Recent and Forthcoming Publications
[1]
Truswell, Robert (2019). Oxford Handbook of Event Structure. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 736pp. See preprints of the table of contents, the introduction, and my chapter on Event composition and event individuation.
[2]
Truswell, Robert, Rhona Alcorn, James Donaldson, and Joel Wallenberg (2019). A Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English. In Rhona Alcorn, Bettelou Los, Joanna Kopaczyk, and Benjamin Molineaux (eds.), Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age, pp. 19–37. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Preprint here.
[3]
Truswell, Robert, Chris Cummins, Caroline Heycock, Brian Rabern, and Hannah Rohde (2018). Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21. Freely downloadable proceedings volume. 1,398 pages.
[4]
Truswell, Robert, Rhona Alcorn, James Donaldson, and Joel Wallenberg (2017). A Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English. 172,624-word parsed corpus, freely downloadable from GitHub.
[5]
Mathieu, Éric and Robert Truswell (eds) (2017). Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press. See preprints of the introduction (Mathieu and Truswell), and Where do relative specifiers come from? (Gisborne and Truswell).
[1]
Truswell, Robert and Nikolas Gisborne (2019). Indefinite/interrogatives and relatives in early Indo-European. Invited keynote talk, workshop on ‘Relatives, interrogatives, alternatives’, Charles University, Prague.
[2]
Truswell, Robert (2019). Variation and change in Early Middle English word order: Evidence from the Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English. Invited talk, workshop on Multimethodological Approaches to Synchronic and Diachronic Variation, Potsdam.
[3]
Truswell, Robert (2019). An adjunction theory of extraction from coordinate structures. Invited talk, Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin.
[4]
Truswell, Robert and Nikolas Gisborne (2019). Interrogative–indefinites and kw-relatives in the history of English and French: Pathways in a locked room. Invited keynote talk, workshop ‘Rekonstruktion und Erneuerung: Indefinita in der Romania. Die Grenzen einer instabilen Kategorie’, XXXVI. Romanistentag, Universität Kassel.
[5]
Truswell, Robert (2019). A first attempt to use the Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English as an atlas: Middle English V2. Invited talk, DAAD workshop on Mapping Language Variation and Change, Cambridge.
Recent talks
November 2019
Over the last six weeks, I have presented Indefinite/interrogatives and relatives in early Indo-European at the workshop ‘Relatives, interrogatives, alternatives’ (Prague), Variation and change in Early Middle English word order: Evidence from the Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English at the workshop ‘Multimethodological approaches to synchronic and diachronic variation’ (Potsdam), An adjunction theory of extraction from coordinate structures (ZAS, Berlin), and Interrogative–indefinites and kw-relatives in the history of English and French: Pathways in a locked room at Romanistentag (Kassel).
Oxford Handbook of Event Structure out now
March 2019
At last!
Invited talks
March 2019
In March, I presented What's that? at ELALT 5 (Novi Sad) and A first attempt to use the Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English as an atlas: Middle English V2 at the DAAD workshop on Mapping Language Variation and Change (Cambridge).
Congratulations Dr. Paul Melchin!
January 2019
My supervisee Paul Melchiin has successfully defended his thesis, The semantic basis for selectional restrictions, at the University of Ottawa. I've been working with Paul, on several projects, for more than five years at this point, and I'm hugely proud of his achivement. Congratulations Paul!
PLAEME paper out now
January 2019
‘A Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English’ (co-authored with Rhona Alcorn, James Donaldson, and Joel Wallenberg) is out now, in Alcorn et al (eds.) Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age (preprint here). This is an introduction to the freely downloadable Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English.
