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Current drafts / to appear:

• Missing Persons: A Case study in Morphological Universals. Revised Jan 2008. To appear in The Linguistic Review, Special Theme Issue on Universals.
  
• Fact and Fiction in Icelandic Control. (with Idan Landau). Revised Nov 2007. To appear in Linguistic Inquiry.
  
• On Comparative Suppletion. Draft (lightly revised, July 2007).
  
• Case in GB/Minimalism (with Susi Wurmbrand). For Oxford Handbook of Case. Revised. January 2007.

2007:

• Where's Phi? Agreement as a Post-Syntactic Operation. In David Adger, Susana Béjar, and Daniel Harbour, eds. Phi-Theory: Phi features across interfaces and modules, Oxford University Press.
• Paradigms, Optimal and Otherwise: A case for Skepticism. In Asaf Bachrach and Andrew Ira Nevins, eds. Inflectional Identity. Oxford University Press.
• The limits of deponency: a Chuktoko-centric perspective. In Matthew Baerman et al., eds., Deponency and morpho-syntactic mismatches. London, The British Academy/Oxford University Press, 175-201.
• Complex predicates, aspect and anti-reconstruction  (with Susi Wurmbrand) Journal of East Asian Linguistics 16:27-42.

2006

• Problems with Honorification-As-Agreement in Japanese: A reply to Boeckx & Niinuma (with Kazuko Yatsushiro) Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 24:355-384
• Itelmen Reduplication: Edge-In Association and Lexical Stratification Journal of Linguistics
• Eccentric Agreement and Multiple Case-Checking (with Phil Branigan) in Alana Johns, Diane Massam & Juvenal Ndayiragije (eds.), Ergativity: Emerging Issues, Springer: Dordrecht.

2005

• Adjacency, PF and Extraposition (with Susi Wurmbrand). In Broekhuis et al, eds. Organizing Grammar: Linguistic Studies in Honor of Henk van Riemsdijk.
  
• The Domain of Agreement (with Susi Wurmbrand) Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 23, 809-865.
  
• Itelmen Diminutives: A belated reply to Perlmutter 1988. In Yearbook of Morphology 2004.
• Re: CycLin and the role of PF in Object Shift (commentary on papers by Erteschik-Shir and Fox and Pesetsky)  Theoretical Linguistics 31: 111-125.

2004

• Clustering Theories. In Katalin É. Kiss and Henk van Riemsdijk, eds. Verb clusters: A study of Hungarian, German and Dutch. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 121-145.
• Anti-reconstruction effects are anti-reconstruction effects. (with Susi Wurmbrand) Proceedings of CLA. Superseded by Bobaljik & Wurmbrand 2005, NLLT.
  
• Long distance agreement, restructuring and anti-recontruction. (with Susi Wurmbrand) Proceedings of NELS 33. Superseded by Bobaljik & Wurmbrand 2005, NLLT.

2003

• Auspicious Compounds. In Theres Grüter and Tomokazu Takehisa, eds. Papers in Memory of Lara Riente, McGill Working Papers in Linguistics vol 17.2, 65-71
• Realizing Germanic Inflection: Why Morphology Does Not Drive Syntax. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
• Floating Quantifiers: Handle with care. (revision of 1998 Glot article and bibliography) In Lisa Cheng and Rint Sybesma, eds. The Second Glot International State-of-the-Article Book. Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 107-148.

2002

• Paradigmaticity without paradigms. Handout [Rutgers version]
• A-Chains at the PF-Interface: Copies and "Covert" Movement. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20.2, 197-267.
• Syncretism without paradigms: Remarks on Williams 1981, 1994. Yearbook of Morphology 2001.
• Notes on Agreement in Itelmen. (with Susi Wurmbrand) Linguistic Discovery 1.1

2001

• Seven Prefix-Suffix Asymmetries in Itelmen (with Susi Wurmbrand) Chicago Linguistics Society.
• The Implications of Rich Agreement: Why morphology does not drive syntax. WCCFL.
  

2000

• The Ins and Outs of Contextual Allomorphy. In K.K. Grohmann and C. Struijke, eds., University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics, volume 10, 35-71.

1999

• Adverbs: The Hierarchy Paradox. In Glot International, volume 4.9/10
  
• Modals, Raising and A-Reconstruction (with Susi Wurmbrand) Handout from Leiden and Salzburg

1998

• Floating Quantifiers: Handle with care [State of the Article] Glot International 3.6: 3-10; Revised version published 2003.
• Visions and Realities: Researcher-Activist-Indigenous Collaboration in Indigenous Language Maintenance.
  In Erich Kasten, ed. Bicultural Education in the North: Ways of Preserving and Enhancing Indigenous Languages and Traditional Knowledge, Waxman Verlag, Berlin, 13-28.
• Pseudo-Ergativity in Chukotko-Kamchatkan Agreement Systems. In Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes, vol 27. Special issue on Ergativity, Léa Nash, ed. Pp. 21-44.
• Two heads aren't always better than one (with Höskuldur Thráinsson) Syntax 1.1, 37-71
• Mostly Predictable: Cyclicity and the distribution of schwa in Itelmen. Proccedings of WECOL 9, U.C. Santa Cruz (1996) [ROA 208-0797]

1997

• If the Head Fits:..On the Morphological Determination of Germanic Syntax. In Linguistics 35 (1997), 1029-1055. Paper.ps.gz
• Interarboreal Operations: head Movement and the Extension Requirement. Linguistic Inquiry 28.2, 345-356.

1996

• Subject Positions and the Roles of TP (with Dianne Jonas) Linguistic Inquiry, 27.2 pp. 195-236.
• Jonathan Bobaljik, Rob Pensalfini and Luciana Storto, eds. Papers on Language Endangerment and the Maintenance of Linguistic Diversity (MITWPL 1996), includes a bibliography on language endangerment, published online at Terralingua.

1995 and earlier

• In Terms of Merge:  Copy and Head Movement. In Pensalfini and Ura, eds. MITWPL 27. [1995]
• Ergativity and Ergative Unergatives. [pdf with minor pagination/font issues]. In C. Phillips, ed., MIT Working Papers in Linguistics vol. 19: Papers on Case and Agreement II, pp. 45-88. [1993]

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