Publications

Dissertation

Johnston, William. (2024). “Event structure and serial verbs in Hmong.” PhD Thesis, McGill University. [pdf]

Articles

Johnston, William. (2023). “Pair-list answers to questions with plural definites.” Semantics and Pragmatics. [doi]

Proceedings

Johnston, William. (Forthcoming). “Decomposing Path: Deprepositional Verbs in White Hmong.” In: Proceedings of the 42^nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 42). [pdf]

Johnston, William. (Forthcoming). “Culmination entailments in V and P: Evidence from White Hmong.” In: Proceeings of the 41^st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 41). [pdf]

Johnston, William. (2024). “Two diagnostics for preposition-hood: Decomposing Path in White Hmong.” In: Proceedings of the 14th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia XIV). [proceedings]

Johnston, William. (2022) “Nonspecific promises: the Intensional Restitution Effect.” In: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 26.

Johnston, William. (2019) “Pair-list questions from dependent plurals.” Proceedings of the 22^nd Amsterdam Colloquium. 201-210.

Manuscripts

Johnston, William. (In revision). “Nonspecific promises: the Intensional Restitution Effect.”

Johnston, William. (In revision). “Causation and serialization in White Hmong.” [lingbuzz]