Publications

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Peer-Reviewed Publications

2019. Wood, Jim. Quantifying geographical variation in acceptability judgments in regional American English dialect syntax. Linguistics 57 (6), 1367–1402. DOI: doi.org/10.1515/ling-2019-0031.

2019. Horn, Laurence R. First things first: The pragmatics of “natural order”. Intercultural Pragmatics 16 (3), 257–287. DOI: doi.org/10.1515/ip-2019-0013.

2019. Wood, Jim, Raffaella Zanuttini, Laurence Horn, Jason Zentz. Dative Country: Markedness and geographical variation in Southern dative constructions. American Speech 95 (1), 3–45. DOI: doi.org/10.1215/00031283-7587901.

2019. Tyler, Matthew and Jim Wood. Microvariation in the have yet to constructionLinguistic Variation 19 (2), 232–279. DOI: doi.org/10.1075/lv.16006.tyl.

2018. Wood, Jim & Raffaella Zanuttini. Datives, Data, and Dialect Syntax in American English. Glossa 3 (1), 87. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.527.

2018. Zanuttini, Raffaella, Jim Wood, Jason Zentz & Laurence Horn. The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: Morphosyntactic variation in North American English. Linguistics Vanguard 4(1). 20160070. doi:10.1515/lingvan-2016-0070.

2015. Wood, Jim, Laurence Horn, Raffaella Zanuttini & Luke Lindemann. The Southern dative presentative meets Mechanical Turk. American Speech 90(3). 291–320. doi:10.1215/00031283-3324487.

2013. Wood, Jim. Parasitic participles in the syntax of verbal rather. Lingua 137. 59–87. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2013.08.004.

Edited Volume

2014. Zanuttini, Raffaella & Laurence R. Horn (eds.). Micro-syntactic variation in North American English. (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Book Chapters

2019. Horn, Laurence R. Accept new substitutes: An analysis of reanalysis. In Condoravdi, Cleo and Tracy Holloway King (eds.). Tokens of Meaning: Papers in Honor of Lauri Karttunen, 57–86. Stanford CSLI.

2014. Horn, Laurence R. Afterword: Microvariation in syntax and beyond. In Raffaella Zanuttini & Laurence R. Horn (eds.), Micro-syntactic variation in North American English, 324–348. (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2014. Wood, Jim. Affirmative semantics with negative morphosyntax: Negative exclamatives and the New England So AUXn’t NP/DP construction. In Raffaella Zanuttini & Laurence R. Horn (eds.), Micro-syntactic variation in North American English, 71–114. (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2014. Zanuttini, Raffaella. North American English: Exploring the syntactic frontier. In Raffaella Zanuttini & Laurence R. Horn (eds.), Micro-syntactic variation in North American English, 1–28. (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2014. Zanuttini, Raffaella & Judy B. Bernstein. Transitive expletives in Appalachian English. In Raffaella Zanuttini & Laurence R. Horn (eds.), Micro-syntactic variation in North American English, 143–177. (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2013. Horn, Laurence R. I love me some datives: Expressive meaning, free datives, and F-implicature. In Daniel Gutzmann & Hans-Martin Gärtner (eds.), Beyond expressives: Explorations in use-conditional meaning, 151–199. (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface 28). Leiden: Brill.

Other Publications and Manuscripts

2020. Shoulson, Oliver On African American Language and Grammatical Diversity in 2020. Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: English in North America. (Available online at https://ygdp.yale.edu/african-american-language-and-grammatical-diversity-2020).

2017. Tyler, Matthew & Jim Wood. The have yet to Construction: A Microcomparative Account. In Aaron Kaplan, Abby Kaplan, Miranda K. McCarvel, and Edward J. Rubin [eds.] Proceedings of the 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 562–571. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

2016. Wood, Jim & Raffaella Zanuttini. Microvariation in American English applicative structures. Paper presented at Formal Ways of Analyzing Variation (FWAV) 3, CUNY Graduate Center, New York.

2015. Wood, Jim, Einar Freyr Sigurðsson & Raffaella Zanuttini. Partitive doubling in Icelandic and Appalachian English. North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 45(3). 217–226.

2013. Horn, Laurence R. Even more on anymore. New Haven, CT: Yale University, unpublished manuscript. http://web.stanford.edu/dept/linguistics/structures_evidence/website/docs/papers/horn_2013_revised.pdf (11 May, 2016).

2010. Bernstein, Judy B. & Raffaella Zanuttini. What is verbal -s in English? Unpublished manuscript. Wayne, NJ & New Haven, CT: William Patterson University & Yale University, unpublished manuscript.

Student Curricular Work

2019. Harris, Alysia Nicole. The non-aspectual meaning of African American English ‘aspectual’ markers. New Haven, CT: Yale University PhD dissertation.

2018. Regan, Rachel Martinez. An evaluation of methodology for research in micro-comparative syntax. New Haven, CT: Yale University senior essay.

2016. Matyiku, Sabina. Semantic effects of head movement: Evidence from negative auxiliary inversion constructions. New Haven, CT: Yale University PhD dissertation.

2013. Harris, Alysia Nicole. Stressed BIN BIN causing stress: A formal semantic and pragmatic account of the focused remote perfect marker in AAE. New Haven, CT: Yale University qualifying paper.

Journalistic Writing

2018. Martin, Katie. How "Sounding White" Helps You Get Ahead—on Film and in Real Life. Slate. https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/07/linguistic-prejudice-in-sorry-to-bother-you-is-a-real-world-problem.html (20 July, 2018).

2017. McCoy, Tom. New York Times Crossword for March 27, 2017. PDF of crossword. Wordplay blog entry. (27 March, 2017).

2016. Lindemann, Luke. Will "Arrival" bring linguistics into the popular consciousness? Language Log. http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=29595 (2 December, 2016).

2015. Zanuttini, Raffaella. Don’t fear our changing language. Pacific Standard. http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/dont-fear-our-totally-changing-language (15 April, 2015).

2014. Zanuttini, Raffaella. Our language prejudices don’t make no sense. Pacific Standard. http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/language-prejudices-dont-make-sense-negative-aks-ask-racist-92881 (15 April, 2015).

Work in Progress