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Tjo3ya

Joined 30 August 2009

Who am I?

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Timothy John Osborne: I am a professor of linguistics at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. My Ph.D. is in German and linguistics, with a specialty in the theory of grammar. My particular interest is in dependency grammar (DG) and all aspects that feed into it. To check my qualifications to be a contributor, google "dependency grammar osborne". My publications in peer-reviewed journals will show up. These publications are also listed below.

I am particularly interested in the article on dependency grammar, and I am also working to improve other articles that touch on areas that are in some way related to dependency grammar and its understanding of syntax and the theory of grammar. I have significantly revised and/or added to the following articles:

Adjective phrase - February 2013
Adjunct (grammar) - March 2012
Adpositional phrase - March 2013
Anaphora - October 2013
Antecedent - October 2013
Antecedent-contained deletion - Dec. 2011
Argument (linguistics) - February 2012
Auxiliary verb - July 2012
Binding - October 2013
Branching (linguistics) - January 2012
C-command - October 2013
Clause - July 2012
Comparative - March 2013
Complement (linguistics) - April 2012
Constituent (linguistics) - December 2011, August 2018
Control (linguistics) - June 2012
Coordination (linguistics) - January 2011
Coreference - October 2013
Crossover - October 2013
Dependency grammar - November 2011
Dependent-marking language - March 2013
Determiner phrase - December 2013
Do-support - July 2012
Ellipsis (linguistics) - December 2011
Endocentric - December 2011
Exceptional case-marking - June 2012
Finite verb - June 2012
Gapping - December 2011
Government (linguistics) - January 2012
Grammatical relation - December 2011
Head (linguistics) - December 2011
Head marking language - March 2013
Idiom - July 2012
Immediate constituent analysis - Dec. 2011
Inverse copular constructions - Sept. 2012
Inversion (linguistics) - December 2011
Lexical item - July 2012
Light verb - July 2012
Lucien Tesnière - October 2013
Merge (linguistics) - January 2012
Modal verb - July 2012
Movement paradox - February 2013
Non-configurational language - Dec. 2011
Non-finite verb - July 2012
Noun phrase - July 2012
Object (grammar) - March 2013
Parasitic gap - October 2013
Parse tree - December 2011
Periphrasis - July 2012
Phrasal verb - July 2012
Phrase - December 2011
Phrase structure grammar - November 2011
Phrase structure rule -December 2011
Predicate (grammar) - November 2011
Raising (linguistics) - June 2012
Scrambling (linguistics) - February 2012
Separable verb - July 2012
Sentence diagram - February 2012
Sluicing - December 2011
Small clause - June 2012
Subcategorization - December 2011
Subject (grammar) - March 2013
Subject-auxiliary inversion - July 2011
Subordination (linguistics) - Feb. 2012
Syntactic category - December 2011
Syntactic movement - February 2013, January 2019
Valency (linguistics) - December 2011
Verb phrase - December 2011
Verb phrase ellipsis - December 2011
V2 word order- June 2012
Wh-movement - November 2012
X-bar theory - January 2012

I have created the following articles:

Answer ellipsis - February 2012
Catena (linguistics) - November 2011, January 2019
Discontinuity (linguistics) - January 2012
Extraposition - February 2012
Negative inversion - October 2012
Noun ellipsis - April 2012
Pied-piping - February 2013
Predicative expression - April 2012
Pseudogapping - January 2012
Right node raising - October 2012
Selection (linguistics) - June 2012
Shifting (linguistics) - January 2012
Stripping (linguistics) - April 2012
Subject-verb inversion - October 2012
Topicalization - March 2012

If one disputes the content in any of these articles, I am very willing to discuss the issues. I can be contacted at the following email address: tjo3ya@yahoo.com.

Publications

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The following subsections list my publications. These publications include books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings.

Books

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Peer-reviewed journal articles

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The following list gives my peer-reviewed publications in chronological order (most recent first). These publications deliver a sense of my qualifications to be contributing to Wikipedia in the area of syntax and grammar:

