Julie Anne Legate (born 1972) is a professor in the department of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.
She received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002, writing a dissertation on the Warlpiri language, under the supervision of Noam Chomsky and Sabine Iatridou.
Her work investigates the structural representation of voice in syntax, beginning with a focus on Acehnese, a language spoken in Indonesia, but also including evidence from structures in Celtic, Scandinavian, and Slavic, broadening current cross-linguistic understanding of passive-like constructions.
[4] Since 2015 Legate has been editor-in-chief of the journal Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
[5][6] JA Legate and CD Yang.
Empirical re-assessment of stimulus poverty arguments.
Morphosyntactic Learning and the Development of Tense.
https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2012.0069 JA Legate, Faruk Akkus, Milena Sereikaite, Don Ringe.