Proxy Counterfactuals
Guillaume Thomas. 2008. Proxy Counterfactuals. Snippets 18. Eds. C. Cecchetto,C. Donati and O. Percus. 17-18
CV
Education
- B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012
- M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014
- Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected)
Work experience
- Summer 2015: Research Assistant
- Github University
- Duties included: Tagging issues
- Supervisor: Professor Git
- Fall 2015: Research Assistant
- Github University
- Duties included: Merging pull requests
- Supervisor: Professor Hub
Skills
- Skill 1
- Skill 2
- Sub-skill 2.1
- Sub-skill 2.2
- Sub-skill 2.3
- Skill 3
Publications
A note on the analysis of too as a discourse marker
Guillaume Thomas. 2013. A note on the analysis of too as a discourse marker. Revista LinguíStica 9-1: 11-23. ISSN 1808-835X 1
Nominal tense and temporal implicatures: evidence from Mbyá Permalink
Guillaume Thomas. 2014. Nominal tense and temporal implicatures: evidence from Mbyá. Natural Language Semantics 22:357-412. doi: 10.1007/s11050-014-9108-2
Reference to degrees and nominalization in Mbyá Permalink
Guillaume Thomas. 2013. Reference to degrees and nominalization in Mbyá. In The art and craft of semantics: a Festschrift for Irene Heim, vol. 2, edited by Uli Sauerland and Luka Crnic, MITWPL 71: 201-225
A split analysis of nasal harmony in Mbya Permalink
Guillaume Thomas. 2014. A split analysis of nasal harmony in Mbya. 2014. Revista Linguística 10-2: 75-104
The present tense is not vacuous Permalink
Guillaume Thomas. 2015. The present tense is not vacuous. Journal of Semantics 32:685-747. doi: 10.1093/jos/ffu010
Comparison and the expression of degree in Mbyá Guaraní Permalink
Guillaume Thomas. 2017. Comparison and the expression of degree in Mbyá Guaraní. In Guarani Linguistics in the 21st century, Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the America, edited by Bruno Estigarribia, pp. 231-258. Brill. doi 10.1163/9789004322578_008
Underspecification in Degree Operators Permalink
Guillaume Thomas. 2018. Underspecification in Degree Operators. Journal of Semantics 35: 43-93. doi: 10.1093/jos/ffx015
Embedded Imperatives in Mbyá Permalink
Guillaume Thomas. 2018. Embedded Imperatives in Mbyá. In Recursion across Domains, edited by Luis Amaral, Marcus Maia and Andrew Nevins, pp. 86-108. Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108290708.007
Universal Dependencies for Mbyá Guaraní Permalink
Guillaume Thomas. 2019. Universal Dependencies for Mbyá Guaraní. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW, SyntaxFest 2019), edited by Alexandre Rademaker and Francis Tyers. 70-77.
Word order variation in Mbyá Guaraní Permalink
Angelika Kiss and Guillaume Thomas. 2019. Word order variation in Mbyá Guaraní. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, SyntaxFest 2019), edited by Kim Gerdes and Sylvain Kahane. 121–129.
Mbyá resultatives and the structure of causation Permalink
Guillaume Thomas. 2019. Mbyá resultatives and the structure of causation. Glossa 4(1): 136. 1-38.
Word class flexibility: A deep contextualized approach Permalink
Bai Li, Guillaume Thomas, Yang Xu, and Frank Rudzicz. 2020. Word class flexibility: A deep contextualized approach. Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), edited by Bonnie Webber, Trevor Cohn, Yulan He and Yang Liu. 983–994.
Countability in Mbyá Guaraní Permalink
Guillaume Thomas. 2020. Countability in Mbyá Guarani. Linguistic Variation, 20(2): 288–299.
Switch reference and its role in referential choice in Mbyá narratives Permalink
Guillaume Thomas, Gregory Antono, Angelika Kiss, Laurestine Bradford, Darragh Winkelman. 2021. Switch reference and its role in referential choice in Mbyá narratives. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. 17(3).
How is BERT surprised? Layerwise detection of linguistic anomalies Permalink
Bai Li, Zining Zhu, Guillaume Thomas, Yang Xu and Frank Rudzicz. 2021. How is BERT surprised? Layerwise detection of linguistic anomalies. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), edited by Chengqing Zong, Fei Xia, Wenjie Li and Roberto Navigli. 4215–4228.
Bare Singulars and Relative Measures in Brazilian Portuguese Permalink
Suzi Lima and Guillaume Thomas. 2022. Bare Singulars and Relative Measures in Brazilian Portuguese. Glossa 7(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5779
Neural reality of argument structure constructions Permalink
Bai Li, Zining Zhu, Guillaume Thomas, Yang Xu and Frank Rudzicz. 2022. Neural reality of argument structure constructions. Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), edited by Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov and Aline Villavicencio. 7410–7423.
Restructuring and evidentiality in Mbyá.
Guillaume Thomas. To appear. Restructuring and evidentiality in Mbyá. To appear in Amerindia, Revue d’Ethnolinguistique Amérindienne.
Case dependent agreement in an active-stative language
Guillaume Thomas, Akil Ismael and Germino Duarte. 2024. Case dependent agreement in an active-stative language.
A multivariate analysis of canonical and non-canonical uses of Switch-Reference markers in Mbyá narratives Permalink
Guillaume Thomas and Germino Duarte. 2024. A multivariate analysis of canonical and non-canonical uses of Switch-Reference markers in Mbyá narratives. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.
