Robert Truswell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1498470 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Truswell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Truswell |
| SIGNATURE | TRUSWELL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8584-9035 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Grammar Competition and Word Order in a Northern Early Middle English Text
The Edinburgh Royal College of Physicians manuscript of Cursor Mundi and the Northern Homilies, a northern Middle English text from the early 14th century, contains unprecedentedly high frequencies of matrix verb-third and embedded verb-second word orders with subject-verb inversion. I give a theoretical account of these word orders in terms of a grammar, the 'CM grammar', which differs minimally in its formal description from regular verb-second…
Which- hunting in Medieval England
In many of the first English headed which -relatives, which has an NP complement. Using distributional tests grounded in contrasts revealed by research in formal semantics, we demonstrate that the presence of an NP complement forces a nonrestrictive interpretation of the relative, while ‘bare’ which -relatives may be restrictive or nonrestrictive. We situate this finding in relation to both the formal semantics of relative clauses, and the histor…
The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure
This volume offers an introduction to current research in event structure, the study of the role of events in grammar. This area of study breaks down into several interrelated questions: How do we perceive events? How do events as objects of perception relate to linguistic event descriptions? What structural distinctions can we make among events, and how are these distinctions reflected grammatically? How do events relate to their participants? T…
Oxford Handbook of Event Structure
This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events. The study of event structure over the past 60 years has been one of the most successful areas of lexical semantics, uniting insights from morphology and syntax, lexical and compositional semantics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence to develop insightful theories of events and event descriptions. This volume provides accessible int…
Relatives with a Leftward Island in Early Modern English
Attributive Adjectives and Nominal Templates
July 01 2009 Attributive Adjectives and Nominal Templates Robert Truswell Robert Truswell University College London. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Robert Truswell University College London. Online Issn: 1530-9150 Print Issn: 0024-3892 © 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2009 Linguistic Inquiry (2009) 40 (3): 525–533. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling.2009.40.3.525 Cite Icon Ci…
Preposition stranding, passivisation, and extraction from adjuncts in Germanic
The crosslinguistic distribution of preposition stranding by A movement in pseudopassive constructions matches that of a marked A' phenomenon, namely extraction from Bare Present Participial Adjuncts. Moreover, both constructions show sensitivity to external factors of a sort that reanalysis-based theories of P-stranding are designed to capture, but which is not immediately predicted by P-stranding theories based on parametrisation of PP’s status…
Extraction from adjuncts and the structure of events
Extraction from adjuncts and the structure of events
Attributive Adjectives and Nominal Templates
July 01 2009 Attributive Adjectives and Nominal Templates Robert Truswell Robert Truswell University College London. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Robert Truswell University College London. Online Issn: 1530-9150 Print Issn: 0024-3892 © 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2009 Linguistic Inquiry (2009) 40 (3): 525–533. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling.2009.40.3.525 Cite Icon Ci…
Relatives with a Leftward Island in Early Modern English
Extraction from adjuncts and the structure of events
Preposition stranding, passivisation, and extraction from adjuncts in Germanic
The crosslinguistic distribution of preposition stranding by A movement in pseudopassive constructions matches that of a marked A' phenomenon, namely extraction from Bare Present Participial Adjuncts. Moreover, both constructions show sensitivity to external factors of a sort that reanalysis-based theories of P-stranding are designed to capture, but which is not immediately predicted by P-stranding theories based on parametrisation of PP’s status…
Attributive Adjectives and Nominal Templates
July 01 2009 Attributive Adjectives and Nominal Templates Robert Truswell Robert Truswell University College London. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Robert Truswell University College London. Online Issn: 1530-9150 Print Issn: 0024-3892 © 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2009 Linguistic Inquiry (2009) 40 (3): 525–533. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling.2009.40.3.525 Cite Icon Ci…
Relatives with a Leftward Island in Early Modern English
The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure
This volume offers an introduction to current research in event structure, the study of the role of events in grammar. This area of study breaks down into several interrelated questions: How do we perceive events? How do events as objects of perception relate to linguistic event descriptions? What structural distinctions can we make among events, and how are these distinctions reflected grammatically? How do events relate to their participants? T…
Oxford Handbook of Event Structure
This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events. The study of event structure over the past 60 years has been one of the most successful areas of lexical semantics, uniting insights from morphology and syntax, lexical and compositional semantics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence to develop insightful theories of events and event descriptions. This volume provides accessible int…
Which- hunting in Medieval England
In many of the first English headed which -relatives, which has an NP complement. Using distributional tests grounded in contrasts revealed by research in formal semantics, we demonstrate that the presence of an NP complement forces a nonrestrictive interpretation of the relative, while ‘bare’ which -relatives may be restrictive or nonrestrictive. We situate this finding in relation to both the formal semantics of relative clauses, and the histor…
Grammar Competition and Word Order in a Northern Early Middle English Text
The Edinburgh Royal College of Physicians manuscript of Cursor Mundi and the Northern Homilies, a northern Middle English text from the early 14th century, contains unprecedentedly high frequencies of matrix verb-third and embedded verb-second word orders with subject-verb inversion. I give a theoretical account of these word orders in terms of a grammar, the 'CM grammar', which differs minimally in its formal description from regular verb-second…
Computer Science (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · History (3 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (3 works) · Verb (3 works) · Event structure (2 works) · Grammar (2 works)