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ID13513
NAMEJ Wood
GIVEN NAMESJ
FAMILY NAMEWood
SIGNATUREWOOD J
AFFILIATIONSYale University
ORCID0000-0003-0450-8373
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS125
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX6
  • Microvariation in verbal rather

    Open Access•J Wood•ARTICLE•Linguistic Variation•2025•References: 26

    This paper uses survey results to analyze patterns of judgments across different versions of the non-standard verbal use of the word rather , which can take participial morphology, as in rathered . Across numerous possible instantiations of the construction, there appear to be in fact a quite limited number of grammars, which are generated by an implicational hierarchy of functional heads, along with the availability of a silent verb have . The o…

  • Variation in Morphosyntax

    J Wood, Raffaella Zanuttini•ARTICLE•Publication of the American…•2023

    Research Article| December 01 2023 11. Variation in Morphosyntax Jim Wood; Jim Wood jim wood is associate professor of linguistics at Yale University and associate editor of the Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics. His primary research interests lie in syntax and its interfaces with morphology and semantics. Since 2012, he has been a leading member of the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project, which studies dialect variation in North America…

  • The syntax of English presentatives

    Open Access•J Wood, Raffaella Zanuttini•ARTICLE•Language•2023

    In this article, we analyze the syntax of sentences such as Here is my daughter , which we refer to as presentatives. Presentatives turn out to have a wide range of properties that distinguish them sharply from ordinary declaratives, interrogatives, imperatives, and exclamatives. Drawing on recent work on the left periphery, we develop a novel account of their syntactic structure that uses only independently proposed syntactic primitives. We argu…

  • Hvor 'Each' Reciprocals and Distributives in Icelandic: E-Raising + Short Main Verb Movement

    Open Access•Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson, J Wood et al.•ARTICLE•Linguistic Inquiry•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 2

    We discuss remarkable constructions in Icelandic that have the distributive pronoun hvor 'each' in common: the reciprocal construction hvor annar 'each other', and the distributive construction hvor sinn 'each their', which also comes in a sinn hvor 'their each' version. We provide the first detailed description of these constructions, in particular their case and word order properties, which raise recalcitrant puzzles, and then we discuss what t…

  • On the Implicit Argument of Icelandic Indirect Causatives

    Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, J Wood•ARTICLE•Linguistic Inquiry•2021•Cited by: 7•References: 66

    The goal of this article is to understand the syntax of Icelandic indirect causatives (ICs), especially with respect to the implicit causee. We show that the complement of the causative verb must be at least as large as a VoiceP, and that it shares some properties with active VoicePs and others with passive VoicePs. We make sense of this state of affairs by proposing that the causee, while phonetically silent, has an explicit syntactic representa…

  • “We Olaf”: Pro[(x-)NP] constructions in Icelandic and beyond

    Open Access•Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson, J Wood•ARTICLE•Glossa a journal of general…•2020

    This article discusses and analyzes an unusual construction in Icelandic, with a plural pronoun in the singular reading and a directly juxtaposed or annexed NP (or DP), where, for example, við Ólafur (literally “we.NOM Olaf.NOM”) means ‘Olaf and I’. We refer to this construction as Pro[NP]. Pro[NP] constructions have been reported for a handful of languages that lack a case system. Icelandic, in contrast, is a case language, and Pro[NP] in this l…

  • Dative Country

    J Wood, Raffaella Zanuttini et al.•ARTICLE•American Speech•2020•Cited by: 4•References: 19

    This article explores geographical variation in a range of understudied dative constructions in American English. It shows that these constructions are found primarily in the South and that they permit numerous syntactic variations and permutations. However, not all sentences and constructions have an equal status. In particular, the authors find that they lie on a continuum of markedness. More marked variants are judged acceptable by fewer speak…

  • Cyclic cliticization in Icelandic

    Open Access•Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, J Wood•ARTICLE•Nordic Journal of Linguistics•2019

