Steven Franks

Steven Franks
Citizenship	United Kingdom United States
Alma mater	Princeton University, UCLA, Cornell University
Known for	Generative syntax in the Slavic languages Russian resyllabification
Scientific career
Fields	Linguistics Slavic languages generative grammar
Institutions	Indiana University
Doctoral advisor	Wayles Browne

Steven Franks is a British-born American linguist and researcher in the fields of generative syntax and Slavistics. Franks received his Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1985. He has written numerous books and articles that have significantly contributed to Slavic linguistics. He is currently a professor of linguistics, Slavic languages and literatures, and cognitive science, as well as an adjunct professor of speech and hearing sciences at the Indiana University Bloomington and lives in Bloomington, Indiana with his family.

Selected publications

• 1995: Parameters of Slavic Morphosyntax. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 2000: Clitics in Slavic. With Tracy H. King. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press
• 2017: Syntax and Spell-Out in Slavic. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers.

External links

• Official Website