Selected Papers

Monographs

  • (2010) The Grammar of Q: Q-Particles, Wh-Movement and Pied-Piping Oxford University Press.

  • (2006) Syncope in the Verbal Prefixes of Tlingit: Meter and Surface Phonotactics. Lincom Studies in Native American Linguistics. Lincom Europa. Muenchen.


    Papers

  • (under review) Pied-Piping: Introducing Two Recent Approaches.. (Invited submission to Language and Linguistics Compass, Part 1)

  • (under review) Pied-Piping: Comparing Two Recent Approaches.. (Invited submission to Language and Linguistics Compass, Part 2)

  • (under review) Remoteness Distinctions in the Tense-Aspect System of Kikuyu. (Edited version under review by Natural Language Semantics)

  • (under revision) Reflexives, Reciprocals and Contrast. (Under revision for Journal of Semantics)

  • (to appear) The Optionality of Movement and EPP in Dholuo. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 31:1
    (prepublication version; online availability expected early 2012)

  • [with Jesse Harris] (to appear) On the Grammatical Status of PP-Pied-Piping in English: Results from Sentence-Rating Experiments. In Grant, Margaret and Jesse A. Harris (eds) University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 38: Processing Linguistic Structure. GLSA Publications.

  • (2011) Insubordination in Tlingit: An Areal Effect? Northwest Journal of Linguistics, 5(1): 1-38.
    (also in Tuttle, Siri and Olga Lovick (2011) Proceedings of the 2010 Dene (Athabaskan) Languages Conference. Alaska Native Language Center.)

  • (2011) A New Argument for Lexical Decomposition: Transparent Readings of Verbs. Linguistic Inquiry, 42: 131-138.

  • (2010) Against the Existence of Pied-Piping: Evidence from Tlingit. Linguistic Inquiry, 41: 563-594.

  • (2009) [with Christopher Potts, Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Ash Asudeh, Rajesh Bhatt, Christopher Davis, Yurie Hara, Angelika Kratzer, Eric McCready, Tom Roeper and Martin Walkow] Expressives and Identity Conditions. Linguistic Inquiry, 40: 356-366.

  • (2009) The Syntax of the Tibetan Correlative. In Liptak, Aniko (ed.) Correlatives Cross-Linguistically. John Benjamins.
    (This is a pre-publication draft which differs signficantly from the published paper.)

  • (2008) Covert A-Scrambling in Tlingit. In Lyon, John (ed.) Papers for the 43rd International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages. UBC Working Papers in Linguistics. Vancouver.

  • (2008) Q-Particles and the Nature of Wh-Fronting. In Matthewson, Lisa (ed.) Quantification: Universals and Variation. North Holland Linguistics Series. Emerald.

  • (2005) Tlingit Portmanteau Allomorphy Requires Fusion. In Armoskaite, Solveiga and James J. Thompson (eds) Proceedings of WSCLA 10: The Tenth Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas. UBC Working Papers in Linguistics. Vancouver.

  • (2005) The Optional Infinitive Stage in Afrikaans: Evidence for Phonologically Neutralized Rich Agreement. In Csirmaz, Aniko, Andrea Gualmini and Andrew Nevins (eds) Plato's Problems: Papers on Language Acquisition. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. Cambridge, MA.


     Manuscripts

  • Distributive Numerals in Tlingit: Pluractionality and Distributivity Manuscript. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

  • (2010) Radically Discontinuous Exponence in the Inflectional Morphology of Na-Dene Languages Manuscript. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. (Handout from talk given at 2010 LSA Meeting)

  • (2010) Corpus of Insubordinate Clauses in Tlingit. Manuscript. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. (Handout from talk given at 2010 Athabaskan (Dene) Languages Conference)

  • (2008) Wh-Fronting (in Hungarian) is Not Focus-Fronting. Manuscript. University of British Columbia. Vancouver, BC


    Older Manuscripts

    Most of the following were originally written as term papers during my graduate career. I include them here because I occasionally encounter inquiries about them.

  • (2006) The Interrogative Words of Tlingit: An Informal Grammatical Study. Manuscript. MIT. Cambridge, MA. (134 pp.)

  • (2005) Binding Local Person Pronouns Without Semantically Empty Features. Manuscript. MIT. Cambridge, MA.

  • (2005) Free Relatives in Tlingit and Haida: Evidence that the Mover Projects. Manuscript. MIT. Cambridge, MA.

  • (2004) Phonological Noun-Verb Dissimilarities in Optimal Paradigms. Manuscript. MIT. Cambridge, MA.

  • (2004) Restructuring in English. Manuscript. MIT. Cambridge, MA

  • (2004) Predicate Clefts and Base Generation: Evidence From Yiddish and Brazilian Portuguese. Manuscript. MIT. Cambridge, MA.

  • (2002) Hard Constraints Mirror Soft Constraints! Bias, Stochastic Optimality Theory, and Split-Ergativity Manuscript. University of Amsterdam.

  • (2002) Stand Over There, Please: The Dynamics of Vagueness. Master of Science Thesis. University of Amsterdam.




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