Selected Experimental Syntax Papers
If you cannot locate a paper here, please search Google Scholar, ORCiD, or email me.
Papers with child participants are on the Child Language Acquisition page.
Syrett, K. & Brasoveanu, A. 2019. An experimental investigation of the scope of object comparative quantifiers. Journal of Semantics, 36, 285-315.
Gor, V., & Syrett, K. 2019. Beyond Principle C: (Not)-at-issueness and plausibility influence acceptability of coconstrual. In Eszter Ronai, Laura Stigliano and Yenan Sun (Eds.), Proceedings of the 54th Annual Chicago Linguistic Society (pp. 109-124). Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society.
Syrett, K. 2019. Antecedent-contained deletion. In C. Cummins & N. Katsos (Eds.), Oxford handbook of experimental semantics and pragmatics (pp. 387-400). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gor, V. 2017. Acceptable but ungrammatical in comparison: Overriding Principle C violations in comparatives. In A. Lamont & K. Tetzloff (Eds.), Proceedings of the 52nd Annual North East Linguistics Society (NELS) 47 (pp. 45-54). Amherst, MA: GLSA. (collaborative work, not coauthored because of conference maximum authorship restrictions on submissions/acceptances) Please see Vera Gor's dissertation on this page.
Syrett, K. 2015. Experimental support for inverse scope readings of finite-clause embedded Antecedent-Contained Deletion sentences. Linguistic Inquiry, 46, 579-592.
Syrett, K. 2015. QR out of a tensed clause: Evidence from Antecedent-Contained Deletion. Ratio Special issue: Investigating Meaning (Ed. by N. Hansen and E. Borg), 28, 395-421.
