Recent Talks

Beavers, John. (2009). "Aspectual Classes and Scales of Change". At Evénment, événements et sous-événements, Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France, Sept. 17-18 [ Handout .pdf]

Levin, Beth, John Beavers, and Shiao Wei Tham. (2009). "Manner of Motion Roots Across Languages: Same or Different?" At Roots: Word Formation from the Perspective of "Core Lexical Elements". Stuttgart, Germany, June 10-12.

Koontz-Garboden, Andrew and John Beavers. (2009). "Manner and Result Verbs". The 2009 meeting of the Linguistic Society of Great Britain. Edinburgh, UK, Sept. 6-9. [ Handout .pdf]

Beavers, John and Chiyo Nishida. (2009). "Dative Alternations in Spanish: Syntax or Semantics?" Talk given at the 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Arizona, March 27-29. [ Handout .pdf]

Recent Manuscripts

Koontz-Garboden, Andrew and John Beavers. (In prep). Manner and Result in Verbal Meaning. Unpublished ms., University of Manchester and The University of Texas at Austin.

Beavers, John and Cala Zubair. (In prep). Anticausatives in Sinhala: Involitives and Causer Suppression. Unpublished ms., The University of Texas at Austin and Georgetown University.

Beavers, John. (Under revision). "The structure of lexical meaning: Why semantics really matters". Unpublished ms., The University of Texas at Austin. [ Draft .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (Under review). An Aspectual Classification of English Ditransitive Verbs. Unpublished ms., The University of Texas at Austin. [ Draft .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (Under review). "Aspectual Classes and Scales of Change". Unpublished ms., The University of Texas at Austin. [ Draft .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (To appear). "On Affectedness". Accepted (with minor revisions) to Natural Language and Linguistic Theory [ Draft .pdf ]

Beavers, John and Chiyo Nishida. (To appear). "The Spanish Dative Alternation Revisited". In Proceedings of The Linguistic Symposium of Romance Languages 39. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [ Draft .pdf ]

Beavers, John and Cala Zubair. (To appear). "The Interaction of Low Transitivity Features in the Sinhala Involitive". To appear in Patrick Brandt and Marco Garcia (eds.), Transitivity. Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [ Draft .pdf]

Beavers, John, Beth Levin, and Tham, Shiao Wei. (In press). "The typology of motion expressions revisited". To appear in Journal of Linguistics 46.3 [ Draft .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (2009). "Lexical Aspect and Multiple Incremental Themes". Unpublished ms., The University of Texas at Austin. [ Draft .pdf ]

Publications and Papers

Beavers, John and Itamar Francez. (In press). "Several Problems with Predicate Decompositions". To appear in Proceedings of BLS 32 (2006). [ [Draft .pdf | Handout .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (2009). "Multiple Incremental Themes and Figure/Path Relations". In Tova Friedman and Satoshi Ito (eds.), SALT XVIII, 90-107. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. [ Draft .pdf ]

Beavers, John and Elias Ponvert and Stephen Wechsler. (2009). "Possession of a Controlled Substantive:Light have and Verbs of Possession". In Tova Friedman and Satoshi Ito (eds.), SALT XVIII, 108-125. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. [ Draft .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (2009). "Predicting Argument Realization from Oblique Marker Semantics." In Ronald P. Leow, Hector Campos, and Donna Lardiere (eds.) Little Words: Their History, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Acquisition. Georgetown University Press, 121-130. [ Abstract .pdf | Draft .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (2008). "On the Nature of Goal Marking and Event Delimitation: Evidence from Japanese". Journal of Linguistics 44:283-316. [ Draft .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (2008). "Scalar Complexity and the Structure of Events". In Johannes Dölling and Tatjana Heyde-Zybatow (eds.) Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [Draft .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (2006). "Semantic Underspecificity in English Argument/Oblique Alternations". In Proceedings of WECOL 2004. University of Southern California, Los Angeles. [Draft .pdf | Revised abstract .pdf | Handout .pdf ]

