Who am I? edit
Timothy John Osborne: I am a professor of linguistics at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. My Ph.D. is in German and linguistics, with a specialty in the theory of grammar. My particular interest is in dependency grammar (DG) and all aspects that feed into it. To check my qualifications to be a contributor, google "dependency grammar osborne". My publications in peer-reviewed journals will show up. These publications are also listed below.
I am particularly interested in the article on dependency grammar, and I am also working to improve other articles that touch on areas that are in some way related to dependency grammar and its understanding of syntax and the theory of grammar. I have significantly revised and/or added to the following articles:
- Adjective phrase - February 2013
- Adjunct (grammar) - March 2012
- Adpositional phrase - March 2013
- Anaphora - October 2013
- Antecedent - October 2013
- Antecedent-contained deletion - Dec. 2011
- Argument (linguistics) - February 2012
- Auxiliary verb - July 2012
- Binding - October 2013
- Branching (linguistics) - January 2012
- C-command - October 2013
- Clause - July 2012
- Comparative - March 2013
- Complement (linguistics) - April 2012
- Constituent (linguistics) - December 2011, August 2018
- Control (linguistics) - June 2012
- Coordination (linguistics) - January 2011
- Coreference - October 2013
- Crossover - October 2013
- Dependency grammar - November 2011
- Dependent-marking language - March 2013
- Determiner phrase - December 2013
- Do-support - July 2012
- Ellipsis (linguistics) - December 2011
- Endocentric - December 2011
- Exceptional case-marking - June 2012
- Finite verb - June 2012
- Gapping - December 2011
- Government (linguistics) - January 2012
- Grammatical relation - December 2011
- Head (linguistics) - December 2011
- Head marking language - March 2013
- Idiom - July 2012
- Immediate constituent analysis - Dec. 2011
- Inverse copular constructions - Sept. 2012
- Inversion (linguistics) - December 2011
- Lexical item - July 2012
- Light verb - July 2012
- Lucien Tesnière - October 2013
- Merge (linguistics) - January 2012
- Modal verb - July 2012
- Movement paradox - February 2013
- Non-configurational language - Dec. 2011
- Non-finite verb - July 2012
- Noun phrase - July 2012
- Object (grammar) - March 2013
- Parasitic gap - October 2013
- Parse tree - December 2011
- Periphrasis - July 2012
- Phrasal verb - July 2012
- Phrase - December 2011
- Phrase structure grammar - November 2011
- Phrase structure rule -December 2011
- Predicate (grammar) - November 2011
- Raising (linguistics) - June 2012
- Scrambling (linguistics) - February 2012
- Separable verb - July 2012
- Sentence diagram - February 2012
- Sluicing - December 2011
- Small clause - June 2012
- Subcategorization - December 2011
- Subject (grammar) - March 2013
- Subject-auxiliary inversion - July 2011
- Subordination (linguistics) - Feb. 2012
- Syntactic category - December 2011
- Syntactic movement - February 2013, January 2019
- Valency (linguistics) - December 2011
- Verb phrase - December 2011
- Verb phrase ellipsis - December 2011
- V2 word order- June 2012
- Wh-movement - November 2012
- X-bar theory - January 2012
I have created the following articles:
- Answer ellipsis - February 2012
- Catena (linguistics) - November 2011, January 2019
- Discontinuity (linguistics) - January 2012
- Extraposition - February 2012
- Negative inversion - October 2012
- Noun ellipsis - April 2012
- Pied-piping - February 2013
- Predicative expression - April 2012
- Pseudogapping - January 2012
- Right node raising - October 2012
- Selection (linguistics) - June 2012
- Shifting (linguistics) - January 2012
- Stripping (linguistics) - April 2012
- Subject-verb inversion - October 2012
- Topicalization - March 2012
If one disputes the content in any of these articles, I am very willing to discuss the issues. I can be contacted at the following email address: tjo3ya@yahoo.com.
Publications edit
The following subsections list my publications. These publications include books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings.
Books edit
- Osborne, Timothy. 2019. A Dependency Grammar of English: An Introduction and Beyond. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/z.224
- Tesnière, Lucien. 2015. Elements of structural syntax [English translation of Tesnière 1966, translated by Timothy Osborne and Sylvain Kahane, 700 pages, French to English]. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
Peer-reviewed journal articles edit
The following list gives my peer-reviewed publications in chronological order (most recent first). These publications deliver a sense of my qualifications to be contributing to Wikipedia in the area of syntax and grammar:
- Osborne, Timothy and Matthew Reeve. 2018. Scope Domains: Toward a Dependency Grammar Account of the
- Syntactic Distribution of Negative Polarity Items. Acta Linguistica Academia 65, 1, 1–49.
- Osborne, Timothy and Thomas Groß. 2018. Answer fragments. The Linguistic Review 35, 1, 161-186.
- Osborne, Timothy. 2016. Dependency networks: A discussion note about Lamb’s theory of linguistic
- structure. Language under Discussion 4, 1, 44–50.
- Osborne, Timothy and Thomas Groß. 2017. Left node blocking. Journal of Linguistics 53, 641–688.
- Osborne, Timothy and Thomas Groß. 2016. The do-so-diagnostic: Against finite VPs and for flat
- non-finite VPs. Folia Linguistica 50, 1, 97–135.
- Groß, Thomas and Timothy Osborne 2013. Katena und Konstruktion: Ein Vorschlag zu einer dependenziellen
- Konstruktionsgrammatik. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 32, 1, 41–73.
- Osborne, Timothy and Thomas Groß 2012. Antecedent containment: A dependency grammar solution in terms of
- catenae. Studia Linguistica 66, 2, 94–127.
