Doctoral Dissertation

Projecting the adjective: The syntax and semantics of gradability and comparison, 1999, Garland Press, New York. (1997 UCSC Ph.D. thesis)

Grant Proposal

Scalar Representations in Natural Language Semantics (NSF CAREER BCS-0094263).

Papers in syntax, semantics, and phonology

Structural Economy in the Processing and Representation of Gapping Sentences (with Katy Carlson and Michael Walsh Dickey). To appear in Syntax.

Vagueness and Grammar: The Semantics of Relative and Absolute Gradable Adjectives. Ms., June 2005.

Shifting Standards: Children's Understanding of Gradable Adjectives. (With Kristen Syrett, Evan Bradley and Jeff Lidz.) GALANA 2005.

Comparatives, Semantics of. Contribution to the Enclycopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition, to be published by Elsevier.

Argument Contained Ellipsis Revisited. This is an April 2004 version of my new take on the data orginally discussed in Kennedy 1994, which has now been submitted to Natural Language Semantics. Comments welcome!

Scale Structure and the Semantic Typology of Gradable Predicates (with Louise McNally). Language 81.2.

Ellipsis and Syntactic Representation. In Schwabe, K. and S. Winkler, (eds.), The Syntax-Semantics Interface: Interpreting (Omitted) Structure, John Benjamins, Amsterdam.

A (Covert) Long-Distance Anaphor in English (with Jeffrey Lidz). Proceedings of WCCFL 20.

Degree vs. Manner `well': A Case Study in Selective Binding (with Louise McNally). Paper presented at the Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon, Geneva, April 2001. This is a revised version of the paper in the Jorge Hankamer webfest.

The Case of the `Missing CP' and the Secret Case (with Jason Merchant), Jorge Hankamer Webfest, Dept. of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Well (with Louise McNally), Jorge Hankamer Webfest, Dept. of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Comparative Deletion and Optimality in Syntax. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20.3:553-621.

Comparative (Sub)deletion and Ranked, Violable Constraints in Syntax. The Proceedings of NELS 30, GSLA Publications, Amherst.

Scalar Structure Underlies Telicity in Degree Acheivements (with Jennifer Hay and Beth Levin), In The Proceedings of SALT 9, CLC Publications, Ithaca.

From Event Structure to Scale Structure: Degree Modification in Deverbal Adjectives (with Louise McNally). In The Proceedings of SALT 9, CLC Publications, Ithaca.

Polar Opposition and the Ontology of `Degrees'. Linguistics and Philosophy 24:33-70.

Gradable Adjectives Denote Measure Functions, Not Partial Functions. 1999. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 29.1 (Spring 1999).

Deriving the Scalar Structure of Deverbal Gradable Adjectives (with Louise McNally), to appear in Catalan Working Papers in Linguistics.

Attributive comparative deletion. 2000. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 18.1 (co-authored with Jason Merchant)

Local dependencies in comparative deletion, 1998, Proceedings of WCCFL 17.

On the quantificational force of the comparative clause, 1997, in Austin, Jennifer and Aaron Lawson (eds.), Proceedings of ESCOL 97. Cornell Linguistics Club publications.

On the monotonicity of polar adjectives. To appear in Hoeksema, J., H. Rullmann, V. Sanchez-Valencia, and T. van der Wouden (eds.), Perspectives on Negation and Polarity.

Attributive comparatives and the syntax of ellipsis (with Jason Merchant), 1999, in Corbin, F., C. Dobrovie-Sorin, and J-M. Marandin (eds.), Proceedings of the Colloque de Syntaxe et Semantique de Paris 2. Paris: Peter Lang.

Antecedent contained deletion and the syntax of quantification. 1997. Linguistic Inquiry 28.4.

Verb phrase deletion and 'Nonparasitic' Gaps. 1997. Linguistic Inquiry 28.4.

Comparison and polar opposition, 1997, in Proceedings of SALT 7, CLC Publications, Ithaca.

Attributive comparatives and bound ellipsis (with Jason Merchant), 1997, Linguistics Research Center Report LRC-97-03, University of California, Santa Cruz.

An indexical account of `certain ambiguities', 1996, in Przezdziecki, M. and L. Whalen (eds.), Proceedings of ESCOL '95. Ithaca: Cornell Linguistics Club.

Comparatives, indices, scope, 1995, in Gabriele, L. and R. Westmoreland (eds.). Proceedings of FLSM VI. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club.

Morphological alignment and head projection: Towards a nonderivational account of stress in Dakota, 1995, in Merchant, J., J. Padgett, and R. Walker (eds.) Phonology at Santa Cruz 3. Linguistics Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Argument contained ellipsis, 1994, Linguistics Research Center Report LRC-94-03. University of California, Santa Cruz.

Papers in natural language processing

Degree Modification and the Scalar Structure of Gradable Adjectives (with Louise McNally), 1999, Workshop on the Description of Adjectives for NLP, TALN99, Cargese, Corsica.

Applications of term identification technology: Domain description and content characterisation (with Branimir Boguraev) Natural Language Engineering 5.1.

Dynamic visual metaphors for news story abstractions (with Rachel Bellamy and Branimir Boguraev), paper presented at HICSS-32, January 1999.

Dynamic presentation of phrasally-based document abstractions (with Branimir Boguraev and Rachel Bellamy), paper presented at HICSS-32, January 1999.

Dynamic presentation of document content for rapid on-line skimming (with Branimir Boguraev, Yin Yin Wong, Rachel Bellamy, Sascha Brawer, and Jason Swartz), 1997, paper presented at the AAAI Spring 1998 Symposium on Intelligent Text Summarization, Stanford University, 23-25 March, 1998.

Salience-based content characterisation of text documents (with Branimir Boguraev), to appear in Mani, I. and M. Maybury (eds.), Advances in Automatic Text Summarization, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. (An earlier draft of this paper was presented at the Workshop on Intelligent Scalable Text Summarisation at ACL/EACL '97, Madrid, Spain.

Anaphora in a wider context: Tracking discourse referents (with Branimir Boguraev), 1996, in W. Wahlster (ed.), The Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, London.

Anaphora for everyone: Pronominal anaphora resolution without a parser (with Branimir Boguraev), 1996, in The Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Handouts

Severing the Degree Argument from the Adjective. With Peter Svenonius. Talk at Universitaet Stuttgart, 17 June, 2005.

Comparative and relative clauses compared. MIT Ling Lunch, 3 October, 2002.

Telicity corresponds to degree of change (with Beth Levin), Georgetown University, February 4, 2002.

In Search of Unpronounceable Structure, Workshop on Ellipsis in English and Japanese, Kyoto, Japan, December 2001.

Remnants and Recoverability, Workshop on Ellipsis in English and Japanese, Kyoto, Japan, December 2000.

Case and identity in comparative deletion (with Jason Merchant), Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, Ca., January 1999.

Comparison of deviation. Linguisitics Society of America annual meeting, Chicago, Il., 4 January, 1997.