Tim Stowell

University of California, Los Angeles | UCLA · Department Of Linguistics

The volume is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Noam Chomsky's groundbreaking Aspects of the Theory of Syntax.

How does grammar represent simultaneity? More precisely, how do grammatical representations of sentences indicate that two events or situations are located at the same time? This is a question of central importance for the theory of tense and aspect, and one to which Hamida Demirdache and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria (Nat. Lang. Linguist. Theory, doi:10...

Quantification has been at the heart of research in the syntax and semantics of natural language since Aristotle. The last few decades have seen an explosion of detailed studies of the syntax and semantics of quantification and its relation to the rest of the theory of grammar. The result of these efforts was a highly sophisticated understanding of...

This Bloomsbury Companion is the most wide-ranging, state-of-the-art resource to a key area of contemporary linguistics. It covers fundamental issues, concepts, movements and approaches within the most relevant theoretical perspectives on syntax, encompassing the relationship between syntax and other levels of grammar. This book is a major tool for...

This article examines the syntactic properties of tense, and how the theory of syntax should account for them. It considers what counts as a tense, from a semantic perspective, and from a morphosyntactic perspective; where tense morphemes occur in syntactic structures, and the role they play in syntactic derivations; the extent to which the semanti...

Common nouns in English differ from proper names in that they typically occur with a preceding determiner: (1) a. John met the president of a mining company yesterday b. *The John met the president of a mining company yesterday c. *John met the president of mining company yesterday d. *John met president of a mining company yesterday (2)...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981. Bibliography: leaves 488-496. Photocopy.

This chapter examines the syntax and semantics of the English Konjunktiv II (K2) construction. Use of the K2 is restricted to an informal register of English; it is replaced by the past perfect in the standard, more formal, register. It occurs only in a subset of the syntactic environments in which the past perfect occurs, however, and is associate...

Any analysis of the syntax of time is based on a paradox: it must include a syntax-based theory of both tense construal and event construal. Yet while time is undimensional, events have a complex spatiotemporal structure that reflects their human participants. How can an event be flattened to fit into the linear time axis? Chomsky's The Minimalist...

This paper is concerned with the syntax and semantics of quantifier scope construal, focussing on the distributive quantifiers every and each, and their interaction with negation. Our discussion is based on the theory of the syntax of quantifier scope developed more fully in Beghelli and Stowell (1994) and in Beghelli (1995).

In this article I present an outline of a theory of phrase structure that incorporates a series of functional projections forming the basis for the interpretation of tense. Most previous theories of tense have relied on an idiosyncratic set of semantic rules to account for the distribution and interpretation of particular tense forms. The theory th...

T. Stowell and E. Wehrli, "Introduction" T. Stowell, "The Role of the Lexicon in Syntactic Theory" A. Belletti, "Agreement and Case in Past Participle Clauses in Italian" T. Stowell, "Passives and the Lexicon: Comments on Belletti" J. Bresnan and J.M. Kanerva, "Locative Inversion in Chichewa: A Case Study of Factorization in Grammar" P. Schachter,...

This paper provides a new analysis of an exceptional raising construction in Modern Irish, and examines its consequences for two putative principles of Universal Grammar (UG): (i) Chomsky's (1981) Projection Principle, which excludes nonthematic complement positions, and (ii) Chomsky's (1986a) Uniformity Condition, which excludes nonthematic inhere...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981. Supervised by Noam Chomsky. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 488-496). Microfilm. s