Edward Rubin

Edward Rubin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Utah, where he has served since 2003. His academic journey includes an Assistant Professorship in Linguistics (1999-2003) and World Languages and Cultures (1996-1999) at the same institution. He holds a BA in Latin & Greek with Italian from the University of Pennsylvania (1988), and an MA (1991) and PhD (1994) in Linguistics from Cornell University.

Rubin's research spans Romance languages, focusing on syntax, clitic allomorphy, and code-switching. His work applies Optimality Theory and Minimalism to phenomena in Bolognese, Bulgnais, and Romanian dialects. He has also contributed to understanding functional categories in bilingual children's language development and dative clitic doubling.

Recent publications analyze Bolognese clitics, epenthesis, and postverbal subjects through the lens of Pair-Merge and Cyclic Agree frameworks. He received the Distinguished Faculty Service Award (2019) from the College of Humanities at the University of Utah.

Teaching Activities: Courses include Intermediate Syntax, Introduction to Language Study, Thesis Research (Master's), and Individual Research projects (2003-present).