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Jeffrey T. Runner

Name: Jeffrey T. Runner

Address: Department of Linguistics Lattimore Hall 511A Box 270096 River Campus University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 USA

Phone: (585) 275-2626 (office)

Fax: (585) 273-1088 (department)

E-mail: [email protected]

Appointments – all University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (unless noted)

Administrative 1/2015 to 12/2016 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Linguistics 7/2014 to present Chair, Department of Linguistics 6/2014 to present Faculty Development and Diversity Officer, Arts, Sciences & Engineering 7/2013 to 6/2014 Faculty Diversity Officer, Arts, Sciences & Engineering 7/2009 to 7/2014 Director, Center for Language Sciences 7/2008 to 7/2009 Acting Director, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender & Women’s Studies 9/2007 to 7/2008 Curriculum Director, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender & Women’s Studies

Teaching/research 7/2015 to present Professor, Linguistics 7/2005 to present Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences (Secondary appointment) 7/2004 to 7/2015 Associate Professor, Linguistics (Primary appointment) 7/1998 to 7/2004 Assistant Professor, Linguistics 9/1994 to 7/1998 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics

Visiting 1/2014 to 7/2014 Visiting Scholar, Department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences

Brown University 6/2013 Instructor, Ecole d’été, Grammaire Expérimentale, Île de Berder, France 5/2013 to 6/2013 Invité, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, CNRS and Université Paris-Diderot 7/2007 Instructor, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, Stanford University 5/2004 to 9/2005 Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas, Austin

(summers) 5/2000 to 6/2000 Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford

University.

Education 1995 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Ph.D. in Linguistics, September 1995 Dissertation: “Noun Phrase Licensing and Interpretation” Committee: Hagit Borer (Adviser), Kyle Johnson, Angelika Kratzer, F. Roger Higgins, Chisato Kitagawa.

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1992 Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, Departament de Filologia Catalana, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Visiting Student, January – July 1992

1989 University of California, Santa Cruz, CA B.A. with honors in Linguistics Thesis: “Left Conjunct Agreement in Spanish” Adviser: Judith Aissen

1981-1984 University of Rochester (no degree)

Summer schools attended 2007 Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, Stanford University. 1999 Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1997 Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, Cornell University 1993 Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, The Ohio State University 1992 Girona International Summer School in Linguistics, Girona, Spain 1991 Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz

Selected Honors and Awards

Teaching 2006 Recipient of the Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate

Education 2006 Nomination for Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching 2005 University of Rochester’s Nomination for The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of

Teaching U.S. Professors of the Year award 2000 Nomination for G. Graydon and Jane W. Curtis Award for Nontenured Faculty Teaching

Excellence

Grants and Fellowships 2012-2017 National Science Foundation, “Linguistic structure in ellipsis and pronoun

interpretation.” Role: Principal Investigator. 1998-2013 NIH Training grant. “Research Training in the Language Sciences.” Role: Preceptor, PI:

Michael Tanenhaus. Interdisciplinary training program for Postdocs and graduate students in the Center for the Language Sciences (Computer Science, Linguistics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Philosophy)

2010-2012 National Science Foundation, “Doctoral Dissertation Research. Generating Alternatives: Processing Focus Structure in Discourse.” Role: Principal Investigator, with Christina Kim, co-PI (grant supporting Christina Kim’s dissertation research).

2006-2010 National Science Foundation, “Structural and Pragmatic Constraints on the Interpretation of Reflexives and Pronouns.” Role: Principal Investigator; with Elsi Kaiser and Michael Tanenhaus, co-PIs.

2008 National Science Foundation, Research Experience for Undergraduates supplement. 2002-2006 National Science Foundation, “Structural and Pragmatic Constraints on the

Interpretation of Reflexives and Pronouns.” Role: Principal Investigator; with Michael Tanenhaus, co-PI.

1990-1994 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship 1993 Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute Fellowship 1992 Generative Linguists of the Old World (GLOW) Grant

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Teaching experience (University of Rochester, except where noted)

Graduate Seminars Empirical evidence on anaphor resolution and ellipsis, Ecole d’été, Grammaire Expérimentale, Île de

Berder, France (June 2013). Anaphora and Ellipsis from a psycholinguistic perspective, series of lectures given at University of Paris

Diderot (May-June 2013). Topics in Syntax: Lexicalist and Transformational approaches, HPSG and Minimalism side by side (2013). Topics in Syntax: Minimalism, development of Minimalist Program (2009). Syntactic Systems, comparative syntactic theory (RG, LFG, GPSG, HPSG, CG, GB and Minimalism). Seminar in Semantics: Ellipsis. (with Prof. Hana Filip). Current Approaches to Phrase Structure, comparative syntactic theory (Pollard & Sag’s Head driven

Phrase Structure Grammar, Kayne’s Antisymmetry, and Chomsky’s Bare Phrase Structure). Topics in Syntax: Argument Licensing and Predicate Mapping, (with Prof. Itziar Laka), the roles of Case,

agreement and aspect in predicate structure and NP licensing. Courses Methods in Linguistic Research, (Coordinator, with Greg Carlson, Christine Gunlogson/Scott AnderBois,

Joyce McDonough, and Scott Paauw), graduate introduction to linguistics, coordinated course, and taught syntax and psycholinguistics sections.

An Introduction to Experimental Syntax and Semantics, (with Prof. Elsi Kaiser, USC), LSA Summer Institute course, Stanford University.

English Language Study for Educators, Warner Graduate School of Education. Invited Lectures Methods in Linguistic Research, experimental syntax and psycholinguistics lectures. Experimental Syntax, one week of Language Proseminar, Brain & Cognitive Sciences core course. Syntax, one week of Language Proseminar, Brain & Cognitive Sciences core course.

Grad/Undergrad Topics in Experimental Syntax. Experimental approaches to syntax, examining binding, quantifier scope

and ellipsis. Phrase Structure Grammars. Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Syntactic Theory. Advanced transformational grammar. Introduction to Grammatical Systems. (Have taught alone, co-taught with Prof. Christine Gunlogson,

with Postdoc Lynsey Wolter and with graduate student Christina Kim). Introductory transformational grammar.

Topics in Syntax and Semantics. (With Prof. Greg Carlson). The development of Logical Form. A Transformational Approach to English Syntax. Introductory transformational grammar. Lexical Semantics. Morphology. (With Prof. Joyce McDonough).

Undergraduate Senior Seminars Linguistic field methods. Bengali. Linguistic field methods. Finnish. The syntax-lexicon interface.

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Core Values Courses Language and Sexuality. Introduction to Linguistic Analysis. Introduction to Linguistics. Introduction to Linguistics. University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Invited Lectures Language and Psycholinguistics. (Prof. Florian Jaeger/Esteban Buz, BCS 152) invited lecture on anaphor

resolution. People and their Language. (Prof. Rebecca Webb, Prof. Wilson Silva, Prof. Solveiga Armoskaite) invited

lectures on language and sexuality. Introduction to Linguistic Analysis. (Prof. Christine Gunlogson, Prof. Scott Paauw) invited lectures on

syntactic constituency and structural ambiguity. Introduction to Semantic Analysis. (Prof. Greg Carlson) invited lecture on relative clause structure.

