Jorge Hankamer

Jorge Hankamer is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is affiliated with the Department of Linguistics and has contributed extensively to syntax and morphology research, particularly in Turkish and Danish languages.

• Contact: hank@ucsc.edu / hank@ling.ucsc.edu
• Location: Stevenson 264, UCSC

His research focuses on syntactic transformations, anaphora, ellipsis, and morphological parsing. He has taught courses like Syntax I, Morphology Seminar, and Structure of Romance since at least 2007.

Article trends include Turkish phonology (vowel epenthesis, monosyllabism), Morphological parsing (Danish definiteness, Turkish compounds), and syntactic theory (movement blocking, negation). No scientific awards are explicitly listed.

He co-founded the Morphology Reading Group and contributed to the Morphology At Santa Cruz project.