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Principles &
Parameters Theory and Minimalism
[To appear in The Cambridge handbook
of generative syntax , ed. by M. den Dikken]
Adjectival escapades
[To appear in Proceedings of FASL
21]
Traces do not head
islands: What can PF deletion rescue?
(revised in February2013)
Phases beyond
clauses
(revised in November 2012)
[To appear in Nominal
Constructions in Slavic and Beyond, ed
by L. Schürcks, A. Giannakidou, U. Etxeberria, and P. Kosta]
Now I'm a phase,
now I'm not a phase: On the variability of phases with extraction and
ellipsis
(revised in October 2012)
[To appear in Linguistic Inquiry ]
2012
Don't feed your
movements when you shift your objects
[ In
Ways of structure building ,
ed. by M. Uribe-Etxebarria and V. Valmala, 245-252.]
When are
negative imperatives banned?
[ In
Selected papers from
SinFonIJA 3, ed. by S. Halupka-Rešetar, M. Marković, T.
Milićev, and N. Milićević, 6-17.]
On word order,
binding relations, and plurality within Chinese NPs
[ with I-Ta Chris Hsieh: In Proceedings of IsCLL 13 ]
Turkish NP
[ with Serkan Şener: ms. ]
On NPs and
Clauses
[In Discourse
and grammar: From sentence types to lexical categories, ed
by G. Grewendorf and T. E. Zimmermann, 179-242.]
2011
Last resort with
Move and Agree in
derivations and representations
[In The
Handbook of Linguistic Minimalism,
ed. by C. Boeckx]
Rescue
by PF deletion, traces as (non)-interveners, and the that-trace effect
[In
Linguistic
Inquiry 42 ]
On
valued uninterpretable features
[In Proceeding of NELS 39 ]
Semantic corelates of the NP/DP
parameter
(with Jon Gajewski)
[In Proceeding of NELS 39 ]
2010
Conjunct-sensitive
agreement: Serbo-Croatian vs Russian
[In FDSL 7.5 ]
2009
On
Leo Tolstoy, its structure,
Case, left-branch extraction, and prosodic inversion
[In
Linguist's
Linguist: Studies in South Slavic Linguistics in Honor of E.
Wayles Browne, ed. by S. Franks, V. Chidambaram, and
B. Joseph, 99-122, Slavica. ]
More
on the no-DP analysis of
article-less languages
[ In Studia Linguistica 63: 187-203 ]
Licensing
negative constituents and negative concord
[ In Proceeding
of NELS 38 ]
On
relativization strategies and resumptive pronouns
[In Proceedings
FDSL 7 ]
Unifying first and last conjunct
agreement
[In Natural
Language and Linguistic Theory
27: 455-496 ]
Scrambling
[In The Slavic Languages , ed. by
T. Berger, K. Gutschmidt, S. Kempgen, and P. Kosta. Berlin: Mouton de
Gruyter ]
The
NP/DP analysis and Slovenian
[In Proceeding of the University of Novi
Sad Workshop on Generative Syntax 1 , 53-73]
On
Successive Cyclic Movement
and the Freezing Effect of Feature Checking
[In J. Hartmann, V. Hegedus, H. van Riemsdijk (eds.) Sounds of Silence:
Empty Elements in Syntax and Phonology, 195-233.Elsevier North
Holland/Amsterdam]
On the Clausal and NP Structure
of Serbo-Croatian
[In Proceedings of FASL 15 ]
What will you have, DP or NP?