Other Tutor. Private English tutor, Barcelona (1992). Teaching Assistant. Phonology II, (Prof. Junko Ito), University of California, Santa Cruz (1988); Syntax I,

(Prof. Jorge Hankamer), University of California, Santa Cruz (1989).

Academic Advising

Graduate Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Linguistics. 1/2015 – 12/2016. Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies Curriculum Director: Gender & Women’s

Studies Graduate Certificate Adviser. 2007 – 2008; Curriculum Committee Chair. 2007 – 2008; 2010 – 2013.

Undergraduate Linguistics Undergraduate Adviser. 1997 – 2006. Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies Curriculum Director: Women’s Studies

Undergraduate Adviser. 2007 – 2008; Curriculum Committee Chair. 2007 – 2008, 2010 – 2013. Pre-major adviser, University of Rochester, 2004-2013 (~8 students per year)

Research Advising

Postdoctoral Neal Snider, 2008-2010 (Nuance Communications) Daphna Heller, 2007-2008 (University of Toronto) Elsi Kaiser, 2003-2005 (University of Southern California)

PhD thesis advising Current Yuhang Xu. Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences. (with Michael Tanenhaus). Alyssa Ibarra. Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics. 2013 (with Florian Jaeger). Alex Fine. Prediction, Error, and Adaptation During Online Sentence

Comprehension. Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics.

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2012 (with Michael Tanenhaus). Christina Kim. Generating Alternatives: Interpreting Focus in Discourse. Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics.

1997 Luis Bonilla. Overt and Silent Subjects in Spanish Infinitival Sentences. Linguistics.

PhD thesis committee member Current Hasan Sezer. Cornell University Daniel Pontillo. Brain & Cognitive Sciences. Emerald Amory-Davis. Rising to Incompetence: The Conceptual Gap between First-Year College

Students and College Instructors’ Conceptualizations of Academic Writing - Liminal, Epistemological, Pedagogical and Institutional Issues. Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development.

2015 Israel de la Fuente. Putting pronoun resolution in context: The role of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in pronoun interpretation. Université Sorbonne-Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7.

2014 Barbara Jean A. Douglass. Embracing LGBTQ diversity within college curriculum: Institutional supports for training school of education faculty on LGBTQ issues. Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development. Suzanne Belanger. Regeneration in the Resolution of Verb Phrase Ellipsis. University of Toronto. Elif Eyigöz. Explicit Morphology Modeling for Statistical Machine Translation. Computer Science.

2013 Mehdi Manshadi. Dealing with Quantifier Scope Ambiguity in Natural Language Understanding. Computer Science. David Ruskin. Cognitive Influences on the Evolution of New Languages. Brain & Cognitive Sciences. Loes Koring. Seemingly similar: Subjects and displacement in grammar, processing, and acquisition. Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics. Utrecht. Charles Beller. Anaphoric Descriptions. Cognitive Sciences. Johns Hopkins University.

2010 Alison Austin. When children learn more than what they are taught: Regularization in child and adult learners. Brain & Cognitive Sciences. Patricia Reeder. Distributional Cues to Grammatical Categorization: Acquiring Categories in a Miniature Artificial Grammar. Brain & Cognitive Sciences. Matthew Post. Syntax-based Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation. Computer Science.

2008 Arnout Koornneef. Eye-catching anaphora. Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics. Utrecht. Benjamin Faber. Learning Hierarchies. Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics.

2006 Elizabeth Wonnacott. Acquiring argument structure from the input distribution : a miniature language study. Brain & Cognitive Sciences. Rachel S. Sussman. Verb-Instrument Information During On-line Processing. Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics.

2003 Mrim Boutla. Cognitive mechanisms underlying capacity limits in working memory: insights from American Sign Language. Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

2002 Ruskin Hunt. The induction of categories from distributionally defined contexts: evidence from a serial reaction time task. Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Marie Coppola. The emergence of grammatical categories in home sign: evidence from family-based gesture systems in Nicaragua. Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Carla Hudson. Pidgins, Creoles, and learners: how children and adults contribute to the formation of Creole languages. Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics. Susan Thompson. The role of transitional probability in the induction of the phrases of a miniature artificial language. Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

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2001 Danielle Ross. Disentangling the nature-nurture interaction in the language acquisition process: evidence from deaf children of hearing parents exposed to non-native input. Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

2000 Xiao Lu. Disambiguation in sentential negation. Linguistics. 1995 Koji Hoshi. Structural and Interpretive Aspects of Head-Internal and Head-External Relative

Clauses, Linguistics.

PhD Qualifying 2016 Alyssa Ibarra. Linguistics Qualifying Paper Advisor. 2013 Alex Fine. Linguistics Qualifying Paper Advisor. The Statistics of Silence: The role of predictability

in the comprehension of VP ellipsis BJ Douglass. Warner School Dissertation Proposal Committee. Embracing LGBTQ diversity within

college curriculum: Institutional supports for training school of education faculty on LGBTQ issues.

2010 Christina Kim. Linguistics Qualifying Paper Advisor. Discourse Structure and Syntactic Parallelism in VP Ellipsis.

2009 Christina Kim. Brain & Cognitive Sciences Qualifying Exam Committee. 2007 Benjamin Faber. Linguistics Qualifying Paper Advisor. A new paradigm for thematic roles. 2002 Rachel S. Sussman. Linguistics Qualifying Exam Committee. Carla Hudson. Linguistics Qualifying Exam Committee.

Gavin Chuck. Music Theory Qualifying Exam Committee. Eastman School of Music. 2000 Craig Chambers. Semantics Qualifying Paper Committee. 1998 Xiao Lu. Semantics Qualifying Paper Committee. 1996 Yutaka Osugi. Semantics Qualifying Paper Committee. The Nature of ‘INDEX’ in Nihon Shuwa. 1995 Luis Bonilla. Syntax Qualifying Paper Advisor. Non-Null Subjects in Spanish Infinitivals.

Montserrat Sanz. Syntax Qualifying Paper Committee. Telic Clitics in Spanish.

MA Thesis Advising Current Andrew Aboussleman. Linguistics. 2016 Yuhang Xu. Memory Retrieval in Mandarin Chinese Reflexives Processing: Evidence against the

Local Search Hypothesis. Linguistics. 2014 (with Florian Jaeger). Samuel Corbin. Speaker-Specific Syntactic Priming. Brain & Cognitive

Sciences. Kim Morse. Processing Pronouns and Reflexives: Constraints Beyond the Binding Theory. Linguistics.

2009 Kim Leiken. Violations of Expectancy: Eye-tracking during Music and Language Reading. Linguistics.

MA Committee Current Peter Iglinski. Linguistics.

Graduate independent study supervision 2015 Jason Buitrago (Warner School), Queer Theory and Practice. Fall. 2013 Angela Clark-Taylor (Warner School), Feminist Theory and Practice. Fall. 2010 B.J. Douglass (Warner School), LGBTQ Experiences in American History, Fall. Elisabeth Karuza (BCS), PhD Readings in Linguistics, Spring. 2009 Sarah Davis (BCS), Spring. 2008 Sarah Davis (BCS), Summer. 2007 John Kwak (Philosophy), Fall 2004 Ben Faber (BCS/Linguistics), Fall.

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Elizabeth Wonnacott (BCS), Spring. Lynn Gatto (Warner School), Summer. 2001 Ben Faber (BCS/Linguistics), Fall.

