2005-2008	Associate Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan
2002-present	Full Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan
1997-2001	Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan
1992-1997	Associate Professor, Linguistics Department, Harvard University
1988-1992	Assistant Professor, Linguistics Department, Harvard University
1987-1988	Lecturer, Linguistics Department, University of Texas at Austin

Grants

2006	Grant from The Office of Graduate and Undergraduate Education, University of Michigan to develop undergraduate 'Language and Human Cognition Initiative'
2006	Grant from the LSA Dean’s Office, University of Michigan to develop undergraduate 'Language and Human Cognition Initiative'
2005	Grant from The Consortium for Language, Society, and Thought to develop 'Language and Mind' speaker series
2005	Co-recipient (with Profs. R. Lewis, J. Boland and A. Pires) of a Center for Research on Learning and Teaching Whittaker Stage I Grant, University of Michigan, to develop 'Language and Mind'

Awards

2002	Inducted into Who's Who Among America's College Teachers
2001	Excellence in Research Award, University of Michigan
1999	Excellence in Education Award, University of Michigan
1996	Levenson Excellence in Teaching Prize Nominee, Harvard University
1996	Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize Nominee, Harvard University
1994	Faculty Winner of a Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for Excellence in the work of undergraduates and the Art of Teaching, Harvard University

Books

• Epstein, S., and T. Seely. 2006. Derivations in Minimalism. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
• Epstein, S., and D. Seely, eds. 2002. Derivation and Explanation in the Minimalist Program. In the Generative Syntax Series, D. Lightfoot, ed. Blackwell Publishers: Oxford.
  
• Epstein, S., and M. Kissock. In progress. Syntactic Theory: Framework and Fundamentals. Under contract, Oxford University Press: Oxford.
  
• Epstein, S. 2000. Essays in Syntactic Theory. In the Leading Linguists Series, Carlos Otero, ed. Routledge: New York. [A collection of some of my previously published articles.]
  
• Epstein, S., and N. Hornstein, eds. 1999. Working Minimalism. M.I.T. Press: Cambridge, MA.
  
• Epstein, S., E. Groat, R. Kawashima, and H. Kitahara.1998. A Derivational Approach to Syntactic Relations. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
  
• Epstein, S., H. Thráinsson, and S. Peter, eds. 1996. Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax, Volume 2. In the Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Series, L. Haegeman, J. Maling, and J. McCloskey, eds. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht.
  
• Epstein, S., H. Thráinsson, W. Abraham, and J. W. Zwart, eds. 1996. Minimal Ideas: Syntactic Studies in the Minimalist Framework. A collection of papers from Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics and from Groningen Working Papers. In the Linguistics Today Series. John Benjamins Publishers: Amsterdam.
• Epstein, S. 1991.Traces and Their Antecedents. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
  

Selected Articles

• Hiramatsu, K., K. Rulf and S. Epstein. (In preparation) When Knowledge Causes Failure: Early Acquisition of Novel Adjectives and the English Proform one.
• Fernandez-Salgeiuro, G. and S. Epstein (Forthcoming/2008) C-command. In The Encyclopedia of Language Sciences, P.C. Hogan, ed. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
• Fernandez-Salguiero, G. and S. Epstein (Forthcoming/2008)The Derivation and Representation of Inverse Linking, The Catalan Journal of Linguistics
• Epstein, S. and H. Kitahara and T. Seely (Forthcoming/2008)Uninterpretable Features; What Are They and What do They do? Chapter of J. Benjamins series/volume, Beyond Derivational Simplicity in Minimalist Syntax M. Putnam ed.
• Epstein, S. and H. Kitahara and T. Seely (Forthcoming/2008) Derivations, Chapter of Handbook of Minimalist Linguistics Oxford University Press, C. Boeckx ed.
• Obata, M. and S. Epstein (2008) Deducing Improper Movement from Phase-Based C-to-T Phi Transfer; Feature Splitting Internal Merge. WCCFL proceedings, published by Cascadilla Press
• Epstein, S and T. Seely, (2008) The Anatomy of Chomsky’s Biolinguistic Minimalism, a video published in the inaugural issue of the new e-journal Biolinguistics, K. Grohmann and C. Boeckx eds.
• Lewis, R. G. Fernandez-Salguiero, L. Chen, and S. Epstein.(2007) Early/Late Closure Ambiguities in Spanish. Poster Presented at the CUNY sentence processing conference
• Epstein, S. 2007. Physiological Linguistics, and Some Implications Regarding Disciplinary Autonomy and Unification. Mind and Language. Vol. 22 No. 1
• Epstein, S. 2007 On I(nternalist) Functional Explanation in Minimalism. Special edition of Linguistic Analysis, entitled ‘Dynamic Interfaces,’ K. Grohmann, ed.
• Epstein, S. and N. Hornstein. 2005. The Future of Language (Science). Letter to the Editor, Language: The Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, 81.2.
• Epstein, S., T. Seely, and A. Pires. 2005. EPP in T: More Controversial Subjects. Syntax: A Journal of Theoretical, Experimental and Interdisciplinary Research. Blackwell Publishers.
• Epstein, S. and D. Seely. 2002. "Rule Applications as Cycles in a Level-Free Syntax." In Derivation and Explanation in the Minimalist Program, S. Epstein and D. Seely, eds. Blackwell Publishers: Oxford.
• Epstein, S. 1999. "Un-Principled Syntax and the Derivation of Syntactic Relations." In Working Minimalism, S. Epstein, and N. Hornstein, eds. M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA.
  
