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Peter Jenks

professor · College of Letters and Science · University of California, Berkeley

Quick answer: Peter Jenks is professor at University of California, Berkeley. Peter Jenks shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-11.

⭐ Students with research interests in these areas, particularly those investigating formal syntax, the syntax-semantics interface, morphology, or the syntax-phonology interface, with strong training in these areas and a clear research trajectory are encouraged to contact me to inquire about our PhD program.

Research interests

syntax-semantics interface; syntax-phonology interface; definiteness, quantification, and relative clauses; how phonological rules, especially those which are sensitive to prosody, are or are not syntactically constrained; descriptive linguistics; formal theories applied to new data from a broad range of languages; tone languages

Selected publications (since 2023)

To appear - Peter Jenks and Hannah Sande. A unified analysis of infixation and prosodic inversion. In a forthcoming Festschrift for Sharon Inkelas. - Justin Royer, Cristina Buenrostro, and Peter Jenks. The syntax of quantification and focus in Chuj . Canadian Journal of Linguistics. - Peter Jenks and Himidan Hassen. Multiple probes and feature deletion in the Tira agreement complex ., In the Proceedings of WCCFL43. - Peter Jenks, Elyasir Julima, Angelo Nasir, and Sharon Rose. A Grammar of Moro: Thetogovela dialect. Berlin: Language Sciences Press. 723pp. 2025 - Peter Jenks. 2025. Hyperraising from TP in Moro. In Syntax in uncharted territories: Essays in honor of Maria Polinsky. L. Clemens, V. Gribanova, and G. Scontras (eds.) - Peter Jenks. 2025. The comparative syntax of nominal quantif
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Is Peter Jenks hiring PhD students at University of California, Berkeley?
Yes. As of 2026-09-11, Peter Jenks's faculty page shows a PhD hiring signal: Students with research interests in these areas, particularly those investigating formal syntax, the syntax-semantics interface, morphology, or the syntax-phonology interface, with strong training in .
What does Peter Jenks research?
syntax-semantics interface; syntax-phonology interface; definiteness, quantification, and relative clauses; how phonological rules, especially those which are sensitive to prosody, are or are not syntactically constrained; descriptive linguistics; formal theories applied to new data from a broad ran

Data last updated: 2026-09-11 · Source: phd-match.com faculty database.

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