BA Thesis Advising 2012 Sharese King. Investigating the Time Course of the Development of the Anaphoric System; Kellan Head. The validity of Binding Theory as a processing filter in visual world eye-tracking

tasks involving pronoun and reflexive pro-form resolution. 2006 Samuel Boyer. Defining Terrorism: a New Method for Understanding the World’s New Most

Dangerous Word (defended). Charles Beller. The Role of Argument Structure in Arabic Impoverished Agreement Constructions.

2004 Rebecca Altmann. Sibilant Formation in the Speech of Gay Men, Straight Men, and Straight Women.

1998 Michael Shollar. Speech Errors as Evidence for the Storage of Syntactic Constructions in Language Production.

1995 Kimberly Abbott. Expletive ‘it’ in Object Position. Stian Rice. A Syntactic Analysis of Emphasis in Toba-Batak.

Undergraduate research advising 2016 David Markakis. “Queer Political Youth Activism.” Take 5 Scholar. 2015 Erica Huang. “Cantonese Classifiers.” Philip Moulton. VP ellipsis. 2014 Amanda Baker. “The effects of verb transitivity and transitivity bias on VP ellipsis and anaphora”. 2013 Keryn Bernstein. “Judaism’s Best Kept Secrets.” Women’s Studies. 2012 Michael Johnson. “Interviewing and Documenting Transgender Experiences.” Women’s Studies. Jonathan Richardson. “Grant-writing Internship (Easter Seals): Exploring the Language of

Development and the Language of Individuals with Disabilities.” Linguistics Internship. 2011 Andrew Moran. “Establishing a GLBTQ Center at the University of Rochester.” Kauffman

Entrepreneurial Year Scholar. Clay Monson. “Language of Sexuality.” Women’s Studies. Jonathan Richardson. “Empire State Pride Agenda Internship.” Women’s Studies Internship.

2010 Anne Pitlyk. Kauffman Entrepreneurial Year Scholar. Andrew Moran. Kauffman Entrepreneurial Year Scholar.

Sharese King. “On the Interplay of Syntax and Pragmatics: Evidence from Representational NP’s and Ellipsis.” McNair Scholar. Kyle Richardson. “Lexical Functional Grammar.” Linguistics. Lauren Buchsbaum. “The Effect of Gender and Sexuality on Compliment Deliveries.” Take 5 Scholar.

2009 C. Mike Lyndsey. “Understanding Bilingual Representation.” Take 5 Scholar. Alex Olsen. “Phonology’s Role in Chinese Character Processing for Second Language Learners at

a Subcharacter Level.” Take 5 Scholar. Anne Pitlyk. “University of Rochester LGBTQ Resource Center Proposal.” Kauffman Entrepreneurial Year Scholar.

2008 Kyle Richardson. Linguistics. Margaret Maxwell. “Jane and Jane, Challengers or Propagators of Stereotypical Gender Norms?”

Women’s Studies. Angela Stoutenburgh. “Development of reclaimed epithets.” Take 5 Scholar.

2006 Michael Castro. Linguistics. Ryan Accetta. Take 5 Scholar.

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2005 Seth Meyer. “History of British Sign Language.” Take 5 Scholar. 2000-1 Douglas Ball. Linguistics. 1998 Sarah Scheidel. Linguistics.

Research

Specialization Experimental syntax; Syntactic/Linguistic Theory; Binding Theory; Syntax processing; Phrase Structure; Syntax/Semantics interface.

Research interests Anaphora: Ellipsis, Reflexives and Pronouns: structural and non-structural conditions on interpretation; using eye-tracking and other experimental methodologies to collect and analyze data.

Publications and Presentations *Current or former student or postdoc

Refereed Publications In progress Runner, Jeffrey T., *Brian Leonard, *Kimberly Morse & *Kellan D.L. Head. Constraints on retrieval during

pronoun and reflexive processing (working title). Under revision *Kaiser, Elsi & Jeffrey T. Runner. A cross-linguistic investigation of pronouns, reflexives and

intensification: On the interplay of syntactic and semantic effects. Under revision. *Snider, Neal & Jeffrey T. Runner. Semantic and phonological neighbors are reactivated in verb phrase

ellipsis: evidence from eye tracking. Under revision. Under review *Kim, Christina & Jeffrey T. Runner. The Division of Labor in Explanations of Verb Phrase Ellipsis.

Accepted pending minor revisions. To appear Runner, Jeffrey T. & Keir Moulton. The Accusative Plus Infinitive Construction in English. To appear in M.

Everaert and H. van Riemsdijk, eds., The Blackwell Companion to Syntax, 2nd Edition. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers.

2009-current Runner, Jeffrey T. and *Alyssa Ibarra. (2016). Information structure effects on null and overt subject

comprehension in Spanish. To appear in Holler, A., Goeb, C. and Suckow, K. (eds.), Empirical Perspectives on Anaphora Resolution: Information Structural Evidence for the Race for Salience. De Gruyter.

*Kim, Christina, Christine Gunlogson, Michael Tanenhaus & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2015). Context-driven expectations about focus alternatives. Cognition 139: 28-49.

Runner, Jeffrey T. and *Kellan D.L. Head. (2014). What Can Visual World Eye-tracking Tell Us About the Binding Theory? In Christopher Piñón (ed.), Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 10, Paris. CSSP–Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris: 269-286.

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*Kim, Christina, Greg Kobele, Jeffrey T. Runner & John Hale. (2011). The Acceptability Cline in VP Ellipsis. Syntax 14.4: 318-354.

*Kaiser, Elsi, Jeffrey T. Runner, *Rachel S. Sussman & Michael K. Tanenhaus. (2010). Picturing the syntax / semantics interface during on-line processing. In Raffaella Folli & Christiane Ulbrich (Eds.), Interfaces in Linguistics: New Research Perspectives, Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 31, Oxford University Press.

*Kaiser, Elsi, Jeffrey T. Runner, *Rachel S. Sussman & Michael K. Tanenhaus. (2009). Structural and semantic constraints on the resolution of pronouns and reflexives. Cognition 112: 55-80.

2002-2006 Runner, Jeffrey T. (2006). Lingering Challenges to the Raising to Object and Object Control

Constructions. Syntax 9:2: 193-213. Runner, Jeffrey T., *Rachel S. Sussman & Michael K. Tanenhaus. (2006). Processing Reflexives and

Pronouns in Picture Noun Phrases. Cognitive Science 30, 193-241. Runner, Jeffrey T. (2006). The Accusative Plus Infinitive Construction in English. In M. Everaert and H.

van Riemsdijk, eds., The Blackwell Companion to Syntax. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers. Runner, Jeffrey T., *Rachel S. Sussman and Michael K. Tanenhaus. (2003). Assignment of Reference to

Reflexives and Pronouns in Picture Noun Phrases: Evidence from Eye Movements. Cognition 89, B1-B13.

Runner, Jeffrey T. (2002). When Minimalism isn’t Enough: an Argument for Argument Structure. Linguistic Inquiry 33.1.

