P. Speas
Recent Publications

(with Carol Tenny) "Configurational Properties of Point of View Roles"   to appear in Anna Maria Di Scuillo, ed., proceedings of UQAM Asymmetry Workshop. 

"Evidentiality, Logophoricity and the Syntactic Representation of Pragmatic Features" to appear in Lingua  download PDF draft version

“Constraints On Null Pronouns” 2001 in Legendre, Vikner and Grimshaw, eds., Optimality-Theoretic Syntax MIT Press, Cambridge. Proceedings of the Hopkins Optimality Workshop, Geraldine Legendre, ed. MIT Press.

"From Rules to Principles in the Study of Navajo Syntax" 2001. Fernald and Platero, eds., Studies in Navajo Syntax and Semantics. MITWPL, Cambridge MA.

“Projection and Pronominal Arguments" 2000. Lexical Specification and Insertion, P. Coopmans, M. Everaert and J. Grimshaw, eds, Blackwell Pubs. 349-378.

“Person and Point of View in Navajo” 2000. Eloise Jelinek, ed., WCCFL Papers in Honor of Ken Hale, MIT Press, Cambridge.

'Optimality Theory and Syntax:  Null Pronouns and Control' 1997 in Archangeli and Langendoen, eds., Optimality Theory, Blackwell Publishers.

'Null Objects in Functional Projections' 1996,  in Zaring and Rooryck, eds., Phrase Structure and the Lexicon,  University of Chicago Press.

'Quantification and the Position of NPs in Navajo' (with E. Parsons Yazzie) 1996, in E. Jelinek and L. Saxon, eds, Athapaskan Syntax, Benjamins.

'Economy, Agreement and the Representation of Null Arguments'  1994.  ms.

 'Null Arguments in a Theory of Economy of Projection', 1994, UMass Occasional Papers in Linguistics, E. Benedicto and J. Runner, eds.

Phrase Structure in Natural Language, 1990, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrect. (288 pp.)

Unpublished ms:  Economy, Agreement and the Representation of Null Arguments  (1995) [download PDF version]