Books
Beavers, John and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. (2020). The Roots of Verbal Meaning and the Meaning of Verbal Roots. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
Journal Articles
Beavers, John, Kyle Jerro, and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. (In prep). The Contribution of Semantic Roots: A Case Study in Kinyarwanda Ditransitive Verbs. Unpublished ms., The University of Texas at Austin and The University of Manchester.
Beavers, John, Michael Everdell, Kyle Jerro, Henri Kauhanen, Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Elise LeBovidge, and Stephen Nichols. (2021). Two Types of States: A Cross-linguistic Study of Change-of-State Verb Roots. Language 96.
Beavers, John and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. (2017). Result verbs, scalar change and the typology of motion verbs. Language 93: 842-876. Download here.
Conference Proceedings
Beavers, John, Michael Everdell, Kyle Jerro, Henri Kauhanen, Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Elise LeBovidge, and Stephen Nichols. (2017). Two Types of States: A Cross-linguistic Study of Change-of-State Verb Roots. Proc. Ling. Soc. Amer. 2 (38), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v2i0.4094. Download here.
Beavers, John and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. (2017). The Semantic Contribution of Idiosyncratic Roots in Ditransitive Verbs. Brendel, Cole, Aaron Kaplan, Abby Kaplan, Miranda McCarvel, Jeff Pynes, and Ed Rubin (eds.), Proceedings of the 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. 70-80. Cascadilla Proceedings Project: Somerville, MA. Download here.
Koontz-Garboden, Andrew and John Beavers. (2017). Change of State Verbs and the Semantics of Roots. Brendel, Cole, Aaron Kaplan, Abby Kaplan, Miranda McCarvel, Jeff Pynes, and Ed Rubin (eds.), Proceedings of the 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. 347-354. Cascadilla Proceedings Project: Somerville, MA. Download here.
Invited Talks
Beavers, John. Result Entailments in the Meaning of Roots: A Cross-Linguistic Study. (2018). Endpoints, January 30-31, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Download handout here.
Beavers, John. Change-of-State in the Roots of Verbs: A Typological Study. (2017). Beyond Time: Unifying Temporal and Non-Temporal Uses of Aspectual Constructions, April 7-8, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO. Download handout here.
Koontz-Garboden, Andrew. (2017). Arguments for morphosemantic transparency. University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, May 17.
Koontz-Garboden, Andrew. (2017). Arguments for morphosemantic transparency. University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, May 3.
Beavers, John and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. (2016). Change of State Verbs and the Semantics of Roots. Workshop on the Aspect and Argument Structure of Adjectives and Participles III, June 13-14, Université de Lille, Lille, France.
Koontz-Garboden, Andrew. (2016). Root and template meanings: Insights from change of state verbs. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, April 18.
Conference Presentations
Beavers, John, Michael Everdell, Kyle Jerro, Henri Kauhanen, Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Elise LeBovidge, and Stephen Nichols. (2017). Two Types of States: A Cross-linguistic Study of Change-of-State Verb Roots. 91st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 5-8, Austin, TX. Download handout here.
Jerro, Kyle. (2017). The stative morpheme in Kinyarwanda. The 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
Jerro, Kyle. (2017). Change-of-State in Kinyarwanda: A Study in Root Meaning. 91st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 5-8, Austin, TX.
LeBovidge, Elise, John Beavers, Michael Everdell, Kyle Jerro, Henri Kauhanen, Andrew Koontz-Garboden, and Stephen Nichols. (2017). Two Types of States: A Cross-linguistic Study of Change-of-State Verb Roots. Poster presented at The University of Texas at Austin, College of Liberal Arts: Honors Day Reception. Austin, TX. April 8. Download poster here.
LeBovidge, Elise, John Beavers, Michael Everdell, Kyle Jerro, Henri Kauhanen, Andrew Koontz-Garboden, and Stephen Nichols. (2017). Two Types of States: A Cross-linguistic Study of Change-of-State Verb Roots. Department of Linguistics Undergraduate Research Day, April 24, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. Download handout here.
Valle, Daniel, John Beavers, and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. (2017). State and Change of State in Kakataibo: The Role of Root Semantics. The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas 2017, January 5-8, Austin, TX. Download handout here.
Beavers, John and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. (2016). The Semantic Contribution of Idiosyncratic Roots in Ditransitive Verbs. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 34, April 29-May 1, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Beavers, John and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. (2016). Change of State Verbs and the Semantics of Roots. Poster presented at West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 34, April 29-May 1, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Beavers, John. (2015). Roots and Templates in Verbal Meaning. The University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL 2015, November 6, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX.