Dr Michael Jones
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
He read French as an undergraduate at Sussex and spent six years as an English lecturer in Paris before taking up his present post at Essex in 1978. He studied theoretical linguistics at Paris-Vincennes, where he gained his third cycle doctorate. His principal research interests are syntactic theory and description, particularly in relation to the Romance languages. He has published a number of articles on various aspects of theoretical syntax and the description of French and Sardinian. He is author of Sardinian Syntax (Routledge, 1993) and Foundations of French Syntax (CUP, 1996).
Qualifications
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BA Sussex,
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L.es L. Paris, Doct. Paris,
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Syntactic Theory & Description
Romance Languages
Current research
VP-fronting in Sardinian
Various issues in the syntax and semantics of English auxiliaries
Conferences and presentations
Focus, fronting and prosody in Sardinian
Sardinian Network Meeting, Konstanz, Germany, 8/2012
Constituent order variation in Sardinian
CIDSM, Berlin, Germany, 7/2010
Isseperu de s'ausiliare e verbos inaccusativos
Conference organised by the Municipality of Siniscola, 10/2002
A fattu de s’ortografia: su problema de s’istandard e de sa varietate linguistica
Su sardu: limba de Sardinna e limba de Europa, Berlin, Germany, 12/2001
The personal infinitive in Sardinian revisited
Incontro di dialettologia italiana, Bristol, United Kingdom, 9/1999
Feature-checking and visibility of interpretable features
Fes, Morocco, 3/1999
Inflectional ambiguities: a feature-checking approach
Au commencement était le verbe, Oxford, United Kingdom, 11/1998
Romance Inversion and inflectional hierarchies
Romance linguistics seminar, Oxford, United Kingdom, 4/1998
Infinitivu flessivu e infinitivu pessonale in su sardu nugorese
La Lingua Sarda: identità socio-culturale della Sardegna nel prossimo millennio, Cagliari, Italy, 5/1997
Five day intensive course on English Syntax
San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain, 4/1997
Sardinian Syntax
Sardinian Language Group, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 9/1996
Sardinian Syntax
Sardinian Language Group, Leiden, Netherlands, 9/1996
The pronoun-determiner debate: evidence from Sardinian and repercussions for French
Situated Languages Rabat, 9/1996
The pronoun-determiner debate: evidence from Sardinian and repercussions for French
Leiden, Netherlands, 9/1996
What is Linguistics?
Leyton 6th Form College languages day, 6/1996
The pronoun-determiner debate: evidence from Sardinian and repercussions for French
LSRL 26, Mexico City, Mexico, 3/1996
The pronoun-determiner debate: evidence from Sardinian and repercussions for French
Oxford, United Kingdom, 2/1995
French complex inversion and articulated clause structure
RLS, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1/1995
Series of lectures on ‘Linguistic theory and the syntax of English’
Seminar on ‘The place of grammar in language teaching’, Amman, Jordan, 12/1991
Some distinctive properties of Sardinian syntax
Crucial Languages: First workshop on the syntax of central Romance languages, Geneva, Switzerland, 7/1990
Subject-verb inversion in French: what is inverted with what and when?
Cambridge, United Kingdom, 11/1989
The prepositional accusative in Sardinian: its distribution and syntactic repercussions
The Romance Languages and Current Linguistic Theory, France, 5/1989
Infinitives with specified subjects in Sardinian
LSRL 19, Columbus, United States, 4/1989
Auxiliary verbs in Sardinian
Philological Society, London, United Kingdom, 10/1988
Ergativity and auxiliary choice in Sardinian
LAGB, Durham, United Kingdom, 3/1988
Ergative and impersonal constructions in Sardinian
RLS, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1/1988
The so-called genitive in English
LAGB, Bradford, United Kingdom, 9/1987
Teach-in on ‘Recent developments in French Syntax’
AFLS French Syntax and Discourse: Theory and Applications, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 9/1987
The chassé-croisé phenomenon and related questions
AFLS French Syntax and Discourse: Theory and Applications, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 9/1987
Rifletziones supra su status de sa limba sarda
Annual meeting of the Sotziedade pro sa Limba Sarda (Sardinian Language Society), Nuoro, Italy, 12/1986
Sa grammatica dzenerativa e sa limba sarda
Address to public meeting held in Gavoi, 10/1986
Constituent order variation in Sardinian
RLS, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1/1986
Non-argumental datives in French
AFLS, Colchester, United Kingdom, 1984
L’expression du mouvement en français et en anglais: problèmes de traduction
Franco-British Conference on Translation, London, United Kingdom, 7/1983
‘Getting tough with Wh- Movement’ Colloque Visages
Virages et Mirages de la linguistique, Paris, France, 6/1981
Impersonal sentences in French
RLS, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1/1980
Teaching and supervision
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Linguistics
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 16/9/2022
Degree subject: Applied Linguistics
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 7/9/2018
Degree subject: Linguistics
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 20/4/2015
Degree type: Occasional Postgraduate Study
Awarded date: 3/10/2012
Publications
Journal articles (5)
Jones, MA., (2013). Focus, fronting and illocutionary force in Sardinian. Lingua. 134, 75-101
Jones, MA., (1992). Subject-clitic inversion and inflectional hierarchies. Journal of French Language Studies. 9 (2), 181-209
Jones, MA., (1988). AUXILIARY VERBS IN SARDINIAN*. Transactions of the Philological Society. 86 (2), 173-203
Jones, MA., (1988). Cognate objects and the case-filter. Journal of Linguistics. 24 (1), 129-159
Jones, MA., (1983). Getting "tough" with Wh- movement. Journal of Linguistics. 19 (1), 129-159
Books (3)
Jones, MA., (2003). Sintassi della Lingua Sarda [Sardinian syntax]. Condaghes. 88-7356-029-6. 978-88-7356-029-6
Jones, MA., (1996). Foundations of French Syntax. Cambridge University Press. 9780521388054
Jones, MA., (1993). Sardinian Syntax. Routledge. 9780415049221
Book chapters (6)
Jones, MA., (1999). The pronoun ∼ determiner debate. In: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. John Benjamins Publishing Company. 121- 121. 9789027236791
Jones, MA., (1999). Infinitivu flessivu e infinitivu pessonale in su sardu nugorese. In: La Lingua Sarda: identit� socio-culturale della Sardegna nel prossimo millennio. Editors: Helsloot, K. and Bolognesi, R., . Condaghes. 109- 125. 9788886229630
Jones, MA., (1997). Sardinian. In: The Dialects of Italy. Editors: Maiden, M. and Parry, M., . Routledge. 376- 384. 978-0-415-11104-1
Jones, MA., (1995). The prepostional accusative in Sardinian. In: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. John Benjamins Publishing Company. 37- 37. 9789027236258
Jones, MA., (1992). Infinitives with Specified Subjects in Sardinian. In: Theoretical Analyses in Romance Linguistics. John Benjamins Publishing Company. 295- 309. 9789027235725
Jones, MA., (1983). Speculations on the expression of movement in French. In: A Festschrift for Peter Wexler : studies presented to Peter Wexler by his friends and colleagues on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. Editors: Durand, J., . University of Essex. 165- 192
Reports and Papers (1)
Jones, MA., French complex inversion and articulated clause structure
Other (1)
Jones, MA., (2011).VP-Fronting in Sardinian: a structural paradox
