Papers, Alexander Williams


[1] 2011. Causal VVs in Mandarin. Unedited first draft of a chapter for Blackwell's forthcoming Handbook of Chinese Linguistics, ed. James C.T. Huang, Audrey Li, and Andrew Simpson.

[2] 2011. Objects in Resultatives. Accepted with minor revisions to Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

[3] 2009. Themes, cumulativity, and resultatives. Linguistic Inquiry 40(4), 686-700. [pre-publication proofs; some errors]

[4] 2008. (w/ Jeff Lidz) Constructions on holiday. Cognitive Linguistics 29(1): 178-189. [Commentary on Goldberg 2006]

[5] 2008. Word order in resultatives. In H. Haynie and C. Chang (eds.), WCCFL 26 Proceedings. Somerville: Cascadilla Press.

[6] 2008 [written 2004]. Patients in Igbo and Mandarin. In J. Doelling, T. Heyde-Zybatow, and M. Shaefer (eds.), Event structures in linguistic form and interpretation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

[7] 2005. Complex causatives and verbal valence. University of Pennsylvania doctoral dissertation.

[8] 2005. (w/ Jeff Lidz) C-locality and the interaction of reflexives and ditransitives. Proceedings of NELS 34.

[9] 2002. (w/ Jeff Lidz) Reflexivity and resultatives. In L. Mikkelsen and C. Potts (eds.), WCCFL 21 Proceedings, pp. 250-263. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

[10] 2000. Null subjects in Middle English existentials. In S. Pintzuk, G. Tsoulos, and A. Warner (eds.), Diachronic Syntax, 164-185. New York: Oxford University Press.

[11] 2000. Adverbial quantification over (interrogative) complements. In R. Billerey and B.D. Lillehaugen (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th WCCFL. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.