2014 Publications

Department of Linguistics, McGill University

Faculty

Journal articles

Bale, Alan and Jessica Coon (2014). “Classifiers are for numerals, not for nouns: Consequences forthe mass-count distinction”. In: Linguistic Inquiry 45.4, pp. 695–707.

Boberg, Charles (2014b). “Ethnic divergence in Montreal English”. In: Canadian Journal of Linguistics59.1, pp. 55–82.

Carlson, Matthew, Morgan Sonderegger, and Max Bane (2014). “How children explore thephonological network in child-directed speech: A survival analysis of children’s first wordproductions”. In: Journal of Memory and Language 75, pp. 159–180.

Coon, Jessica and Alan Bale (2014). “The interaction of person and number in Mi’gmaq”. In:Nordlyd 41.1, pp. 85–101.

Coon, Jessica, Pedro Mateo Pedro, and Omer Preminger (2014). “The Role of Case in A-BarExtraction Asymmetries: Evidence from Mayan”. In: Linguistic Variation 14.2, pp. 179–242.

Gillon, Brendan S. (2014a). “Complement polyvalence and permutation in English”. In: Journal ofLogic, Language and Information 23.3, pp. 275–285.

Grodzinsky, Yosef and Israel Nelkin (2014). “The Neural Code that Makes Us Human”. In: Science343, pp. 978–979. doi: 10.1126/science.1251495.

Newell, Heather and Glyne Piggott (2014). “Interactions at the syntax-phonology interface: evi-dence from Ojibwe”. In: Lingua 150, pp. 332–362.

Shimoyama, Junko (2014). “The Size of Noun Modifiers and Degree Quantifier Movement”. In:Journal of East Asian Linguistics 23.3, pp. 307–331.

Papers in conference proceedings

Alonso-Ovalle, Luis and Junko Shimoyama (2014). “Expressing Ignorance in the Nominal Domain:Japanese wh-ka”. In: Proceedings of the 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Ed. byRobert E. Santana-LaBarge. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, www.lingref.com,document #3002, pp. 11–20.

Coon, Jessica (2014). “Predication, tenselessness, and what it takes to be a verb”. In: Proceedings ofthe 43rd meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society (NELS 43). Ed. by Hsin-Lun Huang, EthanPoole, and Amanda Rysling. CreateSpace, pp. 77–90.

Drummond, Alex and Junko Shimoyama (2014). “QR as an Agent of Vehicle Change”. In: Pro-ceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. Ed. by Jyoti Iyer andLeland Kusmer. Vol. 1. GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, pp. 95–108.

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Goad, Heather and Akiko Shimada (2014a). “In some languages, /s/ is a vowel”. In: SupplementalProceedings of the 2013 Meeting on Phonology. Ed. by John Kingston, Claire Moore-Cantwell,Joe Pater, and Robert Staubs. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America. url: http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/amphonology/issue/view/1.

— (2014b). “/s/ can be a vocoid”. In: NELS 44: Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the NorthEast Linguistic Society. Ed. by Jyoti Iyer and Leland Kusmer. Amherst, MA: GLSA, pp. 135–148.

Papers in edited volumes

Boberg, Charles (2014a). “Borders in North American English”. In: Borders and Identities. Ed. byDominic Watt and Carmen Llamas. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 44–54.

Gillon, Brendan S. (2014b). “Optional complements of English verbs and adjectives”. In: Verbconcepts: cognitive science perspectives on verb representation and processing. Ed. by Roberto DeAlmeida and Christina Manouilidou. Springer, pp. 67–75.

Travis, Lisa deMena (2014a). “Malagasy fact- and claim-type nominals: an exploration”. In:Cross-linguistic investigations of nominalization patterns. Ed. by Ileana Paul. Amsterdam: JohnBenjamins, pp. 145–166.

— (2014b). “Parameters of phrase structure, 1989 (reprinted)”. In: An Annotated Syntax Reader.Ed. by Richard Kayne, Thomas Leu, and Rafaella Zanuttini. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell,pp. 247–261.

— (2014c). “The integration, proliferation, and expansion of functional categories: an overview”.In: Routledge Handbook of Syntax. Ed. by Andrew Carnie. London: Routledge, pp. 42–64.

