Rajesh Bhatt

Publications and Manuscripts

2008

• Complex Predicates and Agreement, handout of a talk given on August 18 at EFLU, Hyderabad
  
• When to reduce and when not to: crosslinguistic variation in phrasal comparatives with Shoichi Takahashi, handout of talk given on March 28 at GLOW XXXI, 2008 at Newcastle University, paper version
  
• Comments on `Comparative Correlatives in Greek: The syntax of oso', to appear in `Proceedings of the 2007 MIT Greek Syntax-Semantics Workshop'.

2007

• Ergativity in the Modern Indo-Aryan Languages, handout of talk given on Nov. 14 in the MIT Ergavitivity Seminar
  
• Direct Comparisons: Resurrecting the Direct Analysis of Phrasal Comparatives, with Shoichi Takahashi, handout of talk given on May 12 at SALT 17, 2007 at the University of Connecticut (paper version of SALT talk)
  
• Unaccusativity and Case Licensing, handout version of talks given at the University of Delhi (Jan. 2007), the Ohio State University (Apr. 2007), and McGill University (May 2007).
  
• Systematic Ambiguity with Shoichi Takahashi, handout of talk given on April 14 at GLOW XXX, 2007 at the University of Tromsoe
  
  
• Rightward Scrambling as Rightward Remnant Movement, with Veneeta Dayal in Linguistic Inquiry, 38.2:287-301, 2007.

2006

• Little or Nothing, slightly modified handout of talk given at the 26th SALA conference (Dec. 19-21, 2006) at CIIL, Mysore, India.
  
• Implicit Arguments, with Roumyana Pancheva, in The Blackwell Companion to Syntax, edited by Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk, v. II, Blackwell, 554-584. [Previously distributed as a 2001 Ms. University of Texas, Austin and USC].
  
• Conditionals, with Roumyana Pancheva, in The Blackwell Companion to Syntax, edited by Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk, v. I, Blackwell, 638-687. [Previously distributed as a 2001 Ms. University of Texas, Austin and USC].

2005

• Long Distance Agreement in Hindi-Urdu in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 23:757-807.

2004

• Late Merge of Degree Clauses, with Roumyana Pancheva, in Linguistic Inquiry, 35, 1-45. [previously distributed as a 2002 Ms. University of Texas, Austin and USC],
• Pronominal Possessor Obviation: Locality and Subjecthood, handout of talk given at UMass, Feb. 12, 2004

2003

• Locality in Correlatives in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 21:485-541.

2002

• The Raising Analysis of Relative Clauses: Evidence from Adjectival Modification in Natural Language Semantics, 10:43-90.

1999

• Covert Modality in Non-finite Contexts, University of Pennsylvania, PhD dissertation.

1998

• Obligation and Possession in The Proceedings of the UPenn/MIT Workshop on Argument Structure and Aspect, edited by Heidi Harley, MITWPL 32, pages 21-40.
  
• Argument-Adjunct Asymmetries in Rhetorical Questions, paper presented at NELS 29 at the University of Delaware, October 18. I didn't write it up for the proceedings.

1997

• Matching Effects and the Syntax-Morphology Interface: Evidence from Hindi-Urdu Correlatives, in Proceedings of the Eighth Student Conference in Linguistics, edited by Benjamin Bruening, MITWPL 31, pages 53-68.
• Counterfactuality in Indo-Aryan, notes assembled for Sabine Iatridou's Counterfactuals Project

1996

• Object Shift and Specificity: Evidence from ko-phrases in Hindi, with Elena Anagnostopoulou, in Papers from the Main Session of CLS 32, edited by Lise M. Dobrin, Kora Singer, and Lisa McNair, CLS32.1, pages 11-22.

1994

• The semantics of Hindi-Urdu -hii, a squib written for Sabine Iatridou's Intermediate Semantics class