Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
University of Massachusetts
Phone: (413) 545-6841
Email: woolford at linguist.umass.edu
2013 Two
Types of Portmanteau Agreement. Paper presented at the Optimality Theory
Workshop,
in press (coauthored with Hans Broekhuis) Minimalism
and Optimality Theory.
2013 Aspect
Splits and Parasitic Marking. In Linguistic
Derivations and Filtering: Minimalism and Optimality Theory. Eds. Hans
Broekhuis and Ralf Vogel. (Advances in
Optimality Theory Book Series)
2011 PF
Factors in Clitic Series Selection in Tzotzil. to appear in Representing
Language: Essays in honor of Judith Aissen. Eds. Rodrigo Gutierrez Bravo, Line Mikkelsen, and Eric Potsdam.
2010 Active
Stative Agreement in Choctaw and Lakota. ReVel
8: 6-46. (Revista Virtual de Estudos
da Linguagem) Special
Issue No. 4, Optimality Theoretic Syntax, edited by Gabriel de Ávila Othero and Sérgio de Moura Menuzzi.
(The 2010 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. University of
Massachusetts)
2008 Aspect
Splits and Parasitic Marking. In Hans Broekhuis and Ralf Vogel eds.,Optimality Theory and Minimalism: Interface Theories. Linguistics in Potsdam 28:
39-72. (A revised version of this paper
is Woolford 2013)
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. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Springer.
2007 Introduction
to OT Syntax. Phonological Studies 10: 119-134.
2007 Case
Locality: Pure Domains and Object Shift. Lingua 117 (9):
1591-1616. Special issue guest edited by Vieri Samek-Lodovici, Studies
in OT Syntax and Semantics. [Abstract]
2007 Aspect
Splits as Contextual Markedness. Ms. University of Massachusetts.
2006 Lexical
Case, Inherent Case, and Argument Structure. Linguistic Inquiry 37.1.
(20 pgs) [Abstract]
2006 Case-Agreement
Mismatches. In Cedric Boeckx
ed. Agreement
Systems, 317-339. John Benjamins. [Abstract]
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.
2003 Clitics
and Agreement in Competition: Ergative Cross-Referencing Patterns. In A.
Carpenter et al, eds, Papers in Optimality Theory
II, 421-449.
2003 Nominative
Objects and Case Locality. In W. Browne et al. eds,
Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 11: 539-568.
2001 Case Patterns. In G. Legendre,
Earlier version available on Rutgers Optimality Archive
(ROA-324): Case Patterns Abstract
Case
Patterns paper from ROA
2001 Conditions
on Object Agreement in Ruwund (Bantu). In E. Benedicto ed. The Umass
Volume on Indigenous Languages.
2000 Ergative
Agreement Systems.
2000 Agreement
in Disguise. In Vicki Carstens and
Frederick Parkinson, eds. Advances in African Linguistics, Trends in
African Linguistics, No. 4, 103-117.
2000 Object Agreement in Palauan. In
1999 More
on the Anaphor-Agreement Effect. Linguistic Inquiry 30: 257-287.
1999 Animacy Hierarchy Effects on Object Agreement.
In Paul Kotey, ed. New Dimensions in African
Linguistics. Trends in African Linguistics, No. 3, 203-216.
(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.
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.
Revised March 2013