Noah Constant

3/29 Harvard Colloquium — Appositives After All: Reevaluating Mandarin Relative Clauses
4/7 CLS 47 Re-diagnosing Appositivity: Evidence for Prenominal Appositives from Mandarin
6/17 NACCL 23 On the Independence of Mandarin Aspectual and Contrastive Sentence-Final ne

I’m currently in my fourth year of the linguistics PhD program at UMass Amherst. My research interests are in syntax, semantics, pragmatics, prosody, focus, and discourse particles. Recent topics I’ve worked on include contrastive topic semantics, focus movement, appositivity, and expressive meaning. Empirically, my research draws on large corpora, supplemented by context-rich elicitation. Much of my recent work has looked at Mandarin Chinese, which I am lucky enough to have a speaker of close by most of the time.

2011 On the Independence of Mandarin Aspectual and Contrastive Sentence-Final ne to appear in Proceedings of North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics 23.
2011 Appositives After All: Reevaluating Mandarin Relative Clauses an earlier, more detailed draft of the CLS47 paper.
2011 Re-diagnosing Appositivity: Evidence for Prenominal Appositives from Mandarin to appear in Proceedings of Chicago Linguistic Society 47.
2010 Mandarin ne as Contrastive Topic: The Case of CT Questions Workshop on Prosody, Syntax, and Information (WPSI 4). Handout
2010 Mandarin even, all and the Trigger of Focus Movement with Chloe Chenjie Gu. Penn Linguistics Colloquium 33. Handout
2009 UMass Amherst Linguistics Sentiment Corpora with Christopher Davis, Christopher Potts, and Florian Schwarz.
2009 The pragmatics of expressive content: Evidence from large corpora with Christopher Davis, Christopher Potts, and Florian Schwarz. Sprache und Datenverarbeitung 33(1-2):5-21.
2008 English Rise-Fall-Rise: A study in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Intonation UC Santa Cruz MA thesis, revised draft.

Last modified: Jul. 2011