Robert Truswell

Robert Truswell - Publications and Downloadable Papers

(In preparation)Constituency and Bonobo Comprehension. This is 90% finished work I did in 2007-8 at Tufts University, documenting the grammatical consequences of Kanzi's problems with NP-coordination.
(Submitted)Cyclic Interaction of Event Structure and A' Locality. Submitted to a volume on linguistic interfaces, edited by Raffaella Folli and Christiane Ulbrich.
(Submitted)Tense, Events, and Extraction from Adjuncts. Submitted to Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. I get the feeling it's got lost in the works...
(Forthcoming)Relatives with a Leftward Island in Early Modern English. To appear, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
(2009)Preposition-stranding, Passivisation, and Extraction from Adjuncts in Germanic. In Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Johan Rooryck (eds.) Linguistic Variation Yearbook 9, pp.131-177. Early prepublication version here.
(2009) Attributive Adjectives and Nominal Templates. Linguistic Inquiry 40.3:525-533. Prepublication version here. Published version here (subscription required).
(2008)A Semantic Constraint on Wh-Movement: Extended events and extraction from in order clauses. In Sylvia Blaho, Camelia Constantinescu, and Erik Schoorlemmer (eds.), Proceedings of ConSOLE XV, pp.321-340.
(2007)Extraction from Adjuncts and the Structure of Events. Lingua 117:1355-1377. Prepublication version here. Published version here (subscription required).
(2007)Locality of Wh-movement and the Individuation of Events. Ph.D. thesis, University College London.
(2007)The Interaction of Event Structure and Wh-movement. This is a short paper setting out the material I covered at the On Linguistic Interfaces workshop in Belfast.
(2006)Reconstruction and Control (joint work with Ad Neeleman). A short unpublished squib, setting out the problem I hope to address over the next few years...
(2006) Adjectives and Headedness. In Anna McNay (ed.), Oxford Working Papers in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, vol. 10:1-19.
(2006) Phase Heads, Multiple Spell-Out, and a Typology of Islands. In Nuria Yáñez-Bouza (ed.), Proceedings of the Fourteenth Manchester Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics, pp.125-141.
(2005) Non-restrictive Adjective Interpretation and Association with Focus. In Richard Ashdowne and Thomas Finbow (eds.), Oxford Working Papers in Linguistics, Phonetics and Philology , vol. 9:133-154.
(2004) Attributive Adjectives and the Nominals they Modify. M.Phil thesis, University of Oxford.

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