Prof Louisa Sadler
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
I studied French (African and Asian Studies) at Sussex and taught English in Algeria before coming to Essex for an MA and PhD in theoretical linguistics. My doctoral thesis was on Welsh and Government-Binding theory; it was published by Croom Helm in 1987. I taught for a short period at the University of East Anglia before returning to Essex in 1986. Since then I have been involved in a number of large research projects in the Department, first in computational linguistics and machine translation and more recently projects using Lexical Functional Grammar. Currently, my main research interests are syntactic theory (LFG and HPSG), particularly in relation to the interfaces to morphology and semantics, and the grammatical description of the Arabic vernaculars and Welsh. I am also interested in using the Glue approach to semantic composition for the analysis of various phenomena. Lexical Functional Grammar Research Group: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~louisa/lfgrg/
Qualifications
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BA Sussex
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MA Essex
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PhD Essex
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Syntactic Theory [LFG/HPSG]
Description of the Arabic vernaculars
Description of Welsh and other Celtic Languages
Morphology-Syntax and Syntax-Semantics interfaces
Grammar Development using XLE/XFST
Current research
See privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~louisa/research.html for Personal Research Page.
Teaching and supervision
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Linguistics
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 20/12/2023
Degree subject: Linguistics
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 11/2/2022
Degree subject: Linguistics
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 5/1/2022
Degree subject: Linguistics
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 22/2/2021
Degree subject: Linguistics
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 26/6/2019
Degree subject: Linguistics
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 27/6/2017
Degree subject: Linguistics
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 11/1/2017
Degree subject: Linguistics
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 4/7/2016
Degree subject: Linguistics
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 20/4/2015
Degree subject: Linguistics
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 27/11/2014
Degree subject: Linguistics
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 27/6/2014
Degree subject: Linguistics
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 23/6/2014
Degree type: Master of Research
Awarded date: 6/10/2010
Publications
Journal articles (26)
Villavicencio, A., Sadler, L. and Arnold, D., An HPSG account of closest conjunct agreement in NP coordination in Portuguese. Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
Camilleri, M. and Sadler, L., (2020). THE GRAMMATICALISATION OF AN AUXILIARY AND A COPULA: THE ARABIC ‘SIT’ PARTICIPLE. Journal of Historical Syntax. 4 (6), 1-60
Sadler, L., (2019). Multiple Controllers in Nominal Modification. Argumentum. 15, 617-638
Camilleri, M. and Sadler, L., (2019). The grammaticalisation of a copula in vernacular Arabic. Glossa. 4 (1), 1-33
Sadler, L. and Camilleri, M., (2018). Free Relatives in Maltese. Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics. 10 (1), 115-159
Camilleri, M. and Sadler, L., (2016). Relativisation in Maltese. Transactions of the Philological Society. 114 (1), 117-145
Camilleri, M., ElSadek, S. and Sadler, L., (2014). A cross dialectal view of the Arabic dative alternation. Acta Linguistica Hungarica. 61 (1), 3-44
Sadler, L. and Camilleri, M., (2013). Ditransitive predicates and dative arguments in Maltese. Lingua. 134, 36-61
Sadler, L., (2011). Indeterminacy, complex features and underspecification. Morphology. 21 (2), 379-417
Sadler, L. and Nordlinger, R., (2010). Nominal juxtaposition in Australian languages: An LFG analysis. Journal of Linguistics. 46 (02), 415-452
Dalrymple, M., King, TH. and Sadler, L., (2009). Indeterminacy by underspecification. Journal of Linguistics. 45 (01), 31-68
