David Goldstein

David Goldstein

Professor of Linguistics, Indo-European Studies, and Classics

University of California, Los Angeles

I hold a joint position in the Department of Linguistics and the Program in Indo-European Studies at UCLA, as well as a courtesy appointment in the Department of Classics. My research is devoted to two broad areas. The first is the relationship between language change and linguistic theory, with a particular focus on syntactic and morphosyntactic change in Indo-European. The second is computational phylogenetics.

From December 2022 through July 2023, I will be a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. During Easter Term 2023, I will be a Lewis-Gibson Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies.

I am honored and thrilled to be a member of the 2021 cohort of Guggenheim Fellows.

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Interests

  • Computational phylogenetics
  • Syntactic, morphosyntactic, and semantic change
  • Indo-European
  • Quantitative methods
  • Corpus linguistics

Education

  • Ph.D., 2010

    University of California, Berkeley

  • M.A., 2004

    University of California, Berkeley

  • M.Phil., 2002

    University of Oxford, Corpus Christi College

  • B.A., 2000

    Amherst College

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