Alexander Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3851330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2487-6667 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1926 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Soundtrack to Revolution: Examining Rap as a Resistance Against the Black Man’s ‘Existential Deviation’ in Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks
When we discuss the Black man as a psychological subject, we must keep in the forefront of our discussion the fact that ‘alongside phylogeny and ontogeny, there is also sociogeny’; these branches of biological and social systematics lend themselves, as Frantz Fanon argues, to a psychological exploration of the ‘existential deviation [...] white civilization and European culture have imposed’ on the Black man. In this paper, I will argue that not …
The main event in resultatives
I explore what modification and negation tell us about the logical form of resultatives: a resultative relates the events of its two parts, but is a predicate of a third event, a change, equal to neither. This is important for explaining the construction—most significantly, the direct object restriction—and understanding how it differs from others that seem similar. It also shapes how we might use resultatives in the analysis of synthetic causati…
Thematic Content, Not Number Matching, Drives Syntactic Bootstrapping
Children use correlations between the syntax of a clause and the meaning of its predicate to draw inferences about word meanings. On one proposal, these inferences are underwritten by a structural similarity between syntactic and semantic representations: learners expect that the number of clause arguments exactly matches the number of participant roles in the event concept under which its referent is viewed. We argue against this proposal, and i…
Psycholinguistic evidence for restricted quantification
Surveillance Capitalism or Information Republic
Recent years have seen growing concerns about corporate surveillance. Critics of surveillance capitalism often use the language of domination and unfreedom to describe these new socio‐technological conditions. Yet there has been little sustained normative analysis that has diagnosed the new forms of domination introduced by surveillance capitalism or considered the remedies needed to remove them. That is what this article provides. We draw on the…
Processing adjunct control: Evidence on the use of structural information and prediction in reference resolution
The comprehension of anaphoric relations may be guided not only by discourse, but also syntactic information. In the literature on online processing, however, the focus has been on audible pronouns and descriptions whose reference is resolved mainly on the former. This paper examines one relation that both lacks overt exponence, and relies almost exclusively on syntax for its resolution: adjunct control, or the dependency between the null subject…
Imagining the Post-colonial Lawyer: Legal Elites and the Indian Nation-State, 1947–1967
A key feature of British rule in India was the formation of a class of elite metropolitan lawyers who had an outsized role within the legal profession and a prominent position in Indian politics. This paper analyzes the response of these legal elites to the shifting social and political terrain of post-colonial India, arguing that the advent of the Indian nation-state shaped the discursive strategies of elite lawyers in two crucial ways. First, i…
Political Hegemony and Social Complexity: Mechanisms of Power After Gramsci
How can we understand power in a world of ever-growing complexity? This book proposes that we can do so by rethinking the theory and practice of political hegemony through the resources of complexity theory. Taking Gramsci’s understanding of hegemony as its starting point, the book argues that the intricacies of contemporary power can be mapped by applying concepts drawn from complexity theory, such as emergence, self-organisation, metastability,…
Horizontal Effect and the Constitutional Constraint
This article offers a new interpretation – the ‘constitutional constraint’ model – of the duty the H uman R ights A ct imposes on the courts to give horizontal effect to E uropean C onvention rights through the common law. The model requires courts to develop the common law compatibly with the C onvention, but only where compatibility can be achieved by incremental development. We argue that models requiring more than incremental development are …
Themes, Cumulativity, and Resultatives: Comments on Kratzer 2003
According to Kratzer (2003), the thematic relation Theme, construed very generally, is not a “natural relation.” She says that the “natural relations” are “cumulative” and argues that Theme is not cumulative, in contrast to Agent. It is therefore best, she concludes, to remove Theme from the palette of semantic analysis. Here I oppose the premises of Kratzer's argument and then introduce a new challenge to her conclusion, based on the resultative…
Constructions on holiday
Constructions at Work provides many new empirical observations and sound criticisms of other work. These fail, however, to support Goldberg's two main arguments. They do not undermine the need for innate linguistic structure; nor do they decide for Construction Grammar in particular
Null Subjects in Middle English Existentials
In Early Middle English (II50-1250) as in Old English (850-1150), the expletive pronoun there (per, pear, etc.) is often missing from existential sentences in which it could grammatically occur, as it is missing from (1). (2) comes from the same text as (1), but here the expletive is pronounced.