    This squib discusses the clitic DU ( -du/-ðu/-tu ) in Icelandic and compares it with other reduced forms of personal pronouns, such as ’ann (for hann ‘he’) and ’ún (for hún ‘she’). We show that there are various restrictions found on DU which are not found on other reduced forms of personal pronouns in Icelandic. We argue that whereas reduced forms such as ’ann and ’ ún are morphophonologically conditioned, DU is syntactically conditioned; it is …

  • Case mismatching in Icelandic clausal ellipsis

    Open Access•J Wood, Matthew Barros et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Linguistics•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 10

    In this article, we take a detailed look at clausal ellipsis in Icelandic, a hitherto understudied phenomenon. We focus on case-matching and case-mismatching facts in fragment responses. We argue that although case matching is the norm, constrained instances of case mis matching strongly suggest that there must be silent structure in the ellipsis site, and some syntactic identity condition. We outline these patterns in detail, and provide an anal…

  • Quantifying geographical variation in acceptability judgments in regional American English dialect syntax

    Open Access•J Wood•ARTICLE•Linguistics•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 35

    The acceptability of many syntactic constructions varies across speakers. In some, but not all cases, such interspeaker variation is due to speakers coming from different dialect regions. However, since neither dialect regions nor acceptability judgments are discrete, it is not always straightforward to determine when variation in a construction’s acceptability is geographically constrained. In this paper, I present one method of making this dete…

  • Microvariation in the have yet to construction

    Matthew Tyler, J Wood•ARTICLE•Linguistic Variation•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 41

    The have yet to construction, exemplified by sentences such as John has yet to visit his grandmother, is widespread across dialects of English. However, recent studies have revealed that behind this apparent unity, there is significant variation in the syntactic properties of the have yet to construction. Speakers vary with respect to (i) the status of have as an auxiliary or main verb, (ii) the status of negation tests, and (iii) the status of a…

  • The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: Morphosyntactic variation in North American English

    Raffaella Zanuttini, J Wood et al.•ARTICLE•Linguistics Vanguard•2018

    The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project approaches the empirical domain of North American English from the perspective of generative microcomparative syntax. In addition to eliciting judgments from speakers of particular varieties, we also conduct large-scale surveys, map the results of those surveys geographically, conduct statistical tests taking geography and other social variables into account, and look for theoretically significant linguistic…

  • Icelandic Object Extraposition Is Still a Problem for the Movement Theory of Control: A Reply to Drummond and Hornstein

    J Wood•ARTICLE•Linguistic Inquiry•2017

    In Wood 2012 , I argued that object extraposition of infinitive clauses in Icelandic reveals a problem for the movement theory of control (MTC). Object extraposition involves a pronoun that, when present, prevents any movement out of the extraposed clause, but allows the control dependency. Drummond and Hornstein (2014) claim that the facts discussed in Wood 2012 are compatible with the MTC. In this reply, I show that their response is based on a…

  • The effect of leprotic infection on the risk of death in medieval rural Denmark

    Open Access•Saige Kelmeli, Michael Holton Price et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 36

    INTRODUCTION: Paleopathological studies of leprosy in Danish skeletal collections show that many individuals suffered from this stigmatized disease during the Middle Ages. This study examines the risk of death associated with leprotic infection in individuals from the Danish rural cemetery of Øm Kloster (AD 1172-1536). Specifically, we modeled the influence of leprotic infection on age-specific mortality accounting also for sex and social status …

  • The Accusative-Subject Generalization

    Open Access•J Wood•ARTICLE•Syntax•2017•Cited by: 7•References: 46

    This article discusses the morphosyntax of accusative-subject constructions in Icelandic, from the point of view of the "dependent case" analysis of accusative. The primary focus is on deriving the Accusative-Subject Generalization (ASG), the generalization that accusative subjects are never related thematically to a morphologically intransitive verb. After it is demonstrated that the ASG holds, it is proposed that the ASG follows from the claim …

