Complete list of publications
2025
- Chaves, Rui P., Paul Kay, and Laura Michaelis. Unrealized Arguments and the Grammar of Context,
Elements in Cognitive Linguistics. Cambridge University Press.
- Chaves, Rui P. "Exploring reward effects in experimental syntax", Linguistic Research, pp.33.
2024
2023
- Chaves, Rui P. Coordination and gapping in words, in Peter Ackema, Sabrina Bend-jaballah, Eulàlia Bonet,
and Antonio Fábregas (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology, Chapter 2. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Chaves, Rui P. and Elaine J. Francis.
"Enduring effects of repeated exposure to Subject Islands: evidence for syntactic adaptation", Poster presented at The 36th Annual Conference
on Human Sentence Processing, University of Pittsburgh. [Superseded by Chaves & Francis 2024]
2022
- Chaves, Rui P. and Michael T. Putnam."Islands, expressiveness, and the theory/formalism confusion", Comment on Theoretical Linguistics, 48(3-4): 219-231.
- Chaves, Rui P. and Avery Malone.
"Reward-modulated syntactic adaptation
in self-paced reading, Poster presented at The 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, UC Santa Cruz.
- Chaves, Rui P. "Sources of Discreteness and Gradience in Island Effects,
Languages, 7(4), 245 – 270.
2021
- Chaves, Rui P. and Michael T. Putnam. Unbounded Dependency Constructions: theoretical and experimental perspectives, Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology 10, Oxford University Press.
- Chaves, Rui P. and Stephanie Richter. "Look at that! BERT can be easily distracted from paying attention to morphosyntax", in 4th Annual Meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL), Vol. 4, Article 4, pp.11.
- Abeillé, Anne and Rui P. Chaves. "Coordination". In Anne Abeillé, Robert D. Borsley, Jean-Pierre Koenig, and Stefan Müller (eds.), Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: The Handbook (Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and
Syntax 99), Chapter 16. Berlin: Language Science Press.
- Chaves, Rui P. "Island phenomena and related matters". In Anne Abeillé, Robert D. Borsley, Jean-Pierre Koenig, and Stefan Müller (eds.),
Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: The Handbook (Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax 99), Chapter 15. Berlin: Language Science Press.
2020
- Chaves, Rui P., Paul Kay and Laura Michaelis. "Null Instantiation in Sign-Based Construction Grammar",
In Stefan Müller (ed.), 27th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, pp.22. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
- Richter, Stephanie and Rui P. Chaves. "Investigating the Role of Verb Frequency in Factive and Manner-of-speaking Islands", in
Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Virtual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto. 1771–1777.
- Sag, Ivan A., Rui P. Chaves, Anne Abeillé, Bruno Estigarribia, Dan Flickinger, Paul Kay,
Laura Michaelis, Stefan Müller, Geoffrey K. Pullum, Frank Van Eynde, Thomas Wasow, "Lessons from the English auxiliary system",
Journal of Linguistics, 56(1): 87–155.
- Chaves, Rui P., "What Don't RNN Language Models Learn About Filler-Gap Dependencies?", 3rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL), Vol. 3, Article 4: 20–30.
- Da Costa, Jillian K. and Rui P. Chaves, "Assessing the ability of Transformer-based Neural Models to represent structurally unbounded dependencies", 3rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Computation
in Linguistics (SCiL), Vol. 3, Article 20:189–198.
- Kim, Jong-Bok and Rui P. Chaves. "A constructional account of English small and nonfinite clauses", In Linguistic Research 37(3): 389–438.
2019
- Chaves, Rui P. and Adriana King, "A usage-based account of subextraction effects", Cognitive Linguistics, 30(4) 719–750.
- Chaves, Rui P., Construction Grammar In Current approaches to syntax – a comparative handbook, (eds.) András Kertész, Edith Moravcsik, and Csilla Rákosi, Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics series, Gruyter Mouton, 49–96.
- Chaves, Rui P. and Jeruen E. Dery, "Frequency Effects in Subject Islands" Journal of Linguistics, 55(3), 475–521.
- Ryu, Soo Hyun and Rui P. Chaves, "On the interaction between dependency frequency and thematic fit in sentence processing", in Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics: Vol. 2 , Article 39, 330–333.
2018
2014
- Chaves, Rui P. "On the disunity of Right-Node
Raising phenomena: extraposition, ellipsis, and deletion",
Language, 90(4), 834–886.
- Chaves, Rui P. and Jeruen E. Dery, "Which subject
islands will the acceptability of improve with repeated
exposure?" In R. E. Santana-LaBarge (edt), 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics,
pp. 96–106. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
- Chaves, Rui P.
"Grammatical alignments and the
gradience of lexical categories"
In Philip Hofmeister and Elisabeth Norcliffe (eds.),
The Core and the Periphery:
data-driven perspectives on syntax inspired by Ivan A. Sag, 167– 220.
CSLI Publications.
2013
2012
2010
- Chaves, Rui P.
"On the syntax and semantics
of vice versa" In Stefan
Müller (ed.), 17th International Conference on Head-Driven
Phrase
Structure Grammar, Paris university, Paris Diderot, 101–121. Stanford: CSLI
Publications.
- Petrova, Nyurguyana and Rui P. Chaves. "Focus realization in chaining constructions"
In 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society: Reevaluating the Semantics-Pragmatics
Interface parassession, Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society.
