I'm interested in syntax, (adult) sentence processing, and semantics.
I work/have 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 retrieval of linguistic items in memory.
- Syntactic encoding and Language Prodcution, with Bob Slevc
- 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). On the (In-)escapability of Islands in Scandinavian.
Draft available upon request.
Drummond, A and Kush, D. (Submitted). Reanalysis as Raising to Object
Kush, D. (In revision). The Future of Hindi Modality. Draft being reworked post-review.
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.. 2011. Future markers and epistemic modality in Hindi.
Guest Lecture at Center for Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Kush, D.. 2011. On the height-relativity of (non-root) modal flavor: Evidence from Hindi. Poster presented at SALT 21, Rutgers.
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
Production Expt Example - An example script for doing sentence-completion tasks in PyEPL, using audio presentation. Archive includes example sound files, as well as items files and other supporting files. Tiny Bonus: Script contains a homemade PseudoRandomizing function.
Tending X-bar - Drinks for Linguists
The Elikorpus - Corpus of errors/bizarre constructions - [Updated:Oct 13, 2011]
'Dave', just 'Dave'. From
here, not
here.
Surprisingly, you won't find any relevant etymological information on the
Kush disambiguation page.
My name actually traces back to
this.
Also.