• Epstein, S. 1998. "Overt Scope Marking and Covert Verb-Second." Linguistic Inquiry 29 (2).
• Epstein, S., S. Flynn, and G. Martohardjono. 1996/1997. "Second Language Acquisition: Theoretical and Experimental Issues in Contemporary Research." Target article: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19 (4).
• Epstein, S., and R. Berwick. 1995. "On the Convergence of 'Minimalist' Syntax and Categorial Grammar." In Algebraic Methods in Language Processing 1995: Proceedings of the Twente Workshop on Language Technology 10, jointly held with the First Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology (AMAST) Workshop on Language Processing, A. Nijholt, G. Scollo, and R. Steetkamp, eds. Universiteit Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.
• Epstein, S. 1992. "Derivational Constraints on A' Chain Formation." Linguistic Inquiry 23 (2).
• Epstein, S. 1990 "Differentiation and Reduction in Syntactic Theory: A Case Study." Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 8 (3).

Selected Presentations

• Epstein Seely and Kitahara, plenary speakers: (2008) Exploring Crash Proof Grammars Conference “The value of Phonological Underspecification in the narrow syntax
• Obata and Epstein: (2008) On The (Possible) Elimination of A/Abar Distinctions. Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars conference (Carson-Newman College, Tennessee)
• Obata and Epstein: WCCFL (2008) Deducing Improper movement from Phase-based C-to-T Phi Transfer: Feature Splitting Internal merge (UCLA)
• Obata and Epstein: GLOW (2008) Phasing Out Improper Movement (University of Newcastle, UK)
• Gerardo Fernández-Salgueiro, Lillian Chen, Richard Lewis and Samuel Epstein: The 20th CUNY Sentence processing Conference (2007) The When and How of Positing Null Subjects (pro): The Timing and Surprising Interaction of Syntactic and Semantic Constraints (poster)

Journal Co-Founder:

• Syntax: A Journal of Theoretical, Experimental and Interdisciplinary Research. First issue April, 1998. Blackwell Publishers: Oxford.
  

Board Member:

• Member of the Editorial Board of Biolinguistics: a peer-reviewed e-journal. C. Boeckx & K. Grohmann, eds.
• Chair of The Electorate Nominating Committee for Section Z (Linguistics) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1998/9).
  
• Member of the Electorate Nominating Committee for Section Z (Linguistics) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1996-1999).
  
• Member of the Editorial Board of Studia Linguistica, Blackwell Publishers (1995-present).
  
• Member of the Linguistics Advisory Board of Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers (1995-present).
  
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Lincom Europa, Studies in Theoretical Linguistics (1994-present).
  
• Member of the Associate Editorial Board of Linguistic Inquiry, M.I.T. Press (1992-1999).
• Associate of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Cambridge University Press.
  

Ph.D. Students:

University of Michigan

2008	Gerardo Fernandez-Salgueiro: Aspects of the Syntax of TP-Coordination, ATB Extraction and Parasitic Gaps
2007	Christopher Becker: Clausal and Nominal Agreement in Russian; A Unified Approach.
2007	Catherine Fortin: Indonesian Sluicing and Verb-Phrase Ellipsis: Description and Explanation in a Minimalist Framework . Recipient of a Rackham graduate school Distinguished Dissertation Award
2006	Hamid Ouali: Unifying Agreement Relations: A Minimalist Analysis of Berber -- Samuel Epstein and Acrisio Pires, co-chairs
2003	Annemarie Toebosch: Gender-animacy and the morpho-syntax of object clitics in Dutch -- Samuel Epstein and Christina Tortora, co-chairs
2002	Rose Letsholo: Syntactic Domains in Ikalanga (co-supervised with Prof. Mark Hale).

