Journal Co-Founder

Syntax: A Journal of Theoretical, Experimental and Interdisciplinary Research. First issue April 1998. Blackwell Publishers: Oxford.

Journal Co-Editor

Syntax: A Journal of Theoretical, Experimental and Interdisciplinary Research. Blackwell Publishers: Oxford. Issues 1.1-4.2.

Member

University of Michigan Center on Cognitive Architecture (J. Laird, director)

Consultant

• Weinberg Cognitive Science Initiative (07-08)
• Cognitive Science Task Force, appointed by Dean MacDonald (2011-12)

Board Member

2011 – Member of the editorial board of Teaching Linguistics, a (new) peer-reviewed        e-journal of The Linguistics Society of America

2011-present – Member of ed. Bd of Open Journal of Modern Linguistics

2006-present – Member of the Editorial Board of Biolinguistics (an online peer-reviewed journal)

1998-1999 – Chair of the Electorate Nominating Committee for Section Z (Linguistics), American Association for the Advancement of Science

1998-present – Member of the Editorial Board of Syntax (Blackwell Publishers)

1996-present – Associate of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Cambridge University Press

1996-1999 – Member of the Electorate Nominating Committee for Section Z (Linguistics), American Association for the Advancement of Science.

1995-present – Member of the Editorial Board of Studia Linguistica, Blackwell Publishers

1995-present – Member of the Linguistics Advisory Board of Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers

1994-present – Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Lincom Europa, Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

1992-1999 – Member of the Associate Editorial Board of Linguistic Inquiry, MIT Press

Book Manuscript Reviewer

• MIT Press
• Oxford University Press

 

Book Jacket Endorsements

• Oxford University Press Linguistic Minimalism, by C. Boeckx.
• Oxford University press I-language, by C. Reiss and D. Isak
• Continuum Studies in Theoretical Linguistics Agreement, Pronominal Clitics and Negation in Tamazight Berber: A Unified Analysis, by H. Ouali

 

Book Proposal Reviewer

• Blackwell Publishers
• Cambridge University Press
• MIT Press
• Oxford University Press

Book Series Proposal Reviewer

Oxford University Press.

 

Manuscript Reviewer

• Language (Linguistic Society of America)
• Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics (Lawrence Erlbaum)
•  Lingua (Elsevier)
•  Linguistic Inquiry (MIT Press)
•  Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (Kluwer)
• Studia Linguistica (Blackwell)
•  Language and Linguistic Compass (Blackwell)
• The Linguistic Review (Foris/ Mouton de Gruyter)
• Linguistic Analysis
• Biolinguistics
• Current Biology (in 2009)
• Topics in Cognitive Science
• Wiley-Blackwell Cognitive Science series
• Bilingualism and Cognition

                 

Grant Proposal Reviewer

2009 – National Science Foundation Project Proposal Reviewer

2005 – Grant reviewer, The Humanities of the Netherlands, Organization for Scientific Research (so-called ‘Dutch NSF’)

2000 – Grant reviewer, FCAR: Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l’Aide a la Recherche’ (a Quebec ‘branch’ of the Canadian Ministere de la Recherche de la Science et de la Technologie)

1996 – Evaluator, Thomas Temple Hoopes (honors thesis) Prize, Harvard University

1995-1996 – Evaluator, National Science Foundation

1993 – National Research Council evaluator, Graduate Linguistics Programs in the U.S.

1993 – Application reviewer, the Harvard Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Program

1989 – Application reviewer, the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College

 

Conference Organizer

1994 – Co-Organizer, The Ninth (International) Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax, Harvard University

Conference Referee/Abstract Reviewer

• ALPHABETICAL ORDER?
• GLOW
• Glow in Asia
• Islands in Contemporary Syntactic theory
• Chicago Linguistic Society
• North East Linguistic Society
• West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
• Conference on Japanese and Korean Linguistics
• ‘Comparison in Syntactic Theory’ Conference, MIT
• Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America
• Eastern States Conference on Linguistics