  • Clause-Bounded Movement: Stylistic Fronting and Phase Theory

    Anton Karl Ingason, J Wood•ARTICLE•Linguistic Inquiry•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 26

    In this squib, we provide novel empirical support for treating the thematic domain-the vP-as a locality domain like CP (a phase), in agreement with a growing body of research (see Fox 1999 , Barbiers 2002 , Legate 2003 , Rackowski and Richards 2005 , Cozier 2006 , Kahnemuyipour and Megerdoomian 2011 , Buell 2012 , Van Urk and Richards 2015 ; see Den Dikken 2006 for an opposing view). We show how vP phasehood solves a previously unsolved problem f…

  • Icelandic Morphosyntax and Argument Structure

    Open Access•J Wood•BOOK•Icelandic Morphosyntax and…•2015

  • The Southern Dative Presentative Meets Mechanical Turk

    J Wood, Laurence Horn et al.•ARTICLE•American Speech•2015•Cited by: 7•References: 27

    This article introduces the southern dative presentative, an understudied construction that varies across speakers of American English. The authors discuss similarities and differences between this construction and the better-studied personal dative construction and compare the Southern dative presentative with similar constructions cross-linguistically. They then present the results of a nationwide acceptability judgment survey administered on A…

  • Reflexive -st verbs in Icelandic

    Open Access•J Wood•ARTICLE•Natural Language and Linguistic…•2014•Cited by: 7•References: 55

  • LetCausatives and (A)symmetricdat-nomConstructions

    Open Access•J Wood, Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson•ARTICLE•Syntax•2014•Cited by: 7•References: 40

    The verbláta'let/make' in Icelandic provides a unique opportunity to understand the behavior of symmetric versus asymmetricdat-nomconstructions, as well as the nature of nominative-accusative case alternations. In this paper, we take a close look atlátaand examine a set of cases wheredat-nomverbs are embedded underláta, resulting in the otherwise nominative object becoming accusative in some cases and remaining nominative in others. We propose th…

  • Case alternations in Icelandic ‘get’-passives

    Open Access•Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, J Wood•ARTICLE•Nordic Journal of Linguistics•2012

    The analysis of ‘get’-passives across Germanic poses a number of challenges to our understanding of valency alternations: they exhibit surprising case alternations and recalcitrant thematic properties (Alexiadou 2012, Alexiadou, Anagnostopoulou & Sevdali to appear). In this article, we present novel data on ‘get’-passives in Icelandic; while Icelandic has played an important role in our understanding of case marking and valency alternations, ‘get…

  • Against the Movement Theory of Control: Another Argument from Icelandic

    J Wood•ARTICLE•Linguistic Inquiry•2012•Cited by: 5•References: 9

    In this squib, I present an empirical argument from Icelandic that the movement theory of control (MTC) is on the wrong track—or at best, does not achieve what it purports to achieve. I depart from previous discussion, which has focused on the fact that Icelandic PRO bears case, and show that the MTC would require violating locality constraints on A-movement that raising infinitives do not violate. Since the goal of the MTC is to account for the …

  • Stylistic Fronting in spoken Icelandic relatives

    Open Access•J Wood•ARTICLE•Nordic Journal of Linguistics•2011

    Since Maling's (1980) study of embedded verb-second, Icelandic Stylistic Fronting has been an extensively studied aspect of Icelandic syntax. It is widely regarded as an optional fronting operation which moves an ordinarily post-verbal constituent to the pre-verbal domain just in case there is a subject gap. In this study, variationist methodology is employed to study quantitatively the conditioning effects of several syntactic and prosodic facto…

  • The Hazard Perception Ability of Older Drivers

    Mark S Horswill, Shelby Marrington et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2008•References: 2

    We investigated the hazard perception ability of older drivers. A sample of 118 older drivers (65 years and older) completed a video-based hazard perception test and an assessment battery designed to measure aspects of cognitive ability, vision, and simple reaction time that might plausibly be linked to hazard perception ability. We found that hazard perception response times increased significantly with age but that this age-related increase cou…