Wavendon Gate. A Late Iron Age and Roman Settlement in Milton Keynes
Recreational Carrying Capacity of Pasir Ris Resort, Singapore
The Impact of Rule 48 Upon the Black Student Athlete: A Comment
Alexander Williams, Jr., The Impact of Rule 48 Upon the Black Student Athlete: A Comment, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 52, No. 3, Persistent and Emergent Legal Issues in Education: 1983 Yearbook (Summer, 1983), pp. 362-373
Louise Imogen Guiney: Laureate of the Lost
A Social History of the Greater Boston Clubs
Analecta Biographica: A Handful of New England Portraits
Colonial and Federal Portraits at Bowdoin College
Game Trails in British Columbia
Constructions on holiday
Constructions at Work provides many new empirical observations and sound criticisms of other work. These fail, however, to support Goldberg's two main arguments. They do not undermine the need for innate linguistic structure; nor do they decide for Construction Grammar in particular
Political Hegemony and Social Complexity: Mechanisms of Power After Gramsci
How can we understand power in a world of ever-growing complexity? This book proposes that we can do so by rethinking the theory and practice of political hegemony through the resources of complexity theory. Taking Gramsci’s understanding of hegemony as its starting point, the book argues that the intricacies of contemporary power can be mapped by applying concepts drawn from complexity theory, such as emergence, self-organisation, metastability,…
Wavendon Gate. A Late Iron Age and Roman Settlement in Milton Keynes
The Impact of Rule 48 Upon the Black Student Athlete: A Comment
Alexander Williams, Jr., The Impact of Rule 48 Upon the Black Student Athlete: A Comment, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 52, No. 3, Persistent and Emergent Legal Issues in Education: 1983 Yearbook (Summer, 1983), pp. 362-373
Horizontal Effect and the Constitutional Constraint
This article offers a new interpretation – the ‘constitutional constraint’ model – of the duty the H uman R ights A ct imposes on the courts to give horizontal effect to E uropean C onvention rights through the common law. The model requires courts to develop the common law compatibly with the C onvention, but only where compatibility can be achieved by incremental development. We argue that models requiring more than incremental development are …
Game Trails in British Columbia
Colonial and Federal Portraits at Bowdoin College
Analecta Biographica: A Handful of New England Portraits
A Social History of the Greater Boston Clubs
Louise Imogen Guiney: Laureate of the Lost
The Impact of Rule 48 Upon the Black Student Athlete: A Comment
Alexander Williams, Jr., The Impact of Rule 48 Upon the Black Student Athlete: A Comment, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 52, No. 3, Persistent and Emergent Legal Issues in Education: 1983 Yearbook (Summer, 1983), pp. 362-373
Recreational Carrying Capacity of Pasir Ris Resort, Singapore
Wavendon Gate. A Late Iron Age and Roman Settlement in Milton Keynes
Null Subjects in Middle English Existentials
In Early Middle English (II50-1250) as in Old English (850-1150), the expletive pronoun there (per, pear, etc.) is often missing from existential sentences in which it could grammatically occur, as it is missing from (1). (2) comes from the same text as (1), but here the expletive is pronounced.
Themes, Cumulativity, and Resultatives: Comments on Kratzer 2003
According to Kratzer (2003), the thematic relation Theme, construed very generally, is not a “natural relation.” She says that the “natural relations” are “cumulative” and argues that Theme is not cumulative, in contrast to Agent. It is therefore best, she concludes, to remove Theme from the palette of semantic analysis. Here I oppose the premises of Kratzer's argument and then introduce a new challenge to her conclusion, based on the resultative…
Constructions on holiday
Constructions at Work provides many new empirical observations and sound criticisms of other work. These fail, however, to support Goldberg's two main arguments. They do not undermine the need for innate linguistic structure; nor do they decide for Construction Grammar in particular
Horizontal Effect and the Constitutional Constraint
This article offers a new interpretation – the ‘constitutional constraint’ model – of the duty the H uman R ights A ct imposes on the courts to give horizontal effect to E uropean C onvention rights through the common law. The model requires courts to develop the common law compatibly with the C onvention, but only where compatibility can be achieved by incremental development. We argue that models requiring more than incremental development are …
Political Hegemony and Social Complexity: Mechanisms of Power After Gramsci
How can we understand power in a world of ever-growing complexity? This book proposes that we can do so by rethinking the theory and practice of political hegemony through the resources of complexity theory. Taking Gramsci’s understanding of hegemony as its starting point, the book argues that the intricacies of contemporary power can be mapped by applying concepts drawn from complexity theory, such as emergence, self-organisation, metastability,…
Processing adjunct control: Evidence on the use of structural information and prediction in reference resolution
The comprehension of anaphoric relations may be guided not only by discourse, but also syntactic information. In the literature on online processing, however, the focus has been on audible pronouns and descriptions whose reference is resolved mainly on the former. This paper examines one relation that both lacks overt exponence, and relies almost exclusively on syntax for its resolution: adjunct control, or the dependency between the null subject…
Imagining the Post-colonial Lawyer: Legal Elites and the Indian Nation-State, 1947–1967
A key feature of British rule in India was the formation of a class of elite metropolitan lawyers who had an outsized role within the legal profession and a prominent position in Indian politics. This paper analyzes the response of these legal elites to the shifting social and political terrain of post-colonial India, arguing that the advent of the Indian nation-state shaped the discursive strategies of elite lawyers in two crucial ways. First, i…
Surveillance Capitalism or Information Republic
Recent years have seen growing concerns about corporate surveillance. Critics of surveillance capitalism often use the language of domination and unfreedom to describe these new socio‐technological conditions. Yet there has been little sustained normative analysis that has diagnosed the new forms of domination introduced by surveillance capitalism or considered the remedies needed to remove them. That is what this article provides. We draw on the…
Psycholinguistic evidence for restricted quantification
Thematic Content, Not Number Matching, Drives Syntactic Bootstrapping
Children use correlations between the syntax of a clause and the meaning of its predicate to draw inferences about word meanings. On one proposal, these inferences are underwritten by a structural similarity between syntactic and semantic representations: learners expect that the number of clause arguments exactly matches the number of participant roles in the event concept under which its referent is viewed. We argue against this proposal, and i…
The Soundtrack to Revolution: Examining Rap as a Resistance Against the Black Man’s ‘Existential Deviation’ in Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks
When we discuss the Black man as a psychological subject, we must keep in the forefront of our discussion the fact that ‘alongside phylogeny and ontogeny, there is also sociogeny’; these branches of biological and social systematics lend themselves, as Frantz Fanon argues, to a psychological exploration of the ‘existential deviation [...] white civilization and European culture have imposed’ on the Black man. In this paper, I will argue that not …
The main event in resultatives
I explore what modification and negation tell us about the logical form of resultatives: a resultative relates the events of its two parts, but is a predicate of a third event, a change, equal to neither. This is important for explaining the construction—most significantly, the direct object restriction—and understanding how it differs from others that seem similar. It also shapes how we might use resultatives in the analysis of synthetic causati…
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