Kyle Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3850557 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kyle Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kyle |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5126-1399 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 184 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sloppy symmetry under ellipsis
This paper focuses on the behavior of symmetric predicates under ellipsis. Building on Stockwell (Stockwell, Richard. 2020. Contrast and verb phrase ellipsis: Triviality, symmetry, and competition . UCLA. Doctoral Dissertation), we examine the phenomenon of participant and transitivity switching under VP-ellipsis, which symmetric predicates permit but non-symmetric ones do not. While Stockwell takes this as evidence for a semantic identity condit…
Gapping
Gapping is a construction type, found in many languages, in which part of a second conjunct is missing and supplied by material in the first conjunct. It has properties that segregate it from other seemingly similar constructions like VP and clausal ellipsis which are examined in this chapter. Those properties include: a locality condition not found elsewhere, a restriction to coordinations, apparent violations of constituency, and unexpected sco…
Commentary on ‘Gender mismatches under nominal ellipsis’ by Jason Merchant
Colombia
Is the world's longest active civil war finally coming to an end? In November 2012 the Colombian government and the left-wing guerrilla group Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) bega
Towards deriving differences in how Wh Movement and QR are pronounced
Gapping Is Not (VP-) Ellipsis
Pseudogapping is no misnomer. Despite their many tempting similarities, gapping and pseudogapping are distinct constructions. Pseudogapping is a special instance of VP-ellipsis, while gapping, I argue, is a special instance of across-the-board movement. Squeezing gapping into across-the-board movement has its own discomforts, however, which I suggest can be remedied by retailoring our syntax to include string-based output constraints. I sketch on…
Double Objects Again
In this article, we explore the interaction of the verb again with double object constructions and the corresponding NP+PP constructions. The restitutive reading that again gives rise to in combination with these predicates supports an analysis of double object constructions according to which they contain a small clause with a head predicate HAVE, and an analysis of the corresponding NP+PP constructions that is not transformationally related and…
Restoring Exotic Coordinations to Normalcy
I analyze two instances in German where coordinations seem to violate Ross's (1967) Coordinate Structure Constraint. I follow Schwarz 1998 and argue that the two constructions are underlyingly the same, one deriving from the other through gapping. Using the thesis that the verb-final word order in German involves a short leftward movement of the finite verb or verb phrase, I provide a method of avoiding the Coordinate Structure Constraint violati…
What VP Ellipsis Can Do, and What it Can't, But Not Why
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Licensing the Ellipsis Finding the Antecedent How the Ellipsis Gets its Meaning
A review of The Antisymmetry of Syntax
Object positions
The Nature of Mass Poverty
Object positions
Double Objects Again
In this article, we explore the interaction of the verb again with double object constructions and the corresponding NP+PP constructions. The restitutive reading that again gives rise to in combination with these predicates supports an analysis of double object constructions according to which they contain a small clause with a head predicate HAVE, and an analysis of the corresponding NP+PP constructions that is not transformationally related and…
Gapping Is Not (VP-) Ellipsis
Pseudogapping is no misnomer. Despite their many tempting similarities, gapping and pseudogapping are distinct constructions. Pseudogapping is a special instance of VP-ellipsis, while gapping, I argue, is a special instance of across-the-board movement. Squeezing gapping into across-the-board movement has its own discomforts, however, which I suggest can be remedied by retailoring our syntax to include string-based output constraints. I sketch on…
Towards deriving differences in how Wh Movement and QR are pronounced
Restoring Exotic Coordinations to Normalcy
I analyze two instances in German where coordinations seem to violate Ross's (1967) Coordinate Structure Constraint. I follow Schwarz 1998 and argue that the two constructions are underlyingly the same, one deriving from the other through gapping. Using the thesis that the verb-final word order in German involves a short leftward movement of the finite verb or verb phrase, I provide a method of avoiding the Coordinate Structure Constraint violati…
Commentary on ‘Gender mismatches under nominal ellipsis’ by Jason Merchant
Colombia
Is the world's longest active civil war finally coming to an end? In November 2012 the Colombian government and the left-wing guerrilla group Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) bega
The Nature of Mass Poverty
Object positions
A review of The Antisymmetry of Syntax
What VP Ellipsis Can Do, and What it Can't, But Not Why
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Licensing the Ellipsis Finding the Antecedent How the Ellipsis Gets its Meaning
Restoring Exotic Coordinations to Normalcy
I analyze two instances in German where coordinations seem to violate Ross's (1967) Coordinate Structure Constraint. I follow Schwarz 1998 and argue that the two constructions are underlyingly the same, one deriving from the other through gapping. Using the thesis that the verb-final word order in German involves a short leftward movement of the finite verb or verb phrase, I provide a method of avoiding the Coordinate Structure Constraint violati…
Double Objects Again
In this article, we explore the interaction of the verb again with double object constructions and the corresponding NP+PP constructions. The restitutive reading that again gives rise to in combination with these predicates supports an analysis of double object constructions according to which they contain a small clause with a head predicate HAVE, and an analysis of the corresponding NP+PP constructions that is not transformationally related and…
Gapping Is Not (VP-) Ellipsis
Pseudogapping is no misnomer. Despite their many tempting similarities, gapping and pseudogapping are distinct constructions. Pseudogapping is a special instance of VP-ellipsis, while gapping, I argue, is a special instance of across-the-board movement. Squeezing gapping into across-the-board movement has its own discomforts, however, which I suggest can be remedied by retailoring our syntax to include string-based output constraints. I sketch on…
Towards deriving differences in how Wh Movement and QR are pronounced
Colombia
Is the world's longest active civil war finally coming to an end? In November 2012 the Colombian government and the left-wing guerrilla group Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) bega
Commentary on ‘Gender mismatches under nominal ellipsis’ by Jason Merchant
Gapping
Gapping is a construction type, found in many languages, in which part of a second conjunct is missing and supplied by material in the first conjunct. It has properties that segregate it from other seemingly similar constructions like VP and clausal ellipsis which are examined in this chapter. Those properties include: a locality condition not found elsewhere, a restriction to coordinations, apparent violations of constituency, and unexpected sco…
Sloppy symmetry under ellipsis
This paper focuses on the behavior of symmetric predicates under ellipsis. Building on Stockwell (Stockwell, Richard. 2020. Contrast and verb phrase ellipsis: Triviality, symmetry, and competition . UCLA. Doctoral Dissertation), we examine the phenomenon of participant and transitivity switching under VP-ellipsis, which symmetric predicates permit but non-symmetric ones do not. While Stockwell takes this as evidence for a semantic identity condit…
Linguistics (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (7 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Algorithm (3 works) · Ellipsis (linguistics) (3 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works)