Alex Drummond
1401 Marie Mount Hall
Univerity of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

I'm a first-year PhD student in the Linguistics department. My main interests are in syntax, particularly binding theory.

For my masters dissertation, I developed the webspr software for running self-paced reading and speeded acceptability judgment tasks online. It already works reasonably well for these purposes. The code is currently being modularized and extended, and the latest 0.2 release is already quite a bit more flexible. Feel free to get in touch if you're interested in using the software, or adapting it for a different application. You can see an example experiment running here.

Brian Dillon and I are currently investigating the syntactic configurations that lead to interference effects in NPI licensing.

I like to mess around with functional programming languages like Haskell. More on this sort of thing here.

Downloadables

Reconstruction and English PPs. Handout for presentation at ECO5 2008. (pdf)

The Case of “of” insertion. With Dave Kush. 2007. (rtf)