Nordlinger, R. and Sadler, L., (2008). When is a temporal marker not a tense?: Reply to Tonhauser 2007. Language. 84 (2), 325-331
Borsley, RD., Roberts, I., Sadler, L. and Willis, D., (2006). Introduction. Lingua. 116 (11), 1745-1749
(2006). Celtic Linguistics. Lingua: International Review of General Linguistics. 116 (11), 1745-2022
Sadler, L., (2006). Function spreading in coordinate structures. Lingua. 116 (11), 1777-1806
Sadler, L. and Nordlinger, R., (2006). Case stacking in realizational morphology. Linguistics. 44 (3), 459-487
Nordlinger, R. and Sadler, L., (2004). Tense Beyond the Verb: Encoding Clausal Tense/Aspect/Mood on Nominal Dependents. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 22 (3), 597-641
Nordlinger, R. and Sadler, L., (2004). Nominal Tense in Crosslinguistic Perspective. Language. 80 (4), 776-806
Sadler, L. and Arnold, DJ., (1994). Prenominal adjectives and the phrasal/lexical distinction. Journal of Linguistics. 30 (1), 187-226
Arnold, D., Moffat, D., Sadler, L. and Way, A., (1993). Automatic Test Suite generation. Machine Translation. 8 (1-2), 29-38
Arnold, D., Sadler, L. and Humprheys, RL., (1993). Evaluation: An assessment. Machine Translation. 8 (1-2), 1-24
(1993). Special Issue on Evaluation of MT Systems. Machine Translation. 8 (1-2)
Arnold, D. and Sadler, L., (1992). Unification and Machine Translation. Meta. 37 (4), 657-680
SADLER, L. and ARNOLD, D., (1992). UNIFICATION AND MACHINE TRANSLATION. META. 37 (4), 657-680
Arnold, D. and Sadler, L., (1991). Transfer formalisms. Machine Translation. 6 (3), 193-200
Arnold, D. and Sadler, L., (1990). The theoretical basis of MiMo. Machine Translation. 5 (3), 195-222
Books (3)
Sadler, L., Börjars, K. and Nordlinger, R., (2019). Lexical-Functional Grammar: An introduction. Cambridge University Press. 9781107170568
Sadler, L., (2016). Welsh Syntax. Routledge
Sadler, L. and Spencer, A., (2004). Projecting Morphology. CSLI Publications. 9781575864709
Book chapters (20)
Camilleri, M. and Sadler, L., (2023). Raising in Arabic. In: Studies in Arabic Linguistics. John Benjamins Publishing Company. 153- 184. 9789027212832
Sadler, L., (2023). LFG and Semitic languages. In: Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar. 1651- 1702
Sadler, L. and Nordlinger, R., (2018). Morphology in Lexical-Functional Grammar and Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. In: The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory. Editors: Audring, J. and Masini, F., . Oxford University Press. 212- 243. 978-0-19-966898-4
Sadler, L. and Spencer, A., (2017). Morphology and Argument Structure. In: The Handbook of Morphology. Wiley. 206- 236. 9780631226949
Sadler, L., (2016). Agreement in Archi: An LFG perspective. In: Archi: Complexities of Agreement in Cross-Theoretical Perspective. Editors: Bond, O., Corbett, GG., Chumakina, M. and Brown, D., . Oxford University Press. 150- 183. 978-0-19-874729-1
Sadler, L., Alotaibi, Y., Alzaidi, M., Camilleri, M. and ElSadek, S., (2013). Psychological Predicates and Verbal Complementation in Arabic. In: Proceedings of the LFG13 Conference. Editors: Butt, N. and Holloway King, T., . CSLI Publications. 6- 26
Arnold, D. and Sadler, L., (2010). Pottsian LFG. In: Proceedings of the LFG10 Conference. Editors: Butt, M. and King, TH., . CSLI Publications. 43- 63
Al-Sharifi, B. and Sadler, L., (2009). The Adjectival construct in Arabic. In: Proceedings of the LFG09 Conference. Editors: Butt, M. and King, TH., . CSLI Publications. 26- 43
Arnold, D., Sadler, L. and Villavicencio, A., (2008). Portuguese: Corpora, coordination and agreement. In: Roots: Linguistics in Search of its Evidential Base. Mouton de Gruyter. 9- 28. 9783110193152
Nordlinger, R. and Sadler, L., (2008). From juxtaposition to incorporation: an approach to Generic-Specific constructions. In: Proceedings of LFG08. Editors: Butt, M. and King, TH., . CSLI Publications. 394- 412
Mittendorf, I. and Sadler, L., (2008). NP would like to meet GF: A Welsh Adjectival Construction. In: Proceedings of LFG08. Editors: Butt, M. and King, TH., . CSLI Publications. 373- 393
Nordlinger, R. and Sadler, L., (2007). Verbless Clauses: Revealing the Structure Within. In: Architectures, Rules and Preferences: A Festschrift for Joan Bresnan. Editors: Zaenen, A., Simpson, J., King, TH., Grimshaw, J., Maling, J. and Manning, C., . CSLI Publications. 139- 160. 9781575865607
