Publications

Case dependent agreement in an active-stative language

Guillaume Thomas, Akil Ismael and Germino Duarte. 2024. Understanding the loss of Proto-Tupí-Guaraní object marking.

A multivariate analysis of canonical and non-canonical uses of Switch-Reference markers in Mbyá narratives

Guillaume Thomas and Germino Duarte. To appear. A multivariate analysis of canonical and non-canonical uses of Switch-Reference markers in Mbyá narratives. To appear in Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.

Restructuring and evidentiality in Mbyá.

Guillaume Thomas. To appear. Restructuring and evidentiality in Mbyá. To appear in Amerindia, Revue d’Ethnolinguistique Amérindienne.

Neural reality of argument structure constructions

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.

Bare Singulars and Relative Measures in Brazilian Portuguese

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

How is BERT surprised? Layerwise detection of linguistic anomalies

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.

Switch reference and its role in referential choice in Mbyá narratives

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).

Countability in Mbyá Guaraní

Guillaume Thomas. 2020. Countability in Mbyá Guarani. Linguistic Variation, 20(2): 288–299.

Word class flexibility: A deep contextualized approach

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.

Mbyá resultatives and the structure of causation

Guillaume Thomas. 2019. Mbyá resultatives and the structure of causation. Glossa 4(1): 136. 1-38.

Word order variation in Mbyá Guaraní

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.

Universal Dependencies for Mbyá Guaraní

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.

Embedded Imperatives in Mbyá

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

Underspecification in Degree Operators

Guillaume Thomas. 2018. Underspecification in Degree Operators. Journal of Semantics 35: 43-93. doi: 10.1093/jos/ffx015

Comparison and the expression of degree in Mbyá Guaraní

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

The present tense is not vacuous

Guillaume Thomas. 2015. The present tense is not vacuous. Journal of Semantics 32:685-747. doi: 10.1093/jos/ffu010

A split analysis of nasal harmony in Mbya

Guillaume Thomas. 2014. A split analysis of nasal harmony in Mbya. 2014. Revista Linguística 10-2: 75-104

Reference to degrees and nominalization in Mbyá

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

Nominal tense and temporal implicatures: evidence from Mbyá

Guillaume Thomas. 2014. Nominal tense and temporal implicatures: evidence from Mbyá. Natural Language Semantics 22:357-412. doi: 10.1007/s11050-014-9108-2

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

Proxy Counterfactuals

Guillaume Thomas. 2008. Proxy Counterfactuals. Snippets 18. Eds. C. Cecchetto,C. Donati and O. Percus. 17-18