Heidi Britton Harley (born September 26, 1969) is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. Her areas of specialization are formal syntactic theory, morphology, and lexical semantics.

Career

Harley was born in Oregon, but was raised in St. John's, Newfoundland. She earned her B.A. in Linguistics and English at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1991. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics and Philosophy in 1995 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Alec Marantz. Harley is one of the main researchers working in the theory of Distributed morphology. She has published over thirty articles on morphological theory, syntax, and semantics, including articles in the journals Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Lingua, Morphology Yearbook, and Studia Linguistica. She is the editor of three volumes of collected papers, the editor of two special issues of journals, and is the author of a textbook on morphological theory (Harley 2005).

Honors

The Linguistic Society of America has named Harley as one of the 2019 LSA Fellows, a group whose membership is determined by their "distinguished contributions to the discipline." She taught at the 2015 Linguistic Summer Institute organized by the LSA. She has been an invited teacher at other major summer schools in linguistics throughout the world including Ireland and Brazil.

Specializations

Selected publications