Thomas Wasow

Professor of Linguistics,
Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy,
Affiliated faculty, Symbolic Systems Program, and
Bert and Candace Forbes University Fellow in Undergraduate Education

Tom Wasow
Department of Linguistics
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2150
USA

E-mail: wasow@stanford.edu

(650) 725-5414

Interests:

Some recent publications:

Wasow, Thomas "The Appeal of the PDC Program" Frontiers in Language Sciences. 2013.

Sag, Ivan A. and Thomas Wasow "Performance-Compatible Competence Grammar". In Robert D. Borsley and Kersti Börjars (eds) Non-Transformational Syntax: Formal and Explicit Models of Grammar, 359-377. Wiley-Blackwell. 2011.

Wasow, Thomas, T. Florian Jaeger, and David Orr "Lexical Variation in Relativizer Frequency". In H. Simon and H. Wiese (eds) Expecting the Unexpected: Exceptions in Grammar. De Gruyter. 175-195. 2011.

Buchstaller, Isabelle, John R. Rickford, Elizabeth Traugott, Thomas Wasow, Arnold Zwicky "The Sociolinguistics of a short-lived Innovation: Tracing the development of quotative all across spoken and internet newsgroup data". Language Variation and Change 22.2: 191-219. 2010.

Wasow, Thomas "Gradient Data and Gradient Grammars". Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, 255-271. 2009.

Jaeger, T. Florian and Thomas Wasow "Processing as a Source of Accessibility Effects on Variation". Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 169-180. 2008.

Rickford, John R., Isabelle Buchstaller, ThomasWasow, and Arnold Zwicky "Instensive and Quotative ALL: Something Old, Something New". American Speech 82.1: 3-31. 2007

Wasow, Thomas "Review of Fillmore, Form and Meaning in Language, volume I: Papers on semantic roles". Language 82.1: 169-171. 2006

Wasow, Thomas and Jennifer Arnold "Intuitions in Linguistic Argumentation". Lingua 115.11: 1481-1496. 2005

Wasow, Thomas, Amy Perfors, and David Beaver "The Puzzle of Ambiguity". In O. Orgun and P. Sells (eds) Morphology and The Web of Grammar: Essays in Memory of Steven G. Lapointe. CSLI Publications. 2005.

Lohse, Barbara , John Hawkins, and Thomas Wasow "Processing Domains in English Verb-Particle Constructions". Language 80.2: 238-261. 2004

Arnold, Jennifer, Thomas Wasow, Ash Asudeh, and Peter Alrenga "Avoiding Attachment Ambiguities: the role of Constituent Ordering". Journal of Memory and Language 51.1: 55-70. 2004.

Sag, Ivan A. Thomas Wasow, and Emily Bender Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction (Second Edition). Stanford: CSLI Publications. 2003.

Wasow, Thomas and Jennifer Arnold "Post-verbal Constituent Ordering in English". In G. Rohdenburg and B. Mondorf (eds) Determinants of Grammatical Variation in English, 119-154. Mouton. 2003.

Wasow, Thomas Postverbal Behavior. CSLI Publications. 2002.

To appear:

Wasow, Thomas "Ambiguity Avoidance is Overrated", to appear in a volume edited by Susanne Winkler.