Osborne, Timothy and Matthew Reeve. 2018. Scope Domains: Toward a Dependency Grammar Account of the
Syntactic Distribution of Negative Polarity Items. Acta Linguistica Academia 65, 1, 1–49.
Osborne, Timothy and Thomas Groß. 2018. Answer fragments. The Linguistic Review 35, 1, 161-186.
Osborne, Timothy. 2016. Dependency networks: A discussion note about Lamb’s theory of linguistic
structure. Language under Discussion 4, 1, 44–50.
Osborne, Timothy and Thomas Groß. 2017. Left node blocking. Journal of Linguistics 53, 641–688.
Osborne, Timothy and Thomas Groß. 2016. The do-so-diagnostic: Against finite VPs and for flat
non-finite VPs. Folia Linguistica 50, 1, 97–135.
Groß, Thomas and Timothy Osborne 2013. Katena und Konstruktion: Ein Vorschlag zu einer dependenziellen
Konstruktionsgrammatik. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 32, 1, 41–73.
Osborne, Timothy and Thomas Groß 2012. Antecedent containment: A dependency grammar solution in terms of
catenae. Studia Linguistica 66, 2, 94–127.
Osborne, Timothy and Thomas Groß 2012. Constructions are catenae: Construction Grammar meets dependency
grammar. Cognitive Linguistics 23, 1: 163-214.
Osborne, Timothy 2012. Edge features, catenae, and dependency-based Minimalism. Linguistic Analysis 34,
3–4, 321–366.
Osborne, Timothy, Michael Putnam, and Thomas Groß 2011. Bare phrase structure, label-less trees, and
specifier-less syntax: Is Minimalism becoming a dependency grammar? The Linguistic Review 28: 315-364.
Groß, Thomas and Timothy Osborne 2009. Toward a practical dependency grammar theory of discontinuities.
SKY Journal of Linguistics 22, 43-90.
Osborne, Timothy 2009. Comparative coordination vs. comparative subordination Natural Language
and Linguistic Theory 27, 427-454.
Osborne, Timothy 2008. Major constituents: And two dependency grammar constraints on sharing in
coordination. Linguistics 46/6, 1109-1165.
Osborne, Timothy 2007. The weight of predicates: A dependency grammar analysis of predicate weight in
German. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 19/1, 23-72.
Osborne, Timothy 2006. Gapping vs. non-gapping coordination. Linguistische Berichte 207, 307-338.
Osborne, Timothy 2006. Shared material and grammar: A dependency grammar theory of non-gapping coordination.
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 25, 39-93.
Osborne, Timothy 2006. Parallel conjuncts. Studia Linguistica 60/1, 64-96.
Osborne, Timothy 2005. Beyond the constituent: A dependency grammar analysis of chains. Folia Linguistica
39/3-4, 251-297.
Osborne, Timothy 2005. Coherence: A dependency grammar analysis. SKY Journal of Linguistics 18, 223-286.
Osborne, Timothy 2003. The Left Elbow Constraint. Studia Linguistica 57/3, 233-257.

Book chapters

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Most of the book chapters listed next are in respected handbooks on syntax and grammar and have survived peer review:

Osborne Timothy. (to appear in 2019). Franz Kern: An Early Dependency Grammarian. [This will appear in a volume
on the history of DG edited by Nicolas Mazziota and Ándras Imrenyi, John Benjamins].
Osborne, Timothy. (to appear in 2019). Dependency grammar. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax.
Osborne, Timothy. 2017. Ellipsis in Dependency Grammar. The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis.
Kahane, Sylvain and Timothy Osborne. 2015. Translators’ introduction. In Lucien Tesnière, Elements of
Structural Syntax [English translation of Tesnière 1966, translated by Timothy Osborne and Sylvain Kahane],
xxix–lxxiii. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Osborne, Timothy. 2015. Dependency grammar. In Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft/
Handbooks of Linguistics and communication Science (HSK) 42, 2, 1027–1044.
Osborne, Timothy 2014. Dependency grammar. In The Routledge Handbook of Syntax, ed. by A. Carnie, Y. Sato,
and D. Saddiqi, pp. 604–626. London: Routledge.
Osborne, Timothy. 2014. Type 2 rising: A contribution to a DG account of discontinuities. In Dependency
Linguistics: Recent Advances in Linguistic Theory using Dependency Structures, ed. By Kim Gerdes,
Eva Hajičova, and Leo Wanner, 273–298. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Conference proceedings

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The conference proceedings listed here are all from the Depling series of international conferences on dependency linguistics. They can be downloaded freely. Simply google the article's title that you are interested in.

Osborne, Timothy and Matthew Reeve. 2017. Control vs. raising: A dependency grammar account. Proceedings of the
Fourth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics, Sept. 18–20, Pisa, Italy.
Osborne, Timothy and Ruochen Niu. 2017. The component: Introducing a novel unit of syntactic structure. Proceedings of
the Fourth :International Conference on Dependency Linguistics. Sept. 18–20, Pisa, Italy.
Osborne, Timothy and Jinying Liang. 2015. A survey of ellipsis in Chinese, Proceedings of the Third International Osborne,
and D. Saddiqi, pp. 604–626. London: Routledge.Conference on :Dependency Linguistics, Aug. 24–26, Uppsala, Sweden, 271–280.
Osborne, Timothy and Shudong Ma. 2015. A DG account of the descriptive and resultative de-constructions in Chinese,
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Dependency Linguistics, Aug. 24–26, Uppsala, Sweden, 261–270.
Osborne, Timothy. 2015. Diagnostics for constituents: Dependency, constituency, and the status of function words,
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Dependency Linguistics, Aug. 24–26, Uppsala, Sweden, 251–260.
Osborne, Timothy. And Daniel Maxwell. 2015. A historical overview of the status of function words in dependency
grammar, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Dependency Linguistics, Aug. 24–26, Uppsala, Sweden, 241–250.
Groß, Thomas and Timothy Osborne. 2015. The dependency status of function words, Proceedings of the Third International
Conference on Dependency Linguistics, August 27 – 30, 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, 111–120.
Osborne, Timothy. 2013. A Look at Tesnière’s Éléments through the Lens of Modern Syntactic Theory. Proceedings of
the Second International Conference on Dependency Linguistics, August 27– 30, 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, 262– 271.
Osborne, Timothy. 2013. The distribution of floating quantifiers: A dependency grammar analysis. Proceedings of the
Second International Conference on Dependency Linguistics, August 27 – 30, 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, 272– 281.
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