Andrew Simpson

• Postdoc, Frankfurt University, 1996-1998

Tenure Track Appointments

• Reader in Linguistics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), 09/01/1999 – 12/31/2006

Book

• Simpson, Andrew, C.-T. James Huang and Y.-H. Audrey Li (Ed.). (2024). Handbook of Chinese Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Simpson, A. (2022). New explorations in Chinese theoretical syntax: studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li. New York: John Benjamins.
• Simpson, Andrew, Audrey Li and Dylan Tsai (Ed.). (2014). Chinese syntax in a cross-linguistic perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Simpson, Andrew Alexander, and Merchant, Jason (Ed.). (2012). Sluicing: Cross-linguistic Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Simpson, Andrew Alexander (Ed.). (2008). Language and National Identity in Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Simpson, A. A. (2007). Language and National Identity in Asia. (Simpson, Andrew Alexander, Ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Book Chapter

• Simpson, A. A. (2014). Prosody and Syntax. Handbook of Chinese Linguistics pp. 465-491. Blackwell.
• Simpson, A. A. (2014). Sentence-final Particles. Handbook of Chinese Linguistics pp. 156-179.
• Simpson, A. A. (2014). Verbal answers to yes/no questions and theories of ellipsis. New Horizons in Chinese Linguistics pp. 300-333. Oxford University Press.
• Simpson, A. A., Ho, T. (2013). Vietnamese and the typology of passive constructions. The Linguistics of Vietnamese pp. 155-185. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Simpson, A. A., Bhattacharya, T. (2012). Sluicing in Indo-Aryan: an investigation of Bangla and Hindi. Sluicing: cross-linguistic perspectives pp. 183-208. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Simpson, A. A. (2008). The grammaticalization of clausal nominalizers in Burmese. (Vol. Rethinking Grammaticalization) pp. 265-288. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• Simpson, A. A. (2008). Introduction. (Vol. Language and National Identity in Africa) pp. 1-25. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Simpson, A. A., Oyetade, A. (2008). Nigeria: Ethnolinguistic Competition in the Giant of Africa. (Vol. Language and National Identity in Africa) pp. 172-198. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Simpson, A. A., Bhattacharya, T. (2007). Argument prominence and the nature of superiority violations. (Vol. Argument Structure) pp. 175-212. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• Simpson, A. A. (2007). Language and National Identity in Asia: a Thematic Introduction. (Vol. Language and National Identity in Asia) pp. 1-31. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Simpson, A. A. (2007). Hong Kong. (Vol. Language and National Identity in Asia) pp. 168-185. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Simpson, A. A. (2007). Taiwan. (Vol. Language and National Identity in Asia) pp. 235-259. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Simpson, A. A. (2007). Indonesia. (Vol. Language and National Identity in Asia) pp. 312-36. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Simpson, A. A. (2007). Singapore. (Vol. Language and National Identity in Asia) pp. 374-90. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Simpson, A. A., Thammasathien, N. (2007). Thailand and Laos. (Vol. Language and National Identity in Asia) pp. 391-414. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Simpson, A. A., Watkins, J. (2006). Constituent Focus in Burmese: a Phonetic and Perceptual Study. (Vol. 27-66) Canberra: Studies in Burmese Linguistics/Pacific Linguistics.
• Simpson, A. A., Bhattacharya, T. (2005). Sluicing in Indo-Aryan: an investigation of Bangla and Hindi. (Vol. Sluicing in a cross-linguistic perspective) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Simpson, A. A. (2004). The EPP, Fossilized Movement, and Reanalysis. (Vol. 161-190) Diachronic Clues to Synchronic Grammar/John Benjamins.
• Simpson, A. A. (2003). On the Status of Modifying DE and the Structure of the Chinese DP. (Vol. 74-101) Stanford: On the Formal Way to Chinese Languages/CSLI.
• Simpson, A. A. (2003). Empty determiners and nominalization in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. In: Functional Structure(s), Form and Intepretation: perspectives from East Asian Languages (eds. A. Li and A. Simpson). First pp. 131-161. London: CurzonRoutledge.
• Simpson, A. A., Wu, Z. (2001). The Grammaticalization of Formal Nouns and Nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. In: ‘Language Change in East Asia’. pp. 250-283. London: Curzon.

Journal Article

• Simpson, A. A., Choudhury, A. (2015). The non-uniform syntax of post-verbal elements in SOV languages: Hindi, Bangla and the rightward scrambling debate. Linguistic Inquiry. Vol. 46, pp. 533-551.
• Simpson, A. A. (2014). Finiteness, negation and the directionality of headedness in Bangla. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Vol. 32, pp. 231-161.
• Simpson, A. A., Choudhury, A., Menon, M. (2013). Argument ellipsis and the licensing of covert nominals in Bangla, Hindi and Malayalam. Lingua. pp. 123-138.
• Simpson, A. A. (2011). Floating quantifiers in Burmese and Thai. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. Vol. 4 (1), pp. 115-46.
• Simpson, A. A., Bhattacharya, T. (2011). Diagnosing double object constructions in Bangla/Bengali. Lingua. Vol. 121, pp. 1067-82.
• Simpson, A. A., Soh, H., Nemoto, H. (2011). Bare classifiers and definiteness: a cross-linguistic investigation. Studies in Language. Vol. 35, pp. 168-93.

Proceedings

• Simpson, A. A., Hwang, H., Ipek, C. (2008). The comparative syntax of ditransitive constructions in Japanese, Korean and Turkish. In R. Vermeulen (Ed.), Boston, MA. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.

• USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences General Education Teaching Award, 2017-2018
• USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences General Education Teaching Award, 2009-2010

Editorships and Editorial Boards

• Joint General Editor, Journal of East Asian Linguistics”, 2003 –