JUAN CARLOS CASTILLO

Department of Modern Languages

University of Northern Iowa

234 Baker Hall

Cedar Falls, IA 56014

Telephone: 319-273-6200

juan.castillo@uni.edu

ACADEMIC DEGREES:

Ph. D. Linguistics, 2001

University of Maryland - College Park, Maryland, December 2001.

Dissertation topic: Thematic Relations between Nouns. Advisor: Professor Juan Uriagereka.

M. A. Linguistics, 1994

The University of Iowa - Iowa City, Iowa, May 1994.

M. A. Spanish Linguistics and Literature, 1994

The University of Iowa - Iowa City, Iowa, May 1994.

B. A. Licenciado in Hispanic Philology, 1991

Universidad de Deusto - Bilbao, Spain, June 1991.

TEACHING INTERESTS:

Introduction to General Linguistics, Spanish Linguistics, and English Linguistics.

Intermediate and Advanced courses on Theoretical Syntax, Syntax of English, Syntax of Spanish, Syntax of Romance Languages.

Courses on Syntactic Theory: Transformational Grammar, Relational Grammar, Government and Binding/Principles and Parameters, Minimalism.

Intermediate courses on Phonetics and Phonology, Spanish Phonology.

First Language Acquisition: Theory and Research Methods.

Historical Linguistics, History of Spanish Language, Theory of Linguistic Change.

Spanish Language at all levels.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Theoretical Syntax. Minimalist Program. Government and Binding. Relational Grammar.

Syntactic Analysis of Spanish and Other Languages: Causatives, Relative Clauses, Extraction from Noun Phrases, Possessor Raising, Auxiliary Verb Selection, Absolute Clauses. Argument Structure in General.

Historical Linguistics: Phonological Evolution, Auxiliary and Pronoun Systems, History of Spanish.

First Language Acquisition: Methodology, Application to Possessive Relations and Reconstruction.

Evolution of Language: Theories of Complexity. Language Acquisition and Natural Selection. Emergence of Case and Displacement in Natural Language.

DISTINCTIONS:

Distinguished Teaching Assistant. Academic year 1998-99. University of Maryland.

Pre-Doctoral Scholarship. Department of Education. Basque Government. October 1994-September 1998.

Licenciado (B. A.) Summa Cum Laude in State Exams. Hispanic Philology , Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, Spain, June 1991.

UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE:

Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages, University of Northern Iowa, August 2001-present.

Teaching Advanced Writing (in Spanish). Designed syllabus, course packet, writing, reading and oral assignments, including Internet-based class presentations.

Teaching Fourth semester Oral and Written Spanish. Designed syllabus, exams writing, reading and oral assignments, including Internet-based class presentations.

Teaching Independent Study in Spanish Syntax (in Spanish). Designed syllabus, and homework assignments.

Visiting Instructor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The University of Iowa, August 1999-May 2001.

Taught Advanced Writing in Spanish for Spanish majors. Designed syllabus and both reading and writing assignments, including Internet-based class presentations. Collaborated on the selection of texts suited to different writing techniques.

Taught Introduction to Spanish Linguistics for Spanish majors (in Spanish). Designed syllabus, homework assignments, handouts and exams.

Visiting Instructor, Department of Linguistics, The University of Iowa, January 2000-May 2000.

Taught Introductory Syntactic Analysis for Linguistics majors (in English). Designed syllabus, homework assignments and exams.

Teaching Assistant/Webmaster, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland at College Park, January 1999-May 1999.

Web-based Graduate Seminar on Syntactic Theory: Minimalist Issues (in English), Prof. Juan Uriagereka.

http://www.ling.umd.edu/Courses/Ling819/home.html

Designed and maintained course webpage. Moderated on-line discussion and Chat-Room. Assisted production of video-rendition of lectures. Edited texts discussed during lectures. Led lectures at specific times.

Teaching Assistant, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland at College Park, August 1998-May 1999.

Supervisor: Prof. Laura Benua.

Taught Introductory course to Linguistics for undergraduates (in English). Developed syllabus. Wrote homework assignments and exams. Worked closely with other Teaching Assistants. Contributed to the General Education CORE requirements for undergraduate Education.