Talks
Quantification, Completive Aspect and Degree Modification in Mbyá
Talk at The Semantics of Under-represented Languages in the Americas 4 (SULA 4), São Paulo
Modal Existential Wh Constructions are not Interrogatives: Arguments from French
Talk at East Coast Syntax Workshop (ECO5), Storrs, CT
An Analysis of the Xiamen Tone Circle
Talk at 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 27), Los Angeles, CA
Incremental Comparatives and Inherently Evaluative ‘Many’ in Mbyá
Talk at 14th Workshop on the Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 14), Purdue, IN
A Few Thoughts on Proxy Counterfactuals and Cross-World Identity
Talk at Southern New England Workshop on Semantics (SNEWS 2009), Amherst, MA
Incremental Comparison
Talk at Colloque de Syntaxe et de Sémantique de Paris, Paris
Incremental Comparison
Talk at Sinn und Bedeutung 14, Vienna
Incremental More and Event Pluractionality in English
Poster at 20th Semantics and Linguistic Theory conference (SALT 20), Vancouver, BC
Modeling Doubly Marked Lags with Exacerbation (with Hrayr Khanjian and Yasutada Sudo)
Talk at The 18th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester
‘Another’, Tropes and Additivity
Talk at Southern New England Workshop in Semantics (SNEWS 2011), Storrs, CT
Tense In and Out of the Noun Phrase in Mbyá Guaraní
Talk at The Semantics of Under-represented Languages in the Americas 6, Manchester
The Clausal Nature of Universally Quantified Phrases in Karitiana (with Luciana R. Storto)
Talk at The Semantics of Under-represented Languages in the Americas 6 (SULA 6), Manchester
Another and the Meaning of Measure Phrases
Talk at The 21st Semantics and Linguistics Theory Conference (SALT 21), New Brunswick, NJ
Embedded Imperatives in Mbyá
Talk at The 5th Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis Conference (SinFonIJA 5), Vienna
Embedded Imperatives in Mbyá
Talk at The 43rd annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 43), New York, NY
The Present Tense is Not Vacuous
Poster at The 37th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC 37), Philadelphia, PA
The Present Tense is Not Vacuous
Poster at The 23rd Semantics and Linguistics Theory Conference (SALT 23), Santa Cruz, CA
Reference to Degrees and Nominalization in Mbyá
Conference proceedings talk at Workshop on Nominalization and Plurals, Paris
Circumstantial Modality and the Diversity Condition
Conference proceedings talk at Sinn und Bedeutung 18, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Rising Scale Segments: Additivity, Comparison and Continuation
Conference proceedings talk at 38th Generative Linguistics in the Old Word (GLOW 38), Paris
Rising Scale Segments: Additivity, Comparison and Continuation
Poster at The 25th Semantics and Linguistics Theory Conference (SALT 25), Stanford, CA
Cumulative Readings of ‘Each’ (with Yasutada Sudo)
Talk at Co-Distributivity Workshop 2016, Paris
Real Fake Tense in Mbyá
Talk at 21st Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 21), Montréal
Cumulative Readings of ‘Each’ (with Yasutada Sudo)
Poster at 39th Generative Linguistics in the Old Word (GLOW 39), Goettingen
A nominal temporal marker in Kuikuro, Carib (with Bruna Franchetto)
Talk at Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in Americas 9 (SULA 9), Santa Cruz, CA
Two Forms of Negation in Mbyá Guaraní
Talk at Amazonicas 6, Letícia
Relativization and Nominal Auxiliaries in Mbyá Guaraní
Talk at Syntax of the World's Language 7, Mexico
Revisiting Nominal Tense
Talk at 2nd Symposium on Amazonian Languages, Berkeley, CA
Switch Reference in Yudja
Talk at The 22nd Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 22), Vancouver, BC
Mbyá Resultatives and the Structure of Causation
Talk at The 23rd Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 23), Ottawa, ON
Switch Reference and Discourse Anaphora: lessons from Mbyá
Talk at Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 15 (LENLS 15), Tokyo
Building a Mbyá Treebank
Talk at 6th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC 6), Honolulu, HI
Switch-reference and Discourse Anaphora
Talk at 42nd Generative Linguistics in the Old Word (GLOW 42), Oslo
Formas y functiones de la Indexación Referencial
Talk at Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, Asunción
Word order variation in Mbyá Guaraní (with Angelika Kiss)
Talk at SyntaxFest 2019, Paris
Universal Dependencies for Mbyá Guaraní
Talk at SyntaxFest 2019, Paris
Being Perceived: Complex predicates at the border between perception reports and evidentiality in Mbyá
Talk at Workshop on Speech and Attitude Reports in Brazilian Languages, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém
Switch reference: syntax and/or (discourse) semantics?
Talk at Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 11, Mexico City
Restructuring Evidentials in Mbyá
Talk at 25th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas, Sogang University, Seoul
Restructuring Evidentials in Mbyá
Talk at Workshop on Complex Sentences in South American Languages, CNRS, Paris
Restructuring Evidentials in Mbyá
Talk at 40th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Stanford University, Stanford
Understanding the loss of Proto-Tupí-Guaraní object marking
Talk at 5th Symposium on Amazonian Languages, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Cross-linguistic variation in the expression of incrementality and related functions
Talk at Workshop on Incremental constructions within and across languages, ESSLLI 2024, Leuven
Teaching
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