john j. lowe



Conference Papers and Invited Talks

  • 'Problematic control constructions in Sanskrit', invited paper at the 37th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA-37), Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 5 October 2023.
  • 'Argument structure in Pāṇinian and modern linguistic theory', 37th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA-37), Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 5 October 2023. With Jim Benson, Adriana Molina-Muñoz and Yiming Shen.
  • 'Indian theories of compounding', keynote paper at Indian Theories of Meaning and Grammar, INALCO, Paris, 7 June 2023.
  • 'Kāraka theory and argument structure', keynote paper at Indian Theories of Meaning and Grammar, INALCO, Paris, 6 June 2023.
  • 'Problematic control constructions in Sanskrit', invited paper at the IUSS Linguistics Seminar, IUSS Pavia, 17 April 2023.
  • 'Kauṇḍabhaṭṭa on samāsaśakti', 233rd Meeting of the American Oriental Society, 10 March 2023. With Jim Benson, Adriana Molina-Muñoz and Yiming Shen.
  • 'Later vyākaraṇa theories of negation', 18th World Sanskrit Conference, 12 January 2023. With Jim Benson.
  • 'Control vs. complex predication: infinitival constructions in Sanskrit', 18th World Sanskrit Conference, 12 January 2023. With Adriana Molina-Muñoz and Antonia Ruppel.
  • 'Relative constructions in Classical Sanskrit', 36th South Asian Linguistic Analysis Roundtable (SALA36), 27 November 2022. With Adriana Molina-Muñoz and Antonia Ruppel.
  • 'Relative constructions in Classical Sanskrit', 34th Deutscher Orientalistentag, Berlin, 14 September 2022. With Adriana Molina-Muñoz and Antonia Ruppel.
  • 'The syntax of Sanskrit bahuvrīhis', 27th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference, Groningen, 13 July 2022. Also 32nd SE-LFG meeting, Oxford, 21 May 2022. With Davide Mocci.
  • 'Negation in the Paramalaghumañjūṣā and beyond', LINGUINDIC Workshop, Oxford, 27 June 2022. With Jim Benson.
  • 'Relative constructions in Classical Sanskrit', 232nd Meeting of the American Oriental Society, 21 March 2022. With Adriana Molina-Muñoz and Antonia Ruppel. Also at 34th Deutscher Orientalistentag, Berlin, 14 September 2022.
  • 'Kauṇḍabhaṭṭa and Nāgeśa on negation', 232nd Meeting of the American Oriental Society, 21 March 2022. With Jim Benson and Yiming Shen.
  • 'Passive control structures in Sanskrit', 26th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference, Online, 15 July 2021. With Adriana Molina-Muñoz and Antonia Ruppel.
  • 'The Structure of Sanskrit Infinitival Complement Clauses', 231st Meeting of the American Oriental Society, 14 March 2021. With Adriana Molina-Muñoz and Antonia Ruppel.
  • 'The categories of participles and participials', invited paper at the Workshop 'Morphosyntax and Semantics of Indo-European Participles', University of Vienna (online), 18 February 2021.
  • 'Uncovering Sanskrit Syntax', invited paper at the Edinburgh University Linguistics Society, 7 October 2020.
  • 'Control vs. complex predication: infinitival constructions in Sanskrit', Societas Linguistica Europaea, Bucharest, 31 August 2020. With Adriana Molina-Muñoz and Antonia Ruppel.
  • 'The pragmatics of the Sanskrit Passive Causative', 230th Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Boston, 23 March 2020. With Adriana Molina-Muñoz and Antonia Ruppel. [Conference cancelled.]
  • 'The fuzzy edges of the Sanskrit verbal system', invited paper at the Philology Seminar, University of Cambridge, 20 November 2019.
  • 'Sanskrit Passive Causatives', 18th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, UCLA, 8 November, 2019. With Adriana Molina-Muñoz and Antonia Ruppel.
  • 'Causatives and their passives in Sanskrit', poster at the 24th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference, Canberra, 9 July 2019. With Adriana Molina-Muñoz and Antonia Ruppel.
  • 'The argument structure of Siraiki causatives', 24th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference, Canberra, 8 July 2019. With Ali H. Birahimani.
  • 'Sanskrit -tṛ- and the periphrastic future', invited paper at Variation and Contact in the Ancient Indo-European languages: between Linguistics and Philology, Pisa, 19 April 2018.
  • 'Non-verbal transitivity in early Indo-Aryan', invited talk at the Forschungskolloquium Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Zürich, 16 March 2018.
  • 'Integrating LFG's binding theory with PCDRT', presented at the 22nd International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference, Konstanz, 26 July 2017. With Mary Dalrymple and Dag Haug.
  • 'Rethinking projection in phrase structure', presented at the 22nd International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference, Konstanz, 25 July 2017. Also presented at the 23rd South of England LFG meeting, 13 May 2017. With Joseph Lovestrand.
  • 'Sanskrit -tṛ- and the periphrastic future', presented at the 28th UCLA Indo-European Conference, 11 November 2016.
  • 'Mixed Categories and participles: syntax and morphology', presented at HeadLex16, Joint 2016 Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical Functional Grammar, Warsaw, 24 July 2016. HeadLex16 Handout. Also presented at the 20th South of England LFG meeting, 21 May 2016.
  • 'Complex predicates: an LFG+glue analysis', presented at the 18th South of England LFG meeting, 31 October 2015.
  • 'Number mismatches in adjective coordination: Feature distributivity and the directionality of agreement', presented at the 11th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris (CSSP 2015), 8 October 2015. With Oleg Belyaev and Mary Dalrymple.
