Ruth Kramer

Ruth Kramer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University's College of Arts and Sciences. Her research lies at the intersection of syntax and morphology, with a focus on grammatical gender, number, agreement, and syncretism, primarily in Afroasiatic languages such as Amharic, Coptic, and Ancient Egyptian.

• Institution: Georgetown University
• School: College of Arts and Sciences
• Department: Department of Linguistics
• Rank: Associate Professor
• Email: rtk8@georgetown.edu
• Office: Poulton Hall 251
• Status: On sabbatical in Fall 2023

Her research interests include theoretical syntax, morphological theory, the syntax-morphology interface, phi-features, clitic doubling, and the morphosyntactic behavior of gender and number. She specializes in Amharic and has made significant contributions to the understanding of gender assignment, plural formation, and agreement patterns in this language. She also conducts research on Ancient Egyptian and Coptic, particularly in word order, relative clauses, and plural morphology.

Her publications reflect a strong trend in theoretical and cross-linguistic morphosyntax, especially within the framework of Distributed Morphology. Her work often bridges detailed empirical analysis of understudied languages with broad theoretical implications for syntactic and morphological theory. She has authored a major monograph, The Morphosyntax of Gender (Oxford University Press, 2015), and numerous articles in leading journals such as Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Inquiry, and Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics.

Ruth Kramer is actively engaged in research collaboration, having co-authored papers with scholars like Mark Baker, Matt Hewett, and Anbessa Teferra. She has presented her work at major conferences and workshops, including NELS, Diachronic Generative Syntax, and the Afranaph Project. She teaches courses in linguistics and has advised students, though specific student names are not listed in the provided texts. She is also involved in academic service, such as contributing chapters to authoritative handbooks like The Oxford Handbook of Determiners and The Cambridge Handbook of Distributed Morphology.