  • Pipes from Malta: A short account of the tobacco pipes found in Dockyard Creek, Birgu

    Open Access•J Wood•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•1998•Cited by: 1•References: 2

    The development of post-medieval archaeology has been uneven in the Mediterranean. While major advances have been made in areas, such as the Aegean and Italy, others have garnered little sustained archaeological interest. In Malta, one of the principal barriers to the development of post-medieval archaeology has been the lack of knowledge and published findings regarding one of the most important find-types: pottery. The present study presents th…

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  • Fertility in Anthropological Populations

    J Wood, James W Wood•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Anthropology•1990•Cited by: 70•References: 7

    In this review I draw upon statistical demography and, to a lesser extent, reproductive endocrinology to formulate a coherent strategy for investigating fertility and reproduction in anthropological populations. The object, it must be emphasized, is not to reduce anthropology to demography or endocrinology, but rather to acquaint anthropologists with a powerful set of tools with which they can address issues of anthropological interest." The auth…

  • On the Implicit Argument of Icelandic Indirect Causatives

    Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, J Wood•ARTICLE•Linguistic Inquiry•2021•Cited by: 7•References: 66

    The goal of this article is to understand the syntax of Icelandic indirect causatives (ICs), especially with respect to the implicit causee. We show that the complement of the causative verb must be at least as large as a VoiceP, and that it shares some properties with active VoicePs and others with passive VoicePs. We make sense of this state of affairs by proposing that the causee, while phonetically silent, has an explicit syntactic representa…

  • The Accusative-Subject Generalization

    Open Access•J Wood•ARTICLE•Syntax•2017•Cited by: 7•References: 46

    This article discusses the morphosyntax of accusative-subject constructions in Icelandic, from the point of view of the "dependent case" analysis of accusative. The primary focus is on deriving the Accusative-Subject Generalization (ASG), the generalization that accusative subjects are never related thematically to a morphologically intransitive verb. After it is demonstrated that the ASG holds, it is proposed that the ASG follows from the claim …

  • The Southern Dative Presentative Meets Mechanical Turk

    J Wood, Laurence Horn et al.•ARTICLE•American Speech•2015•Cited by: 7•References: 27

    This article introduces the southern dative presentative, an understudied construction that varies across speakers of American English. The authors discuss similarities and differences between this construction and the better-studied personal dative construction and compare the Southern dative presentative with similar constructions cross-linguistically. They then present the results of a nationwide acceptability judgment survey administered on A…

  • Reflexive -st verbs in Icelandic

    Open Access•J Wood•ARTICLE•Natural Language and Linguistic…•2014•Cited by: 7•References: 55

  • LetCausatives and (A)symmetricdat-nomConstructions

    Open Access•J Wood, Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson•ARTICLE•Syntax•2014•Cited by: 7•References: 40

    The verbláta'let/make' in Icelandic provides a unique opportunity to understand the behavior of symmetric versus asymmetricdat-nomconstructions, as well as the nature of nominative-accusative case alternations. In this paper, we take a close look atlátaand examine a set of cases wheredat-nomverbs are embedded underláta, resulting in the otherwise nominative object becoming accusative in some cases and remaining nominative in others. We propose th…

  • Against the Movement Theory of Control: Another Argument from Icelandic

    J Wood•ARTICLE•Linguistic Inquiry•2012•Cited by: 5•References: 9

    In this squib, I present an empirical argument from Icelandic that the movement theory of control (MTC) is on the wrong track—or at best, does not achieve what it purports to achieve. I depart from previous discussion, which has focused on the fact that Icelandic PRO bears case, and show that the MTC would require violating locality constraints on A-movement that raising infinitives do not violate. Since the goal of the MTC is to account for the …

  • Dative Country

    J Wood, Raffaella Zanuttini et al.•ARTICLE•American Speech•2020•Cited by: 4•References: 19

