Language and Linguistics (国立国語研究所), Tokyo
Aug. 2014: 「自動詞化によるオーストロネシア諸語の能格性の由来」
[Detransitivization and the origin of ergativity in Austronesian languages]
Kwansei Gakuin Daigaku (関西学院大学総合政策学部)
Aug. 2014: 「暗号としての変体漢文」[Hentai kanbun as a code]
Kwansei Gakuin Daigaku (関西学院大学総合政策学部)
March 2014: “Nominalization and the Development of Ergativity in Formosan and Philippine Languages” (presented in Chinese)
Graduate Institute of Linguistics, Tsinghua University (國立清華大學), Taiwan
March 2014: “Subjunctive and the Emergence of Ergativity in Austronesian Languages”
Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei (presented in Chinese)
(中央研究院語言學研究所)
Nov. 2013: “Two origins of ergativity in Austronesian languages”
A Minimalist Workshop on Austronesian Verbal Syntax
Language Typology and Structure Research Group
Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica (中央研究院語言學研究所), Taipei
Aug. 2013: “Origin of Ergative Variation in Austronesian Languages”
Diachronic Generative Syntax (DIGS) 15
University of Ottawa
March 2013: 「オーストロネシア語族における名詞化と能格性の関係をめぐって」
[On the relationship between nominalization and ergativity in Austronesian languages]
NINJAL Typology Festa
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (国立国語研究所)
March 2013: 「変体漢文の語順の一貫性:『古事記』、『日本霊異記』、『将門記』
における一定の原則について」[Consistency in Hentai Kambun Word Order:
A uniform principle for the Kojiki, Nihon Ryooiki, and Shomonki]
Colloquium presentation
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (国立国語研究所)
Dec. 2012: “Two Types of Ergativity and Where They Might Come From”
Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT
Oct. 2012: “Remnant Movement and Internally Headed Relative Clauses in Tagalog”
Workshop on Internally Headed Relative Clauses
ZAS, Berlin
June 2011: “Object Relative Clauses in Archaic Chinese”
Workshop on Relative Clauses, University of Victoria
Sept 2010: “Focus and Word Order in Old Chinese”
7th International Symposium on Ancient Chinese Grammar (ISACG-7)
Roscoff, France
May 2010: “Predicate, Subject, and Cleft in Austronesian Languages”
Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) 17
Stony Brook University
June 2009: 「ことばの多様性と類型論」 [Linguistic Diversity and Typology] Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University Tokyo, Japan
May 2009: “Existential and Antipassive in Tagalog”
CUNY Syntax Supper Talk
City University of New York, Graduate Center
May 2009: “Philology Meets Theory: The Case of Classical Chinese Cliticization”
CUNY Colloquium Series
City University of New York, Graduate Center
Oct. 2008: “Neg-to-Q: The Historical Development of one Clause-final Particle in Chinese”
Workshop on Particles, Cambridge University
May 2008: “Featural Variation: The Case of Austronesian Ergativity”
Northwest Linguistics Conference, University of Washington
April 2007: “Wh-questions in the Pseudo-Chinese of Old Japanese”
Department of Linguistics
SUNY, Stony Brook
March 2007: 「オーストラネシア諸語における能格性」[南島語言的作格性]
[Ergativity in Austronesian Languages]
Workshop on Ergativity, International Linguistics Research Institute
Sophia University (上智大学言語学研究所), Tokyo, Japan
Nov. 2006: “Event Existentials in Tagalog”
Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
Feb. 2006: “Transitivity and Antipassive in Austronesian Languages”
Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago
Nov. 2004: “X and XP Fronting in Verb-initial Word Order Derivation”
The Syntax/Semantics Lecture Series
Department of Linguistics, New York University
March 2004: “Two Types of Ergativity”
CUNY Syntax Supper Talk
CUNY Graduate Center, New York
July 2001: 「賽德克語和排灣語的詞序比較」
[Word Order in Seediq and Paiwan] (presented in Chinese)
National Tsing Hua University (台灣國立清華大學), Taiwan
Feb. 2001: 「中古漢語‘VP不’的來源和結構」
[Origin and Structure of Middle Chinese ‘VP-bu’] (presented in Chinese)
Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l’Asie Orientale
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