Sadler, L., (2006). Gender Resolution in Rumanian. In: Intelligent Linguistic Architectures: Variations on Themes by Ron Kaplan. Editors: Butt, M., Dalrymple, M. and Holloway King, T., . CSLI Publications. 9781575865324
Sadler, L. and Nordlinger, R., (2004). Relating Morphology to Syntax. In: Projecting Morphology. Editors: Sadler, L. and Spencer, A., . CSLI Publications. 9781575864709
Butt, M. and Sadler, L., (2003). Verbal morphology and agreement in Urdu. In: Syntactic Structures and Morphological Information. DE GRUYTER. 57- 100. 9783110178241
Sadler, L., (2003). Coordination and Asymmetric Agreement in Welsh. In: Nominals: Inside and Out. Editors: Butt, M. and Holloway King, T., . CSLI Publications. 85- 118. 9781575864747
Frank, A., Sadler, L., van Genabith, J. and Way, A., (2003). From Treebank Resources to LFG F-Structures. In: Treebanks: Building and Using Parsed Corpora. Editors: Abeill�, A., . Springer. 367- 389. 978-94-010-0201-1
Sadler, L. and Spencer, A., (2001). Syntax as an exponent of morphological features. In: Yearbook of Morphology 2000. Editors: Booij, G. and van Marle, J., . Springer. 71- 96. 978-90-481-5738-9
Sadler, L., (2000). Noun Phrase Structure in Welsh. In: Argument Realization. Editors: Butt, M. and Holloway King, T., . CSLI Publications. 73- 110. 9781575862668
Bredenkamp, A., Sadler, L. and Spencer, A., (1997). Investigating Argument Structure: The Russian Nominalization Database. In: Linguistic Databases. CSLI Publications. 137- 159. 9781575860923
Conferences (22)
Sadler, L. and Camilleri, M., (2019). Schematising (Morpho)Syntactic Change in LFG: Insights from grammaticalisation in Arabic
Sadler, L. and Alruwaili, S., (2019). Negative Coordination in (Turaif) Arabic
Sadler, L. and Camilleri, M., (2019). A non-canonical diachronic formation of raising predicates
Camilleri, M. and Sadler, L., (2017). Negative Sensitive Indefinites in Maltese
Camilleri, M. and Sadler, L., (2017). Posture Verbs and Aspect: A View from Vernacular Arabic
ElSadek, S. and Sadler, L., (2015). EGYPTIAN ARABIC PERCEPTUAL REPORTS
Camilleri, M., ElSadek, S. and Sadler, L., (2014). Perceptual Reports in (Dialects of) Arabic
Arnold, D. and Sadler, L., (2014). The `big mess' construction
Arnold, D. and Sadler, L., (2013). Displaced dependent constructions
Arnold, D. and Sadler, L., (2012). Affected experiencers and mixed semantics in LFG/Glue
Arnold, D. and Sadler, L., (2012). Affected experiencers and mixed semantics in LFG/Glue
Camilleri, M. and Sadler, L., (2012). On the analysis of non-selected datives in Maltese
Arnold, D. and Sadler, L., (2011). Resource Splitting and Reintegration with Supplementals
Camilleri, M. and Sadler, L., (2011). Restrictive Relative Clauses in Maltese
Mittendorf, I. and Sadler, L., (2011). Welsh Prenominals: at the syntax-morphology interface
Baker, B., Horrack, K., Nordlinger, R. and Sadler, L., (2010). Putting it All Together: Agreement, Incorporation, Coordination and External Possession in Wubuy (Australia)
Al Sharif, A. and Sadler, L., (2009). Negation in Modern Standard Arabic: An LFG approach
Markantonatou, S. and Sadler, L., (1997). Linking indirect arguments and verb alternations in English
Bredenkamp, A., Markantonatou, S. and Sadler, L., (1996). Lexical rules
Arnold, D., Badia, T., van Genabith, J., Markantonatou, S., Momma, S., Sadler, L. and Schmidt, P., (1993). Experiments in reusability of grammatical resources
Sadler, L. and Thompson, HS., (1991). Structural Non-Correspondence in Translation
Noord, GV., Dorrepaal, J., Arnold, D., Krauwer, S., Sadler, L. and Tombe, LD., (1989). An Approach to Sentence-Level Anaphora in Machine Translation
Reports and Papers (3)
Camilleri, M. and Sadler, L., (2011). An LFG Approach to Non-Restrictive Relative Clauses in Maltese
Sadler, L., (2007). Agreement features, indeterminacy and disagreement
Markantonatou, S. and Sadler, L., (1996). Linking indirect arguments
Other (1)
(1989).Essays on Grammatical Theory and Universal Grammar,Clarendon Press
Grants and funding
2016
Complementation Patterns in Vernacular Arabic
Leverhulme Trust
2015
Negation in Maltese
Ministry of Education & Employment
2011
From Competing theories to fieldwork:the challenge of an extreme agreement system
Arts And Humanities Research Council