Beavers, John and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. (2006). "A Universal Pronoun in English?". Linguistic Inquiry 37: 503-513. [Draft .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (2006). Argument/Oblique Alternations and the Structure of Lexical Meaning. PhD Thesis, Stanford University. [Final version .pdf ]

Baldwin, Timothy, John Beavers, Emily M. Bender, Dan Flickinger, Ara Kim, Stephan Oepen. (2005). "Beauty and the Beast: What running a broad-coverage precision grammar over the BNC taught us about the grammar - and the corpus". In Stephan Kepser and Marga Reis (eds.), Linguistic Evidence: Empirical, Theoretical, and Computational Persepctives. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin. [Abstract .pdf ]

Baldwin, Timothy, John Beavers, Leonoor van der Beek, Francis Bond, Dan Flickinger, and Ivan A. Sag. (2005). "In search of a systematic treatment of determinerless PPs". In Patrick St. Dizier (ed.), Computational Linguistics Dimensions of Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht. [ Earlier Draft (from conference booklet) .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (2005). "Towards a semantic analysis of argument/oblique alternations in HPSG". In Proceedings of the 2005 HPSG Conference, CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA. [Revised abstract .pdf | Handout .pdf ]

Beavers, John and Ivan A. Sag. (2004). "Coordinate Ellipsis and Apparent Non-Constituent Coordination". In Proceedings of the 2004 HPSG Conference. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA.

Beavers, John. (2004). "Type-inheritance Combinatory Categorial Grammar". In Proceedings of COLING 2004, University of Geneva, Switzerland. [Draft .pdf ]

Beavers, John and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. (2003). "The proper treatment of your ass in English". In Proceedings of the Student Workshop at the 2003 European Summer School of Logic, Language and Information. Vienna, Austria. [Handout .pdf | Paper .pdf | For revised version "A Universal Pronoun in English?" see below]

Beavers, John. (2003). "Heads and Categories: Finding the Nominal Chimera". Ms., Stanford University, Stanford, CA. [Paper .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (2003). "More heads and less categories: a new look at noun phrase structure". In Proceedings of the 2003 HPSG Conference. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA [Handout .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (2002). "A CCG Implementation for the LKB". LinGO Working Paper No. 2002-08, CSLI, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. [Paper .ps.gz ]

Beavers, John. (2002). "Aspect and the Distribution of Prepositional Resultative Phrases in English". LinGO Working Paper No. 2002-07, CSLI, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. [Paper .ps.gz ]

Talks/Posters

Beavers, John. (2009). "Deriving Aspectual Classes from Scales of Change." At the 12th Meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, Nov. 13-15.

Koontz-Garboden, Andrew and John Beavers. (2009). "Is there a manner/result complementarity in verbal roots?". At Roots: Word Formation from the Perspective of "Core Lexical Elements". Stuttgart, Germany, June 10-12.

Beavers, John. (2009). "Aspectual Classes and Scales of Change". At Events Across Categories, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales - CSIC, Madrid, Spain, May 27-28.

Koontz-Garboden, Andrew and John Beavers. (2009). "Questioning the manner/result complementarity." Talk given at the 10th Annual SemFest, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, March 13-14. [ Handout .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (2009). "A Scalar Approach to Aspectual Classes". At the Verb Typologies Revisited: A Cross-linguistic Reflection on Verbs and Verb Classes, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Feb 6-7. [ Abstract .pdf | Handout .pdf ]

Beavers, John and Cala Zubair. (2008). "Low Transitivity and Detransitivization in Sinhala". Talk given at the Workshop on Transitivity, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Nov. 14-15.

Beavers, John. (2008). "Verbs in Motion: Revisiting Talmy's Typology." Invited talk given at Trinity University, San Antonio, TX.

Beavers, John. (2008). "Towards a Partly Aspectual Understanding of Affectedness." Invited talk given at Yale University.

Beavers, John. (2008). "The Structure of Lexical Meaning: Why Semantics Really Matters." Talk given at the NORMS Workshop on Argument Structure, Lund, Sweden.

