Research

Research interests: Syntax, semantics, grammatical theory and the syntax-semantics interface (especially Lexical Functional Grammar and Glue Semantics), philosophy of language, (critical) discourse analysis, language & gender, language & sexuality.

For full details of my work, including slides/handouts from talks, see my CV.

Publications

2023

• Yoolim Kim and Jamie Y. Findlay. On the 'subject' honorific -si- in Korean. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (PLSA) 8(1), 5534.
• Jamie Y. Findlay, Saeedeh Salimifar, Ahmet Yıldırım and Dag T. T. Haug. Rule-based semantic interpretation for Universal Dependencies. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW, GURT/ SyntaxFest 2023), 47–57. Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Dag T. T. Haug and Jamie Y. Findlay. Semantics for Dependency Grammar. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023). Association for Computational Linguistics.

2022

• Jamie Y. Findlay and Dag T. T. Haug. Managing scope ambiguities in Glue via multistage proving. In Miriam Butt, Jamie Y. Findlay, and Ida Toivonen (eds.), Proceedings of the LFG'22 Conference, 143–163. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
• Jamie Y. Findlay and Dag T. T. Haug. How useful are Enhanced Universal Dependencies for semantic interpretation? In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, SyntaxFest 2021), 22–34. Association for Computational Linguistics.

2021

• Jamie Y. Findlay. Meaning in LFG. In I. Wayan Arka, Ash Asudeh, and Tracy Holloway King (eds.), Modular design of grammar: linguistics on the edge, 340–374. Oxford University Press.

2020

• Jamie Y. Findlay. Mapping Theory and the anatomy of a lexical entry. In Miriam Butt and Ida Toivonen (eds.), Proceedings of the LFG’20 Conference, 127–147. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

2019

• Jamie Y. Findlay. Multiword expressions and the lexicon. D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford.
• Mary Dalrymple and Jamie Y. Findlay. Lexical Functional Grammar. In András Kertész, Edith Moravcsik, and Csilla Rákosi (eds.), Current approaches to syntax – a comparative handbook, 123–154. De Gruyter Mouton.

2017

• Jamie Y. Findlay. Unnatural acts lead to unconsummated marriages: discourses of homosexuality within the House of Lords debate on same-sex marriage. Journal of Language and Sexuality 6(1), 30–60.
• Jamie Y. Findlay. Multiword expressions and lexicalism. In Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King (eds.), Proceedings of the LFG’17 Conference, 209–229. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
• Jamie Y. Findlay. Multiword expressions and lexicalism: the view from LFG. In Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2017), 73–79. Association for Computational Linguistics.

2016

• Jamie Y. Findlay. Mapping theory without argument structure. Journal of Language Modelling 4(2), 293–338.
• Jamie Y. Findlay. The prepositional passive in Lexical Functional Grammar. In Doug Arnold, Miriam Butt, Berthold Crysmann, Tracy Holloway King, and Stefan Müller (eds.), Proceedings of the Joint 2016 Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical Functional Grammar, 255–275. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.