Books, Theses and Edited Volumes 2011 Runner, Jeffrey T. (2011). Experiments at the Interfaces. Syntax and Semantics. Vol. 37. Emerald

Publications, Bingley, England. 1989-1998 Runner, Jeffrey T. (1998). Noun Phrase Licensing, Garland Publishing, New York. Runner, Jeffrey T. (1995). Noun Phrase Licensing and Interpretation, Ph.D. thesis, University of

Massachusetts, distributed by GLSA, Amherst. Benedicto, Elena and Jeffrey T. Runner, eds. (1994). University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers 17:

Functional Projections, GLSA, U. Mass., Amherst. Runner, Jeffrey T. (1989). Left Conjunct Agreement in Spanish, B.A. Thesis, UC Santa Cruz. Itô, Junko and Jeffrey T. Runner, eds. (1989). Phonology at Santa Cruz 1, Syntax Research Center, UC

Santa Cruz.

Book Chapter Runner, Jeffrey T. & *Micah B. Goldwater. (2011). On the Representational Nature of Representational

Noun Phrases. In Jeffrey T. Runner (ed.) Experiments at the Interfaces. Syntax and Semantics. Vol. 37. Emerald Publications, Bingley, England.

Book Series Editing 2011-current Nash, Léa & Pollet Samvelian. (2015). Approaches to Complex Predicates. Syntax and Semantics. Vol. 41.

Brill Publications. Jeffrey T. Runner series editor. Borik, Olga & Berit Gehrke. (2015). The Syntax and Semantics of Pseudo-Incorporation. Syntax and

Semantics. Vol. 40. Brill Publications. Jeffrey T. Runner series editor.

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Cabredo Hofherr, Patricia & Anne Zribi-Hertz. (2013). Cross linguistic studies on noun phrase structure and reference. Syntax and Semantics. Vol. 39. Brill Publications. Jeffrey T. Runner series editor.

Cuervo, Maria Cristina & Yves Roberge. (2012). The End of Argument Structure? Syntax and Semantics. Vol. 38. Emerald Publications, Bingley, England. Jeffrey T. Runner series editor.

Runner, Jeffrey T. (2011). Experiments at the Interfaces. Syntax and Semantics. Vol. 37. Emerald Publications, Bingley, England. Jeffrey T. Runner series editor.

Refereed Conference Proceedings 2009-current *Ibarra, Alyssa, Jeffrey Runner & Michael Tanenhaus. (to appear). The role of prior knowledge and

expertise on choice of referring expression. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. Runner, Jeffrey T. & *Elsi Kaiser. (2011). Inter- and Intra-Clausal Pronoun Resolution. In Proceedings of

the 8th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium. *Kim, Christina, Christine Gunlogson, Mike Tanenhaus & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2009). Focus Alternatives

and Contextual Domain Restriction: A Visual World Eye-tracking Study on the Interpretation of Only. In Arndt Riester & Torgrim Solstad (eds.): Proceedings of SuB13, Stuttgart.

*Kim, Christina, Christine Gunlogson, Mike Tanenhaus & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2009). Inferential Cues for Determining Focus Alternatives: a Visual World Eye-tracking Study. ESSLLI Workshop: New Directions in the Theory of Presupposition Proceedings. Bordeaux, France.

*Kim, Christina & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2009). Discourse structure and parallelism in VP ellipsis. Semantics and Linguistic Theory 19 Proceedings. The Ohio State University.

2008 *Kaiser, Elsi & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2008). Intensifiers in German and Dutch Anaphor Resolution. In

Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. Natasha Abner and Jason Bishop, 265-273. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

*Kaiser, Elsi, Runner, Jeffrey T., *Sussman, Rachel S. & Tanenhaus, Michael K. (2008). The real-time interpretation of pronouns and reflexives: Structural and semantic information. In Emily Elfner & Martin Walkow (Eds.) NELS 37: Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistic Society.

*Kim, Christina, Christine Gunlogson, Michael K. Tanenhaus & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2008). Information integration and domain restriction: Interpreting ‘only’ in context, 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics Proceedings, UCLA.

2006 Runner, Jeffrey T., *Sussman, R.S. & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2006). Reflexives and pronouns in picture noun

phrases: using eye movements as a source of linguistic evidence. In S. Kepser & M. Reis (Eds.) Linguistic Evidence. Mouton de Gruyter.

*Goldwater, Micah B. & Runner, Jeffrey T. (2006). Coreferential interpretations of reflexives in picture noun phrases: an experimental approach. In P. Denis, E. McCready, A. Palmer & B. Reese (Eds.) Proceedings of the 2004 Texas Linguistics Society Conference. 28-34. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

*Kaiser, Elsi, Runner, Jeffrey T., *Sussman, Rachel S. & Tanenhaus, Michael K. (2006). The interpretation of pronouns and reflexives in picture noun phrases: effects of non-structural factors. In Michal Temkin Martínez, Asier Alcázar and Roberto Mayoral Hernández (Eds.) Proceedings of the thirty-third Western Conference On Linguistics Vol. 16. Fresno, CA: California State University at Fresno.

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*Kaiser, Elsi, Jeffrey T. Runner, *Rachel S. Sussman & Michael K. Tanenhaus. (2005). What influences the referential properties of reflexives and pronouns in Finnish? In Christian Ebert & Cornelia Endriss (Eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 10. 155-169, ZAS Working Papers in Linguistics No. 44 Vol. 1, Berlin.

Runner, Jeffrey T. and *Elsi Kaiser. (2005). Binding in Picture Noun Phrases: Implications for Binding Theory. In Stefan Müller, editor, The Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Department of Informatics, University of Lisbon. 594–613. Stanford: CSLI Publications. URL: http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/6/.

2004 Runner, Jeffrey T., *Sussman, Rachel S. and Tanenhaus, Michael K. (2004). The Influence of Binding

Theory on the On-Line Reference Resolution of Pronouns. In M. Wolf & K. Moulton (Eds.) Proceedings of North Eastern Linguistic Society 34.

Runner, Jeffrey T. (2004). Insights into Binding and Ellipsis from Head-mounted Eye-tracking Experiments. In Jonathon E. Cihlar, David W. Kaiser, Irene Kimbara, and Amy Franklin (eds.), CLS 39 The Panels: Proceedings from the Panels of the Thirty-Ninth Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.

2002-2003 Runner, Jeffrey T. and Raul Aranovich. (2003). Noun Incorporation and Constraint Interaction in the

Lexicon. In S. Mueller (ed.), The Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Stanford: CLSI Publications.

Runner, Jeffrey T., *Rachel S. Sussman and Michael K. Tanenhaus. (2002). Logophors in Possessed Picture Noun Phrases. In L. Mikkelsen and C. Potts, eds., WCCFL 21 Proceedings, pp. 401-414. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

2001 Potsdam, Eric and Jeffrey T. Runner. (2001). Richard returns: Copy Raising and its Implications. In M.

Adronis, C. Ball, H. Elston and S. Neuvel, eds., Proceedings of CLS 37, pp. 453-468. Aranovich, Raul and Jeffrey T. Runner. (2001) Diathesis Alternations and Rule Ordering in the Lexicon. In

K. Megerdoomian & L.A. Bar-el, eds., WCCFL 20 Proceedings, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 1995-1998 Runner, Jeffrey T. (1998). BT Exempt Anaphors: An Argument from Idiom Interpretation. In E. Curtis et

al., eds., Proceedings of Sixteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, CSLI, Stanford. Runner, Jeffrey T. (1995). Overt and LF Object Positions in English. In Leslie Gabriele et al (eds.),

Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America, Indiana University, IULC, Bloomington.

