Dave Kush

3rd Year PhD Student
Dept. of Linguistics
University of MD, College Park
"mylastname"@umd.edu

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I'm interested in syntax, (adult) sentence processing, and semantics.

As yet, I've worked on the following projects:

• Micro-variation wrt. Island constraints. I am currently working apparent RC-Island violations in Swedish. With Akira Omaki and Norbert Hornstein I've looked at analogous constructions in English.

• Real-time processing of referential dependencies and the role of configurational information (such as c-command) in constraining search for linguistic items in memory.

• The relationship between future markers and epistemic modals (in Hindi).

• Verb - Preposition Reanalysis with Alex Drummond

• The phrase structure of compound verb constructions. (Undergrad Thesis, supervised by Sam Epstein).

My advisors are Jeff Lidz and Colin Phillips.

Kush, D. submitted. The Future of Hindi Modality. Draft, please do not cite.

Kush, D., Omaki, A. and Hornstein, N. Microvariation in Islands. book chapter in preparation.

Drummond, A., Kush, D. and Hornstein, N. Two Minimalist Theories of Construal. To appear as a book chapter.

Drummond, A. and Kush, D. 2009. The case of `Of-Insertion'. ms, University of MD

Kush, D. and Lindahl, F. 2011. On the escapability of Islands in Scandinavian. Talk given at 2011 LSA Meeting, Pittsburgh.

Drummond, A. and Kush, D. 2011. Reanalysis As Raising to Object. Talk given at 2011 LSA Meeting, Pittsburgh.

Kush, D. 2010. Escapable Islands are Small Clauses (In Swedish and English). Presentation at Syntax Support Group, University of Michigan, October.

Kush, D. 2010. The future and epistemic modality in Hindi. Talk given at 2010 LSA Meeting, Baltimore.

Kush, D., Omaki, A. and Hornstein, N. 2009. "Reanalyzing Relative Clause Island Effects". Paper presented at GLOW 32, Nantes, France

Kush, D., Omaki, A., Dillon, B., Alcocer, P., Lidz, J. and Phillips, C. 2009. "Bound-Variable Dependencies Reveal Structure-Sensitivity of Search". CUNY 2009 - Davis, CA

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'Dave', just 'Dave'. From here, not here.

English pedigree.

Surprisingly, you won't find any relevant etymological information on the Kush disambiguation page.

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