Harvard University (Thesis Supervision/Committee Membership)

1997	Marlyse Baptista: The Morphosyntax of Verbs in Capeverdean Creole.
1997	John O'Neil: Means of Control: Deriving the Properties of Control Theory in the Minimalist Program.
1997	Erich Groat: A Derivational Program for Syntactic Theory. (co-supervised with Prof. Noam Chomsky, M.I.T.).
1997	Youngjun Jang: A Minimalist Analysis of Expletives.
1996	Dianne Jonas: Clause Structure and Verb Syntax in Scandinavian and English.
1996	Soo-Yeon Kim: Optionality: The Interaction of Structural and Non-Structural Constraints on Scrambling and Binding.
1996	K. Scott Ferguson: A Feature-Relativized Shortest Move Requirement.
1996	Geoffrey Poole: Transformations Across Components. (co-supervised with Prof. Noam Chomsky, M.I.T.).
1994	Hisatsugu Kitahara: Target-a: A Unified Theory of Movement and Structure Building (co-supervised with Prof. Noam Chomsky, M.I.T.).
1993	Rebecca Klein Kennedy: Reference and Focus in English.
1991	Tomiko Narahara: Nominal Categories and Binding Theory.
1990	Young-joo Kim: The Syntax and Semantics of Korean Case: The Interaction Between Lexical and Syntactic Levels of Representation.

Undergraduate Honors Theses Supervised:

University of Michigan

2004	Keli Rulf, The Syntax, Semantics and early Acquisition of “One” (Winner of Department Outstanding dissertation Award)
2007	Dave Kush, Compound Interest: Applying a Serialization Phrase Structure to Hindi Verbal Compounds (Winner of a one-year Baguette Post-Baccalaureate paid Fellowship, University of Maryland Department of Linguistics)
2005	Nayana Dhavan, A Non-Absolutive and Unified Movement Analysis of Hindi Passives and Ergatives (Winner of the University’s Virginia Voss Award)
2005	Natasha Abner, Resultatives Gone Minimal (winner of the University’s Virginia Voss Award)
2002	Kate Golski, The Phono-Syntactic Interfaces. Winner of the Matthew Alexander Award.
2001	Jessica Rett, Japanese Numeral Classifiers: The Effect of Linguistic Configurations on Category Membership. (Second Reader).
2001	Gabriel Williams, Verb Movement in French and English. Graduated with Highest Honors in Linguistics.
2001	Avram Derrow, The Empirical Content of Differentiating Redundancy. Presented at the Michigan Linguistics Society's 2000 Annual (refereed) Meeting. Graduated with Highest Honors in Linguistics. Winner of The University of Maryland's national annual competition for Best Undergraduate Linguistics essay. Paper published in The University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics, 2001.
2001	Justin Fitzpatrick, Movement Locality in a Derivational Theory. Winner of the Matthew Alexander award (2001) for outstanding honors thesis in Linguistics. Recipient of NSF pre-doctoral fellowship grant, 2001. Graduated with Highest Honors in Linguistics.
2000	Jon Gajewski, The Syntax and Semantics of Complete-list Questions In a Non-Standard Variety of English and Non-Cyclic Adjunction (Co-supervised with Prof. Christina Tortora). Winner of the Linguistics Program award for outstanding research achievement for an undergraduate (since part of this thesis was published in Linguistic Inquiry 30, 2001.) Received NSF pre-doctoral fellowship grant, 2000.
2000	Aaron Stark, The Syntax of Vietnamese "Submissive" Passives. Winner of the Matthew Alexander award (2000) for outstanding honors thesis in Linguistics. Graduated with Highest Honors in Linguistics.
2000	Monica Takagi, Controlled and Arbitrarily Intrepreted PRO.

Harvard University

1996	Joanna Veltri: Children's Acquisition of Reflexive Verbal Morphology in the Imbabura Dialect of Quechua.
1995	Mark Kille: What Thing is Next, I Don't Quite Know: An Analysis of Variation in Word-Order and Subject-Verb Agreement in Middle Cornish.
1995	Joel Derfner: Abkhaz Wh-Movement.
1994	Ronald A. Fein: The Acquisition of the Genitive of Negation in Russian (co-supervised with Prof. Kenneth Wexler, M.I.T.). Student Winner of Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for "Excellence in the work of undergraduates." Thesis presented at Boston University Conference on Language Development.
1990	Orin J. Percus: Implicit Arguments in English.

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