Runner, Jeffrey T. (1995). Reconstruction and Mapping. In Regine Eckardt & Veerle van Geenhoven (eds.) ConSole 2 Proceedings: Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe, Holland Academic Graphics, The Hague.

Runner, Jeffrey T. (1995). Voicing Assimilation and the Prosodic Cycle. In Patxi Goenaga (ed.) De Grammatica Generativa, Papers from the 2nd Colloquium on Generative Grammar, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, Anejos del Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca “Julio de Urquijo”, XXXVIII.

Working Papers 2011


Runner, Jeffrey T. and *Timothy A. Dozat. (2011). A brief report on voice mismatch effects in verb phrase ellipsis and sluicing. In A. Fine (Ed.), University of Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences.

*Kim, Christina & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2011). Discourse Structure and Syntactic Parallelism in VP Ellipsis. In Jesse A. Harris & Margaret Grant (Eds.) University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics: Processing Linguistic Structure. Volume 38. GLSA Publishing. Amherst, MA.

2007 Runner, Jeffrey T. (2007). Freeing Picture NPs from Binding Theory. In Jill Thorson & Lynsey Wolter, eds.,

University of Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences, 3.1, 57-90. 2000-2001 Runner, Jeffrey T. (2001). The Double Object Construction at the Interfaces. In Katherine Crosswhite &

James Magnuson, eds., University of Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences 1.3. Runner, Jeffrey T. (2000). The External Object Hypothesis and the Case of Object Expletives. In J.

Magnuson & K. Crosswhite (eds.), University of Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences, 1.2.

1992-1994 Runner, Jeffrey T. (1994). A Specific Role for AGR,” in Elena Benedicto and Jeffrey T. Runner (eds.),

University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers 17: Functional Projections, GLSA, U. Mass., Amherst. Runner, Jeffrey T. (1993). Quantificational Objects and Agr-o. In Vern Lindblad & Michael Gamon (eds.),

MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 20: Papers from SCIL V, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Cambridge.

Runner, Jeffrey T. (1993). Cyclic Effects on Prosodic Voicing Assimilation. In Tim Sherer (ed.), University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers 16: Phonological Representations, GLSA, U. Mass., Amherst.

Runner, Jeffrey T. (1992). Expletives, ‘Replacement’, and Economy. In Albert Branchadell et al (eds.), Catalan Working Papers in Linguistics 1992, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Reviews 2002 Runner, Jeffrey T. (2002). Review of The Syntax of Sluicing by Jason Merchant. Linguist List 13.1210. 1994-1999 Runner, Jeffrey T. (1999). Review: Manning (1995), Ergativity: Argument Structure and Grammatical

Relations. Anthropological Linguistics 41.1. Runner, Jeffrey T. (1994). Review: Margaret Speas, Phrase Structure in Natural Language. Links and

Letters 1: Topics in Linguistics.

Keynote Presentations 2013 Runner, Jeffrey T. (2013). Syntactic structure, information structure, and lexical effects on null and overt

subject comprehension in Spanish. Keynote address presented at the Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), Workshop on Information structural evidence in the race for salience, Potsdam, Germany.

2003-2005


Runner, Jeffrey T. (2005). Coreferential and Bound Variable Interpretations: an Experimental Investigation,” keynote address presented at HPSG 2005, Lisbon.

Runner, Jeffrey T. (2004). In Search of Gay Language. Keynote address presented at the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies 11th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

Runner, Jeffrey T. (2003). Insights into Binding and Ellipsis from Head-mounted Eye-tracking Experiments. Keynote address presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, parallel session on Quantitative Approaches to Theoretical Issues, Chicago.

Invited Presentations 2015 Runner, Jeffrey T. (2015). Agreement features guide both reflexive and pronoun resolution. Paris

workshop. December 15. Runner, Jeffrey T. (2015). Gender does guide reflexive binding during memory retrieval. Invited talk,

Linguistics Colloquium, University at Buffalo, December 4. Runner, Jeffrey T. (2015). And beyond: the effects of relative clause type on the processing of reflexives

and pronouns in a head-initial relative clause language (English). Invited talk, Workshop on Relative Clauses: Relatives in East Asia & Beyond, November 14.

2014 Runner, Jeffrey T. (2014). Binding Theory Constraints on Retrieval During Processing. Invited talk,

Linguistics Colloquium, Cornell University, November 20. Runner, Jeffrey T. (2014). Verb specific transitivity biases in verb phrase ellipsis. Invited talk,

Psycholinguistics Lab, University of Toronto. May 29. Runner, Jeffrey T. (2014). Binding constraints on processing: pronouns are harder than reflexives. Invited

talk, Linguistics Language Lunch, Brown University. February 26. Runner, Jeffrey T. (2014). Binding constraints in action: implications for processing. Invited talk, Polinsky

Language Sciences Lab, Harvard University. February 19. 2013 Runner, Jeffrey T. (2013). On the constraints of the binding theory: evidence from visual world eye-

tracking. Viewpoints Talk. University of Rochester. September 20. Runner, Jeffrey T. (2013). Experimental Investigations into Ellipsis Phenomena. Invited talk, Laboratoire

de Linguistique Formelle, University of Paris Diderot. Runner, Jeffrey T. (2013). Structural and Non-Structural Factors in Anaphora Resolution. Invited talk,

Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, University of Paris Diderot. Runner, Jeffrey T. (2013). Binding Theory from a Psycholinguistic Perspective: (Mostly) Off-Line

Methods. Invited talk, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, University of Paris Diderot. Runner, Jeffrey T. (2013). The Binding Theory from a Psycholinguistic Perspective. Invited talk,

Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, University of Paris Diderot. Runner, Jeffrey T. (2013). The on-line application of binding constraints: new evidence from visual world

eye-tracking. Invited talk, Colloquium on Grammar and Cognitive Processes, Utrecht. 2012 Runner, Jeffrey T. (2012). Parallelism effects in three types of ellipsis. Invited talk, Linguistics, SUNY

Stony Brook. October 26. Runner, Jeffrey T. (2012). Beyond the height of ellipsis: parallelism conditions on VP ellipsis,

Pseudogapping and Sluicing. Invited talk, Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University. April 26.


Runner, Jeffrey T. (2012). Linguistic Structure in VP Ellipsis, Pseudogapping and Sluicing. Invited talk, Linguistics, University of Toronto. February 3.

Runner, Jeffrey T. (2012). Retrieval of linguistic structure during ellipsis processing. Invited talk, Psycholinguistics Lab, University of Toronto. February 3.

2010-2011 Runner, Jeffrey T. (2011). On the interplay of syntax and semantics in representational NPs in Dutch,

German and Finnish. Invited talk, Mayfest: The Interpretation of Pronouns. University of Maryland. May 7.

Runner, Jeffrey T. (2011). Verb Phrase Ellipsis and Pseudogapping are (probably) not the same. Invited talk, Cornell is Gorges Linguistics Workshop. Cornell University. April 16.

Runner, Jeffrey T. (2011). Linguistic structure in anaphoric processing. Invited talk, Cognitive Science Dinner, University of Rochester. February 8.

