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Mark de Vos

‌Associate Professor
English Language and Linguistics 
Rhodes University
South Africa

Professor Social and Political Sciences
Biography

I have diverse and active research interests. I consider myself a syntactician with interests in general linguistics. My interests include syntax and formal models in all languages, the linguistics and psycholinguistics of literacy in Africa and African languages (Applied Linguisics), syntactic linearization, English and Afrikaans grammar and syntax, Pseudo-coordination, adpositions, EPP, agreement phenomena etc. I am also interested in the language of assessment in tertiary education etc.

Research Intrest

Psycholinguistics of literacy

List of Publications
De Vos M (2014) The evolutionary origins of syntax: optimization of the mental lexicon yields syntax for free. Lingua 150: 25-44.
De Vos M (2014) Head movement is an artefact of optimal solutions to linearisation paradoxes. SPIL Plus 44: 23-48.
Diemer M, Van der Merwe K, De Vos M (2015) The development of phonological awareness literacy measures for isiXhosa. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 33: 325-341.
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