Elizabeth Cowper
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Elizabeth Cowper's Degrees
- PhD Linguistics University of British Columbia
- Masters Linguistics University of British Columbia
- Bachelors Linguistics University of British Columbia
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Elizabeth Cowper is professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Toronto. Career She received her PhD from Brown University in 1976. She then took up a position at the University of Toronto, where she remained until she retired from teaching and administration in June 2014. A Workshop on Contrast in Syntax was organized in her honor upon her retirement.
Elizabeth Cowper's Published Works
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- The Geometry of Interpretable Features: Infl in English and Spanish (2005) (90)
- A concise introduction to syntactic theory : the government-binding approach (1992) (89)
- A concise introduction to syntactic theory (1992) (48)
- Constraints on sentence complexity : a model for syntactic processing (1976) (43)
- Pied Piping, Feature Percolation and the Structure of the Noun Phrase (1987) (39)
- A Note on Number (2005) (38)
- The Simple Present Tense in English: A Unified Treatment (1998) (35)
- Thematic underspecification: the case of have (1989) (34)
- English Participle Constructions (1995) (27)
- Aspects of individuation (2012) (26)
- Are phonosyntactic rules necessary? (1987) (25)
- Reductio ad discrimen: Where features come from (2015) (24)
- Gender diversity and morphosyntax: An account of singular they (2020) (23)
- Argumenthood, pronouns, and nominal feature geometry (2009) (19)
- Grammatical aspect in English (1999) (18)
- What is a Subject? Non-Nominative Subjects in Icelandic (1987) (18)
- 9. The Environment for Consonant Mutation in Mende (1986) (18)
- THE SYNTACTIC MANIFESTATION OF NOMINAL FEATURE GEOMETRY (2002) (16)
- Feature geometry and verbal inflection (1999) (14)
- Scope Variation in Contrastive Hierarchies of Morphosyntactic Features (2019) (14)
- The features and exponence of nominal number (2014) (10)
- Possession and necessity: From individuals to worlds (2016) (10)
- THE MORPHOSYNTACTIC MANIFESTATIONS OF MODALITY* (2007) (10)
- Syntactic Change and the Cartography of Syntactic Structures (2012) (9)
- Inflectional Shells and the Syntax of Causative HAVE (2013) (8)
- Transatlantic variation in English adverb placement (2013) (8)
- Infinitival Complements of Have (1992) (7)
- Reductiō ad discrı̄men : Where features come from (2015) (7)
- TENSE , MOOD AND ASPECT : A FEATURE-GEOMETRIC APPROACH (2003) (7)
- Thematic underspecification and manner-of-motion verbs (1991) (5)
- Biblical Hebrew: A formal perspective on the left periphery (2017) (4)
- ENGLISH MODALS: EVIDENCE FOR A NEOPARAMETRIC THEORY OF PHRASE STRUCTURE (2013) (3)
- The rise of contrastive modality in English: A neoparametric account (2017) (3)
- A neoparametric approach to variation and change in English modals (2012) (2)
- The features of tense in English (1995) (2)
- The syntactic uncoupling of voice and aspect in Modern English∗ (2012) (2)
- Illusions of transitive expletives in Middle English (2019) (2)
- Person and deixis in Heiltsuk pronouns (2019) (2)
- STRUCTURES FOR POSSESSION IN UPPER SORBIAN AND CZECH (2010) (2)
- The rise of featural modality in English (2013) (2)
- Adjectives, Number and Interfaces: Why Languages Vary (review) (2007) (1)
- ON VP ELLIPSIS AND THE IDENTITY CONDITION (2013) (1)
- A non-unified treatment of -ing (1993) (1)
- Investigating the past of the futurate present (2021) (1)
- Mills OBJECTS IN THE PSEUDOPASSIVE : THE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF BARE-NP COMPLEMENTS (2008) (1)
- Morphosemantic features in Universal Grammar: What we can learn from Marshallese pronouns and demonstratives (2022) (1)
- Finiteness and Pseudofiniteness (2016) (1)
- FLAVOURS OF vGO: AUXILIARIES OF MOTION IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE∗ (2011) (1)
- A formal perspective on the left periphery (2017) (1)
- Apparent polysemy and thematic underspecification (1991) (1)
- COMPLEX VERB IN THE ALLEGED SMALL CLAUSE CONSTRUCTION IN JAPANESE (2016) (0)
- THERE’S NO FUTURE IN OLD ENGLISH (2015) (0)
- Affected-topic have : An applicative account (2016) (0)
- 1 THE FEATURES AND EXPONENCE OF NOMINAL NUMBER (2013) (0)
- THE HUNGARIAN CONDITIONAL: NON-DEICTIC COUNTERFACTUALITY (2008) (0)
- David M. Perlmutter and Scott Soames. Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. Pp. xiii + 602 (paper). (1982) (0)
- Syntactic Theory: A Unified Approach@@@A Concise Introduction to Syntactic Theory: The Government-Binding Approach (1993) (0)
- Possession and necessity : from individuals to worlds ∗ 1 (2016) (0)
- Note from the Editor (2019) (0)
- Possession and necessity: From individuals to worldsOriginal Research Article: from individuals to worlds (2016) (0)
- CNJ volume 36 issue 4 Cover and Back matter (1991) (0)
- Note from the Editor (2016) (0)
- Dialectology Meets Typology: Dialect Grammar from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective (review) (2007) (0)
- INNER MODAL IN MAMDARIN EXCESSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS (2013) (0)
- Deriving inherent case: passives in German (1988) (0)
- Missing Np’s in Japanese (1979) (0)
- Note from the Editor (2017) (0)
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