Thomas Grano
Department of Linguistics
University of Chicago
tgrano at uchicago dot edu
I'm a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at The University of Chicago. My primary research interests are syntax and semantics, especially of Mandarin Chinese. More specifically, I am interested in tense, aspect, and mood; the syntax-semantics of embedded clauses; typology and variation; Mandarin clause structure; and gradability and comparison. As an undergraduate at Stanford, I also did work on syntactic variation in English, especially as conditioned by prescriptivism and other social factors.
My CV (pdf)Downloadable papers:
2010. Mandarin hen, Universal Markedness, and Tense. [Under review; this paper supersedes the October 2008 version entitled "Mandarin hen and the syntax of declarative clause typing".]
2009. With Osamu Sawada. Scale structure, coercion, and the interpretation of measure phrases in Japanese. [Under review.]
2006. "Me and her" meets "he and I": Case, person, and linear ordering in English coordinated pronouns. My undergraduate honors thesis.