Alex Drummond

Curriculum vitae

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Employment

• 2013
• Postdoc, Department of Linguistics, McGill University.
• 2012-2013
• Faculty Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, McGill University.
• 2011-2012
• Postdoc, Un-Cartesian Linguistics Project. University of Durham.

Education

• 2007-2011
• PhD Linguistics. University of Maryland.
• 2006-2007
• MRes Speech, Language & Cognition. University College London.
• 2003-2006
• BA Linguistics. University College London.

Publications

• Drummond, A. Some Purported Problems for the Movement Theory of Control. With Norbert Hornstein. To appear in Linguistic Inquiry.
• Drummond, A. Quantifier Scope in Single Output Syntax. To appear in Minimalism and Beyond: Radicalizing the Interfaces, ed. Peter Kosta, Lilia Schürks, Steven Franks & Teodora Radev-Bork.
• Drummond, A. & D. Kush. Reanalysis as Raising to Object. To appear in Syntax.
• Drummond, A. The Ban on P-Stranding is a Global Constraint. Snippets 24:7-8.
• 2011
• Drummond, A. & N. Hornstein. Basquing in Minimalism: A Review of ‘Of Minds and Language’. Biolinguistics 5:347-365.
• Drummond, A., D. Kush & N. Hornstein. Minimalist Construal: Two Approaches to A and B. In The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Minimalism, ed. C. Boeckx, Oxford University Press, 396-426.
• Drummond, A. An Argument for the Existence of Null DPs. Snippets 21:9-10.
• 2010
• Drummond, A., N. Hornstein & H. Lasnik. A Puzzle about P-Stranding and a Possible Solution. Linguistic Inquiry 41:689-692.
• Drummond, A. 2009. “The Unity of Extraposition and the A/A′ distinction. In the proceedings of the 45th meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.

Papers

• Drummond, A. Dahl's Paradigm: In defense of the crossover analysis. Draft paper, in review.
• Drummond, A. & J. Lidz. Island-Introducing Reflexives in Kannada. Draft paper, in review.

Conference proceedings

• 2009
• Drummond, A. The Unity of Extraposition and the A/A′ Distinction. In the proceedings of the 45th meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.

Talks and conference presentations

• 2013
• Drummond, A. & J. Shimoyama. QR as an Agent of Vehicle Change. Talk given at NELS 44.
• Drummond, A. Dahl's Paradigm: In Defense of the Crossover Analysis. Poster presented at NELS 44.
• Shimoyama, J. & Drummond, A. An apparent vehicle change phenomenon in the absence of ellipsis. Talk given at the 23rd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference.
• Drummond, A. The Case for Extraposition as Movement. Talk given in Kyle Johnson's and Brian Dillon's seminar on processing and rightward movement. UMass Amherst, April 23.
• Drummond, A. Dahl's Paradigm: In Defense of the Crossover Analysis. Poster presented at the Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, January.
• 2012
• Drummond, A. Parallelism and Dahl's Paradigm. McGill Linguistics Colloquium.
• Drummond, A. Binding and Ellipsis: Is a Traditional Theory Still Viable? Talk given at the workhop Reference and Antecedence: How Far does the Grammar Reach?, University of Durham, August
• Drummond, A. The Chain-Based Approach to Pronominal Antecedence. Talk given at Harvard.
• Drummond, A. Quantifier Scope and Linear Order. Talk given at Syntax Lab, University of Cambridge, February
• 2011
• Drummond, A. Single Output Syntax. Talk given at The Minimalist Program: Quo Vadis? Universität Potsdam, November
• Drummond, A. Romance Obviation Effects and Merge over Move. Talk given at the Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, January.
• Drummond, A. & D. Kush. Reanalysis as Raising to Object. Talk given at the Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, January.
• 2010
• Drummond, A. Constraining Sideward Movement. Poster presented at The Language Design, UQAM, Montréal, May.
• 2009
• Drummond, A. The Unity of Extraposition and the A/A′ Distinction. Talk given at the 45th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, April.
• 2008
• Drummond, A. Reconstruction and English PPs. Talk given at the sixth ECO 5 syntax workshop, University of Connecticut.

Linguistics/philosophy teaching (as instructor)

• 2013
• LING 301 — English Grammar. 09/03 – 12/03. McGill.
• LING 675 — Reflexivity and Argument Structure. 01/07 – 04/16. McGill.
• LING 371 — Syntax. 01/07 – 04/16. McGill.
• 2012
• LING 440 — Morphology. 09/04 – 06/12. McGill.
• LING 201 — Introduction to Linguistics. 09/04 – 06/12. McGill.
• 2011
• PHIL 3061 — Language and Mind. 05/10 – 03/16/2012. Durham University.
• LING 419D — Reflexivity and Argument Structure. 08/30 – 12/13. UMD.
• LING 200 — Introduction to Linguistics (for non-majors). 07/12 – 08/20. UMD.
• LING 240 — Language and Mind (intro. course for ling. majors). 01/05 – 01/29. UMD.
• 2009
• LING 240 — Language and Mind. Co-taught with Ilknur Oded. UMD.

Linguistics teaching (as TA)

• 2009
• LING 200 — Language and Mind. 02/09 – 12/15. UMD.
• 2008
• LING 200 — Language and Mind. 01/26 – 05/14. UMD.

Other teaching

• 2011
• R: From Programming to Statistics. Two week intensive course in R programming and statistics. Part of the Winter Storm IGERT workshop. Co-taught with Ewan Dunbar. http://languagescience.umd.edu/wiki/R

Other activity

• 2012
• Co-organizer of the workshop Reference and Antecedence: How far does the Grammar Reach? Held in Durham in August.
• 2011
• Co-organizer of the conference The Past & Future of Universal Grammar. Held in Durham in December.
• Member of the organizing committee for Mayfest 2011.
• Member of the organizing committee for Winter Storm 2011, a two-week program of intensive training in statistical and psycholinguistic methods.
• 2010
• Reviewer for Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) 19, 2010.
• 2009
• Member of the organizing committee for Mayfest 2009.

Awards and Fellowships

• 2009
• IGERT fellowship.
• 2007
• University of Maryland Graduate Fellowship.
• 2006
• Faculty of Life Sciences Medal. University College London.
• 2005
• Jackson Lewis Scholarship. University College London.