University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics

The University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) are published by the Penn Graduate Linguistics Society, the organization of linguistics graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania.

PWPL publishes two volumes per year:

  • Proceedings of the annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC)
  • Selected Papers from New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV)

In addition, we publish an occasional volume of working papers written by students and faculty in the department.

 

 

 

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    Preface
    (2003-01-01) Kaiser, Elsi; Arunachalam, Sudha
    The University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) is an occasional series published by the Penn Linguistics Club, the graduate student organization of the Linguistics Department of the University of Pennsylvania. The series has included volumes of previously unpublished work, or work in progress, by linguists with an ongoing affiliation with the Department, as well as volumes of papers from the NWAV conference and the Penn Linguistics Colloquium. The current PWPL series editors are Sudha Arunachalam, Uri Horesh, Elsi Kaiser, Ian Ross, Tara Sanchez, and Alexander Williams.
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    Preface
    (2002-01-01) Arunachalam, Sudha; Kaiser, Elsi; Johnson, Daniel Ezra; Sanchez, Tara; Williams, Alexander
    The University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) is an occasional series published by the Penn Linguistics Club, the graduate student organization of the Linguistics Department of the University of Pennsylvania. The series has included volumes of previously unpublished work, or work in progress, by linguists with an ongoing affiliation with the Department, as well as volumes of papers from the NWAV conference and the Penn Linguistics Colloquium. The current PWPL series editors are Sudha Arunachalam, Elsi Kaiser, Daniel Ezra Johnson, Tara Sanchez, and Alexander Williams.
  • Publication
    Preface
    (2003-01-01) Arunachalam, Sudha; Kaiser, Elsi; Williams, Alexander
    The University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) is an occasional series published by the Penn Linguistics Club, the graduate student organization of the Linguistics Department of the University of Pennsylvania. The series has included volumes of previously unpublished work, or work in progress, by linguists with an ongoing affiliation with the Department, as well as volumes of papers from the NWAV conference and the Penn Linguistics Colloquium. The current PWPL series editors are Sudha Arunachalam, Elsi Kaiser, Ian Ross, Tara Sanchez, and Alexander Williams.
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    Preface
    (2001-01-01) Kaiser, Elsi; Johnson, Daniel Ezra; Ross, Ian; Sanchez, Tara; Williams, Alexander
    The University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) is an occasional series published by the Penn Linguistics Club, the graduate student organization of the Linguistics Department of the University of Pennsylvania. The series has included volumes of previously unpublished work, or work in progress, by linguists with an ongoing affiliation with the Department, as well as volumes of papers from the NWAV(E) conference and the Penn Linguistics Colloquium. The current PWPL series editors are Elsi Kaiser, Daniel Ezra Johnson, Ian Ross, Tara Sanchez, and Alexander Williams.
  • Publication
    Preface
    (2002-01-01) Kaiser, Elsi; Johnson, Daniel Ezra; Sanchez, Tara; Williams, Alexander
    The University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) is an occasional series published by the Penn Linguistics Club, the graduate student organization of the Linguistics Department of the University of Pennsylvania. The series has included volumes of previously unpublished work, or work in progress, by linguists with an ongoing affiliation with the Department, as well as volumes of papers from the NWAV(E) conference and the Penn Linguistics Colloquium. The current PWPL series editors are Elsi Kaiser, Daniel Ezra Johnson, Tara Sanchez, and Alexander Williams.
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    Preface
    (2000-01-01) Fox, Michelle Minnick; Williams, Alexander; Kaiser, Elsi
    The University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) is an occasional series published by the Penn Linguistics Club, the graduate student organization of the Linguistics Department of the University of Pennsylvania. The series has included volumes of previously unpublished work, or work in progress, by linguists with an ongoing affiliation with the Department, as well as volumes of papers from the NWAV(E) conference and the Penn Linguistics Colloquium. The current PWPL series editors are Elsi Kaiser, Michelle Minnick Fox, and Alexander Williams.
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    Preface
    (2000-01-01) Alexander, Jim; Dimitriadis, Alexis; Han, Na-Rae; Kaiser, Elsi; Minnick Fox, Michelle; Moisset, Christine; Williams, Alexander
    The University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) is an occasional series published by the Penn Linguistics Club, the graduate student organization of the Linguistics Department of the University of Pennsylvania. The series has included volumes of previously unpublished work, or work in progress, by linguists with an ongoing affiliation with the Department, as well as volumes of papers from the NWAV(E) conference and the Penn Linguistics Colloquium. The order of contents in the present issue (6.3) generally reflects topical relations between adjacent papers. The current PWPL series editors are Jim Alexander, Alexis Dimitriadis, Na-Rae Han, Elsi Kaiser, Michelle Minnick Fox, Christine Moisset, and Alexander Williams.
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    Preface
    (1999) Alexander, Jim; Dimitriadis, Alexis; Han, Na-Rae; Kaiser, Elsi; Minnick Fox, Michelle; Moisset, Christine; Williams, Alexander
    The University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) is an occasional series published by the Penn Linguistics Club, the graduate student organization of the Linguistics Department of the University of Pennsylvania. The series has included volumes of previously unpublished work, or work in progress, by linguists with an ongoing affiliation with the Department, as well as volumes of papers from the NWAVE conference and the Penn Linguistics Colloquium. The current PWPL series editors are Jim Alexander, Alexis Dimitriadis, Na-‐Rae Han, Elsi Kaiser, Michelle Minnick Fox, Christine Moisset, and Alexander Williams.
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    Implicit Causality: A Comparison of English and Vietnamese Verbs
    (2020-10-01) Ngo, Binh; Kaiser, Elsi
    In sequences like ‘Lisa frightened/blamed Kate because she…’, verbs influence the likelihood of subsequent pronouns referring to subjects or objects, an effect called implicit causality. In addition to its significance for theories of reference resolution, this effect is important for cognitive and socio-cultural research. A fundamental question has to do with the source of implicit causality effects and how they relate to verb classes (e.g. Stimulus-Experiencer). Furthermore, many researchers use implicit causality as a tool to investigate other aspects of pronoun interpretation. Crucially, this work requires access to pre-existing information about the subject-vs.-object biases of individual verbs. Large-scale studies provide public datasets for English and Spanish. However, lack of large public datasets for typologically-diverse languages is a serious limitation. It is problematic for practical reasons (it poses challenges for experiments on languages without accessible implicit causality norms) and theoretical reasons (it limits our ability to understand implicit causality effects). To address this, we conducted a large-scale study of 149 verbs in Vietnamese and provide a comparison between these Vietnamese verbs and their English equivalents revealing intriguing variations in their implicit causality biases. Crucially, this work creates a database which can serve as a tool for theoretical and practical applications of crosslinguistic research relating to implicit causality.