Karlos Arregi

Karlos Arregi

Areas of Study: Department of Linguistics Teaching Since 2008 Website: https://home.uchicago.edu/~karlos/ Interests:

Syntax, Morphology, Interfaces with Phonology and Semantics
Professor in the Department of Linguistics and the College
Biography

Dr. Karlos Arregi's research interests are in syntax, morphology, and their interfaces with phonology and semantics. A central question in this work is the extent to which grammatical properties of linguistic expressions can be explained in terms of syntax or in terms of principles that regulate its interface of syntax with other modules of grammar. His research tries to illuminate these aspects of linguistic theory by drawing data mostly from Basque and Spanish, as well as other languages such as Washo. Specific topics Dr. Arregi has worked on include syntactic and postsyntactic word formation (especially verbs), agreement and case, clitics, ellipsis, the syntax and phonology of stress, and switch reference.

Recent Research / Recent Publications
"No mattter how thin you slice it, it's still the same ol' unconditional." May 2026.
"Double-decker pronouns." April 2026.
"Singular they and the syntax of townhouses." October 2025.
"The relation between head movement and periphrasis." November 2024.
"Singular they and the syntax of pronominal imposters." October 2024.
"No lookahead when you move a head." June 2024.
"The relation between head movement and periphrasis (plenary talk)." May 2024.
"Sociogrammar." July 2023.
"The wheres and whens of affixation." December 2022.
"Head Movement as a syntactic operation." November 2022.