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Karen Zagona is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington, where she earned her PhD in 1982. Her research primarily investigates the syntactic underpinnings of tense, aspect, and mood, focusing on the role of functional categories and syntactic features in contributing to temporal reference. Current interests include understanding how the Tense Phrase is interpreted in natural language, the temporal ordering that can be attributed to the Tense Phrase, and how higher functional categories encode mood. She also explores the distribution of temporal functional categories across nominals and clauses. The broader goal of her work is to enhance the field's understanding of universal grammar, particularly in the areas of tense, aspect, and modality.
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