Dennis Christopher Ott
Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
University of Ottawa
70 Laurier Ave E
Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5
Canada
dennis.ott [at] uottawa [dot] ca
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PhD (Harvard), 2011
CV (coming soon)
Research interests
- syntactic theory
- unbounded dependencies
- ellipsis, parenthesis
- connectivity effects
- syntax of Euskera
- formal pragmatics
- philosophy of language
Selected publications
For downloadable publications, see ResearchGate.
- D Ott. In press. Phrase structure and its limits. In K Grohmann, E Leivada (eds), The Cambridge handbook of the Minimalism Program. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- G DeRooy, D Ott. In press. The structure of free relatives: evidence from reconstruction. Proceedings of CLS 57.
- E Onea, D Ott. 2022. Nominal appositives in grammar and discourse. Language 98(2), 359–391.
- D Ott. 2022. Unstructured sequences as paratactic configurations. Proceedings of NELS 52 (vol. 2), 275–285.
- N Chomsky, Á Gallego, D Ott. 2019. Generative Grammar and the faculty of language: insights, questions, and challenges. Catalan Journal of Linguistics (SI), 229–261.
- D Ott. 2018. VP-fronting: movement vs. dislocation. The Linguistic Review 35(2), 243–282.
- D Ott, V Struckmeier. 2018. Particles and deletion. Linguistic Inquiry 49(2), 393–407.
- D Ott. 2017. Strong generative capacity and the empirical base of Generative Grammar. Frontiers in Psychology 8, article 1617.
- D Ott. 2017. Stylistic fronting as remnant movement. Studia Linguistica 72(1), 1–38.
- D Ott. 2016. Ellipsis in appositives. Glossa 1(1), article 34.
- D Ott, M de Vries. 2016. Right-dislocation as deletion. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 34(2), 641–690.
- D Ott. 2015. Connectivity in left-dislocation and the composition of the left periphery. Linguistic Variation 15(2):225–290.
- D Ott. 2015. Symmetric Merge and local instability: evidence from split topics. Syntax 18(2), 157–200.
- D Ott. 2014. An ellipsis approach to Contrastive Left-dislocation. Linguistic Inquiry 45(2), 269–303.
- D Ott. 2012. Local instability. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter.
- D Ott. 2011. A note on free relative clauses in the theory of phases. Linguistic Inquiry 42(1), 183–192.
PhD students
- Ray Therrien (2023, thesis)
- Fauzia Mughal (in progress)
- Adam Chihjen Cheng (in progress)
Current teaching
- LIN 3310, Syntactic Theory
- LIN 5317, Syntax I