Graduate students

Papers in conference proceedings

Goad, Heather and Akiko Shimada (2014a). “In some languages, /s/ is a vowel”. In: SupplementalProceedings of the 2013 Meeting on Phonology. Ed. by John Kingston, Claire Moore-Cantwell,Joe Pater, and Robert Staubs. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America. url: http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/amphonology/issue/view/1.

— (2014b). “/s/ can be a vocoid”. In: NELS 44: Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the NorthEast Linguistic Society. Ed. by Jyoti Iyer and Leland Kusmer. Amherst, MA: GLSA, pp. 135–148.

Simonenko, Alexandra (2014a). “Microvariation in Finno-Ugric possessive markers”. In: Proceedingsof the 44th annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 43). Ed. by Hsin-Lun Huang,Ethan Poole, and Amanda Rysling. Vol. 2, pp. 127–140.

— (2014b). “Semantics of DP islands”. In: Proceedings of the 44th annual meeting of the North EastLinguistic Society (NELS 44). Ed. by Jyoti Iyer and Leland Kusmer. Vol. 2, pp. 131–143.

PhD theses

Pedersen, Walter A. (2014). “Inchoative verbs and adverbial modification: Decompositional andscalar approaches”. PhD thesis. McGill University.

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Postdocs

Journal articles

Kotek, Hadas (2014c). “Wh-fronting in a two-probe system”. In: Natural Language & LinguisticTheory 32.4, pp. 1105–1143. doi: 10.1007/s11049-014-9238-8.

Papers in conference proceedings

Drummond, Alex and Junko Shimoyama (2014). “QR as an Agent of Vehicle Change”. In: Pro-ceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. Ed. by Jyoti Iyer andLeland Kusmer. Vol. 1. GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, pp. 95–108.

Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka (2014a). “Alternative questions through focus alternatives in MandarinChinese”. In: Proceedings of the 48th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 48). Ed. byAndrea Beltrama, Tasos Chatzikonstantinou, Jackson L. Lee, Mike Pham, and Diane Rak,pp. 221–234. url: http://mitcho.com/research/haishi.pdf.

— (2014b). “Anti-Locality and Kaqchikel Agent Focus”. In: Proceedings of the 31st West CoastConference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 31). Ed. by Robert E. Santana-LaBarge. url: http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/31/paper3017.pdf.

— (2014c). “Explaining leftward focus association with even but not only”. In: Proceedings ofSinn und Bedeutung 18. Ed. by Urtzi Etxeberria, Anamaria Falaus, Aritz Irurtzun, and BryanLeferman. Bayonne and Vitoria-Gasteiz, pp. 128–145. url: http://semanticsarchive.net/sub2013/SeparateArticles/Erlewine.pdf.

Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka and Isaac Gould (2014). “Interpreting Japanese Head-Internal RelativeClauses”. In: Proceedings of the 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 31).Ed. by Robert E. Santana-LaBarge, pp. 160–169. url: http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/31/paper3018.pdf.

Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka and Hadas Kotek (2014). “Intervention in focus pied-piping”. In:Proceedings of NELS 43. Ed. by Hsin-Lun Huang, Ethan Poole, and Amanda Rysling. Vol. 1,pp. 117–130. url: http://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/WIzNzViN/erlewine- kotek-nels2013-preprint.pdf.

Hisagi, Miwako, Valerie L. Shafer, Shigeru Miyagawa, Hadas Kotek, Ayaka Sugawara, andDimitrios Pantazis (2014a). “Changes in automaticity of speech processing of Japanese phoneticcontrasts in second-language learning: An MEG study”. In: Proceedings of the Japanese Societyfor Language Sciences 2014.

— (2014b). “Perception of Japanese vowel contrasts by L1 and L2 learners of Japanese: An EEGstudy”. In: Proceedings of Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 7. Ed. by Shigeto Kawaharaand Mika Igarashi. Vol. 73. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. MITWPL, pp. 45–56.

Kotek, Hadas (2014b). “Intervention out of islands”. In: Proceedings of NELS 44. Ed. by LelandKusmer and Jyoti Iyer. Vol. 1. Amherst: GLSA, pp. 234–246.

Books edited

Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka and Yasutada Sudo, eds. (2014). Proceedings of the MIT Workshop onComparatives. Cambridge: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. url: http://mitwpl.mit.edu/catalog/mwpl69/.

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