    This article explores geographical variation in a range of understudied dative constructions in American English. It shows that these constructions are found primarily in the South and that they permit numerous syntactic variations and permutations. However, not all sentences and constructions have an equal status. In particular, the authors find that they lie on a continuum of markedness. More marked variants are judged acceptable by fewer speak…

  • Hvor 'Each' Reciprocals and Distributives in Icelandic: E-Raising + Short Main Verb Movement

    Open Access•Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson, J Wood et al.•ARTICLE•Linguistic Inquiry•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 2

    We discuss remarkable constructions in Icelandic that have the distributive pronoun hvor 'each' in common: the reciprocal construction hvor annar 'each other', and the distributive construction hvor sinn 'each their', which also comes in a sinn hvor 'their each' version. We provide the first detailed description of these constructions, in particular their case and word order properties, which raise recalcitrant puzzles, and then we discuss what t…

  • Quantifying geographical variation in acceptability judgments in regional American English dialect syntax

    Open Access•J Wood•ARTICLE•Linguistics•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 35

    The acceptability of many syntactic constructions varies across speakers. In some, but not all cases, such interspeaker variation is due to speakers coming from different dialect regions. However, since neither dialect regions nor acceptability judgments are discrete, it is not always straightforward to determine when variation in a construction’s acceptability is geographically constrained. In this paper, I present one method of making this dete…

  • Microvariation in the have yet to construction

    Matthew Tyler, J Wood•ARTICLE•Linguistic Variation•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 41

    The have yet to construction, exemplified by sentences such as John has yet to visit his grandmother, is widespread across dialects of English. However, recent studies have revealed that behind this apparent unity, there is significant variation in the syntactic properties of the have yet to construction. Speakers vary with respect to (i) the status of have as an auxiliary or main verb, (ii) the status of negation tests, and (iii) the status of a…

  • Case mismatching in Icelandic clausal ellipsis

    Open Access•J Wood, Matthew Barros et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Linguistics•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 10

    In this article, we take a detailed look at clausal ellipsis in Icelandic, a hitherto understudied phenomenon. We focus on case-matching and case-mismatching facts in fragment responses. We argue that although case matching is the norm, constrained instances of case mis matching strongly suggest that there must be silent structure in the ellipsis site, and some syntactic identity condition. We outline these patterns in detail, and provide an anal…

  • The effect of leprotic infection on the risk of death in medieval rural Denmark

    Open Access•Saige Kelmeli, Michael Holton Price et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 36

    INTRODUCTION: Paleopathological studies of leprosy in Danish skeletal collections show that many individuals suffered from this stigmatized disease during the Middle Ages. This study examines the risk of death associated with leprotic infection in individuals from the Danish rural cemetery of Øm Kloster (AD 1172-1536). Specifically, we modeled the influence of leprotic infection on age-specific mortality accounting also for sex and social status …

  • Clause-Bounded Movement: Stylistic Fronting and Phase Theory

    Anton Karl Ingason, J Wood•ARTICLE•Linguistic Inquiry•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 26

    In this squib, we provide novel empirical support for treating the thematic domain-the vP-as a locality domain like CP (a phase), in agreement with a growing body of research (see Fox 1999 , Barbiers 2002 , Legate 2003 , Rackowski and Richards 2005 , Cozier 2006 , Kahnemuyipour and Megerdoomian 2011 , Buell 2012 , Van Urk and Richards 2015 ; see Den Dikken 2006 for an opposing view). We show how vP phasehood solves a previously unsolved problem f…

  • Pipes from Malta: A short account of the tobacco pipes found in Dockyard Creek, Birgu

    Open Access•J Wood•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•1998•Cited by: 1•References: 2

    The development of post-medieval archaeology has been uneven in the Mediterranean. While major advances have been made in areas, such as the Aegean and Italy, others have garnered little sustained archaeological interest. In Malta, one of the principal barriers to the development of post-medieval archaeology has been the lack of knowledge and published findings regarding one of the most important find-types: pottery. The present study presents th…

