Kyle Johnson
Papers
- Johnson, Kyle. 2006. ''Gapping is not (VP) Ellipsis,'' paper submitted to Linguistic Inqury. (updated: 4/6/08)
- Johnson, Kyle. 2004. "How to be Quiet," paper presented at CLS 40.
- Beck, Sigrid & Kyle Johnson. 2004. "Double objects again," Linguistic Inquiry 35.1, 97-123.
- Johnson, Kyle. 2002. "Towards an etiology of adjunct islands," unpublished manuscript.
- Johnson, Kyle. 2002. "Restoring exotic coordinations to normalcy," Linguistic Inquiry 33.1, 97-156.
- Johnson, Kyle. 2001. "Clausal edges and their effects on scope," paper presented at the Peripheries conference, York, UK.
- Johnson, Kyle. 2001. "Sluicing and constraints on quantifier scope," GLOT squib.
- Johnson, Kyle. 2001. "What VP ellipsis can do, what it can't, but not why," in The handbook of contemporary syntactic theory, Mark Baltin and Chris Collins (eds.) Blackwell Publishers, pp. 439-479.
- Johnson, Kyle. 2000. "How far will quantifiers go?" in Roger Martin, David Michaels and Juan Uriagereka (eds.) Step by Step, MIT Press, pp. 187-210.
- Johnson, Kyle. 2000. "Few dogs eat Whiskas or cats Alpo," in UMOP 23: Issues in semantics and its interface, Kiyomi Kusumoto and Elisabeth Villalta (eds.), pp. 59-82.
- Johnson, Kyle & Sten Vikner. 1998. "Embedded verb second in infinitival clauses," unpublished manuscript.
- Johnson, Kyle & Satoshi Tomioka. 1997. "Lowering and mid-size clauses," Proceedings of the Tübingen Workshop on Reconstruction, Tübingen, Germany.
- Johnson, Kyle. 1996/2003. In search of the middle field. unpublished manuscript. (on gapping).
Recent Talks
- "Fitting Islands to the Semantics of Movement,'' paper presented at MayFest, University of Maryland: May 2008.
- "Fitting a Multidominant Model of Movement to Reconstruction Effects,'' paper presented at USC, April, 2008.
- "LCA+Alignment=RNR,'' talk presented at the Workshop on Coordination, Subordination and Ellipsis, Tubingen, June 2007.
- "Determiners,'' talk presented at On Linguistic Interfaces, Ulster, June 2007.
- "Copies,'' paper presented at CONSOLE, Brussels, January 2007.
Other Stuff
- Introduction to Transformational Grammar. Lecture notes for a first semester graduate introduction to theoretical syntax. (warning: it's a 1.7mb file)
- My BibTeX file. A bibliography database to be used with LaTeX. This contains some 5000 entries, including most of the articles in Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Natural Language Semantics, Studia Linguistica, Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, Journal of East Asian Linguistics and Language Acquisition. It has typoes. I update this file periodically (last update: 5/5/08). (warning: it's a 2.8mb file)
Graduate Program Director
Department of Linguistics
University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003-7130 kbj@linguist.umass.edu South College 124 Phone: (413) 545-6840 Fax: (413) 545-2792 curriculum vitae |
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Spring 2008 |
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Tuesday 3:00-5:00 Linguistics 201 Introduction to Linguistic Theory |