  • 'Clitic 'movement' in Ossetic', presented at the 20th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference, Waseda University, Tokyo, 20 July 2015. With Oleg Belyaev.
  • 'Gradual degrammaticalization: a lexical-sharing approach to the evolution of the English possessive', presented at the 20th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference, Waseda University, Tokyo, 19 July 2015.
  • 'Number mismatches in coordination: an LFG analysis', presented at the 20th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference, Waseda University, Tokyo, 18 July 2015. With Oleg Belyaev and Mary Dalrymple.
  • 'Transitive Nominals in Vedic Sanskrit', presented at the 16th World Sanskrit Conference, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, 28 June 2015.
  • 'When the noun agrees with the adjective: Coordination and feature distributivity in Russian', presented at the 4th conference on Constructional & Lexical Semantic Approaches to Russian, St Petersburg, 16 April 2015. With Oleg Belyaev and Mary Dalrymple.
  • 'Transitive Nominals in Ṛgvedic Sanskrit', presented at the 225th meeting of the American Oriental Society, 16 March 2015.
  • 'The Syntax of Sanskrit compounds', presented at the 15th South of England LFG meeting, 1 November 2014.
  • 'The Paradigmatic Status of Tense-Aspect Stem Participles in Ṛgvedic Sanskrit', presented at the Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft "Adjectifs verbaux et participes dans les langues indo-européennes", Paris, 24 September 2014.
  • 'The Representation of Information Structure', presented at the LAGB 2014 Annual Meeting, The Queen's College, Oxford, 4 September 2014 (with Louise Mycock).
  • 'Prosodic marking of Focus: A Lexical-Functional Grammar analysis', presented at the LAGB 2014 Annual Meeting, The Queen's College, Oxford, 4 September 2014 (with Louise Mycock).
  • 'Issues in the Representation of Information Structure', presented at the workshop on "The Syntax and Information Structure of Unbounded Dependencies", 19th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 20 July 2014 (with Louise Mycock). Earlier version presented at the 14th South of England LFG meeting, 10 May 2014.
  • 'S-structure Features for Information Structure Analysis', presented at the 19th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 19 July 2014 (with Louise Mycock). Handout. Earlier version presented at the 14th South of England LFG meeting, 10 May 2014.
  • 'Gluing Meanings and Semantic Structures', poster presentation at the 19th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 18 July 2014. Poster Handout
  • 'Transitive nouns and adjectives in the Ṛgveda', presented at Indo-Iranian and Indo-European, symposium in honour of Elizabeth Tucker, Wolfson College, Oxford, 21 June 2014.
  • 'Aorist Participles in the Ṛgveda', presented at the 6th International Vedic Workshop, Kozhikode, India, 10 January 2014. Earlier version presented at the 25th UCLA Indo-European Conference, 26 October 2013.
  • 'Partial (de)grammaticalization and its consequences: the English possessive', presented at the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Oslo, 6 August 2013.
  • 'Intonation-only marking of narrow Focus: a Lexical-Functional Grammar Analysis', presented at the 19th International Congress of Linguists, Geneva, 22 July 2013 (with Louise Mycock).
  • 'Transitive and Predicated Nominals in LFG', presented at the 18th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference, Debrecen, 20 July 2013.
  • 'The Prosodic Encoding of Discourse Functions', presented at the 18th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference, Debrecen, 19 July 2013 (with Louise Mycock).
  • 'Transitive Nominals in Old Avestan', presented at the 223rd Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Portland OR, 17 March 2013.
  • 'The English Possessive: Clitic and Affix', presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston MA, 3 January 2013. Extended versions presented at the 10th South of England LFG meeting, 23 February 2013, and at the University of Oxford General Linguistics Seminar, 18 November 2013.
  • 'Focus and the Syntax-Prosody Interface', invited talk at the Fachbereichskolloquium, FB Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz, 30 November 2012 (with Mary Dalrymple and Louise Mycock). Earlier version presented at the 9th South of England LFG meeting, 3 November 2012 (with Louise Mycock).
  • 'Transitive Nominals in Avestan', presented at the 24th UCLA Indo-European Conference, 26 October 2012. Abstract
  • 'Clitics inside constituents: a non-transformational account', presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Salford, 8 September 2012.
  • 'The synchronic (in)validity of diachronic reconstructions: participles in the Rgveda', presented at the Philological Society symposium 'Synchrony and diachrony: variation and change in language history', Worcester College, Oxford, 16 March 2012.
  • 'Clitic 'Movement' in a Parallel Architecture', invited talk at the University of Oxford General Linguistics Seminar, 13 February 2012.
  • 'Caland Adjectives in *-nt- and Participles in Sanskrit and Proto-Indo-European', presented at the 23rd UCLA Indo-European Conference, 28 October 2011. Abstract Handout
  • 'Word Order and Second Position in Ṛgvedic Sanskrit', presented at the 16th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference, Hong Kong, 17 July 2011. Handout. Earlier version presented at the 5th South of England LFG meeting, 4 June 2011.

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