Heidi Harley

Heidi B. Harley
Born (1969-09-26) September 26, 1969 (age 57)
Oregon
Academic background
Education
ThesisSubjects, events, and licensing (1995)
Academic work
DisciplineLinguistics
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsUniversity of Arizona
Websiteheidiharley.com

Heidi Britton Harley (born September 26, 1969) is an American linguist and professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona. Her areas of specialization are formal syntactic theory, morphology, and lexical semantics.

Career

Harley was born in Oregon, but was raised in St. John's, Newfoundland. She earned her B.A. in Linguistics and English at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1991. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics and Philosophy in 1995 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Alec Marantz.

Harley is one of the main researchers working in the theory of Distributed morphology. She has published over thirty articles on morphological theory, syntax, and semantics, including articles in the journals Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Lingua, Morphology Yearbook, and Studia Linguistica. She is the editor of three volumes of collected papers, the editor of two special issues of journals, and the author of a textbook on morphological theory (Harley 2005).

Honors

The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) has named Harley as one of the 2019 LSA Fellows, a group whose membership is determined by their "distinguished contributions to the discipline". She was elected Vice-President/President-Elect of the LSA for 2024 and is serving as President of the society for 2025.

She taught at the 2015 Linguistic Summer Institute organized by the LSA. She has been an invited teacher at other major summer schools in linguistics throughout the world, including Ireland and Brazil.

Specializations

Selected publications

References

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  6. ↑ "Introducing the LSA Fellows, Class of 2019". Linguistic Society of America. August 1, 2018. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
  7. ↑ "LSA Executive Committee". www.lsadc.org. Retrieved March 7, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Heidi Harley | The Linguistic Summer Institute 2015". lsa2015.uchicago.edu. Retrieved November 4, 2021.
  9. ↑ Harley, Heidi Britton (1995). Subjects, events, and licensing (PhD thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/11073.
  10. ↑ Review by Michelle Troberg, The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique, 54(1), March/mars 2009, pp. 186–188.
  11. ↑ Review by Tatiana Ivankova, World Englishes, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 393–394, 2007.