Jana Willer Gold

I'm a theoretical linguist acknowledging the value of experimental research. I am interested in theoretical and experimental modelling of morpho-syntactic variation (conjunct agreement, object agreement, feature markedness, ellipsis, PCC) in a variety of languages (Slavic, Bantu, Indo-Aryan), as well as in conceptual problems that arise at theory-experiment interface. My experimental morpho-syntactic work supports free on-line platforms (PCIbex, R). 

I am Departmental Lecturer in Experimental Syntax/Psycholinguistics at the  Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford, where I'm also a PI on the JFF funded project Individuation - humanness in counting.  I hold a Honorary researcher status at the Department of Linguistics at UCL. I previously held a Research Associate position on the ESSB Project (Agreement Mismatches in Experimental Syntax: from Slavic to Bantu, PI Andrew Nevins) and EMSS Project (Coordinated Research in the Experimental Morphosyntax of South Slavic Languages , PI Andrew Nevins) at the Department of Linguistics at UCL.

Vitae @ CV , PhD 

Contact me @ jana.willer-gold@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk

Recent publications

• Ristić et al. Accepted. Mismatch, but at what cost: Non-parallel antecedents that don’t need repair. Language and Cognition.

• Zeller et al. Accepted. Distributed Agreement with conjoined subjects and objects in Zulu: evidence from elicited production. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

• Mendes et al. 2025. Agreement switch in verb-echo answers: Evidence for Distributed Ellipsis. Linguistic Inquiry.

• Willer-Gold, Jana. 2023. Locus and Timing of Gender Resolution: Probes, Goals and Predictions. Glossa: Special Collection: Multivaluation in Agreement. 

• Nevins, A. Peti-Stantić, A., Vos, M. de and J. Willer-Gold. 2022. Angles of Object Agreement. Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, Oxford University Press.

Manuscripts

• Willer-Gold et al. Forthcoming. Generating (Agreement in) Ellipsis: Why Bother? 

• Chandra, Pritha  and Willer-Gold, Jana. Forthcoming. Object Agreement Constraint be extended to honorific agreement.