papers
I’ve linked PDFs below for some harder to access pubs - email me if you need a copy of any others that aren’t posted here, I’m happy to share.
Levinson, L. (2023). Beyond surprising: English event structure in the maze. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning, 2, 176-188. https://doi.org/10.3765/elm.2.5384
Levinson, L. (2019). Semantic Domains for Syntactic Word-Building. In R. Truswell (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Event Structure (pp. 264–286). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199685318.013.31
Levinson, L., & Brennan, J. (2016). The costs of zero‑derived causativity in English: Evidence from reading times and MEG. In D. Siddiqi & H. Harley (Eds.), Morphological Metatheory (pp. 163–198). https://doi.org/10.1075/la.229.06lev
Levinson, L. (2014). The ontology of roots and verbs. In A. Alexiadou, H. Borer, & F. Schäfer (Eds.), The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax (pp. 208–229). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199665266.003.0010
Levinson, L. (2011). Possessive WITH in germanic: HAVE and the role of P. Syntax, 14(4), 355–393. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9612.2011.00159.x
Levinson, L. (2010). Arguments for pseudo-resultative predicates. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 28(1), 135–182. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-010-9089-x
Levinson, L. (2007). Finding arguments for pseudo‑resultative predicates. In T. Scheffler, J. Tauberer, A. Eilam, & L. Mayol (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium (pp. 155–168). https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol13/iss1/13
Levinson, L. (2007). The roots of verbs (PhD thesis). New York University.
Levinson, L. (2005). “To” in two places and the dative alternation. In S. Arunachalam, T. Scheffler, S. Sundaresan, & J. Tauberer (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium (pp. 155–168). https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol11/iss1/13