Dante Smith

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PhD Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Graduate Research Assistant

Dante (he, him) has a B.A. in Linguistics with a minor in Japanese from the University of Georgia. He is a third-year doctorate student in the department, and his interests generally include computational linguistics and morphosyntax. More specifically, Dante uses computational methodology to analyze syntactic alternations/phenomenon in East Asian languages and African American Language.

 

Education:

B.A. Linguistics, University of Georgia 

Specific Research Areas:

Current research includes a qualitative/quantitative analysis of linguistic variables in rap music, and an analysis of past/present perfect and perfect progressive alternations (HAVE + BE/progressive) in AAL.

Selected Publications:

The Unrealized Universality of Phrase Structure: An Analysis of Similarities Between English and Japanese, 2023, The Classic Journal.

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