Current Research
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I have constructed a fully POS-tagged and parsed corpus
of part of the Septembertestament, Luther's first translation of the New
Testament into Early New High German, written in 1522. The current
version of this corpus consists of over 100,000
words of parsed text, including the full books of Matthew, Mark, John,
and Acts. I am interested in extending this corpus, particularly to
include other texts from Early New High German (and perhaps other time
periods), but for the time being have no concrete plans.
The annotation guidelines for the Parsed Corpus of ENHG are outlined in
this wiki.
I am willing to share the alpha version of the corpus by request, and
have semi-long-term plans to make the corpus available for public use.
I have also parsed some sections of the Tyndale New Testament
translation (Early Modern English, published 1534), building on the
existing sample in the
PPCEME
corpus, to create a parallel sample to the Septembertestament
corpus.
I recently completed my PhD thesis, titled The
syntax and pragmatics of fronting in Germanic.
Other papers I have recently worked on:
The
pragmatics of direct object fronting in Historical English (with
Jon Stevens) -- in the proceedings for the 36th Annual Penn
Linguistics Colloquium (PLC 36), published in PWPL 19.1.
The
information structure of subject extraposition in Early New High
German -- versions of this paper were presented at the 35th annual
Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC) and in the Information Structure in Formal
Grammar satellite workshop (IFG) at the HPSG 2011 conference. Linked is the
paper as it appears in the proceedings of HPSG 2011 (a version
also appears in PWPL 18.1, the proceedings of PLC 35).
On the use of passives across Germanic (with Joel Wallenberg) - paper
presented at DiGS 13, 2011. Slides from the presentation are linked.
Analyzing V2 triggers in Historical English (with Aaron Ecay) - paper
presented at DiGS 13, 2011. Slides from the presentation are linked.
The origins of expletive there in West
Germanic - paper presented at DiGS 12, 2010. Linked is a draft of
the paper to be published in the proceedings of DiGS 12.
Subject relatives and expletives in Early New
High German - paper presented at BLS 36, 2010. Linked
is a draft of the paper to be published in the proceedings of BLS 36.
The loss of Quantifier Movement and OV in English: An illusory
connection (with Joel Wallenberg) - paper presented at DiGS 10, 2009.