Research Interests
Syntactic Theory
Comparative Syntax
Romance Linguistics
Inner Aspect
Education
2006 Ph.D. Stony Brook University
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Director of Graduate Studies, Spanish and Portuguese
Associate Professor, Linguistics
Associate Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
External Links
Recent Publications
Vandyne, K., & Macdonald, J. E. (2024). Control in Romanian and Se constructions. Isogloss, 10(2), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.260
MacDonald, J. E., Fagyal, Z., Beristain, A., & Turner, R. (2022). Introduction to RLLT 18. Isogloss, 8(4). https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.275
MacDonald, J. E., & Vázquez-Lozares, A. (2022). On (un)grammatical sequences of ses in Spanish. In G. Alboiu (Ed.), Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics Papers selected from the 48th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 48), Toronto, 25-28 April 2018 (pp. 127-141). (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory; Vol. 360). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.360.07mac
Armstrong, G., & MacDonald, J. E. (2021). A Guide to Understanding SE Constructions: Where They Come from and How They Are Connected. In G. Armstrong, & J. E. MacDonald (Eds.), Unraveling the complexity of SE (pp. 1-30). (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory; Vol. 99). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57004-0_1
Armstrong, G., & Macdonald, J. E. (2021). Preface. In G. Armstrong, & J. E. MacDonald (Eds.), Unraveling the complexity of SE (pp. vii-viii). Springer.