- Chaves, Rui P. "Crash-free syntax and crash phenomena in model-theoretic grammar"
In Michael T. Putnam (Edt), Exploring
Crash-Proof Grammars
(Language Faculty and Beyond), pp. 269–298. John Benjamins.
2009
2008
2007
- Chaves, Rui P. Coordinate Structures - Constraint-Based Syntax-Semantics
Processing. PhD Thesis, University of Lisbon.
- Chaves, Rui P. "Dados para uma melhor compreensão
das Estruturas de Coordenação em
Português" Em Sessão de
Estudantes do 75° Aniversário do Centro de
Linguística
da Universidade de Lisboa, pp.6.
- Chaves, Rui P. and Denis Paperno. "On
the Russian hybrid coordination construction" In Stefan Müller (Edt.), Proceedings of the
14th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase
Structure Grammar, 46-64. Stanford University.
- Chaves, Rui P. "Dynamic
Model checking for Discourse Representation Structures with pluralities"
In J. Geertzen, E. Thijsse, H. Bunt,and A. Schiffrin (Eds.),
7th International Workshop on Computational Semantics,
28 – 40. Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
2006
- Chaves, Rui P. "Coordination of
unlikes without unlike categories" In Stefan Müller (Edt.), Proceedings of the 13th
International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar,
102–122, Stanford: CSLI Publications.
- Amaro, Raquel, Rui P. Chaves, Palmira Marrafa, and Sara Mendes.
"Enriching Wordnets with new relations and with event and argument structures"
In Alexander Gelbukh (Edt.), Seventh International Conference
on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing-2006), Mexico, Mexico City.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 28 – 40. Springer-Verlag.
- Marrafa, Palmira., Raquel Amaro, Rui P. Chaves, Susana Lourosa, Catarina Martins
and S. Mendes. "WordNet.PT new directions" 3rd International Wordnet Conference.
Project report, pp. 3, Jeju Island, Korea, South Jeju.
2005
- Marrafa, Palmira, Raquel Amaro, Rui P. Chaves, Susana Lourosa, Catarina Martins &
S. Mendes. "WordNet.PT - Uma rede léxico-conceptual do Português on-line"
Actas do XXI Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Porto: APL.
- Chaves Rui P.
"Underspecification and NP coordination in constraint-based grammar"
In F. Richter and M. Sailer (Eds.), Workshop on Empirical Challenges and Analytical Alternatives to
Strict Compositionality, 38–58, 17th ESSLLI, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland.
- Chaves Rui P. "A linearization-based approach to gapping"
In G. Jäger, P. Monachesi, G. Penn, and S. Wintner (Eds.), FG-MOL 2005: The 10th
conference on Formal Grammar and The 9th Meeting on Mathematics of Language,
207–220,
University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
- Chaves Rui. P.
"DRT and underspecification of plural ambiguities"
In H. Bunt, J. Geertzen and E. Thijse (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International
Workshop on Computational Semantics, 78–89.
Tilburg, The Netherlands.
2004
- Ribeiro Catarina, Ricardo Santos,
J. Correia, Rui P. Chaves and Palmira Marrafa.
"INQUER : A WordNet-based question-answering application"
In Proceedings of the Fourth International
Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004), 1947–1950,
Lisbon, Portugal.
- Ribeiro, Catarina, Ricardo Santos, Rui P. Chaves and Palmira Marrafa.
"Semi-automatic UNL dictionary generation using WordNet.PT"
In Proceedings of the Fourth
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004), 279–282,
Lisbon, Portugal.
2003
- Chaves, Rui P.
"Non-redundant scope disambiguation in Underspecified Semantics"
In Balder ten Cate (Ed.) Proceedings of
the 8th ESSLLI Student
Session, 47 – 58. Vienna, Austria.
- Antunes, Sara and Rui P. Chaves.
"On the licensing conditions of co-predication"
GL'2003 Second International Workshop
on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon, pp. 8. University of Geneva. Switzerland.
2002
- Chaves, Rui P.
Fundamentos para uma Gramática Computacional do Português - uma abordagem
lexicalista. MA Dissertation, University of Lisbon.
- Chaves, Rui P.
"Principle-based DRTU for HPSG: a case study" First International
Workshop on Scalable Natural
Language Understanding - SCANALU 2002, pp. 8.
EML, Heidelberg, Germany.
2001
- Chaves, Rui P.
"WordNet and automated text summarization" NLPRS 2001, 6th
Natural Language Processing
Pacific Rim Symposium, 109–116. Tokyo,
Japan.
- Mendes, Sara and Rui P. Chaves.
"Enriching WordNet with Qualia information" Proceedings of
NAACL 2001 (North American Association for
Computational Linguistics) Workshop on WordNet
and Other Lexical Resources,
108–112. Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
1999
- Faria, Isabel H., Rui P. Chaves, Vasco R. Pedro, Nuno Silva &
Ana Água.
"Os
primeiros passos de uma mãe artificial" In
Marrafa, Palmira e Maria Antónia Mota (Orgs.),
Linguística Computacional: Investigação
Fundamental e
Aplicações: I Workshop de
Linguística Computacional da APL,
FLUL, Lisboa Edições Colibri, Associação
Portuguesa de Linguística, 271 – 287.