email: medeiros [at] umich.edu

Research on Hawaiian

Papers

(in progress) Hawaiian ai at the syntax-phonology interface.

(2020) Case variation in Eastern Polynesian spatial prepositons. In Variation in P, edited by Silvia Rossi and Jacopo Garzonio. OUP.

(2017). The morpho-syntax of Hawaiian valency morphology. In Proceedings of WCCFL 34, edited by Aaron Kaplan, Edward Rubin, and Abby Kaplan.

(2013) Hawaiian VP-remnant Movement: A Cyclic Linearization Approach. Lingua 127: 72-97.

(2013) A Cyclic Linearization Approach to VP-remnant Movement in Polynesian. The Proceedings of the 9th meeting of GLOW in Asia.

(2010) Extension and locality: A Case Study on Hawaiian. The Proceedings of the 12th Seoul Conference on Generative Grammar, p. 173-213.

Recent Presentations

2016 The Morphosyntax of Hawaiian valency morphology. AFLA 2016. (Slides)

2015 The Morphosyntax of the Hawaiian causative. LSA 2015. (Slides)

On the cross-linguistic distribution and interpretation of (morphological) imperatives

Papers

(2019) Ezra Keshet and David J. Medeiros (equal authorship). Imperatives under coordination. Natual Language and Linguistic Theory 37: 869-914.

(2015) Embedded Ancient Greek Imperatives: A Feature-Transfer Analysis. Syntax.

(2014) Rethinking Imperatives as a Clause Type. NELS Proceedings.

(2013) Formal Approaches to The Syntax and Semantics of Imperatives. Dissertation.

(2011) A Morpho-Syntactic Account of Embedded Imperatives. The Proceedings of the 47th meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.

Presentations

Ezra Keshet and David J. Medeiros (equal authorship). Skip This Talk and You Won't Learn the Truth About Imperative. University of Michigan Colloquium.

(2014) A Weak Necessity Semantics for Morphological Imperatives. LSA 2014. (Handout)

Quantitative Research

Paper

(in press) David J. Medeiros, Paul Mains, and Kevin McGowan. Ceiling Effects on Weight in Heavy NP Shift. Linguistic Inquiry.

Presentation

(2015) Gradient Acceptability by Length in English Heavy NP Shift. LSA 2015. (Slides)