Recent
publications and manuscripts
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list of publications, please click here.
2008
Directions from the GET-GO: On the syntax of manner-of-motion verbs in directional constructions. Detailed handout for invited talks at the 10th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (Seoul, 17-20 July 2008) and the conference on Expressions of Posture and Motion in Germanic Languages (Brussels, 24 October 2008).
Small Clauses, Phases, and Phase Extension - The Case of Scope and Object Shift (presented at 31st GLOW Colloquium)
So So (presented at SQUID 3, Linguistics Program, CUNY Graduate Center)
2007
The Tense of Resultatives: The Case of Korean (co-authored with Ji Young Shim; presented at NELS38 and JK17)
Data and Grammar: Means and Individuals (co-authored with Judy B. Bernstein, Christina Tortora & Raffaella Zanuttini) [This paper is a commentary on Featherston, Sam (2007) "Data in generative grammar: The stick and the carrot"; to appear, together with the Featherston target article, in Theoretical Linguistics.]
Questionnaire study on Dutch that-trace effects: Stimuli and results
Phase Extension: A reply. (to appear, Theoretical Linguistics, 2007)
Review of Frascarelli (2006). (Journal of Linguistics 43:1)
2006
Relators
and Linkers: The syntax of predication, Predicate Inversion, and copulas
(MIT Press)
A reappraisal of vP being phasal: A
reply to Legate (ms.)
Phase extension: Contours of a theory
of the role of head movement in phrasal extraction (ms.)
On the functional structure
of locative and directional PPs (ms.; revised version of 2003 ms.
on adpositional phrases)
Comparative correlatives
and successive cyclicity (ms.)
When Hungarians agree (to
disagree): The fine art of 'phi' and 'art' (ms.)
P-drop, D-drop, D-spread
(ms.; co-authored with Alexandra Ioannidou)
Amharic relatives and possessives:
Definiteness, agreement and the linker (to appear, Linguistic Inquiry)
Vacuous movement in focus -- On the
syntax of highest-subject
wh-questions and relative clauses (ms.; presented at GLOW Barcelona,
8
April 2006)
Ellipsis
and EPP repair (to appear, Linguistic Inquiry; co-authored with
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck)
Either-float and the syntax of
co-or-dination (Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 24:3)
Parasitism, secondary triggering,
and depth of embedding (in Raffaella Zanuttini, Hector Campos, Elena
Herburger & Paul Portner, eds, Cross-linguistic research in syntax
and semantics: Negation, tense, and clausal architecture. Georgetown
University Press)
2005
The
function of function words and functional categories (Benjamins;
co-edited with Christina Tortora)
Comparative correlatives comparatively
(Linguistic Inquiry 36:4)
Transparent, free... and polarised: The
(poli)tics of polarity in transparent free relatives (in Hans Broekhuis,
Norvert Corver, Riny Huybregts, Ursula Kleinhenz & Jan Koster, eds,
Organizing grammar. Linguistic studies in honor of Henk van Riemsdijk.
Mouton de Gruyter)
Specificational copular sentences and pseudoclefts (in Martin Everaert
& Henk van Riemsdijk, eds, The Blackwell Companion to Syntax. Blackwell.
Vol. IV, Chapter 61; part 1 and
part 2 of the 2001 ms. available
on-line)
A comment on the topic of topic-comment
(Lingua 115:5)
Review of Anagnostopoulou
(2003), The syntax of ditransitives: Evidence from clitics (Language
81:4)
2004
Complex noun phrases and linkers
(Syntax 7:1; co-authored with Pornsiri Singhapreecha)
Agreement and 'clause union'
(in Katalin É. Kiss & Henk van Riemsdijk, eds, Verb clusters:
A study of Hungarian, German and Dutch. Benjamins)
Light switches (ms., co-authored
with Shoba Bandi-Rao; to appear in MIT Press volume ed. by Jeff MacSwan)
Relating the predicate to its subject
(ms., co-authored with Ana Longenecker)
2003
The
structure of the noun phrase in Rotuman (LINCOM Studies in Austronesian
Linguistics 05, LINCOM Europa)
Comparative correlatives and Verb Second
(in 'webschrift' for Hans den Besten)
On the syntax of locative and directional
adpositional phrases (ms.; largely superseded by 2006 paper on PP
syntax)
When particles won't part (ms.)
Review of Katalin É. Kiss (2002),
The Syntax of Hungarian (Language 79:4; co-authored with Anikó
Lipták)
On the morphosyntax of wh-movement
(in Cedric Boeckx & Kleanthes Grohmann, eds, Multiple Wh-Fronting.
Benjamins)
Lexical integrity, checking and the
mirror: A checking approach to syntactic word formation (JCGL 6)
2002
From hell to
polarity: "Aggressively non-D-linked" wh-phrases as polarity
items (Linguistic Inquiry 33:1; co-authored with Anastasia Giannakidou)
Direct and parasitic polarity item licensing
(JCGL 5:1)
Review of Particle Verbs and Local
Domains by Jochen Zeller (JCGL 4:2)
Agreement (The Encyclopedia of Cognitive
Science. Nature Publishing Group, Macmillan Publishers)
Islands (in Lisa Cheng & Rint
Sybesma, eds, The Second State-of-the-Article Book. Mouton de Gruyter;
co-authored with Anna Szabolcsi)
2001
Clitic
climbing in Spanish imperatives (co-authored with Mariví
Blasco) to
appear in W. van der Wurff (ed.), Imperative
clauses in generative grammar: Studies offered to Frits Beukema.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins
On
inclusive reference anaphora (co-authored with Anikó Lipták
and Zsófia Zvolenszky) in K. Megerdoomian & L.A. Bar-El (eds),
WCCFL
20 Proceedings. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 137-49
'Pluringulars', pronouns and quirky
agreement in The Linguistic Review 18. 19-41
