Publications

Presyntactic Bundling and Extended Projections

(in prep.)

The long and short of subject focus in Igbo

Jasper Jian

Proceedings of the Annual Conference on African Linguistics 56 (to appear) [paper]

A'-movement restrictions in Igbo reanalyzed

Jasper Jian & Martina Martinović

Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 43 (to appear) [paper]

Humans and transformer LMs: Abstraction drives language learning

Jasper Jian & Christopher D. Manning

European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2026) (Best Paper Award) [paper]

Mechanisms vs. Outcomes: Probing for Syntax Fails to Explain Performance on Targeted Syntactic Evaluations

Ananth Agarwal, Jasper Jian, Christopher D. Manning, Shikhar Murty

Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2025) [paper]

Feature bundling in the left periphery of Igbo interrogatives

Jasper Jian

Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (2024) [paper]

Syntactic Substitutability as Unsupervised Dependency Syntax

Jasper Jian & Siva Reddy 

Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2023) [paper]