  • Castles in Spain

    J Wood, John L Wood•ARTICLE•Oxford Art Journal•1983

    Castles in Spain Get access Building the Escorial , George Kubler , 185 pp., 123 pls. Princeton University Press , Princeton, New Jersey , 1982 , £28. A Palace for a King. The Buen Retiro and the Court of Philip IV , Jonathan Brown and J.H. Elliot , 296 pp., 156 figs. Yale University Press , New Haven and London , 1980 , £17.50. JEREMY WOOD JEREMY WOOD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Vo…

  • The roles of Diefenbaker, Macmillan and verwoerd in the withdrawal of South Africa from the commonwealth

    J Wood, J R T Wood•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary African…•1987•References: 1

  • Fertility in Anthropological Populations

    J Wood, James W Wood•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Anthropology•1990•Cited by: 70•References: 7

    In this review I draw upon statistical demography and, to a lesser extent, reproductive endocrinology to formulate a coherent strategy for investigating fertility and reproduction in anthropological populations. The object, it must be emphasized, is not to reduce anthropology to demography or endocrinology, but rather to acquaint anthropologists with a powerful set of tools with which they can address issues of anthropological interest." The auth…

  • Practice of breast self examination: Disease extent at diagnosis and patterns of surgical care. A report from an Italian study. Givio (Interdisciplinary Group for Cancer Care Evaluation)

    Alexanian Fossati, G Apalone et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•1991

    Premorbid breast self examination seems to have a modest effect on the extent of disease at diagnosis. The still widespread use of radical surgery suggests that a careful reanalysis of priorities among possible public interventions is needed before launching massive educational campaigns targeted exclusively at consumers

  • Pipes from Malta: A short account of the tobacco pipes found in Dockyard Creek, Birgu

    Open Access•J Wood•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•1998•Cited by: 1•References: 2

    The development of post-medieval archaeology has been uneven in the Mediterranean. While major advances have been made in areas, such as the Aegean and Italy, others have garnered little sustained archaeological interest. In Malta, one of the principal barriers to the development of post-medieval archaeology has been the lack of knowledge and published findings regarding one of the most important find-types: pottery. The present study presents th…

  • The Hazard Perception Ability of Older Drivers

    Mark S Horswill, Shelby Marrington et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2008•References: 2

    We investigated the hazard perception ability of older drivers. A sample of 118 older drivers (65 years and older) completed a video-based hazard perception test and an assessment battery designed to measure aspects of cognitive ability, vision, and simple reaction time that might plausibly be linked to hazard perception ability. We found that hazard perception response times increased significantly with age but that this age-related increase cou…

  • Stylistic Fronting in spoken Icelandic relatives

    Open Access•J Wood•ARTICLE•Nordic Journal of Linguistics•2011

    Since Maling's (1980) study of embedded verb-second, Icelandic Stylistic Fronting has been an extensively studied aspect of Icelandic syntax. It is widely regarded as an optional fronting operation which moves an ordinarily post-verbal constituent to the pre-verbal domain just in case there is a subject gap. In this study, variationist methodology is employed to study quantitatively the conditioning effects of several syntactic and prosodic facto…

  • Case alternations in Icelandic ‘get’-passives

    Open Access•Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, J Wood•ARTICLE•Nordic Journal of Linguistics•2012

    The analysis of ‘get’-passives across Germanic poses a number of challenges to our understanding of valency alternations: they exhibit surprising case alternations and recalcitrant thematic properties (Alexiadou 2012, Alexiadou, Anagnostopoulou & Sevdali to appear). In this article, we present novel data on ‘get’-passives in Icelandic; while Icelandic has played an important role in our understanding of case marking and valency alternations, ‘get…

  • Against the Movement Theory of Control: Another Argument from Icelandic

    J Wood•ARTICLE•Linguistic Inquiry•2012•Cited by: 5•References: 9

    In this squib, I present an empirical argument from Icelandic that the movement theory of control (MTC) is on the wrong track—or at best, does not achieve what it purports to achieve. I depart from previous discussion, which has focused on the fact that Icelandic PRO bears case, and show that the MTC would require violating locality constraints on A-movement that raising infinitives do not violate. Since the goal of the MTC is to account for the …

