About

My name is Elise Newman and I am a postdoc in linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. I work primarily on syntax and semantics, with additional interests in first language acquisition. I finished my PhD at MIT in 2021, and am currently collaborating with researchers from Edinburgh, Goettingen, and ZAS on a project about syntactic locality effects relating to arguments vs. adjuncts. You can find out more about my work in the "Research" section.

Outside of being a linguist, I enjoy soccer, ceramics, and hiking/cycling.

Thesis

Newman, E. (2021). The (in)distinction between wh-movement and c-selection.

Papers

Newman, E. (accepted) The order of operations and A/A-bar interactions. To appear in NLLT.

Newman, E. (accepted) Probing for the closest DP: a reply to Branan et al. (2022). To appear in Linguistic Inquiry.

Newman, E. (2021). On the interpretation of tense in temporal adverbial clauses. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 6(1): 12. 1-30. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1429

Gowda, Y., E. Newman, L. Rosenstein, and M. Hackl (2020). Scalar inferences in the acquisition of even. Frontiers in Communication, section Language Sciences: 5, p. 117. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2020.593634.

Newman, E. (2021). vP infinitives in Wolof: on A'-movement to Spec vP. ACAL 2019 Proceedings: Preprint version.

Newman, E. (2020). Facilitator effects in middles and more. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 5(1), 62. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.990

Unpublished and in prep

(with Kenyon Branan) Paths: the ghost of features past.(in prep).

C-selection and the verb phrase.(submitted).

On the movement/(anti)agreement correlation in Romance and Mayan.Ms. 2020.

"In do-support of phrasal auxiliary movement."Ms. 2018.

General's paper on especially.

Undergraduate thesis on the Shanghainese ne construction.

Undergraduate thesis in physics about an experiment designed to measure sterile neutrinos.

Presentations

"Pied-piping Phi". Invited talk at the Seminar Speaker Series, Queen Mary University of London, Fall 2022. Handout.

"Adjunct islands aren't real, you're just projecting". GLOW in Asia XIII, 2022. Co-presented with Kenyon Branan. Handout.

"Adjunct islands aren't real, you're just projecting". 31st Colloquium on Generative Grammar, 2022. Co-presented with Kenyon Branan. Poster.

"C-selection and the verb phrase". Invited talk at the Oberseminar English Linguistics, University of Goettingen, Spring 2022. Handout.

"The order of operations and A/A-bar interactions". LASER Kickoff Workshop, Winter 2021. Handout.

"The order of operations and A/A-bar/agreement interactions". Invited talk at the Yale Syntax Reading Group, Fall 2021. Handout.

"The future since Stump". LSA 2020. Poster.

"vP-infinitives in Wolof: on A'-movement to Spec vP". ACAL 2019. Handout.

"Polarity sensitivity of even in early child grammar". GALANA 2018. Co-presented with Yadav Gowda, Leo Rosenstein and Martin Hackl. Poster.

"Polarity sensitivity of even in early child grammar". Learnability in a Parametric World 2018. Co-presented with Yadav Gowda, Leo Rosenstein and Martin Hackl. Slides.

"In do-support of phrasal auxiliary movement." OLINCO 2018. Handout.

"The Lubukusu agreeing complementizer." LSA 2018 workshop on the syntax of clausal arguments in Bantu. Co-presented with Danfeng Wu. Handout.