Teaching Assistant Supervisor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The University of Iowa, January 1994 -May 1994.

Supervisor: Prof. Judith Liskin-Gasparro.

Organized and moderated weekly staff meetings for TAs and visiting Faculty members teaching fourth-semester Spanish. Supervised and helped test and syllabus writing process. Served as a link between students, instructors and Faculty.

Teaching Assistant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The University of Iowa, August 1991 - May 1994.

Supervisors: Prof. Judith Liskin-Gasparro, Prof. Paula Kempchinsky, Prof. Nora González.

Taught courses in both first and second-year Spanish. Helped improve instructional curriculum, methodology and testing procedures.

PUBLICATIONS:

Research:

2001. (With John Drury and Kleanthes Grohmann)"No More EPP." Roger Billerey and Brook Danielle Lillehaugen (eds.) WCCFL 19: Proceedings of the 19th West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. Pp. 153-166.

2000. (With Juan Uriagereka) "A New Twist on Successive Cyclicity." Guimarães, Maximiliano, Luis Meroni, Cilene Rodrigues and Itziar San Martín (eds.) University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics. Volume 9. College Park: Department of Linguistics. Pp.1-13.

2000. "Towards a Universal Account of Possessor Raising." Coyote Working Papers in Linguistics. Tucson: Department of Linguistics. University of Arizona.

1999. "From Latin to Romance: The Tripartition of Pronouns." Aoshima, Sachiko, John Drury and Tuomo Neuvonen (eds.) University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics. Volume 8. College Park: Department of Linguistics. Pp.43-65.

1999. (With John Drury and Kleanthes Grohmann) "Merge Over Move and the Extended Projection Principle." Aoshima, Sachiko, John Drury and Tuomo Neuvonen (eds.) University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics. Volume 8. College Park: Department of Linguistics. Pp. 66-103.

1998. "A Syntactic Account of Perfective and Possessive Verb Selection in Romance Languages." Lema, José, and Esthela Treviño (eds.) Theoretical Analyses on Romance Languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Pp. 159-174.

1998. "The Syntax of Container-Content Relations." Murguía, Elixabete, Acrisio Pires and Lucía Quintana (eds.) University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics. Volume 6. College Park: Department of Linguistics. Pp. 32-60.

1995. "Case Marking in Basque. Evidence from Causatives." Echepare, Ricardo and Viola Miglio (eds.) University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics. Volume 3. College Park: Department of Linguistics. Pp. 1-19.

Creative Work:

1994: "La Sobredosis." Momo: Revista del Taller Literario. Volume 1. Bilbao, Universidad de Deusto, Pp. 57-58.

1992: "La Sobredosis." Torre de Papel. Volume 2. Number 1. Iowa City. Pp. 36-39.

To submit for publication:

2001. (With John Drury and Kleanthes Grohmann) "Extending the projection Principle?" Syntax. Blackwell.

2001. "On the Syntax of Container-Content DPs in Spanish." Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

PRESENTATIONS:

2002. "On the EPP." Talk to be given at the University of Iowa Linguistics Colloquium, Iowa City, February 7, 2002.

2001. "An Obsession with Possession." Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, April 13, 2001.

2001. "Redefining Some Structural and Lexical Categories." University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, April 10, 2001.

2001. "Integrals, Container-Content Relations, and the Role of Number." University at Albany, March 30, 2001.

2001. "Syntactic Flexibility, Lexical Flexibility." University of Colorado at Denver, January 22, 2001.

2000. "Successive Cyclic Movement." University of Iowa Linguistics Colloquium, Iowa City, March 23, 2000.

2000. (with John Drury and Kleanthes Grohmann) "No More EPP". 19th West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics, Los Angeles, February 3-6, 2000.

1999. "Weak Pronouns in Old Spanish." Going Romance 1999. Leiden, The Netherlands. December 10, 1999.

1999. "Possessor Raising and Causatives: A Minimalist Account of Structural and Inherent Case." West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics 18. Tucson, April 8-11, 1999.

1999. (with John Drury and Kleanthes Grohmann) "Tensed Domains and Expletive Constructions." Linguistic Society of America Meeting. Los Angeles, January 9, 1999.

