Jason Kandybowicz
Jason Kandybowicz (born 1978) is an American linguist, since 2022 Full Professor of Linguistics at The Graduate Center, CUNY He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2006 as an advisee of Hilda Koopman. Kandybowicz has researched several endangered and understudied West African languages, including Nupe, Krachi, Ikpana and Asante Twi. Working within the generative grammar framework, he has written several important books and scientific journal articles about Niger-Congo languages and the syntax-phonology interface. He has made a number of media appearances, including interviews for podcasts and the British Broadcasting Company (2023) Ikpana Interrogatives (with Bertille Baron, Philip T. Duncan, and Hironori Katsuda) (2020) Anti-contiguity: A Theory of Wh- Prosody (2018) African Linguistics on the Prairie (with Travis Major, Philip T. Duncan, and Harold Torrence) (2017) Africa's Endangered Languages: Documentary and Theoretical Approaches (with Harold Torrence) (2008) The Grammar of Repetition: Nupe Grammar at the Syntax-Phonology Interface (2023) Salvation by Deletion in Nupe (with Gesoel Mendes). Linguistic Inquiry 54: 299–325. (2022) Integrated Non-restrictive Relative Clauses in Shupamem (with Abdoulaye Laziz Nchare). Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. (2022) Sluicing and Focus Related Particles in Brazilian Portuguese and Nupe (with Gesoel Mendes). Revista Linguíʃtica 18: 39–61. (2022) Managing Data for Theoretical Syntactic Study of a Language (with Philip T. Duncan, Harold Torrence, and Travis Major). In Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Bradley McDonnell, Eve Koller, and Lauren Collister (eds.) The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management, pp. 523–530. MIT Press. (2021) Predicate Fronting with Verb Doubling in Krachi: A Parallel Chains Analysis (with Harold Torrence). In Vera Lee-Schoenfeld and Dennis Ott (eds.) Parameters of Predicate Fronting: Cross-linguistic Explorations of V(P)-initial Clauses, pp. 131–156. Oxford University Press. (2021) Documenting the Ikpana Interrogative System (with Bertille Baron, Philip T.
