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Research

My research is fundamentally comparative within a broadly generative paradigm, with a focus on syntax, morphology, and semantics. Although most of my published work focuses on comparing Indonesian with English grammar, my dissertation encompasses data and typological work from Javanese, Balinese, Tagalog, and Kerinci Malay, as well as Germanic and East Asian Languages. The topic of my MA research at the University of Georgia was on the subject position and word order in German; my Ph.D, dissertation project applies the detailed analyses of such phenomena as scrambling, topicalization, object shift and VP remnant movement in Germanic languages as well as such languages as Japanese and Korean to word order variation in Indonesian. Throughout my work, I contribute to our linguistic understanding of Indonesian by providing a strong empirical foundation based on spoken Indonesian. I have utilized these same data sources in my research on definiteness and classifiers in bare NP languages (Winarto 2016, Little and Winarto 2020), and on the relationship between nominalization and voice within a Distributed Morphology framework (Winarto 2017).

Talks

 

Winarto, E., Little C.R. (2018).

Classifiers and the definite article in Indonesian.

Talk presented at the 49th meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS), Ithaca, NY.

 

Winarto, E., Whitman, J., Troberg, M. (2018).

Determiner strength and the development of determiners from 2 sources.

Talk presented at the Paris 31st Meeting on East Asian Linguistics, Paris, France.

 

Winarto, E., Little, C.R. (2018).

Kinds, classifiers and definiteness in Indonesian: two grammars in one.

Talk presented at the 25th meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA). Taipei, Taiwan.

 

Winarto, E., Ernanda (2016). 

Relative clauses in Indonesian and Pondok Tinggi.

Talk presented at the International Symposium of Malay and Indonesian Languages (ISMIL). Melbourne, Australia.

 

Winarto, E. (2015).

Cinque’s roll-up movement or Abels’s and Neeleman’s base generation?: A case study of Indonesian data.

Talk presented at the 13th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (ICAL). Taipei, Taiwan.

 

Winarto, E. (2015). DP movement and a layered DP: Indonesian case study.

Talk presented at the 22nd meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA). Montreal, Canada.

 

 

Posters

 

Winarto, E. (2018).

Scrambling in Indonesian, Javanese and other related languages.

Poster presented at the Linguistics Society of America annual meeting (LSA). Salt Lake City, UT.

 

Winarto, E. (2017).

Indonesian topicalization as instances of scrambling.

Poster presented at the 24th meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA). Seattle, WA.

 

Winarto, E. (2017).

Nominalization in Indonesian.

Poster presented at the 41st Pennsylvania Linguistics Conference (PLC). Philadelphia, PA.

 

Winarto, E. (2016).

Indonesian DP.

Invited posted presented at the Dimensions of D Workshop. Rochester, NY.

 

Winarto, E. (2015).

Relative clauses and the subject position in Indonesian.

Poster presented at the Workshop on Relative Clauses: Relatives in East Asia and Beyond. Ithaca, NY.

 

Winarto, E., Little C.R. (2020)

Classifiers and the definite article in Indonesian. The proceedings of the 49th North-Eastern Linguistic Society (NELS).

Winarto, E. (2016)

The Indonesian DP. Conference Proceedings of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) XXII.

 

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