  • Reflexive -st verbs in Icelandic

    Open Access•J Wood•ARTICLE•Natural Language and Linguistic…•2014•Cited by: 7•References: 55

  • LetCausatives and (A)symmetricdat-nomConstructions

    Open Access•J Wood, Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson•ARTICLE•Syntax•2014•Cited by: 7•References: 40

    The verbláta'let/make' in Icelandic provides a unique opportunity to understand the behavior of symmetric versus asymmetricdat-nomconstructions, as well as the nature of nominative-accusative case alternations. In this paper, we take a close look atlátaand examine a set of cases wheredat-nomverbs are embedded underláta, resulting in the otherwise nominative object becoming accusative in some cases and remaining nominative in others. We propose th…

  • Icelandic Morphosyntax and Argument Structure

    Open Access•J Wood•BOOK•Icelandic Morphosyntax and…•2015

  • The Southern Dative Presentative Meets Mechanical Turk

    J Wood, Laurence Horn et al.•ARTICLE•American Speech•2015•Cited by: 7•References: 27

    This article introduces the southern dative presentative, an understudied construction that varies across speakers of American English. The authors discuss similarities and differences between this construction and the better-studied personal dative construction and compare the Southern dative presentative with similar constructions cross-linguistically. They then present the results of a nationwide acceptability judgment survey administered on A…

  • Icelandic Object Extraposition Is Still a Problem for the Movement Theory of Control: A Reply to Drummond and Hornstein

    J Wood•ARTICLE•Linguistic Inquiry•2017

    In Wood 2012 , I argued that object extraposition of infinitive clauses in Icelandic reveals a problem for the movement theory of control (MTC). Object extraposition involves a pronoun that, when present, prevents any movement out of the extraposed clause, but allows the control dependency. Drummond and Hornstein (2014) claim that the facts discussed in Wood 2012 are compatible with the MTC. In this reply, I show that their response is based on a…

  • The effect of leprotic infection on the risk of death in medieval rural Denmark

    Open Access•Saige Kelmeli, Michael Holton Price et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 36

    INTRODUCTION: Paleopathological studies of leprosy in Danish skeletal collections show that many individuals suffered from this stigmatized disease during the Middle Ages. This study examines the risk of death associated with leprotic infection in individuals from the Danish rural cemetery of Øm Kloster (AD 1172-1536). Specifically, we modeled the influence of leprotic infection on age-specific mortality accounting also for sex and social status …

  • The Accusative-Subject Generalization

    Open Access•J Wood•ARTICLE•Syntax•2017•Cited by: 7•References: 46

    This article discusses the morphosyntax of accusative-subject constructions in Icelandic, from the point of view of the "dependent case" analysis of accusative. The primary focus is on deriving the Accusative-Subject Generalization (ASG), the generalization that accusative subjects are never related thematically to a morphologically intransitive verb. After it is demonstrated that the ASG holds, it is proposed that the ASG follows from the claim …

  • Clause-Bounded Movement: Stylistic Fronting and Phase Theory

    Anton Karl Ingason, J Wood•ARTICLE•Linguistic Inquiry•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 26

    In this squib, we provide novel empirical support for treating the thematic domain-the vP-as a locality domain like CP (a phase), in agreement with a growing body of research (see Fox 1999 , Barbiers 2002 , Legate 2003 , Rackowski and Richards 2005 , Cozier 2006 , Kahnemuyipour and Megerdoomian 2011 , Buell 2012 , Van Urk and Richards 2015 ; see Den Dikken 2006 for an opposing view). We show how vP phasehood solves a previously unsolved problem f…

  • The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: Morphosyntactic variation in North American English

