Dr. Richard K. Larson

Dr. Richard K. Larson is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Linguistics of Stony Brooks University. He obtained a PhD in linguistics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1983. Dr. Larson has taught linguistics in many leading institutions around the world including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Here is a short biography of Dr. Larson available on the site of the linguistic department of Stony Brooks University. 

Short biography

Richard Kurth Larson's research has spanned a wide range of topics in syntax and semantics, including relative and adverbial clauses, NP adverbs, disjunctions, quantifiers and quantifier scope, comparatives, prepositional phrases, double object and applicative constructions, psych verbs, pronoun interpretation, and clausal complementation. Languages of investigation include Warlpiri, Japanese, Turkish, Haitian, Russian, Mandarin, Iranian Persian, Gilaki and Zazaki.

In addition to linguistics research, Larson has worked in undergraduate science education in connection with the NSF-sponsored Grammar as Science Project. His contributions to developing the Syntactica and Semantica software under GAS were recognized by a 1998 EduCom medal, awarded in partnership between EDUCAUSE and the Linguistic Society of America. He has also received the MIT Graduate Council Teaching Award, the Stony Brook President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Stony Brook Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching.

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