Thomas Wasow

Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy.
Chair, Department of Linguistics
Affiliated faculty, Symbolic Systems Program.

Tom Wasow
Department of Linguistics
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2150
USA

E-mail: wasow@csli.stanford.edu

(650) 725-5414

Interests:

Language processing, syntactic theory, linguistic methodology

Some recent publications:

Rickford, John R., Isabelle Buchstaller, ThomasWasow, and Arnold Zwicky "Instensive and Quotative ALL: Something Old, Something New". American Speech 82.1: 3-31.

Wasow, Thomas "Review of Fillmore, Form and Meaning in Language, volume I: Papers on semantic roles". Language 82.1: 169-171. 2006

Wasow, Thomas and Jennifer Arnold "Intuitions in Linguistic Argumentation". Lingua 115.11: 1481-1496. 2005

Wasow, Thomas, Amy Perfors, and David Beaver "The Puzzle of Ambiguity". In O. Orgun and P. Sells (eds) Morphology and The Web of Grammar: Essays in Memory of Steven G. Lapointe. CSLI Publications. 2005.

Lohse, Barbara , John Hawkins, and Thomas Wasow "Processing Domains in English Verb-Particle Constructions". Language 80.2: 238-261. 2004

Arnold, Jennifer, Thomas Wasow, Ash Asudeh, and Peter Alrenga "Avoiding Attachment Ambiguities: the role of Constituent Ordering". Journal of Memory and Language 51.1: 55-70. 2004.

Sag, Ivan A. Thomas Wasow, and Emily Bender Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction (Second Edition). Stanford: CSLI Publications. 2003.

Wasow, Thomas and Jennifer Arnold "Post-verbal Constituent Ordering in English". In G. Rohdenburg and B. Mondorf (eds) Determinants of Grammatical Variation in English, 119-154. Mouton. 2003.

Wasow, Thomas Postverbal Behavior. CSLI Publications. 2002.

Manuscripts:

Jaeger, T. Florian and Thomas Wasow "Processing as a Source of Accessibility Effects on Variation". To appear in Proceedings of the 31st BLS.

Wasow, Thomas, T. Florian Jaeger, and David Orr "Lexical Variation in Relativizer Frequency". To appear in proceedings of the workshop on exceptions, edited by Horst Simon and Heike Wiese.

Sag, Ivan A. and Thomas Wasow "Performance-Compatible Competence Grammar". To appear in Non-Transformational Syntax, edited by Robert D. Borsley and Kersti Börjars.

wasow@csli.stanford.edu