Zubair, Cala and John Beavers. (2008). "Non-Nominative Subjects and the Involitive Construction in Sinhala." Talk given at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the LSA, Chicago, IL. [ Abstract .pdf | Handout .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (2008). "The True Role of Affectedness in NP-Preposing." Talk given at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the LSA, Chicago, IL. [ Abstract .pdf | Handout .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (2007). "Predicting Argument Realization from Preposition Semantics." Talk given at the 2007 Georgetown Roundtable of Linguistics, Georgetown University, Washington DC. [ Abstract .pdf | Handout .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (2007). "The interaction of Causation and Affectedness in Transitivity." Poster given at Forces in Grammatical Structures, Paris, France. [ Abstract .pdf | Posster .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (2007). "Deconstructing Affectedness: A Hierarchical Approach." Invited talk given at The University at Buffalo, State University of New York. [ Abstract .txt | Handout .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (2007). "Semantic Prominence in the Syntax: A Case Study in English Object/Oblique Alternations." Invited talk given at the University of Kentucky at Lexington.

Beavers, John. (2007). "Prominence Preservation in Argument Realization: Some Morphosyntactic Consequences." Invited talk given at the University of Texas at Austin.

Beavers, John. (2007). The Role of Durativity in Argument Realization. Talk given at the 81st Annual Meeting of the LSA, Anaheim, CA. [ Abstract .pdf | Handout .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (2006). "Prominence Preservation at the Syntax/Semantics Interface." Invited talk given at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Beavers, John and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. (2006). "Expressive Capability Trumps Syntax: A Case Study in Colloquial English Pronominals." Invited Talk given at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. [ Handout .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (2006). "Lexical Semantic Prominence as Implicational Structure." Invited talk given at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, and at the University of California at San Diego, CA.

Beavers, John. (2006). "The aspectual behavior of ditransitives in English". Paper given at the Linguistic Society of America 80th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM. [ Abstract .pdf | Handout .pdf ]

Beavers, John, Beth Levin, and Tham Shiao Wei. (2006). "The typology of motion events revisited". Paper given at the Linguistic Society of America 80th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM and at the 7th Stanford Semantics Fest. [ Abstract .pdf | Revised handout .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (2005). "Thematic Roles and Argument/Oblique Alternations". Dissertation Proposal, Stanford Semantics Workshop, March 1st, 2005, Stanford, CA. [ Absract .txt | Handout .pdf ]

Beavers, John, Beth Levin, and Tham Shiao Wei. (2004). "A Morphosyntactic Basis for Variation in the Encoding of Motion". Paper given at the Diveristy and Universals in Language Conference. Stanford University, CA, May 21-23. [ Abstract .pdf | Handout .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (2004). "Scalar Complexity and the Structure of Events". Paper presented at the Workshop on Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation. March 18th, 2004. University of Leipzig. [ (Slightly Revised) Abstract .pdf | Handout .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (2004). "A Less Informative Take on Argument/Oblique Alternations in English". Paper presented at 5th Annual Stanford Semantics Fest. March 12th, 2004. CSLI, Stanford University.[Abstract .txt | Handout .pdf ]

Beavers, John and Emily Bender. (2004). "Gapless Instrumental Relative Clauses in English". Paper given at the Linguistic Society of America 78th Annual Meeting, Boston. [Abstract .pdf | Handout .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (2003). "Goal Marking in Japanese at the Event and Predicate Level". Invited talk at the Stanford Semantics Workshop, September 30th, 2003, Stanford, CA. (Note: this talk is a slight modification of my talk at the ACL-SIGSEM Workshop in Toulouse) [Handout .pdf ]

Beavers, John and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. (2003). "Your ass is a Universal Pronoun". Paper presented at 4th Annual Stanford Semantics Fest. March 14th, 2003. CSLI, Stanford University. [Abstract .txt | Handout .pdf ]

Beavers, John. (2002). "Aspect and the Distribution of Prepositional Resultative Phrases in English". Paper given at the Linguistic Society of America 76th Annual Meeting, San Francisco. [Abstract .pdf | Handout .pdf ]