Jim Wood
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jim Wood is involved.
Articles
2025 Microvariation in verbal rather Linguistic Variation 25:1, pp. 123–167 | Article
This paper uses survey results to analyze patterns of judgments across different versions of the non-standard verbal use of the word rather, which can take participial morphology, as in rathered. Across numerous possible instantiations of the construction, there appear to be in fact a quite… read more
2019 Microvariation in the have yet to construction Linguistic Variation 19:2, pp. 232–279 | Article
The have yet to construction, exemplified by sentences such as John has yet to visit his grandmother, is widespread across dialects of English. However, recent studies have revealed that behind this apparent unity, there is significant variation in the syntactic properties of the have yet to… read more
2017 Inverse attraction in Icelandic relative clauses Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian, Thráinsson, Höskuldur, Caroline Heycock, Hjalmar P. Petersen and Zakaris Svabo Hansen (eds.), pp. 199–232 | Chapter
We introduce “inverse attraction” (IA) (Bianchi 1999: 93) in non-standard Icelandic, a nearly unstudied phenomenon that provides special insight into relative clause formation, specificially regarding the copy deletion that occurs in the “matching analysis” derivation of relatives. Descriptively,… read more