Runner, Jeffrey T. (2010). Types of Linguistic Structure in VP Ellipsis. Invited talk, Linguistics, Cornell University. September 30.

2008 Runner, Jeffrey T. & *Christina Kim. (2008). Are syntactic effects in VP ellipsis really discourse effects?

Invited talk, Language, Linguistics & Neurocognition Workshop, Utrecht University, UIL OTS. Runner, Jeffrey T. (2008). Experimental Syntax: a Case Study. Invited Mellon Humanities Corridor

lecture, Research Design in Linguistics, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, Syracuse University.

Runner, Jeffrey T. (2008). Structural constraints on exempt anaphors. Invited talk, Syntax Supper, CUNY Grad Center.

Runner, Jeffrey T. (2008). On the Role of Syntax on the Interpretation of Elided Reflexives. Invited talk, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University.

2007 Runner, Jeffrey T. (2007). Structural constraints on the interpretation of elided anaphors. Invited talk,

Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut. Runner, Jeffrey T. (2007). The eyes have it: how your eye movements can reflect your thoughts. Invited

talk, Department of Psychology, College of Staten Island. Runner, Jeffrey T. & *Micah B. Goldwater (2007). A preliminary look at the effects of discourse and

parallelism on the interpretation of elided reflexives. Invited talk, Psycholinguistics Supper, CUNY Grad Center.

2006 Runner, Jeffrey T. (2006). Reflexive Interpretation in Representational Noun Phrases. Invited talk,

Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, Syracuse University. Runner, Jeffrey T. (2006). The Role of Representation in the Interpretation of Representational Noun

Phrase. Invited talk, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin. 2005 Runner, Jeffrey T. (2005). How are pictures like statues?” invited talk, Department of Linguistics,

University of Maryland. Runner, Jeffrey T. (2005). Lingering challenges to the raising to object and object control constructions,”

invited talk, Workshop on Raising and Control, LSA Annual meeting, Oakland. 2004


Runner, Jeffrey T. (2004). Logophors in Picture Noun Phrases,” Invited talk, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas, Austin.

Runner, Jeffrey T. (2004). Recent Research on ‘Gay Language’. Paper presented at the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies Faculty Research Seminar, University of Rochester, NY.

2002-2003 Runner, Jeffrey T. (2003). Logophors and the Argument Structure of Picture Noun Phrases. Invited talk,

Department of Linguistics, University of Iowa. Runner, Jeffrey T. (2003). On the Complementarity of Pronouns and Reflexives in English: Evidence from

Eye Movements. Invited talk, Center for Cognitive Sciences, SUNY Buffalo. Runner, Jeffrey T. (2003). Constraint Interaction in the Lexicon: Diathesis Alternations and Noun

Incorporation. Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester. Runner, Jeffrey T. (2002). Binding Theories for Noun Phrases. Department of Linguistics, University of

Rochester. 2000 Runner, Jeffrey T. (2000). Some Comments on Richard. LINGO group, CSLI, Stanford University. Runner, Jeffrey T. (2000). Freeing Picture Noun Phrases from Binding Theory. Invited talk, Department of

Linguistics, University of Iowa. Runner, Jeffrey T. (2000). Freeing Picture Noun Phrases from Binding Theory. Invited talk, Department of

Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz. 1998-1999 Runner, Jeffrey T. (1999). Movimiento Difícil is Tough to Analyze. Department of Linguistics, University of

Rochester. Runner, Jeffrey T. (1998). When Minimalism isn’t Enough: an Argument for Argument Structure. Invited

talk, Department of Linguistics and the Center for the Sciences of Language, University of Rochester. 1995-1996 Runner, Jeffrey T. (1996). Binding, Extraction and arg-s: Connectivity Effects in HPSG. Invited talk,

Department of Linguistics, SUNY-Buffalo. Runner, Jeffrey T. (1996). The Role(?s) of Phrase Structure in Grammar. Invited talk, BCS Lunch Series,

Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester. Runner, Jeffrey T. (1995). AGRo in English? Some Evidence Towards a Non-Obvious Conclusion. Invited

talk, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto.

Refereed Conference Presentations 2013 Runner, Jeffrey T. & *Kellan Head. (2013). What can visual world eye-tracking tell us about the binding

theory? Paper presented at the Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris. *Dozat, Timothy A. & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2013). Someone will attend this talk (and it definitely should

be!), I just don’t know by whom: An analysis of voice mismatch in VP ellipsis and sluicing. Paper presented at the Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris. [Presented by Runner.]

2011-2012 *Dozat, Timothy A. & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2012). Voice parallelism in sluicing and VP ellipsis. Paper

presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.


Runner, Jeffrey T. & *Elsi Kaiser. (2011). Inter- and Intra-Clausal Pronoun Resolution. Paper presented at the 8th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium. Faro, Portugal.

*Snider, Neal & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2011). Phonological structure is reactivated in VP ellipsis: evidence from eye movements. Paper presented at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.

2010 *Snider, Neal & Jeffrey T. Runner (2010). Structural Parallelism Aids Ellipsis and Anaphor Resolution

Evidence From Eye Movements to Semantic and Phonological Neighbors. Paper presented at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing. York, England. [Presented by Runner.]

*Kim, Christina, Christine Gunlogson, Mike Tanenhaus & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2010). Constraining Focus Interpretation in Discourse. Paper presented at CUNY 23.

*Kim, Christina, Christine Gunlogson, Mike Tanenhaus & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2010). Focus alternatives and discourse parallelism. Paper presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.

2008-2009 *Kim, Christina, Christine Gunlogson, Mike Tanenhaus & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2009). Restricting and

generating hypotheses about focus alternatives. XPrag. Lyon, France. *Kaiser, Elsi & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2008). Pronouns, reflexives and something in-between: A cross-

linguistic investigation of reference resolution in Finnish, German and Dutch. Talk presented at 3rd Workshop on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL-3). Linguistic Association of Finland (SKY) and the Department of General Linguistics at the University of Helsinki.

Kobele, Gregory, *Christina Kim, John Hale & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2008). A processing model for ungrammatical verb phrase ellipsis. Talk presented at the 21st annual CUNY human sentence processing conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

2007 *Goldwater, Micah & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2007). An Experimental Investigation of the Representational

Nature of Representational NPs. Talk presented at Texas Linguistic Society, UT Austin. *Kaiser, Elsi, Jeffrey T. Runner, *Rachel S. Sussman and Michael K. Tanenhaus. (2007). Picturing the

syntax/semantics interface during on-line processing. Talk presented at the On Linguistic Interfaces conference, University of Ulster, Jordanstown campus, N. Ireland. [Presented by Runner.]

*Kaiser, Elsi, Jeffrey T. Runner, *Rachel S. Sussman and Michael K. Tanenhaus. (2007). On the interplay of syntactic and semantic effects on anaphor resolution. Talk presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago. [Presented by Runner.]

*Kaiser, Elsi, Jeffrey T. Runner, *Rachel S. Sussman and Michael K. Tanenhaus. (2007). Syntactic and semantic effects on the interpretation of pronouns and reflexives. Talk presented at the 20th annual CUNY human sentence processing conference, University of California, San Diego.

*Goldwater, Micah & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2007). Reference transfer and reflexive interpretation in representational noun phrases. Talk presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Anaheim, California.