1998. "Possessor Raising and the Nature of Different Possessive Relations." University of Maryland Linguistics Student Conference. College Park, October 23, 1998.

1998. "The Syntax of Container-Content Relations." University of Iowa Linguistics Colloquium, Iowa City, January 22, 1998.

1998. "The Syntax of Measure Phrases." Basque Linguistics Seminar, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain, January 9, 1998.

1997. "Contextual Restrictions in the Syntax of Possessive Constructions." University of Maryland Linguistics Student Conference. College Park, October 28, 1997.

1996. (with Will Corbin) "Possessive Relations in Universal Grammar: Evidence from Children's Language." Basque Linguistics Seminar, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain, June 26, 1996.

1996. (with Will Corbin) "Possessive Relations in Universal Grammar: Evidence from Children's Language." University of Maryland Linguistics Student Conference. College Park, May 10, 1996.

1996. "A Syntactic Account of Perfective and Possessive Verb Selection in Romance Languages." Paper Accepted at the XXVI Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. Mexico City, Mexico. March 27-29, 1996.

1995. "Case Marking in Basque: Evidence from Causatives." University of Maryland Linguistics Student Conference. College Park, May 12, 1995.

UNPUBLISHED AND ONGOING RESEARCH:

2000. "¿Es posible tener una teoría formalista de la evolución del lenguaje?/Is it possible to have a formalist theory of language evolution?"

1999. (with Juan Uriagereka) "A Note on Successive Cyclicity."

1998. "Relative Clause Extraposition as LF Adjunction"

1998. "The Argument Structure of Nouns"

1997. "The Syntactic Import of Selection: Extraction out of DPs"

1996. "More on the Experiment to Test Reconstruction in Children's Grammar"

1995. "An Analysis of Sonorants in Bable and Standard Spanish"

1995. "An Experiment to Test Reconstruction in Children's Grammar"

1995. "Some Evidence for the Syntax and Morphology of Copula, Auxiliary and Possessive Verbs"

1994. "Agreement and Aspect in Absolute Constructions in Spanish"

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

UNI Language Science Colloquium. Coordinator. Spring 2002.

Academic Computer Advisory Committee. Member. Fall 2001.

UNICOSS (UNI Community of Spanish Speakers). Active member. Fall 2001.

Graduate Studies in Spanish. Created Flowcharts for Academic Program Requirements.

Exploring Majors Fair. Volunteer at Department of Modern Languages' table. October 25, 2001.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Editing:

Edited Walter Dobrian's Edition of Poema del Cante Jondo y Romancero Gitano by Federico García Lorca (Editorial Alpuente, Forthcoming, 2001).

Edited Rhyme and Reason, by Juan Uriagereka (MIT Press, 1998), recipient of the American Association of Publishers Book of the Year in Language 1998.

Editor. University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 4. 1996.

Colloquia and Conferences:

Member of the Organizing Committee of the University of Maryland Linguistics Mayfest 1998: Minority Languages in the Twenty-first Century: Perspectives on Basque Language. College Park, Maryland. May 20-22, 1998.

Coordinator. University of Maryland Linguistics Colloquium. January-December 1995.

Member of the Organizing Committee of the VI Conference of the Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America, Iowa City, Iowa, April 13-16, 1993.

Other Service:

Student Representative. University of Maryland Linguistics Department. August 1996-August 1997.

Member of the Library Committee in the Department of Linguistics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, August 1993 - May 1994.

Actor: Took part in the production and played the role of "the Father" in La Malasangre, by Griselda Gambaro, staged at the Riverside Theater, Iowa City, November 1993.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

Modern Language Association (2001).

Linguistic Society of America. 1997-present.

Reviewer for Journal of Linguistics, Linguistics Association of Great Britain (1999-present).

Reviewer for University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics Department of Linguistics (1995-present).

LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE:

Proficient in Spanish and English. Knowledge of Basque and French.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Use of Mac OS and Windows operating systems.

Proficient in the use of applications such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Claris Works, WebCT, WebSpinner.

Knowledge of HTML and UNIX.