Research

Research interests: Syntax, semantics, grammatical theory and the syntax-semantics interface (especially Lexical Functional Grammar and Glue Semantics), philosophy of language, (critical) discourse analysis, language & gender, language & sexuality.

For full details of my work, see my CV. Below are some recent papers.

Journal articles

2017

Jamie Y. Findlay. Unnatural acts lead to unconsummated marriages: discourses of homosexuality within the House of Lords debate on same-sex marriage. Journal of Language and Sexuality 6(1), 30–60.

2016

Jamie Y. Findlay. Mapping theory without argument structure. Journal of Language Modelling 4(2), 293–338.

Conference proceedings

2017

Jamie Y. Findlay. Multiword expressions and lexicalism. In Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King (eds.), Proceedings of the LFG’17 Conference, 209–229. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
Jamie Y. Findlay. Multiword expressions and lexicalism: the view from LFG. In Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2017), 73–79. Association for Computational Linguistics.

2016

Jamie Y. Findlay. The prepositional passive in Lexical Functional Grammar. In Doug Arnold, Miriam Butt, Berthold Crysmann, Tracy Holloway King, and Stefan Müller (eds.), Proceedings of the Joint 2016 Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical Functional Grammar, 255–275. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

Presentations and invited talks

2019

Extended idioms as metaphors. Joint work with Sascha Bargmann and Manfred Sailer. Poster presented at the Conference on the Creative Power of Metaphor, Worcester College, University of Oxford, 30 March 2019.
Why the butterflies in your stomach can have big wings: combining formal and cognitive theories to explain productive extensions of idioms. Joint work with Sascha Bargmann and Manfred Sailer. Presented at the International Conference of the Europäische Gesellschaft für Phraseologie (EUROPHRAS 2019): Productive Patterns in Phraseology, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 24 January 2019.

2018

When the cat you let out of the bag has claws: the role of metaphor in understanding idioms. Presented at the Linguistics and English Language Research Seminar, University of Manchester, 27 November 2018.
Pulling a pretence rabbit out of the hat. Joint work with Sascha Bargmann and Manfred Sailer. Presented (by Manfred Sailer) at the Workshop on Form-Meaning Mismatches in Natural Language (FMM2018), Georg-August-Universät Göttingen, 4 August 2018.
Lexical and grammatical meaning: attributive adjectives in French. Joint work with Hannah Senior. Presented at the 23rd International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference, University of Vienna, 18 July 2018.
How (not) to analyse multiword expressions. Invited talk at the Linguistics Oberseminar, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 25 June 2018.
Lexicalised LFG. Presented at the 25th South of England LFG Meeting, SOAS, London, 26 May 2018.
Conspiracy theories: the problem with lexical approaches to idioms. Presented at the Workshop on One-to-Many Relations in Morphology, Syntax and Semantics at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS 2018), Universität Stuttgart, 8 March, 2018.

2017

The logic of Korean honorification. Joint work with Yoolim Kim. Presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB 2017), University of Kent, Canterbury, 6 September 2017.
Multiword expressions and lexicalism. Presented at the 22nd International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference, University of Konstanz, 27 July 2017.
When the subject honorific brings honour to all: the expanding role of pragmatics in Korean honorification. Joint work with Yoolim Kim. Presented at the 12th Language at the University of Essex Postgraduate Conference (LangUE 2017), Colchester, 15 June 2017.
Multiword expressions and lexicalism: the view from LFG. Poster presented at the 13th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2017), Valencia, 4 April 2017.
Multiword expressions and lexicalism. Presented at the 22nd South of England LFG Meeting, SOAS, London, 4 February 2017.
The pseudopassive: not so phoney after all. Invited talk at the Linguistics Departmental Seminar Series, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, 31 January 2017.

2016

The prepositional passive in Lexical Functional Grammar. Presented at HeadLex16, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 29 July 2016.
Idioms in LFG. Presented at the 19th South of England LFG Meeting, SOAS, London, 20 February 2016.