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Prof. Tim StowellUCLA Linguistics Department
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Tim Stowell's research interests are focused on the nature of syntactic structure and its relation to semantic interpretation. In particular, he has been concerned with the syntax of argument structure and predication, and its reflection in the structure of clauses and subclausal constituents. His recent work has focused on the syntax of tense and the logic of temporal interpretation, and on the syntax of quantifiers and other determiners and the principles governing scope assignment and reference.
Selected Publications
"Tense and
Modals" in J. Guéron and J. Lecarme, eds. (to appear) [PDF Version] or [MS Word Version] - "The Alignment of Arguments in Adjective Phrases." In S. Rothstein, ed., Perspectives on Phrase Structure: Heads and Licensing, Syntax and Semantics Vol. 25, Academic Press, pp. 105-135. (1991)
- "The Phrase Structure of Tense" in J. Rooryck and L. Zaring, eds., Phrase Structure and the Lexicon, Dordrecht, Kluwer.
- "What do the present and past tenses mean?" in P. Bertinetto, V. Bianchi, J. Higginbotham, and M. Squartini, eds., Temporal Reference, Aspect, and Actionality, Vol. 1: Semantic and Syntactic Perspectives, Rosenberg and Sellier, Torino, pp. 381-396. (1995).
- (with Filippo Beghelli) "Distributivity and Negation," in A. Szabolcsi, ed., Ways of Scope Taking, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 71-107. (1997)
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