Gary Thoms
List of John Benjamins publications for which Gary Thoms plays a role.
Articles
2011 How does the mind do literary work? Bi-Directionality in the Cognitive Sciences: Avenues, challenges, and limitations, Callies, Marcus, Wolfram R. Keller and Astrid Lohöfer (eds.), pp. 235–248 | Article
In this chapter we present a number of examples regarding literary forms and the way the mind processes them, ranging from meter to deviant syntactic structures in avant-garde literature. In particular, we look into the mismatches between these forms and language. Arguing against traditional… read more
2010 ‘Verb floating’ and VP-ellipsis: Towards a movement account of ellipsis licensing Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2010, van Craenenbroeck, Jeroen (ed.), pp. 252–297 | Article
In this paper I propose that ellipsis is licensed by overt movement. Examining variation in VP-ellipsis across English dialects, I show that movement is crucially implicated in whether or not a given element can license ellipsis. I discuss well-known restrictions on VP-ellipsis and present new data… read more