User:Tjo3ya

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:

I have created the following articles:

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.

The following subsections list my publications. These publications include books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings.

• 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.