classes

LING 792: Opacity and Multidominance
Spring 2025
Tuesday and Thursdays: 11:30-12:45
ILC N458

selected talks

(2024) "On Making Pronouns and Reflexives Compete," (with Brian Dillon), Aarhus University, December 9. pdf

(2024) "Introduction to Ellipsis," handouts for the portion of the class I taught with David Pesetsky at CreteLing. pdf

(2024) "Why Compete?" Workshop on Pronominal Competition, Rethymno, Greece, July 24. pdf

(2023) "Keeping Sisters Straight," How Many Mothers? Workshop at LSA Institute, Amherst, MA, June 25. pdf

(2019) "Can we Know How Many?" Sluicing @50 University of Chicago, April 12. pdf

(2018) "A Multidominant Theory of Movement" Lectures presented at CreteLing. July 17-27. pdf

(2017) "QR and Hydras" (with Danny Fox) Leipzig University, June 2. pdf

(2013) "The Empty Category Principle and Linearization" Workshop of Comparative Germanic Syntax Leipzig, Germany. October 5. pdf

manuscripts

(2025) "A syntax for theta-roles," unpublished manuscript. pdf

(2025) "The cycle and derivations," manuscript for HowardFest. pdf

(2014) "Gapping," unpublished manuscript. pdf

(2001) "Clausal edges and their effects on scope," paper presented at Peripheries Conference, York, UK. May 26. pdf

(1998) "Embedded Verb Second in Infinitival Clauses," (with Sten Vikner) unpublished manuscript. pdf

(1996)/(2004) "In Search of the English Middle Field," unpublished manuscript on Gapping. pdf

selected publications

(2024) "Where to Interpret What," in The title of this volume is shorter than its contributions are allowed to be: Papers in honour of Hotze Rullmann. M. Ryan Bochnak, Eva Csipak, Lisa Matthewson, Marcin Morzycki, and Daniel K. E. Reisinger (eds.), pp. 229-236. url

(2024) "Prosodic Spell-Out," in Strict Cycling: A Festschrift for Gereon Mueller. Silke Fischer, Doreen Georgi, Fabian Heck, Johannes Hein, Anke Himmelreich, Andrew Murphy & Philipp Weisser (eds.) pp. 247-270. url

(2022) "What makes a theta-role," in A celebration: Hagit Borer, Linnaea Stockall, Luisa Martí, David Adger, Isabelle Roy and Sarah Ouwayda (eds.) url

(2020) "Rethinking Linearization," in Syntactic Architecture and its Consequences II, Andras Bárány, Therea Biberauer, Jamie Douglas, Sten Vikner (eds.) Language Science Press, pp. 113-136. url

(2018) "Deriving Principle B," in Heading in the right direction: linguistic treats for Lisa Travis, Laura Kalin, Ileana Paul, and Jozina Vander Klok (eds.) McGill Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 25. url

(2018) "To give someone their innocence again," in Leader of the Pack: A Festschrift in honor of Peggy Speas, Rodica Ivan (Ed.) University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers, pp. 211-244. pdf

(2018) "Gapping and Stripping," in Handbook on Ellipsis, Tanja Temmerman and Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (eds.), pp. 562-604. doi

(2014) "Gapping" The Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Martin Evereart, Henk C. van Reimsdijk, Rob Goedemans, and Bart Hollebrandse (eds.) Blackwell Publishers. pp. 407-435. doi

(2013) "Licensing Ellipsis," pre-publication version of paper in Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 34(2): 71-98. pdf

(2012) "Recoverability of Deletion," pre-publication version of paper in Identity Relations in Grammar, K. Nasukawa and H. C. van Reimsdijk (eds.) Studies in Generative Grammar. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin. pdf

(2012) "Pronouns vs. Definite Descriptions," pre-publication version of paper published in Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams, M. Becker, J. Grinstead, and J. Rothman, (eds.). pp. 157-184. John Benjamins Publishing Company. pdf

(2012) "Towards deriving differences in how Wh Movement and QR are pronounced," Lingua 122.6, 529-553. url

(2009) "Gapping is not (VP-)Ellipsis," Linguistic Inquiry 40.2, pp. 289-328. doi

(2004) "How to be Quiet," Proceedings from the 40th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, Nikki Adams, Adam Cooper, Fey Parrill and Thomas Wier (eds.), 1-20. pdf

(2004) "Double objects again," (with Sigrid Beck) Linguistic Inquiry 35.1, 97-123. doi

(2002) "Towards an etiology of adjunct islands," Nordlyd 31.1. pdf

(2002) "Restoring exotic coordinations to normalcy," Linguistic Inquiry 33.1, 97-156. doi

(2001) "Sluicing and constraints on quantifier scope," in GLOT. pdf

(2001) "What VP Ellipsis can do, what it can't, but not why," in The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory, Mark Baltin and Chris Collins (eds.) Blackwell Publishers, pp. 439-479. pdf

(2000) "How far will Quantifiers go?" in Step by Step, Roger Martin, David Michaels and Juan Uriagereka (eds.) MIT Press, pp. 187-210. pdf

(2000) "Few Dogs eat Whiskas or Cats Alpo," in UMOP 23: Issues in Semantics and its Interface, Kiyomi Kusumoto and Elisabeth Villalta (eds.), pp. 59-82. pdf

(1997) "Lowering and Mid-sized clauses," (with Satoshi Tomioka) in Proceedings of the Tübingen Workshop on Reconstruction Arbeitspapiere des Sonderforschungsbereichs 340, Bericht Nr. 127, Graham Katz, Shin-Sook Kim, and Heike Winhart (eds.) pdf

(1991) "Object Positions," Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 9.4, 577-636. url

(1989) "Passive Arguments Raised," (with Mark Baker and Ian Roberts) Linguistic Inquiry 20, 219-251.

(1988) "Clausal gerunds, the ECP, and government," Linguistic Inquiry 19, 583-609.

other

Transformational Grammar, lecture notes for my introductory graduate course on syntax. It gets revised every fall, but stubbornly remains error-ridden.

Bibliography, my (5.2mb) LaTeX bib file, which gets sporadically updated. Because the entries are almost wholly hand entered, it has typos.