    Raffaella Zanuttini, J Wood et al.•ARTICLE•Linguistics Vanguard•2018

    The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project approaches the empirical domain of North American English from the perspective of generative microcomparative syntax. In addition to eliciting judgments from speakers of particular varieties, we also conduct large-scale surveys, map the results of those surveys geographically, conduct statistical tests taking geography and other social variables into account, and look for theoretically significant linguistic…

  • Cyclic cliticization in Icelandic

    Open Access•Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, J Wood•ARTICLE•Nordic Journal of Linguistics•2019

    This squib discusses the clitic DU ( -du/-ðu/-tu ) in Icelandic and compares it with other reduced forms of personal pronouns, such as ’ann (for hann ‘he’) and ’ún (for hún ‘she’). We show that there are various restrictions found on DU which are not found on other reduced forms of personal pronouns in Icelandic. We argue that whereas reduced forms such as ’ann and ’ ún are morphophonologically conditioned, DU is syntactically conditioned; it is …

  • Case mismatching in Icelandic clausal ellipsis

    Open Access•J Wood, Matthew Barros et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Linguistics•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 10

    In this article, we take a detailed look at clausal ellipsis in Icelandic, a hitherto understudied phenomenon. We focus on case-matching and case-mismatching facts in fragment responses. We argue that although case matching is the norm, constrained instances of case mis matching strongly suggest that there must be silent structure in the ellipsis site, and some syntactic identity condition. We outline these patterns in detail, and provide an anal…

  • Quantifying geographical variation in acceptability judgments in regional American English dialect syntax

    Open Access•J Wood•ARTICLE•Linguistics•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 35

    The acceptability of many syntactic constructions varies across speakers. In some, but not all cases, such interspeaker variation is due to speakers coming from different dialect regions. However, since neither dialect regions nor acceptability judgments are discrete, it is not always straightforward to determine when variation in a construction’s acceptability is geographically constrained. In this paper, I present one method of making this dete…

  • Microvariation in the have yet to construction

    Matthew Tyler, J Wood•ARTICLE•Linguistic Variation•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 41

    The have yet to construction, exemplified by sentences such as John has yet to visit his grandmother, is widespread across dialects of English. However, recent studies have revealed that behind this apparent unity, there is significant variation in the syntactic properties of the have yet to construction. Speakers vary with respect to (i) the status of have as an auxiliary or main verb, (ii) the status of negation tests, and (iii) the status of a…

  • “We Olaf”: Pro[(x-)NP] constructions in Icelandic and beyond

    Open Access•Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson, J Wood•ARTICLE•Glossa a journal of general…•2020

    This article discusses and analyzes an unusual construction in Icelandic, with a plural pronoun in the singular reading and a directly juxtaposed or annexed NP (or DP), where, for example, við Ólafur (literally “we.NOM Olaf.NOM”) means ‘Olaf and I’. We refer to this construction as Pro[NP]. Pro[NP] constructions have been reported for a handful of languages that lack a case system. Icelandic, in contrast, is a case language, and Pro[NP] in this l…

  • Dative Country

    J Wood, Raffaella Zanuttini et al.•ARTICLE•American Speech•2020•Cited by: 4•References: 19

    This article explores geographical variation in a range of understudied dative constructions in American English. It shows that these constructions are found primarily in the South and that they permit numerous syntactic variations and permutations. However, not all sentences and constructions have an equal status. In particular, the authors find that they lie on a continuum of markedness. More marked variants are judged acceptable by fewer speak…

  • Hvor 'Each' Reciprocals and Distributives in Icelandic: E-Raising + Short Main Verb Movement

    Open Access•Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson, J Wood et al.•ARTICLE•Linguistic Inquiry•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 2

    We discuss remarkable constructions in Icelandic that have the distributive pronoun hvor 'each' in common: the reciprocal construction hvor annar 'each other', and the distributive construction hvor sinn 'each their', which also comes in a sinn hvor 'their each' version. We provide the first detailed description of these constructions, in particular their case and word order properties, which raise recalcitrant puzzles, and then we discuss what t…

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