Thomas Grano

Thomas Grano
		PhD Candidate Department of Linguistics University of Chicago 1010 E. 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637 tgrano at uchicago dot edu

I'm a PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics at The University of Chicago, specializing in syntax, semantics, and their interface. My research activities fall into two broad categories. My dissertation research (supported this year by a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship) is on control and restructuring from the perspective of the syntax-semantics interface. Second, I have also investigated topics in gradability and comparison in Mandarin Chinese and Japanese, partly in collaboration with my advisor Professor Chris Kennedy and with Professor Osamu Sawada of Mie University in Japan. Please see below for links to some of the work that these investigations have generated.

My CV (pdf)

Control and restructuring:

2012. Wanting (to have) null verbs: A view from Mandarin and beyond. Paper to be presented at LSA Annual Meeting, January 5-8, 2012. [Abstract]

2011. Exhaustive control is not control: Cinque's IP and the raising/control divide. Paper presented at Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris, September 21-23, 2011. [Abstract]

2011. Mental action and event structure in the semantics of try. In Ashton, N., A. Chereches and D. Lutz (eds.) Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 21:426-443. [eLanguage link]

2011. Aspect under (and out of) control in Mandarin Chinese. LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstract. [eLanguage link]

Gradability and comparison:

To appear. Mandarin Transitive Comparatives and the Grammar of Measurement (with Chris Kennedy). Journal of East Asian Linguistics. [Prepublication version]

2011. Mandarin hen and Universal Markedness in Gradable Adjectives. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. [Prepublication version] [Springer link]

2011. Scale structure, coercion, and the interpretation of measure phrases in Japanese (with Osamu Sawada). Natural Language Semantics 19:191-226. [Prepublication version] [Springer link]

Other:

2006. "Me and her" meets "he and I": Case, person, and linear ordering in English coordinated pronouns. B.A. honors thesis, Stanford University.