Alice Louise Davison
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Alice Louise Davison's Degrees
- Bachelors Linguistics University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alice Davison was an American linguist who specialized in the syntax of South Asian languages, in particular Hindustani. Early life and education Davison grew up in Washington, D.C. She graduated from the Potomac School in McLean, Virginia in 1955, and the Madeira School in McLean in 1958. She then went to Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1962. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1972, writing her dissertation on performative verbs.
Alice Louise Davison's Published Works
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- On the Failure of Readability Formulas to Define Readable Texts: A Case Study from Adaptations. (1982) (256)
- Syntactic markedness and the definition of sentence topic (1984) (122)
- Linguistic complexity and text comprehension : readability issues reconsidered (1989) (111)
- Conceptual and empirical bases of readability formulas (1986) (85)
- Indirect Speech Acts and What to Do with Them (1975) (57)
- Structural Case, Lexical Case and the Verbal Projection (2004) (51)
- Reflections on the English Progressive (1982) (47)
- Limitations of Readability Formulas in Guiding Adaptations of Texts. Technical Report No. 162. (1980) (33)
- Natural language parsing: Measuring syntactic complexity relative to discourse context (1985) (29)
- 7. Non-nominative subjects in Hindi — Urdu VP structure and case parameters (2004) (19)
- Linguistics and the measurement of syntactic complexity : the case of raising (1980) (19)
- Word Order, Parameters, and the Extended COMP Projection (2007) (18)
- Operator binding, gaps, and pronouns (1988) (15)
- A Case Restriction on Control: Implications for Movement (2008) (14)
- Correlative clause features in Sanskrit and Hindi/Urdu (2009) (14)
- Linguistic or pragmatic description in the context of the performadox (1983) (13)
- Readability--the situation today (1985) (13)
- Adjunction, features and locality in Sanskrit and Hindi/Urdu correlatives (2009) (13)
- Phrasal Predicates: How N Combines with V in Hindi/Urdu (2005) (13)
- Negative Scope and Rules of Conversation: Evidence from an OV Language (1978) (10)
- Non-finite complements and modality in de-na ‘allow’ in Hindi-Urdu (2014) (10)
- Long-Distance Anaphors In Hindi/Urdu: Syntactic And Semantic Issues (2000) (10)
- Lexical anaphors and pronouns in Hindi/Urdu (2000) (10)
- Readability--Appraising Text Difficulty. Reading Education Report No. 24. (1981) (8)
- Review of Sémantique pour l'analyse de la linguistique à l'informatique by François Rastier, Marc Cavazza, and Anne Abeillé. Masson 1994. (1995) (7)
- On the form and meaning of Hindi passive sentences (1982) (7)
- On the semantics of speech acts (1979) (6)
- Readability--The Situation Today. Reading Education Report No. 70. (1986) (3)
- Long Distance Agreement and Restructuring (2010) (3)
- Readability, and Questions of Textbook Difficulty. Reading Education Report No. 66. (1986) (3)
- Papers from the fourth Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society, April 19-20, 1968 (1968) (3)
- Empty Categories in the Hindi-Urdu binaa Participle Clause (2013) (2)
- Review of Gabriele Stein, Studies in the function of the passive Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag (1981) (2)
- Conceptual and Empirical Bases of Readability Formulas. Technical Report No. 392. (1986) (2)
- A systematic definition of sentence topic (1982) (2)
- Text readability : proceedings of the March 1980 conference (1981) (2)
- Readability--The Situation Today. Technical Report No. 359. (1985) (2)
- The talking cure: Essays in psychoanalysis and language Ed. by Colin MacCabe (review) (2015) (1)
- 42. Hindi-Urdu: Central Issues in Syntax (2015) (1)
- Measurement of Syntactic Complexity Relative to Linguistic Context. Technical Report No. 255. (1982) (0)
- Index to Volume 60 (1984) (2015) (0)
- Bashful Seal Pup in Maine (2008) (0)
- Problems of seem/scheinen constructions, and their implications for the theory of predicate sentential complementation By Susan Olsen (review) (2015) (0)
- A Systematic Definition of "Sentence Topic." Technical Report No. 264. (1982) (0)
- A SYSTEMATIC DEfINFTION OF SENTENCE-TOPIC (2007) (0)
- Women in the Linguistics Profession: The Cornell Lectures. Conference on Women in Linguistics (Ithaca, New York, June 1989). (1990) (0)
- Is ergative case structural or inherent: Evidence from intransitive verbs (2015) (0)
- Problems of Seem/Scheinen Constructions (1984) (0)
- CASE AND THE VP PROJECTION 2 movement (2003) (0)
- Parasitic Speech Acts. San Jose State Occasional Papers in Linguistics, November 1975. (1975) (0)
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