Thomas Grano

Thomas Grano
		Postdoctoral Research Associate Department of Linguistics University of Maryland Marie Mount Hall 3416A College Park, MD 20742 tgrano at umd dot edu

Broadly speaking, I am interested in syntax, semantics, the syntax-semantics interface, and crosslinguistic syntactic variation. More narrowly, my research activities fall into two categories. First, my current ongoing research, based on my recently completed dissertation, is concerned with control and restructuring from the perspective of the syntax-semantics interface. Second, I have also investigated topics in gradability and comparison in Mandarin Chinese and Japanese, partly in collaboration with my former graduate advisor Professor Chris Kennedy at the University of Chicago and with Professor Osamu Sawada of Mie University in Japan. Please see below for links to some of the work that these investigations have generated.

My CV (pdf)

Control and restructuring:

2012. Control and restructuring at the syntax-semantics interface. PhD dissertation, University of Chicago. [pdf]

2012. Wanting (to have) null verbs: A view from Mandarin and beyond. Paper presented at LSA Annual Meeting, January 5-8, 2012. [Abstract] [Handout]

2011. Exhaustive control is not control: Cinque's IP and the raising/control divide. Paper presented at Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris, September 21-23, 2011. [Abstract]

2011. Mental action and event structure in the semantics of try. In Ashton, N., A. Chereches and D. Lutz (eds.) Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 21:426-443. [eLanguage link]

2011. Aspect under (and out of) control in Mandarin Chinese. LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstract. [eLanguage link]

Gradability and comparison:

2012. Mandarin Transitive Comparatives and the Grammar of Measurement (with Chris Kennedy). Journal of East Asian Linguistics 21:219-266. [Prepublication version] [Springer link]

2011. Mandarin hen and Universal Markedness in Gradable Adjectives. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 30:513-565. [Prepublication version] [Springer link]

2011. Scale structure, coercion, and the interpretation of measure phrases in Japanese (with Osamu Sawada). Natural Language Semantics 19:191-226. [Prepublication version] [Springer link]

Other:

Rickford, John R., Julie Sweetland, Angela E. Rickford, and Thomas Grano. Forthcoming fall 2012. African American, Creole, and Other Vernacular Englishes in Education: A Bibliographic Resource. National Council of Teachers of English-Routledge Research Series. [Amazon link]

2006. "Me and her" meets "he and I": Case, person, and linear ordering in English coordinated pronouns. B.A. honors thesis, Stanford University. [pdf]