Professor of Linguistics link to CV
Department of Linguistics
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003 USA
Email: woolford (at) linguist.umass.edu
Phone: (413) 545-6841
(in press) Split Ergativity.
In Handbook of Ergativity, ed. by Jessica Coon, Diane Massam,
and Lisa Travis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
This paper surveys types of
split ergativity, and the widely differing
definitions of what counts as split ergativity. It
also questions the idea that so-called syntactic ergativity
has anything to do with ergative case.
(in press) Mainland Scandinavian
Object Shift and the Puzzling Ergative Pattern in Aleut. In Order and Structure
in Syntax, edited by Laura Bailey and Michelle Sheehan. Language Science Press:
Berlin.
The surface correlation
between ergative subjects and a null argument elsewhere in the clause results
from a combination of independently motivated processes including the Mainland
Scandinavian type of object shift which targets only pronouns.
2015 Ergativity and Transitivity. Linguistic Inquiry 46(3): 489-531. (link to 2014
draft: Ergativity
and Transitivity)
Two different notions of
transitivity are relevant to ergative case but neither is the ordinary notion
of transitive.
2006 Lexical
Case, Inherent Case, and Argument Structure. Linguistic Inquiry,
Volume 37, Number 1, Winter 2006: 111–130. Copyright
2006 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. link
to journal homepage. [Abstract]
Non-structural cases come in
two distinct types: lexical and inherent. Inherent cases (ergative and dative)
are more predictable than lexically selected cases, and are thus often mistaken
for structural cases. Ergative case is assigned to external arguments, inherent
dative case is assigned to goals. Lexical case is only assigned to
themes/patients.
Portmanteau
Agreement:
2016 Two Types of
Portmanteau Agreement. In Advances in OT Syntax and Semantics, ed. by Geraldine
Legendre, Michael Putnam, and Erin Zaroukian. Oxford:
Oxford University Press. (link to 2014 manuscript Two
Types of Portmanteau Agreement.)
Portmanteau agreement comes in
two distinct types, one formed in syntax, in a multiple agree relation, and one
formed at PF.
Active-Stative
(Split-S) Agreement:
2010 Active
Stative Agreement in Choctaw and Lakota. ReVel 8:
6-46.
This paper replaces two earlier
manuscripts:
2008 Active
Stative Agreement in Lakota. Ms. University of Massachusetts
2008 Is
Agreement Really Independent of Case in Choctaw? Ms. U. Mass
The
Anaphor Agreement Effect:
1999 More
on the Anaphor-Agreement Effect. Linguistic Inquiry 30: 257-287.
Aspect
Splits:
2013 Aspect
Splits and Parasitic Marking. In Linguistic
Derivations and Filtering: Minimalism and Optimality Theory. eds. Hans Broekhuis and Ralf
Vogel. London: Equinox.
Burzio’s Generalization:
2003 Burzio's Generalization, Markedness,
and Locality Constraints on Nominative Objects. In E. Brandner and H. Zinsmeister eds. New Perspectives on Case Theory, 301-329.
Object
Shift and its Effects on Case and Agreement:
2007 Case
Locality: Pure Domains and Object Shift. Lingua 117 (9):
1591-1616. [Abstract]
2001 Conditions
on Object Agreement in Ruwund (Bantu). In E. Benedicto ed. The Umass
Volume on Indigenous Languages.
2000 Object
Agreement in Palauan. In
Integrating
MP and OT:
2013 (coauthored with Hans Broekhuis) Minimalism
and Optimality Theory.
2007 Introduction
to OT Syntax. Phonological Studies 10: 119-134.
Selected
Additional Papers:
2011 PF
Factors in Clitic Series Selection in Tzotzil. In Representing Language:
Essays in honor of Judith Aissen. Eds. Rodrigo
Gutierrez Bravo, Line Mikkelsen, and Eric Potsdam.
(Link to download volume: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0vf4s9tk.)
2008 Differential
Subject Marking at Argument Structure, Syntax, and PF. In Helen
de Hoop and Peter de Swart eds., Differential Subject Marking, pgs.
17-40. Springer.
2006 Case-Agreement
Mismatches. In Cedric Boeckx ed. Agreement
Systems, 317-339. John Benjamins. [Abstract]
2003 Clitics
and Agreement in Competition: Ergative Cross-Referencing Patterns. In A.
Carpenter et al, eds, Papers in Optimality Theory
II, 421-449. Amherst, MA: GLSA.
2003 Nominative
Objects and Case Locality. In W. Browne et al. eds,
Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 11: 539-568. Ann Arbor:
Michigan Slavic Publications.
2001 Case
Patterns. In G. Legendre,
2000 Ergative
Agreement Systems. University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics
10: 157-191.
1999 Animacy Hierarchy Effects on Object Agreement. In Paul Kotey, ed. New Dimensions in African Linguistics.
Trends in African Linguistics, No. 3, 203-216.
1997 Four-Way
Case Systems: Ergative, Nominative, Objective and Accusative. Natural
Language and Linguistic Theory 15: 181-227.
(Correction: In example (8) on
page 187: the dative/allative suffix in Nez Perce
should be –px (not -na).]
1995 Object Agreement
in Palauan: Specificity, Humanness, Economy, and Optimality. In J. Beckman et al. eds. Optimality Theory.
1995 Why
Passive Can Block Object Marking. In A. Akinlabi,
ed. Theoretical Approaches to African Languages. Trends in
African Linguistics, No. 1, 199-215. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press.
1993 Symmetric
and Asymmetric Passives. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
11: 679-728.
1991 VP
Internal subjects in VSO and non-Configurational languages. Linguistic
Inquiry 22: 503-540.
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