- Osborne, Timothy and Thomas Groß 2012. Constructions are catenae: Construction Grammar meets dependency
- grammar. Cognitive Linguistics 23, 1: 163-214.
- Osborne, Timothy 2012. Edge features, catenae, and dependency-based Minimalism. Linguistic Analysis 34,
- 3–4, 321–366.
- Osborne, Timothy, Michael Putnam, and Thomas Groß 2011. Bare phrase structure, label-less trees, and
- specifier-less syntax: Is Minimalism becoming a dependency grammar? The Linguistic Review 28: 315-364.
- Groß, Thomas and Timothy Osborne 2009. Toward a practical dependency grammar theory of discontinuities.
- SKY Journal of Linguistics 22, 43-90.
- Osborne, Timothy 2009. Comparative coordination vs. comparative subordination Natural Language
- and Linguistic Theory 27, 427-454.
- Osborne, Timothy 2008. Major constituents: And two dependency grammar constraints on sharing in
- coordination. Linguistics 46/6, 1109-1165.
- Osborne, Timothy 2007. The weight of predicates: A dependency grammar analysis of predicate weight in
- German. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 19/1, 23-72.
- Osborne, Timothy 2006. Gapping vs. non-gapping coordination. Linguistische Berichte 207, 307-338.
- Osborne, Timothy 2006. Shared material and grammar: A dependency grammar theory of non-gapping coordination.
- Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 25, 39-93.
- Osborne, Timothy 2006. Parallel conjuncts. Studia Linguistica 60/1, 64-96.
- Osborne, Timothy 2005. Beyond the constituent: A dependency grammar analysis of chains. Folia Linguistica
- 39/3-4, 251-297.
- Osborne, Timothy 2005. Coherence: A dependency grammar analysis. SKY Journal of Linguistics 18, 223-286.
- Osborne, Timothy 2003. The Left Elbow Constraint. Studia Linguistica 57/3, 233-257.
Book chapters edit
Most of the book chapters listed next are in respected handbooks on syntax and grammar and have survived peer review:
- Osborne Timothy. (to appear in 2019). Franz Kern: An Early Dependency Grammarian. [This will appear in a volume
- on the history of DG edited by Nicolas Mazziota and Ándras Imrenyi, John Benjamins].
- Osborne, Timothy. (to appear in 2019). Dependency grammar. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax.
- Osborne, Timothy. 2017. Ellipsis in Dependency Grammar. The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis.
- Kahane, Sylvain and Timothy Osborne. 2015. Translators’ introduction. In Lucien Tesnière, Elements of
- Structural Syntax [English translation of Tesnière 1966, translated by Timothy Osborne and Sylvain Kahane],
- xxix–lxxiii. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Structural Syntax [English translation of Tesnière 1966, translated by Timothy Osborne and Sylvain Kahane],
- Osborne, Timothy. 2015. Dependency grammar. In Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft/
- Handbooks of Linguistics and communication Science (HSK) 42, 2, 1027–1044.
- Osborne, Timothy 2014. Dependency grammar. In The Routledge Handbook of Syntax, ed. by A. Carnie, Y. Sato,
- and D. Saddiqi, pp. 604–626. London: Routledge.
- Osborne, Timothy. 2014. Type 2 rising: A contribution to a DG account of discontinuities. In Dependency
- Linguistics: Recent Advances in Linguistic Theory using Dependency Structures, ed. By Kim Gerdes,
- Eva Hajičova, and Leo Wanner, 273–298. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Linguistics: Recent Advances in Linguistic Theory using Dependency Structures, ed. By Kim Gerdes,
Conference proceedings edit
The conference proceedings listed here are all from the Depling series of international conferences on dependency linguistics. They can be downloaded freely. Simply google the article's title that you are interested in.
- Osborne, Timothy and Matthew Reeve. 2017. Control vs. raising: A dependency grammar account. Proceedings of the
- Fourth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics, Sept. 18–20, Pisa, Italy.
- Osborne, Timothy and Ruochen Niu. 2017. The component: Introducing a novel unit of syntactic structure. Proceedings of
- the Fourth :International Conference on Dependency Linguistics. Sept. 18–20, Pisa, Italy.
- Osborne, Timothy and Jinying Liang. 2015. A survey of ellipsis in Chinese, Proceedings of the Third International Osborne,
- and D. Saddiqi, pp. 604–626. London: Routledge.Conference on :Dependency Linguistics, Aug. 24–26, Uppsala, Sweden, 271–280.
- Osborne, Timothy and Shudong Ma. 2015. A DG account of the descriptive and resultative de-constructions in Chinese,
- Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Dependency Linguistics, Aug. 24–26, Uppsala, Sweden, 261–270.
- Osborne, Timothy. 2015. Diagnostics for constituents: Dependency, constituency, and the status of function words,
- Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Dependency Linguistics, Aug. 24–26, Uppsala, Sweden, 251–260.
- Osborne, Timothy. And Daniel Maxwell. 2015. A historical overview of the status of function words in dependency
- grammar, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Dependency Linguistics, Aug. 24–26, Uppsala, Sweden, 241–250.
- Groß, Thomas and Timothy Osborne. 2015. The dependency status of function words, Proceedings of the Third International
- Conference on Dependency Linguistics, August 27 – 30, 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, 111–120.
- Osborne, Timothy. 2013. A Look at Tesnière’s Éléments through the Lens of Modern Syntactic Theory. Proceedings of
- the Second International Conference on Dependency Linguistics, August 27– 30, 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, 262– 271.
- Osborne, Timothy. 2013. The distribution of floating quantifiers: A dependency grammar analysis. Proceedings of the
- Second International Conference on Dependency Linguistics, August 27 – 30, 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, 272– 281.