Syntax
The faculty and students who are researching a wide range of topics in Syntax use quantifiable experimental methods to collect data, in order to perform theoretical syntactic research. The Syntax Lab is equipped with Mac computers running PsychoPy and access to a shared lab with a 1000Hz-resolution EyeLink system and Experiment Builder.
About
Dr. Dennis Storoshenko’s research is empirically driven, making use of diverse methodologies, including corpus work, traditional field elicitation, and psycholinguistic experimentation. His research focuses on issues at the interface of syntax and semantics, primarily on areas of scope, question formation, and reference resolution (binding).
Students: Mahyar Nakhaei (PhD), Francisco Ongay González (PhD), Jesse Weir (PhD), Xinyuan Xia (PhD)
Location: CHD 501B
The Syntax group have a regular reading group to talk about a combination of theoretical work underlying some of their work, and experiments that they can use as inspiration for further work. The idea of this group is to get together, read papers, and discuss a) the analysis and b) how the analysis makes predictions for future studies and interacts with the data already collected.
Publications
Journals / Chapters
Han, Chung-hye, Trever Block, Holly Gendron, Margaret Grant, Sander Nederveen, Dennis Storoshenko, Jesse Weir, Sara Williamson and Keir Moulton. 2024. Underspecified they becomes specified early in sentence processing. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 40:4, 508-526. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2443975.
Moulton, Keir, Trevor Block, Holly Gendron, Dennis Ryan Storoshenko, Jesse Weir, Sara Williamson, Chung-hye Han. 2022. Bound variable singular they is underspecified: The case of all vs. every. Frontiers in Psychology vol 13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.880687.
Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan and Mahyar Nakhaei. 2023. The nature and licensing of hi:tʃ elements in Persian. In Karimi, Simin, Narges Nematollahi, Roya Kabiri, Jian Gang Ngui (eds.). Advances in Iranian Linguistics II, 282-306. John Benjamins BV. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.361.11sto
Conference Proceedings
Dennis Ryan Storoshenko and Jesse Weir. 2022. Does Gender Bias Affect the Interpretation of English Sloppy Ellipsis? In Proceedings of the 2022 Virtual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association: May 2022. https://cla-acl.ca/pdfs/actes-2022/Storoshenko-Weir-CLA-2022.pdf
Metehan Oğuz, Burak Oney and Dennis Ryan Storoshenko. 2020. Obligatory Indexical Shift in Turkish. In Proceedings of the 2020 Virtual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association: May 2020. https://cla-acl.ca/pdfs/actes-2020/Oguz_Oney_Storoshenko_CLA-ACL2020.pdf
Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan, Elias Abdollahnejad and Mahyar Nakhaei. 2020. Copy Raising in Persian. In Proceedings of the 2020 Virtual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association: May 2020. https://cla-acl.ca/pdfs/actes-2020/Storoshenko_Abdollahnejad_Nakhaei_CLA-ACL2020.pdf
Conference Presentations
Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan. Apparent Inverse Scope in Korean Case-Marked Adverbials. Poster Presented at the 31st Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK 31): Melbourne, Australia, November 2024
Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan and Jesse Weir. Trial Item Content Impacts Island Effects in Online Processing of English. Poster presented at the 2024 Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association: Ottawa, ON, June 2024.
Ongay González, Francisco. 2023. A raising account of llevar + time in Spanish. Poster presented at the 2023 Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association: Toronto, ON, May 2023.
Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan. Semantics or Agreement? Factors Governing use of English themself. Paper presented at the 2023 Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association: Toronto, ON, May 2023.
Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan. Separating Tense and Agreement in Persian Control. Poster presented at the 3rd North American Conference on Iranian Linguistics (NACIL 3): Los Angeles, April 2023.
Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan. The Role of Word Order on Binding Constraints: Comparing Persian and Korean. Poster Presented at the 30th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK 30): Vancouver, BC, March 2023.
Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan and Jesse Weir. Gender Stereotype Subversion Across English wh-Islands. Poster Presented at the 2021 Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association: online event, June 2021.
Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan. Online Communities of Use for Neoreflexives. Paper presented at the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference 27: online event, May 2021.
Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan, Jesse Weir and Adam Daniel. 2021. On the Apparent Singularity of English themself. Paper presented at the 2021 Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America: online event, Jan 2021.
Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan. Depictive Secondary Predicates in Synchronous Tree Adjoining Grammar. Paper presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 51): November 2020.
Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan and Elias Abdollahnejad. Mood as an Influence on Persian Reference Resolution. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference: Virtual Conference, March 2020.
Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan. Regional Variation in the Use of English th- Reflexive Forms. Paper presented at the 2020 Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America: New Orleans, LA, Jan 2020.
Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan. Non-binary Third Person Reflexives in English, and the Construction of Identity. Paper presented at They, Hirself, Em, And You Conference: Kingston, ON, June 2019.
Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan. Plurality and Binding within the English th...sel{f/ves} Paradigm. Paper presented at the 2019 Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association: Vancouver, BC, June 2019.