Some papers and drafts of mine -- coming attractions sometimes noted:
Some of my papers already
live on lingBuzz. Others
will be moved there soon.
May, 2006 -- with Ad Neeleman;
Why Surprise-Predicates do not embed polar interrogatives
June 06, 2004;
Linguistische Arbeitsberichte 81, Leipzig. p. 203-221.
(The formalism in this paper is somewhat clumsy. A more transparent version of the same ideas can be found in this handout for a talk presented at the XVI ESSLLI summerschool in Nancy at the workshop on the Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics of Questions.)
Right
Node Raising: Ellipsis or Across the Board Movement?
March 01, 2004;
To apper in Proceedings of NELS 34, eds. Keir Moulton and Matthew Wolf. Amherst, MA: GLSA.
'Expletive
Negation' in Russian: A Conspiracy Theory
Draft 3.1; December 08, 2003;
Paper to appear in the Journal of Slavic Linguistics.
Successive
Cyclicity, Anti-locality, and Adposition Stranding
My 2003 University of Connecticut Ph. D. Thesis.
There are several independent bits of it: Abstract, Table of Contents, the whole thing (two up).
You can also order a copy of the thesis through MITWPL.
Phases, cyclicity, and
stranding
Handout of a talk given at the IAP workshop on EPP and Phases, MIT, January 17, 2003.
Revolution #9 - Not by the Beatles
This draft is an outgrowth of my second general examinations paper on NPIs in questions - an unfinished project. To appear with minor revisions in the UConn Working Papers in Linguistics.
This paper contains the ideas presented in my poster at NELS 33, November 9, 2002.
Some of the ideas contained in this paper were also presented at SALT XIII, May 2003.
Auxiliary
Adverb Word Order Revisited
Abels, Klaus. 2003. In Proceedings of the 26th UPenn Linguistics Colloquium.
Abels, Klaus. 2003. In Proceedings of Formal Description of Slavic Languages 4, Potsdam, Germany.
On an Alleged Argument for the Proper Binding Condition
Abels, Klaus. 2002. In Proceedings of HUMIT 2001. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 43, eds. Tania R. Ionin, Heejeong Ko and Andrew Nevins. MITWPL: Cambridge, MA, 1-16.
Abels, Klaus. 2002. In Proceedings of FASL 10, ed. Jindra Toman. Bloomington, ID: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1-20. Michigan Slavic Publications
The Predicate Cleft Construction in Russian
Abels, Klaus. 2001. The Predicate Cleft Construction in Russian. In Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 9, eds. Steven Franks and Michael Yadroff, 1-19. Bloomington, ID: Michigan Slavic Publications .
Move?
(My First General Examination Paper as a pdf file was supposed to come back on-line in a reader friendly version, but it probably won't happen. If you insist on reading it, email me.)
Abels, Klaus. 2001. Move? Ms. University of Connecticut, Storrs.
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