Negative Polarity Items
Language Change, Corpus Linguistics, Middle English, Modern English and Grammaticalization.
Academic position:
4th year Ph.D. student, University at Buffalo
Department of Linguistics
Recent Works:
(2011) "Semantic Change across Time and Register: much and many as Negative Polarity Items". Paper presented at Buffalo-Cornell-Rochester mini-workshop. A Mood for Meaning: Mood, Speech Acts, Evidentiality, and Other Issues in Semantics. November 18th, 2011
[ handout in pdf ]
(2011) "Polarity Sensitivity of much and many by Register Variation". Paper presented at the 10th American Association on Corpus Linguistics in Atlanta, Georgia. October 7th, 2011
[ abstract in pdf ] [ handout in pdf ]
(2011) "Much ado about a lot: A corpus study of much as a negative polarity item". Paper presented at the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Osaka, Japan. July 26th, 2011.
[ slides in pdf ] [paper in docx]
(2011) "Much as a Negative Polarity Item : NPIs in a Diachronic Perspective". Paper presented at the 37th
English Linguistics Society of Korea (ELSOK) Conference, Kyunghee University, Seoul, Korea. June 11th, 2011.
[ proceedings in pdf ]
(2010) "On the Development of much as a Negative Polarity Item: A Corpus-based Account". Qualifying Paper. University at Buffalo. December 3rd, 2010.
[ slides in pdf ]
[ draft in docx ]