Invited Lecture Series’ and Courses

September 2019
Four-part Invited course: 生成語法理論與上古漢語的句法特點
(Generative Grammar and Archaic Chinese Syntax)
中國人民大學文學院 (Renmin University of China, Beijing)
1.生成語法理論(最簡方案Minimalist Program)概要
(Introduction to Generative Grammar – the Minimalist Program)
2.先秦漢語中的移位限制
(Movement locality in Late Archaic Chinese)
3.名物化從句的分析
(Clausal nominalization)
4.中古漢語的演變
(Diachronic change in Early Middle Chinese)
July 2015
Invited course
“Topics in Austronesian Syntax”
Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Summer Institute
University of Chicago
May 10-11, 2014
Two-part colloquium presentation
Graduate Institute of Linguistics, Keio Gijuku University (慶應義塾大学), Tokyo
1.ミニマリスト・プログラムで捉える格と呼応: 対格型言語を中心に
(Case and Agreement in Recent Minimalist Research: Accounting for accusative systems)
2.ミニマリスト・プログラムで捉える格と呼応: 能格性とそのヴァリエーション
(Case and Agreement in Recent Minimalist Research: Accounting for ergativity and its variation)
October 20-21, 2005
Lecture series
Funded by the Social Science and Humanities’ Research Council of Canada
Research Project “Ergativity in Austronesian Languages”
1.“Ergativity in Tagalog and Other Western Austronesian Languages”
Department of French, University of Western Ontario
2.“Case and Agreement (not Case Agreement) in Tagalog”
Syntax Project Meeting, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
3.“Typology of Ergativity in Western Austronesian Languages”
Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto

Editorial Board Memberships

Journal of Southeast Asian Linguistics
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Journal of Historical Syntax
Journal of East Asian Linguistics

Aldridge, Edith. 2023. Diachronic development of the Nuclear Austronesian locative and patient applicatives. In Jocelyn Aznar, Christian Döhler, Jozina Vander Klok (eds.), Applicatives in Austronesian languages, special issue of NUSA: Linguistic studies of languages in and around Indonesia 74. 5-39.
Aldridge, Edith. 2023. The loss of object focus and wh-movement in Early Middle Chinese. Journal of Historical Syntax 7. 1-40.
Aldridge, Edith. 2021. Syntactic conditions on accusative to ergative alignment change in Austronesian languages. Journal of Historical Linguistics 11(2). 214-247.
Aldridge, Edith. 2021. The syntax of pronoun fronting in Late Archaic Chinese negated clauses. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 30(1). 39-79. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-021-09219-x.
Aldridge, Edith and Yuko Yanagida. 2021. Two types of alignment change in nominalizations: Austronesian and Japanese. Diachronica 38(3). 314-357.
Aldridge, Edith. 2019. Labeling and verb-initial word order in Seediq. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 28(4). 359-394.
Aldridge, Edith. 2018. C-T Inheritance and the Left Periphery in Old Japanese. Glossa 3(1). 1-22.
Aldridge, Edith. 2015. 「上代日本語における疑問詞の位置について」[Wh-word positions in Old Japanese]. NINJAL Project Review 5(3). 122-134.
Aldridge, Edith. 2014. Predicate, subject, and cleft in Austronesian languages. Sophia Linguistica 61. 97-121.
Aldridge, Edith. 2013. Object relative clauses in Archaic Chinese. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 58(2). 239-265.
Aldridge, Edith. 2013. Survey of Chinese historical syntax part I: Pre-Archaic and Archaic Chinese. Language and Linguistics Compass 7(1). 39-57.
Aldridge, Edith. 2013. Survey of Chinese historical syntax part II: Middle Chinese. Language and Linguistics Compass 7(1). 58-77.
Aldridge, Edith. 2012. Antipassive and ergativity in Tagalog. Lingua 122. 192-203.
Aldridge, Edith. 2011. Neg-to-Q: Historical development of one clause-final particle in Chinese. The Linguistic Review 28(4). 411-447.
Aldridge, Edith. 2010. Clause-internal Wh-movement in Archaic Chinese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 19(1). 1-36.
Aldridge, Edith. 2009. Generative approaches to ergativity. Language and Linguistics Compass: Syntax and Morphology 2(5). 966-995.
Aldridge, Edith. 2009. Minimalist questions for the nominalist analysis of Tagalog syntax. Theoretical Linguistics 35(1). 51-62.
Aldridge, Edith. 2008. Phase-based account of extraction in Indonesian. Lingua 118(10). 1440-1469.
Aldridge, Edith. 2007. Minimalist analysis of ergativity. Sophia Linguistica 55. 123-142.
Aldridge, Edith. 2004. Internally headed relative clauses in Austronesian languages. Language and Linguistics 5(1). 99-129.
Aldridge, Edith. 2003. Remnant movement in Tagalog relative clause formation. Linguistic Inquiry, Squibs and Discussion 34(4). 631-640.
Aldridge, Edith. 2002. Nominalization and wh-movement in Seediq and Tagalog. Language and Linguistics 3(2). 393-426.
Aldridge, Edith. 2001. Hentai kambun perspective on short scrambling. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 10. 169-200.
Aldridge, Edith. 1997. Discourse level binding of Japanese third-person pronouns. Sophia Linguistica 41. 1-20.

