Keir Moulton
keirmoulton at ucla dot edu
 Visiting Assistant/Adjunct Professor, UCLA PhD University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 2009. 2012. Clause Positions [paper] 2012. What Co-varies in Backward Variable Binding [paper] 2012. Raising from the Dead. Provisionally accepted at Linguistic Inquiry [paper] To appear. Not Moving Clauses: Connectivity in Clausal Arguments. Syntax. [pre-publication draft] 2011. A New Argument for Small Clauses: Scope and Evidentiality. Presented at GLOW 34, University of Vienna. [handout] 2011. CPs don't Saturate: Deriving the distribution of clausal complements. [slides] 2010. What co-varies in backwards binding. Ms, McGill. [handout] 2010. Variable binding, reconstruction and attitudes de re. MOSAIC, Montréal. [handout] 2010. The Meaning of ECM. TOM Semantics Workshop. [handout] 2009. (Not) Moving Clauses. McGill Colloquium. [handout] 2009. Natural Selection and the Syntax of Clausal Complementation. Doctoral Dissertation, UMass, Amherst. [pdf] 2008. Clausal Complementation and the Wager-class. In Proceedings of NELS 38. A. Schardl, and M. Walkow, editors. GLSA Publications: Amherst, MA. [Paper] 2007. (with Stickney, Helen and Tom Roeper) From False Belief to False Ascription In Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA 2007. A. Gavarró and M. João Freitas, editors. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK. 2007. Scope Relations and Infinitival Complements. Ms. UMass, Amherst. [paper] 2007. Revisiting Postal's DOC: Lethal A-positions. Presented at ECO5, UMass, Amherst. [handout] 2006. (with Arregui, Ana, Charles Clifton, Lyn Frazier.) Processing elided verb phrases with flawed antecedents: the recycling hypothesis. Journal of Memory and Language 55.2: 232-246. 2006. Presupposed VPs find antecedents asserted ones don't [paper] Longer version of: Small Antecedents: Syntax or Pragmatics? In Proceedings of NELS 37. Elfner, E. and M. Walkow, editors. GLSA Publications: Amherst, MA. [Also: "Small Clause Reconstructuring" [paper draft] May 2010. Superseded by the above, but nonetheless a useful exercise using function composition to describe some scope facts in small clauses.] Teaching (see also syntaxteaching) These are lectures from my an Advanced Syntax Seminar at McGill. [Lecture 1]: Selection Problems [Lecture 2]: A Syntactician's Guide to Intensionality and Related Matters[Lecture 3]: See? (Epistemic uses of Perception Verbs) [Lectures 4 and 5]: Getting Up to Complementizers [Lecture 6]: Complementizers [Lecture 7]: A binder in COMP, Control, and Romance ECM [Lecture 8]: Even More about ECM [Lecture 9]: Small clauses, scope and evidence [Lecture 10]: Scope and evidence
Older Papers and Talks Introducing Clausal Complements Athapaskan Internal Heads are Definitely Not Indefinite Strong Reflexivity and Attitudes de se Control as Voice Considerations for a Property Theory of Control |
