Dave Whitney Kush

4th Year PhD Student
Dept. of Linguistics
University of MD, College Park
"mylastname"@umd.edu

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University of Maryland, College Park

PhD, Linguistics. expected completion: 2013
Certificate in NeuroScience and Cognitive Science (NACS)
Advisors: Colin Phillips and Jeff Lidz.

University of Gothenburg

Visiting Researcher, Winter 2010

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

BA, Linguistics. summa cum laude June 2007
Honors Thesis: 'Applying a serialized verb phrase structure to V-V compounds in Hindi.'
Advisor: Samuel Epstein, Acrisio Pires

Banaras Hindu University/University of Wisconsin

Year abroad in Varanasi, India.

• NSF IGERT Fellow, 2009-2011
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention , 2009, 2010
• Baggett Research Fellowship, University of Maryland 2007-2008
• Phi Beta Kappa, University of Michigan , 2007
• James B. Angell Award for Academic Excellence, University of Michigan, 2005, 2006
• Rotary International Scholarship, 2003

Syntax I (LING 311) Fall 2011

TA for Tonia Bleam.

Introduction to Linguistics for non-majors (LING 200) Spring 2011

TA for Peggy Antonisse
Ran weekly discussion section of 32 students.
Student Evaluations available here.

EEG Workshop Course Instructor Winter 2009, 2010

Cotaught course on EEG research methods for IGERT WinterStorm Workshop.

Phonology I (LING 313) Fall 2009

TA for Peggy Antonisse
Student Evaluations available here.

Kush,D. On the (in-)escapability of Islands in Scandinavian. 895/Qualifying Paper - Draft available upon request.

Drummond, A and Kush, D. (submitted). Reanalysis as Raising to Object

Kush, D. To appear. The Future of Hindi Modality. To appear in the proceedings of SALT 21.

Kush, D., Omaki, A. and Hornstein, N. Microvariation in Islands. book chapter in preparation.

Drummond, A., Kush, D. and Hornstein, N. Two Minimalist Theories of Construal. To appear as a book chapter.

Drummond, A. and Kush, D. 2009. The case of `Of-Insertion'. ms, University of MD

Kush, D., Lidz, J. and Phillips, C. 2011. Processing bound-variable anaphora: Implications for memory encoding and retrieval. Talk given at 2012 LSA Meeting, Portland.

Kush, D.. 2011. On the height-relativity of (non-root) modal flavor: Evidence from Hindi. Poster presented at SALT 21, Rutgers.

Kush, D. and Lindahl, F. 2011. On the escapability of Islands in Scandinavian. Talk given at 2011 LSA Meeting, Pittsburgh.

Drummond, A. and Kush, D. 2011. Reanalysis As Raising to Object. Talk given at 2011 LSA Meeting, Pittsburgh.

Kush, D. 2010. Escapable Islands are Small Clauses (In Swedish and English). Presentation at Syntax Support Group, University of Michigan, October.

Kush, D. 2010. The future and epistemic modality in Hindi. Talk given at 2010 LSA Meeting, Baltimore.

Kush, D., Omaki, A. and Hornstein, N. 2009. "Reanalyzing Relative Clause Island Effects". Paper presented at GLOW 32, Nantes, France

Kush, D., Omaki, A., Dillon, B., Alcocer, P., Lidz, J. and Phillips, C. 2009. "Bound-Variable Dependencies Reveal Structure-Sensitivity of Search". CUNY 2009 - Davis, CA

Baggett Research Fellow, University of Maryland, 2007-2008

Assisted with work on NSF Grant # 000094288, Coordinated departmental a reading group, Assisted with and designed various behavioral and EEG experiments.

Research Assistant, Gelman Lab, University of Michigan, 2006-2007

Ran experiments with 3-5 year-old children, Designed stimuli and Assisted with data analysis

Literacy Tutor, LindamoodBell Learning Processes, Stamford, CT, 2006

Literacy and Phonics Tutor for Children with Development and Learning Disabilities

• Ad-hoc Reviewer, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
• Linguistics Graduate Student Assembly Representative 2008-2009
• Linguistics Colloquium Committee 2008-2009
• Mayfest Conference Planning Committee, 2008

Spoken: English (native), German (high proficiency), Hindi/Urdu (proficient), Spanish (proficient), Swedish (elementary)
Typed: Java (intermediate), Python (intermediate)