Work
Book
Arguments in Syntax and Semantics (2015, Cambridge)
Projects
"Transitivity of Sentences and Scenes in Early Language Development"
With Jeffrey Lidz and student partners Alexis Wellwood, Angela He, Rachel Dudley, Laurel Perkins, Tyler Knowlton, Mina Hirzel and Jack Ying
Papers
Alexander Williams
Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language, Ch.20 (2021)
"Determiners are 'conservative' because their meanings are not relations: Evidence from verification"
Tyler Knowlton, Paul Pietroski, Alexander Williams, Justin Halberda and Jeffrey Lidz
Proceedings of SALT 30 (2021)
Jeffrey Jack Green, Michael McCourt, Ellen Lau and Alexander Williams
Glossa 5(1):112, 1-33 (2020)
"Why control of PRO in rationale clauses is not a relation between arguments"
Alexander Williams and Jeffrey Jack Green
Proceedings of NELS 47 (2018)
"Exploring the abstractness of number retrieval cues in the computation of subject-verb agreement in comprehension"
Zoe Schlueter, Alexander Williams and Ellen Lau
Journal of Memory and Language 99, 77-89 (2017)
"Coreference and antecedent representation across languages"
Sol Lago, Shayne Sloggett, Zoe Schlueter, Wing Yee Chow, Alexander Williams, Ellen Lau and Colin Phillips
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, (2017)
"Processing implicit control: Evidence from reading times"
Michael McCourt, Jeffrey J. Green, Ellen Lau and Alexander Williams.
Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences, 2015
"Agents in Mandarin and Igbo Resultatives"
Alexander Williams
Chinese Syntax in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective, Oxford University Press. (2013)
"Null Complement Anaphors as definite descriptions"
Alexander Williams
Proceedings of SALT 22 (2012)
Alexander Williams
Handbook of Chinese Linguistics, Blackwell (2014)
Alexander Williams
Unpublished, accepted with minor revisions to Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (2012)
"Themes, cumulativity, and resultatives"
Alexander Williams
Linguistic Inquiry 40(4) (2009)
Jeffrey Lidz and Alexander Williams
Cognitive Linguistics 29(1): 178-189. [Commentary on Goldberg 2006] (2008)
Alexander Williams
WCCFL 26 Proceedings (2008)
"Patients in Igbo and Mandarin"
Alexander Williams
Event structures in linguistic form and interpretation, Mouton de Gruyter (2008)
"Complex causatives and verbal valence"
Alexander Williams
University of Pennsylvania doctoral dissertation. (2005)
"Reflexivity and resultatives"
Jeffrey Lidz and Alexander Williams
WCCFL 21 Proceedings (2002)
"Null subjects in Middle English existentials"
Alexander Williams
Diachronic Syntax, Oxford University Press (2000)
"Adverbial quantification over (interrogative) complements"
Alexander Williams
WCCFL 19 Proceedings (2000)