Aldridge, Edith. 生成語法理論指導下的古漢語語法研究. Shanghai: Shanghai Educational Publishing House.

Aldridge, Edith. 2023. Formosan languages and linguistic theories: Approaches to voice and the subject extraction restriction. In Paul Jen-kuei Li, Elizabeth Zeitoun, Rik De Busser (eds.), Handbook of Formosan Languages: The indigenous languages of Taiwan. Brill. https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2772_5766_HFLO_COM_202220
Aldridge, Edith. 2021. The nature and origin of syntactic ergativity in Austronesian languages. In Thorhallur Eythorsson and Jóhannes G. Jónsson (eds.), The Nature of Syntactic Change: Formal Approaches, 265-300. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Aldridge, Edith. 2018. Resultative and termination: A unified analysis of Middle Chinese VP-YI (with Barbara Meisterernst). In Kunio Nishiyama, Hideki Kishimoto, Edith Aldridge (eds.), Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics: Studies in honor of John B. Whitman, 157-179. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Aldridge, Edith. 2017. Intransitivity and the development of ergative alignment. In Jessica Coon, Diane Massam, Lisa Travis (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Ergativity, 501-529. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Aldridge, Edith. 2016. Relativization and DP structure in Late Archaic Chinese. In Pang-hsin Ting, Samuel Hung-nin Cheung, Sze-Wing Tang, Andy Chin (eds.), New Horizons in the Study of Chinese Languages: Dialectology, Grammar, and Philology, 429-446. Hong Kong: T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Center, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Aldridge, Edith. 2016. Old Chinese syntax: basic word order. In Rint Sybesma (ed.), Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, 1-21. Leiden: Brill Online.
Aldridge, Edith. 2016. ECM and control in Archaic Chinese. In Barbara Meisterernst (ed.), New Aspects of Classical Chinese Grammar, 5-25. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Aldridge, Edith. 2016. 変体漢文の語順の派生過程 [Hentai kanbun word order derivation]. In Yaohui Ma (ed.), 日本語の様々な姿を考える: 黄憲堂教授記念論文集, 23-42. Taipei: Zhiliang Chubanshe.

