Stefan Keine

Stefan Keine is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research focuses on formal syntax, particularly within the Minimalist Program, with a focus on agreement phenomena, movement theory, and phase theory. He has published extensively on topics including the Person-Case Constraint (PCC), reconstruction effects, scrambling, and copular constructions. His work often explores the interaction between syntactic structures and their semantic and morphological realizations.

Keine's academic training includes a PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, evidenced by his 2020 monograph Probes and Their Horizons. His research integrates experimental methods with theoretical syntax, as seen in studies like 'Locality domains in syntax: Evidence from sentence processing' (2020). He frequently collaborates with scholars such as Rajesh Bhatt, Jessica Coon, and Ethan Poole, addressing cross-linguistic phenomena in languages like German, Hindi-Urdu, and Kutchi.

His awards and honors are not explicitly listed in the provided materials, though his prolific publication record reflects significant contributions to syntactic theory. Keine has advised numerous students through his research on syntactic hierarchies and agreement systems, and his work appears in leading journals such as Linguistic Inquiry and Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.