Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

Degree Programme Director, MA in Linguistics (Semester 1 2012-13)

Undergraduate Degree Programme Director/Director of Learning and Teaching (Semester 2 2012-13)

• Chair, School Teaching Committee
• Chair, Joint Board of Studies
• Co-Chair, Joint Board of Examiners
• Member, School Executive Committee
• Member, Undergraduate Staff Student Committee

Member, University Student Disciplinary Panel

Qualifications

AB 1990; AM 1991; PhD 1996 (Harvard)

Research Interests

Syntactic theory, especially the syntax/phonology interface and conditions on movement, and the philosophy of linguistics.

Undergraduate Teaching

SEL2089: Syntactic Theory

SEL2211: Contexts (with Dr Hermann Moisl) 

• Poole G. Free Choice Ningun in Early Navarro-Aragonese. 2013. Submitted.
• Poole G. Interpolation, Verb-Second and the Low Left Periphery in Old Spanish. Iberia: An International Journal of Theoretical Linguistics 2013, 5(1). In Press.
• Poole G. Focus and the Development of N-words in Spanish. In: Jacobs, H., Berns, J., Scheer, T, ed. Romance Language and Linguistic Theory 2009. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2011, pp.291-303.
• Poole G. Syntactic Theory. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
• Poole G, Burton-Roberts N. 'Correspondence' in Optimality Theory: a representational view. Revista Virtuel de Estudos da Linguagem 2010, 8(4), 110-133.
• Poole G. Creativity. In: Siobhan Chapman & Christopher Routledge, ed. Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2009, pp.43-44.
• Poole G. Minimalism. In: Siobhan Chapman & Christopher Routledge, ed. Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2009, pp.134-138.
• Poole G. The Syntax-Discourse Interface and the Development of N-Words in Spanish. In: Kang, Young-Se; Tang, Sze-Wing; Kim, Chul; Yoon, Jong-Yurl; Kang, Yong-Soon; Kim, Kyoung-Ae; Yoo, Hyunkyung; Jang, Youngjun; Kang, Hye-Kyung, ed. Current Issues in Linguistic Interfaces. Seoul, Korea: Hankook Munhwasa, 2009, pp.27-48.
• Poole G. Defending the "Subject Gap" Requirement: Stylistic Fronting in Germanic and Romance. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 2007, 79(1), 1-19.
• Burton-Roberts N, Poole G. ‘Virtual conceptual necessity’, feature-dissociation and the Saussurian legacy in generative grammar. Journal of Linguistics 2006, 42(3), 575-628.
• Poole Geoffrey. Interpolation and the Left Periphery in Old Spanish. In: Hussein, M., Kolokonte, M. and Wright, C, ed. Newcastle Working Papers in Linguistics. 2006, pp.188-216.
• Burton-Roberts N, Poole G. Syntax vs. phonology: A representational approach to stylistic fronting and verb-second in Icelandic. Lingua 2006, 116(5), 562-600.
• Poole G. B. F. Skinner. In: Chapman S; Routledge C, ed. Key thinkers in linguistics and the philosophy of language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005, pp.255-6.
• Poole G. Noam Chomsky. In: Chapman S; Routledge C, ed. Key thinkers in linguistics and the philosophy of language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005, pp.53-59.
• Poole G. Plato. In: Chapman, S., Routledge, C, ed. Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005, pp.207-14.
• Poole G, Burton-Roberts N. MLC violations: Implications for the syntax/phonology interface. In: Stepanov, A., Fanselow, G., Vogel, R, ed. Minimality Effects in Syntax. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004, pp.327-365.
• Poole G. Syntactic Theory. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave, 2002.
• Poole G. Representing Minimalism. Journal of Linguistics 2000, 36(1), 131-143.
• Poole G. Representing Minimalism (Review article: Rhyme and reason). Journal of Linguistics 2000, 36(1), 131-143.
• Poole GP. Constraints on Local Economy. Is the Best Good Enough? Optimality and Competition in Syntax, 'MIT Working Papers in Linguistics' Series (MIT Press). Editors: P. Barbosa, D. Fox, P. Hagstrom, M. McGinnis, and D. Pesetsky, 385-398 1998.
• Poole GP. Deducing the X'-Structure of Adjunction. Configurations: Essays on Structure and Interpretation (Cascadilla Press). Editor: A.-M. Di Sciullo, 201-209 1996.
• Poole GP. Optional Movement in the Minimalist Program. Minimal Ideas: Syntactic studies in the minimalist framework, 'Linguistics today' Series (John Benjamins). Editors: W. Abraham, S.D. Epstein, H. Thrainsson, and C. Jan-Wouter Zwart., 12 199-216 1996.