Aldridge, Edith. 2023-06. Proto-Austronesian Interrogative Pronouns and Their Development. (Paper presented at the workshop on Cross-disciplinary Studies in East and Southeast Asian Historical Linguistics, Hanoi, 2023-06-09.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2022-05. 先秦漢語中「NP而VP」小句與對比焦點. (Paper presented at 國際中國語言學學會第28屆年會 [The 28th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-28)], Hong Kong, 2022-05-20~2022-05-22.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2022-05. Differential object marking in Proto-Austronesian. (Paper presented at 31st Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asia Linguistics Society (SEALS), Hawaii, 2022-05-18~2022-05-22.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2021-12. Conflating A and A’ dependencies in Austronesian case and extraction. (Paper presented at 46th Austrian Linguistics Conference, Austria, 2021-12-09~2021-12-12.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2021-05. Diachronic origin of A’-agreement in Austronesian languages. (Paper presented at Move & Agree: Forum on the Formal Typology of A’-agreement, Canada, 2021-05-31~2021-06-04.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2021-05. The loss of wh-movement in Early Middle Chinese. (Paper presented at Diachronic Generative Syntax (DIGS) 22, Konstanz, 2021-05-19~2021-05-22.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2021-03. Development of object topicalization from Archaic to Middle Chinese. (Paper presented at 10th International Symposium on Ancient Chinese Grammar; ISACG-10, Beijing, 2021-03-26~2021-03-28.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2021. The origins of nominative case in Austronesian. (Paper presented at AFLA 27, Singapore, 2021.) https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/afla/aflaxxvii/
Aldridge, Edith. 2020-08. Proto-Austronesian Case and its Diachronic Development. (Paper presented at Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) 27 (online), Singapore, 2020-08-20~2020-08-22.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2020-09. Syntactic parameter change in Early Middle Chinese. (Paper presented at Cambridge Comparative Syntax Conference (CamCoS) 9 (online), Anglia Ruskin University, the University of Cambridge and Newcas, 2020-09-08~2020-09-11.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2019-07. Syntactic Conditions on Alignment Change in Austronesian Languages. (Paper presented at International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) 24, Canberra, 2019-07-01~2019-07-05.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2019-05. Genitive Case and Its Origin in Archaic Chinese. (Paper presented at International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-27), Hyogo, 2019-05-10~2019-05-12.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2018-09. The Linguistic Relevance of Austronesian Languages in Taiwan for Historical Linguistics. (Paper presented at West meets East: Early Western Accounts of the Languages of the Sinosphere and their Impact on the History of Chinese Linguistics, Taiwan, 2018-09-10~2018-09-11.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2018-06. Reconstructing Proto-Austronesian Alignment. (Paper presented at Diachronic Generative Syntax (DIGS) 20, York, 2018-06-18~2018-06-21.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2018-05. VOS versus VSO in Austronesian Languages. (Paper presented at International Workshop on Seediq and Related Languages, Cambridge, MA, 2018-05-12.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2018-03. The extraction restriction across Austronesian languages. (Paper presented at Workshop on Current Issues in Comparative Syntax: Past, Present, and Future, Singapore, 2018-03-01~2018-03-02.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2018-04. Inherent case in Archaic Chinese. (Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America, Washington D.C., 2018-01-04~2018-01-07.) https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v3i1.4284
Aldridge, Edith. 2017-08. Extraction asymmetries and the nature of case. (Paper presented at Workshop on Quirks of Subject Extraction, Singapore, 2017-08-10~2017-08-11.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2017-06. Extraction competition and movement asymmetries in Archaic Chinese. (Paper presented at Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL) 11, Taiwan, 2017-06-03~2017-06-04.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2017-06. Movement asymmetries in Archaic Chinese and their loss. (Paper presented at International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Budapest, 2017-06-25~2017-06-27.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2017-05. Extraction Competition in Ergative and Accusative Languages. (Paper presented at Cambridge Comparative Syntax (CamCoS) 6, Cambridge, 2017-05-04~2017-05-06.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2017-04. ϕ-feature competition: A unified approach to the Austronesian extraction restriction. (Paper presented at the 52nd meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 52, Chicago, 2017-04-21~2017-04-23.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2017-02. Extraction asymmetries in ergative and accusative languages. (Paper presented at GLOW in Asia, Singapore. 2017-02-20~2017-02-22.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2016-07. 先秦漢語從句的名物化 [Nominalization of embedded clauses in Late Archaic Chinese]. (Paper presented at International Symposium on Ancient Chinese Grammar (ISACG) 9, Berlin, 2016-07-29~2016-07-30.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2016-06. ϕ-Feature Competition: The Austronesian Extraction Restriction and its Origin. (Paper presented at Austronesian Formal Linguistic Association (AFLA) 23, Tokyo, 2016-06-10~2016-06-12.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2016-04. ϕ-Feature Competition: A unified approach to the Austronesian extraction restriction. (Paper presented at Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 52, Chicago, 2016-04-21~2016-04-23.)
Aldridge, Edith. 2016-03. 変体漢文の語順の派生過程 [Hentai kanbun word order derivation]. (Paper presented at 淡江大學日本語文學系創系50週年黃憲堂教授紀念國際學術研討會 [Huang Xiantang Memorial Symposium], Taiwan, 2016-03-26.)

Kunio Nishiyama, Hideki Kishimoto, Edith Aldridge. 2018. Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (390 pages.)
Aldridge, Edith, Iku Nagasaki, Hideki Kishimoto, Satoshi Kinsui. Glossa special issue Focus Concord Constructions in Japanese and other Languages.

Research Fellows

Edith ALDRIDGE