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In review. Building adjectives: Evidence from adjective classifiers in Teochew. With Zhuosi Luo.
In review. English stative passive participles: Category, interpretation, and argument introduction. With David Embick.
In review. Unaccusativity out of control.
‘Big’ and ‘small’ as dimension-less degree modifiers. Proceedings of WCCFL 43. With Zhuosi Luo.
Restrictions on the formation of stative passives. In Duygu Demiray, Roger Cheng-yen Liu and Nir Segal (Eds.), Proceedings of NELS 55. With David Embick.
Access to contextually-determined states in the interpretation of English stative participles. Linguistic Society of America 10(1): 5926. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v10i1.5926. With David Embick.
Out-of-control unaccusativity. Keynote talk at MOTH 2025, University of Toronto.
Classifiers and comparison class: Evidence for cross-linguistic variation in the calculation of standards. Sinn und Bedeutung 29. With Zhuosi Luo.
Category in participles: English stative and eventive passives. Talk at BCGL 17: Categories & categorization, Brussels. With David Embick.
Structure and root meaning in the interpretation of transitive verb phrases. Colloquium, UQAM.
Two courses at the EGG Summer School (Eastern Generative Grammar), University of Brașov, Romania.
The syntax of stative participles in Brazilian Portuguese. Proceedings of the 2024 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. With Braulio Lopes.
The argument and event structure of nonvolition. Talk at CLA 2024, Carleton University, Ottawa.
The grammar of standards in Southern Min: Implications for the role of syntax in contextual vagueness resolution. SSHRC Insight Development Grant 430-2023-00704, Principal Investigator.
Building adjectives: The role of syntax in resolving the interpretation of vague predicates. Colloquium, Concordia University, Montreal.
On the interpretation and structure of English stative passives. Talk at Linguistics Association of Great Britain 2023, Cambridge. With David Embick.
A new look at the interpretation and structure of stative passives. Colloquium, University of Toronto.
On the event structural properties of the English get-passive. Linguistic Inquiry 53.2: 211-254. With David Embick.
Adjective classifiers in Shantou Teochew. Proceedings of CLS 56, 25-37. With Zhuosi Luo.
The done-state derived stative: A case study in building complex eventualities in syntax. Syntax 24.3: 297-333.
The morphosyntax and semantics of adjective classifiers. Talk at the Adjective Workhop at Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) 54. With Zhuosi Luo.
A comparative approach to adjective classifier morphosyntax. Talk at 33rd meeting of the North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-33). With Zhuosi Luo.
Unintended circumstances. Invited talk at Syntax Reading Group, Yale University.
Past/passive participles and locality of attachment. In A. Bárány et al. (Eds.), Syntactic Architecture and its Consequences: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives, Volume 1, 319-334. Berlin: Language Sciences Press.
The syntax of a phrasal stative passive: Some implications for Voice in adjectival passives. Talk at Linguistic Society of America 94th Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
Objects in motion verb phrases. Glossa 4(1): 98. 1–31. doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.820
On some limits of idiosyncrasy: Evidence from subject interpretation and resultative formation. Poster, The Grammar of Regularity and Idiosyncrasy, Workshop at the LSA Institute, UC Davis.
Event structural properties of the English get-passive. Talk at GLOW 42, University of Oslo. With Dave Embick.
Arguments in motion. Invited talk at Yale University.
On the syntactic determination of thematic roles: Evidence from transitive motion clauses. Talk at NELS 49, Cornell University.
On some (event) structural properties of the English get-passive. Talk at LAGB 2018, University of Sheffield. With Dave Embick.
Thematic Roles are determined syntactically in transitive motion expressions. Talk at LAGB 2018, University of Sheffield.
Locating variation in the dative alternation. In Constantine Lignos, Laurel Mackenzie, and Meredith Tamminga (Eds.), The Locus of Linguistic Variation, 1-32. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Variation in being done. Invited talk at Princeton University.
On the relation between the lexicon and syntax, and certain arguments of verbs of motion. Invited talk at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Objects and unergatives. Talk at Workshop on Unergative Predicates: Architecture and Variation, Bilbao.
Different paths in Directed Manner of Motion Constructions. In Aaron Kaplan et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 81-88. [abstract/paper]
Variants of Indonesian prepositions as intra-speaker variability at PF. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: 23(1): 11. 83-92. With Helen Jeoung. [abstract/paper]
Variation in the dative alternation. Themed session on Introducing Arguments: Insights from Micro- and Macro-Variation at LSA 91, Austin TX.
Variation in local syntax across individuals (poster). LSA 91, Austin TX. With Meredith Tamminga.
Locating variation in the dative alternation. Linguistic Variation 16.2: 151-182. [paper/abstract]
Lexical and individual variation in the Done My Homework construction. Talk at NWAV 45, Simon Fraser University/University of Victoria. With Meredith Tamminga.
A New Case for A-movement in Northwest British English. In Ulrike Steindl et al. (Eds), Proceedings of the 32nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 218-227. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. [ abstract/paper]