*Kaiser, Elsi, Jeffrey T. Runner, *Rachel S. Sussman and Michael K. Tanenhaus. Pronouns as reflexives? A look at prenominal possessive pronouns. (2007). Talk presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Anaheim, California.

2006


*Kaiser, Elsi, Jeffrey T. Runner, *Rachel S. Sussman & Michael K. Tanenhaus. (2006). The real-time interpretation of pronouns and reflexives: Structural and non-structural information. Talk presented at the 37th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

2004 *Kaiser, E., Runner, J.T., *Sussman, R.S. & Tanenhaus, M.K. (2004). The interpretation of pronouns and

reflexives in picture noun phrases: effects of non-structural factors. Paper presented at the Western Conference on Linguistics, University of Southern California.

*Kaiser, E., Runner, J.T., *Sussman, R.S. & Tanenhaus, M.K. (2004). An experimental approach to short-distance pronouns and logophoric reflexives. Paper presented at the Workshop on Semantic Approaches to Binding Theory, Nancy, France.

*Goldwater, Micah & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2004). Coreferential Interpretations of Reflexives in Picture Noun Phrases: an Experimental Approach. Paper presented at the Texas Linguistics Society, Austin, Texas.

Runner, Jeffrey T., *Rachel S. Sussman and Michael K. Tanenhaus. (2004). Reflexives and Pronouns in Picture Noun Phrases: Using Eye Movements as a Source of Linguistic Evidence. Paper presented at the International Conference on Linguistic Evidence: Empirical, Theoretical, and Computational Perspectives, Tuebingen, Germany.

2002 Runner, Jeffrey T., *Rachel S. Sussman and Michael K. Tanenhaus. (2002). Binding Reflexives and

Pronouns in Picture Noun Phrases. Talk presented at the 8th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Tenerife, Spain.

1995-1997 Runner, Jeffrey T. and *Kimberley Abbott. (1997). Reraising the Case of Object Expletives. Paper

presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago. Runner, Jeffrey T. (1996). The English Double Object Construction: Underlyingly and at the Interfaces.

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Diego. Runner, Jeffrey T. (1995). There-Insertion without Expletive Replacement. Paper presented at the

Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans. 1994 Runner, Jeffrey T. (1994). Expletives, ‘Replacement’, and Economy. Paper presented at the Girona

Summer School in Linguistics Student Workshop, Girona, Catalonia. Runner, Jeffrey T. (1994). Voicing Assimilation and the Prosodic Cycle. Paper presented at the 2nd

Colloquium on Generative Grammar, Vitoria-Gasteiz, The Basque Country. 1989-1990 Aissen, Judith and Jeffrey T. Runner. (1990). Spanish Left Conjunct Agreement. Paper presented at the

2nd. Conference on Grammatical Relations, San Diego Aissen, Judith and Jeffrey T. Runner (1989). Spanish Left Conjunct Agreement. Paper presented at the

Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1989.

Refereed Conference Posters 2015-current


*Ibarra , Alyssa, Mike Tanenhaus and Jeffrey Runner. (2017). Effects of shared learning on choice of referring expressions mitigated by likelihood of prior knowledge. Poster presented at the 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. MIT.

*Xu, Yuhang & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2017). Sensitivity to Gender Information in Anaphor Resolution: the Case of Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at the First International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-1), March 10-12, 2017, Hong Kong

*Xu, Yuhang & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2016). Reflexive Retrieval in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence against the Local Search Hypothesis. Poster presented at CUNY 29. University of Florida.

*Xu, Yuhang & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2016). Locality effects in long-distance reflexive retrieval: the case of Mandarin Chinese ziji. Poster presented at 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Washington, DC.

Runner, Jeffrey T. & *Amanda Baker. (2015). New evidence for sensitivity to syntax in English verb phrase ellipsis. Poster presented at CUNY 28. University of Southern California.

2013 *Dozat, Timothy & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2013). Information structure and the ‘height’ of ellipsis. Poster

presented at CUNY 26. University of South Carolina. *Fine, Alex & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2013). The effect of predictability in elided vs. non-elided constituents.

Poster presented at CUNY 26. University of South Carolina.

*Head, Kellan & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2013). Assessing the on-line application of binding constraints without gender stereotype. Poster presented at CUNY 26. University of South Carolina.

*King, Sharese & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2013). The interpretation of elided reflexives in children and adults. Poster presented at CUNY 26. University of South Carolina.

2010-2012 *Kim, Christina, *Timothy Dozat & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2012). Question structure and ellipsis. Poster

presented at CUNY 25. City University of New York. Runner, Jeffrey T. & *Christina Kim. (2011). Two (potential) differences between VP ellipsis and

pseudogapping. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing. Paris. *Kim, Christina & Jeffrey T. Runner (2011). Syntactic Identity Isn’t Enforced Blindly: VP Ellipsis and

Pseudogapping. Poster presented at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Pittsburgh.

*Snider, Neal & Jeffrey T. Runner (2010). The role of structural parallelism on anaphoric antecedent resolution. Poster presented at CUNY 23. New York University.

2009 *Fine, Alex, *Christina Kim & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2009). The role of inflectional entropy in VP ellipsis

resolution. Poster presented at the 22nd annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, UC Davis.

*Kim, Christina & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2009). Disentangling syntactic and discourse parallelism in VP ellipsis. Poster presented at the 22nd annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, UC Davis.

*Kim, Christina, Christine Gunlogson, Michael K. Tanenhaus & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2009). Restricting and generating hypotheses about focus alternatives: Interpreting only and also in context. Poster presented at the 22nd annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, UC Davis.

*Kim, Christina & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2009). When syntactic parallelism is really discourse parallelism in VP ellipsis. Poster presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. San Francisco.


2008 *Kim, Christina, Christine Gunlogson, Michael K. Tanenhaus & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2008). Focus

alternatives and contextual domain restriction: an eye-tracking study on the interpretation of “only”. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing Conference, Cambridge University.

*Goldwater, Micah & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2008). The Representational Nature of Representational NP’s: Using the Visual World Eye-Tracking Paradigm, poster presented at the 21st annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

*Kaiser, Elsi & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2008). A comparative investigation of anaphor resolution in German and Dutch, poster presented at the 21st annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

*Kim, Christina, Christine Gunlogson, Michael K. Tanenhaus & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2008). Domain narrowing: Interpreting ‘only’ in context, poster presented at the 21st annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

2005-2006 *Goldwater, Micah & Jeffrey T. Runner. (2006). The Role of Representation in Representational Noun

Phrases, poster presented at the 19th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, City University of New York.

*Kaiser, Elsi, Jeffrey T. Runner, *Rachel S. Sussman & Michael K. Tanenhaus. (2005). Whose picture? Reference resolution in and out of picture NPs, poster presented at the 18th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, University of Arizona.

*Kaiser, Elsi, Jeffrey T. Runner, *Rachel S. Sussman & Michael K. Tanenhaus. (2005). Reference resolution for reflexives and pronouns in Finnish, poster presented at the 18th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, University of Arizona.

2000-2004 *Kaiser, E., Runner, J.T., *Sussman, R.S. & Tanenhaus, M.K. (2004). Pronouns, reflexives, Binding Theory,

and information flow. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Aix-en-Provence, France.