[In Proceedings of NELS 37 ]
On
two types of negative constituents and negative concord
[In Proceedings of FDSL 6.5: 9-35 ]
On the operator freezing effect
[final version appeared in Natural
Language and Linguistic Theory 26:
249-287]
2007
Agree,
Phases, and Intervention Effects
[final version published in Linguistic
Analysis 33:54-96]
Don't feed your movements:
Object shift in Icelandic
[In Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 80: 1-15]
On the locality and motivation
of Move and Agree: An even more minimal theory
[final version appeared in Linguistic
Inquiry 38: 589-644]
A
Note on Wh-Typology
[In Proceedings of FDSL 6 : 159-170]
The
Copy Theory of Movement: A view from PF
[In The copy theory of movement , ed. by
N. Corver and J. Nunes]
2006
Case and agreement with genitive
of quantification in Russian
[In C. Boeckx (ed.) Agreement systems
, 99-121. John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia
]
Case
checking vs. case assignment and the case of adverbial NPs
[final version published in Linguistic
Inquiry 37: 522-533
2005
Left branch extraction,
structure of NP, and scrambling
[appeared in J. Sabel and M. Saito (eds.) The free
word order phenomenon: Its syntactic sources and diversity , 13-73.
Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin
On the Locality of Move and
Agree: Eliminating the Activation Condition,
Generalized EPP, Inverse Case Filter, and Phase-Impenetrability
Condition
[appeared in University
of Connecticut Occasional Papers 3 ]
Null
C in English as an enclitic
[appeared in Lingvisticki Vidici 34: 39-57
On the locality of left branch extraction and the structure of NP
[published in Studia Linguistica 59: 1-45]
2004
Clitic placement in South Slavic
[final version published in Journal of
Slavic Linguistics . 12: 37-90]
Object
shift and the clause/PP parallelism hypothesis
[ Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics 23, 99-112. Sommervile, Mass.:
Cascadilla Press]
B
e careful where you float your
quantifiers
[published in Natural Language and Linguistic
Theory 22: 681-742]
PF
merger in stylistic fronting and object shift
[final version published in Minimality
effects in syntax , ed. by A. Stepanov, G.
Fanselow, and R. Vogel, 37-71.] Berlin: Mouton
de Gruyter]
Topicalization, focalization,
lexical insertion, and scrambling
[final version published in Linguistic
Inquiry 35: 613-638]
On the clitic switch in Greek
imperatives
[final version published in Balkan
syntax and semantics , ed. by O. Mišeska Tomi?,
269-291. Amsterdam: John Benjamins]
Two notes on right node raising
[In University of Connecticut Working. Papers in Linguistics 12:
13-24]
2003
On the distribution of null complementizers
[with H. Lasnik, final version published in Linguistic Inquiry
34: 527-546]
On Wh-islands and obligatory Wh-movement contexts in
South Slavic
[ final version published in Multiple wh-fronting , ed. by C.
Boeckx and K. Grohmann, 27-50. Amsterdam: John Benjamins]
On the interpretation of multiple questions
[final version published in Linguistic Variation Yearbook 1:
1-15]
2002
A-movement and the EPP
[published in Syntax 5: 167-218]
Expletives don't move
[ Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society 32, 21-40.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts, GLSA]
On multiple Wh-fronting
[ final version published in Linguistic Inquiry 33: 351-383]
On certain differences between Bulgarian and
Serbo-Croatian C(P)
[ final version published in Balkanistica 15: 35-48]
Clitics as non-branching elements and the Linear
Correspondence Axiom
[final version published in Linguistic Inquiry 33: 329-340]
Split constituents within NP in the history of English:
commentary on Allen
[final version published in Syntactic effects of morphological
change , ed. by D. Lightfoot, 81-87. Oxford: Oxford University
Press]
2000
Sometimes in SpecCP, sometimes in-situ
[final version published in Step by step: Essays on minimalism in
honor of Howard Lasnik , ed. by R. Martin, D. Michaels, and J.
Uriagereka, 53-87.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press]
1999
On multiple feature checking: multiple Wh-fronting and
multiple head-movement
[final version published in Working Minimalism , ed. by S.
Epstein and N. Hornstein, 159-187]
How Strict
is the Cycle?
[ with Howard Lasnik, final version published in Linguistic Inquiry
30: 691-703]
French.cycle.finLI.pdf
1998
LF movement and the Minimalist Program
[Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society 28, 43-57.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts, GLSA]