Runner, Jeffrey T., *Rachel S. Sussman and Michael K. Tanenhaus. (2003). The Influence of Binding Theory on the On-Line Reference Resolution of Pronouns. Poster presented at North Eastern Linguistic Society 34, SUNY Stony Brook.

Runner, Jeffrey T., *Rachel S. Sussman & Michael K. Tanenhaus (2001). The Role of Binding Theory in the On-line Reference Resolution of Reflexives. Poster presented at CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, U. Penn.

Runner, Jeffrey T., *Rachel S. Sussman and Michael K. Tanenhaus. (2000). Binding Reflexives and Pronouns in Real-time Processing. Poster presentation at the CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, San Diego.

Other academic activities College/Arts, Sciences and Engineering/University Committees Faculty Development and Diversity Officer for Arts, Sciences and Engineering, 6/2014 – present. Faculty Diversity Officer for Arts, Sciences and Engineering, 7/2013 – 6/2014. Committee on Individualized Interdepartmental Programs, member, 2012 – 2016. Faculty Senate, member, 2011 – 2016, 2017- Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, steering committee member, 2011 – 2013. English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), committee member, 2011 – 2013.


UR GLBTQ Resource Center Committee, member, 2010 – present. LGBTQ Steering Committee, founding member, 2010 – present. Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender & Women’s Studies, Steering Committee, 2007 – 2014;

Governance Committee, Chair, 2009-2010, 2013-2014; Curriculum Committee, Chair, 2007-2008, 2010-2012; Curriculum Director, 2007-2008.

Singer Prize for Excellence in Secondary School Teaching Awards selection committee member, 2010-2012.

(en) GENDERED: identity, gender & art 2009 Susan B. Anthony Institute for Women and Gender Studies Juried Exhibition of Undergraduate Art, Juror. 2008.

Susan B. Anthony Women’s Leadership Award Committee member. 2008. Mellon Humanities Corridor with Syracuse and Cornell Linguistics. Rochester contact/budget person.

2007 - present. Bookstore Advisory Committee, Member, University of Rochester. 2006 – 2015. Center for Language Sciences Speaker Series committee, ex officio member. 2006-2010, 2011; Chair,

2010 – 2013. Upperclass Housing Task Force, Member, University of Rochester. 2006 – 2007. Faculty Council Bookstore Committee, Chair, University of Rochester. 2006. Faculty Council, Member, University of Rochester, representing Department of Linguistics. 2003-2006. Student Representative to Linguistics Faculty, U. Mass., Amherst. 1990-1991. Graduate Student Senator representing Dept. of Linguistics, U. Mass., Amherst. 1990-1991. Graduate Student Representative to Faculty Senate Library Committee, U. Mass., Amherst. 1990-1991. Dissertation Committee Chairs Sarah Bibyk. A Rise by Any Other Name: An Investigation of the Production and Comprehension of Rising

(and Falling) Intonation in Questions. Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics. 2016. David Kleinschmidt. Perception in a Variable but Structured World: The Case of Speech Perception. Brain

& Cognitive Sciences. 2016. Esteban Buz. Speaking with a (Slightly) New Voice: Investigating Speech Changes, Communicative Goals,

and Learning from Past Communicative Success. Brain & Cognitive Sciences. 2016. Jennifer Merickel. Learning and Processing of Perceptual Confusability and the Mapping of Form to

Meaning. Brain & Cognitive Sciences. 2015. Che, Jing. How Peer Social Worlds Shaped the Out-of-Class Learning Experiences of College ESOL

Students: Examining the Impacts of Informal Peer Learning Upon Their Writing and Related Psychosocial Development. Education, Warner School. 2013.

Naushad UzZaman. Interpreting the Temporal Aspects of Language. Computer Science. 2012. Taeryang Kim. In Defense of a Posteriori Minimal Physicalism, Philosophy. 2010. Trent Dougherty. Against Pragmatic Encroachment: A Defense of Simple Moderate Invariantism,

Philosophy. 2009. Mikhail Masharov. Reference Resolution and Discourse Salience, Brain & Cognitive Sciences. 2008. Christopher Tillman. Insensitive Millianism, Philosophy. 2006. Joel Tetreault. Empirical evaluations of pronoun resolution. Computer Science. 2004. David Ahn. The role of situations and presuppositions in restricting adverbial quantification. Computer

Science. 2004. James Magnuson. The microstructure of spoken word recognition. Brain and Cognitive Sciences. 2001. Amon Seagull. Well-foundedness and reliability in statistical natural language parsing. Computer

Science. 2000. Search Committees Teaching Center Assistant Director, member, 2010 - 2011.


Center for Language Sciences Postdoc committee, Chair, 2010-13, member, 1995-2013. Search Committee for Dean of Students, Member, University of Rochester. 2007 – 2008. Search Committee for Dean and Vice Provost of the College of Arts and Sciences and Engineering,

Member, University of Rochester. 2005 - 2006. Faculty Search Committees, University of Rochester, 1996, 1998-2002, 2006, 2012-2015; UC Santa Cruz,

1988-1989. Search Committee Interviewer Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Science & Engineering. February 2017. Dean of the Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. April 2016. Dean of Arts & Sciences. March 2015. Educational Development Specialist, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. May 2015. Assistant Director of Graduate Diversity, Kearns Center. February 2015. Director of the Inter Cultural Center, Kearns Center and Dean of Students Office. July 2014. Memberships Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies, Faculty Associate, University of Rochester.

2003-present. Center for Language Sciences, Member, University of Rochester, 1994-present. Linguistic Society of America, Member, 1989-present. Reviewing Book. Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press Journal. Linguistic Inquiry, Language, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Journal of Memory and

Language, Cognition, Cognitive Science, Language and Cognitive Processes, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, Journal of Linguistics, Linguistics and Philosophy, Language and Linguistics Compass, Morphology, Second Language Research, Folia Linguistica, Linguistiche Berichte, Language Acquisition, Applied Psycholinguistics.

Conference. Linguistic Society of America, North Eastern Linguistic Society, Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, Penn Linguistics Colloquium, West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Head-drive Phrase Structure Grammar, Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing, CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris.

Grant. National Science Foundation, Council for the Humanities of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.

Grant panelist. National Science Foundation Linguistics Panelist, 2006-2009; Fall 2012. Conference Session Chair Workshop on Relative Clauses: Relatives in East Asia & Beyond, Cornell University, November 2015. CUNY, University of Southern California, March 2015. Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris, September 2013. Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics, Cornell University, August 2013. CUNY, University of South Carolina, March 2013. LSA, Pittsburgh, January 2011. The End of Argument Structure Workshop, University of Toronto, October 2010. Northeastern Linguistic Society, Syntax and Semantics Session, Cornell University, November 2008. International Conference on Processing Head-final Structures, Corpus-Based Approaches Session,

Rochester Institute of Technology, September 2007. Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Michigan State University, July 2003.


“Node” Librarian; management of the U. Mass. Linguistics Dept. Library, including setting up computer

cataloguing system and entering library holdings for circulation, 1990.

Languages Spanish: speaking, reading, writing knowledge American Sign Language: some speaking, understanding French: reading, some speaking, some writing knowledge Catalan, Italian: some reading knowledge

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