The papers are listed here according to the year in which they were completed, not necessarily their publication date.
'For in English infinitives has nothing to do with
Case.'
[Pre-publication PDF]
To appear in Linguists of Tomorrow: Selected Papers from the 1st
Cyprus Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied
Linguistics, ed. K. Grohmann, A. Shelkovaya, and
D. Zoumbalides. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
'Nominative case is independent of finiteness and agreement.'
[with Sandhya
Sundaresan]
[Pre-publication PDF]
To appear in Papers from BCGL 5: Case at the interfaces. Syntax and
Semantics.
'The Old English distribution and subsequent loss of preverbal
ge-.'
[PDF Handout]
Presented at
the 13th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference, Philadelphia.
'Nominative case is independent of finiteness and agreement.'
[with Sandhya
Sundaresan]
Presented at BCGL5: Case at the
interfaces. Brussels, December 2-3.
'Perfects, resultatives and auxiliaries in Earlier English.' [with Artemis
Alexiadou]
[Pre-publication PDF on LingBuzz]
Linguistic Inquiry 41.3.
'The distribution of for in English infinitives: Case
vs. cartography plus prosody'
[PDF Handout]
Presented at GLOW-in-Asia VIII,
Beijing, August 12-16.
'Why some things in diachronic syntax can only be studied with
corpora.'
[PDF
handout]
Talk given at the Syntax Circle, Amsterdam, May 26th.
'Mapping out the Syntax-Morphology Interface: How Can We Figure out When Case-Assignment Happens?'
[PDF
handout]
Talk given at GACL 4, University of Cyprus, May 9th.
'The distribution of for in English infinitives has nothing to do with Case.'
Talk given at the 1st International Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics at the University of Cyprus (LoT),
May 7th.
'A selection-hypothesis for DPs: evidence from overt infinitival
subjects.'
[with Sandhya Sundaresan]
Talk given in Anna Szabolcsi's graduate Seminar in Semantics, New
York University, April 6th.
'What syncretism and allomorphy can tell us about syntax-morphology mapping.' [with Sandhya Sundaresan] Talk given at the Morphology group, New York University, April 5th.
'DP distribution and finiteness in Tamil and other languages: selection vs. Case.' [with Sandhya Sundaresan]
[Pre-publication PDF on LingBuzz]
Published in Journal of South Asian Linguistics 2:5-34.
'DPs are selected, not licensed: evidence from Tamil and other
languages.' [with Sandhya
Sundaresan]
Talk given at the Roots workshop, Special
Syntax Session, Universität Stuttgart, June 13th.
'Selection vs. Case: DP distribution and control in Tamil and
other languages.' [with Sandhya
Sundaresan]
[PDF handout]
Talk given at Generative Grammatik des
Südens 2009, Leipzig, May 23rd.
'On the definition of case categories: syncretism meets syntax.'
[PDF handout]
Talk given at Universitetet i Tromsø, April 27th.
'DP distribution and control: selection instead of Case.'
[with Sandhya Sundaresan]
Talk given at EFL University, Hyderabad, April.
'Structural case, locality and cyclicity.'
[Pre-publication PDF on LingBuzz]
Published in: Explorations of Phase Theory: Features and
Arguments, ed. Kleanthes Grohmann. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
'Nominative subjects in Tamil non-finite clauses.' [with Sandhya Sundaresan]
Talk given at the South Asia Language Analysis Round Table meeting, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 16th.
'Overt subjects of infinitives and for-to in the history of English.'
[PDF handout]
Talk given at the Tenth
Diachronic Generative Syntax conference, Cornell University, August 7th.
Constraining the use of composite case categories.
[PDF handout]
Talk given at Workshop on Theoretical Morphology 4,
Großbothen/Universität Leipzig, June 20th.
'Against abstract Case'
[PDF slides]
[PDF handout]
Talk given at Brandeis University, April 3rd.
'DPs aren't licensed, they're selected (or not)'
[PDF handout]
Talk given at MIT, February 21st.
'The definition of case categories: morpho-phonology meets
morpho-syntax'
[PDF handout]
Talk given at Wayne State University, February 18th.
Handling subjects without Case.
[PDF handout]
Talk given at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Lingustic
Society of America, Chicago, January 5th.
'Auxiliary selection'
[Pre-publication PDF on LingBuzz] [Published version]
A survey article on the phenomenon of auxiliary selection and its
theoretical treatment. Published in: Language and Linguistics
Compass 1 (6): 674-708. doi:10.1111/j.1749-818X.2007.00034.x
'Perfects, resultatives and auxiliaries in Early English' [with
Artemis Alexiadou]
[PDF from LingBuzz]
Submitted for publication, September 2007.
'Default case and the status of compound categories in
Distributed Morphology'
[PDF on LingBuzz]
Write-up of talk given at PLC 30, February 24th, 2006, published
in the conference proceedings.
'Counterfactuals and the loss of BE in the history of English' [with Artemis Alexiadou]
[PDF 82kB]
Published in:
Proceedings of the 29th Penn Linguistics Colloquium,
ed. Aviad Eilam, Tatjana Scheffler and Joshua Tauber. PWPL
12.1:251-264.
'Auxiliary selection and counterfactuality in the history of
English and Germanic' [with Artemis Alexiadou]
[Pre-publication
PDF 131kB]
Published in: Comparative Studies in Germanic
Syntax, ed. Jutta M. Hartmann and László
Molnárfi. Amsterdam:
Benjamins.
'Pieces of the perfect in German and older English' [with
Artemis Alexiadou]
[Available
for free download from
the Cascadilla
Proceedings Project]
Published in: Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on
Formal Linguistics, ed. Don Baumer and Michael Scanlon.
'German inherent datives and argument structure'
[Pre-publication PDF on LingBuzz]
Published in: Hole, Daniel, André Meinunger and Werner Abraham,
eds. 2006.
Datives and other cases. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing
Company.
'Counterfactuals and the rise of HAVE in the history of
English' [with Artemis Alexiadou]
[Available
for free download from
the Cascadilla
Proceedings Project ]
Published in Proceedings of the 24th West Coast Conference on
Formal Linguistics, ed. John Alderete, Chung Hye Han and Alexei
Kochetov, 272-280.
'The position of morphological case in the derivation: A study
on the syntax-morphology interface'
[PDF]
My University of Pennsylvania dissertation
'OV-VO in English and the role of case-marking in word order'
[Pre-publication PDF on LingBuzz]
Published
in:
English Language and Linguistics 9.1 (2005): 63-82.
'The distribution of subjects in non-finite clauses: an account
wihout Case'
[PDF] [PS]
Write-up of talk given at PLC 28, February 29th, 2004, published
in conference proceedings.
'How much of the Germanic strong adjective inflection is pronominal?'
[PS] [PDF]
To appear in Münchner Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft.
'On morphological case and word-order freedom'
[PDF]
Write-up of talk delivered at BLS 29, Berkeley, February 14th,
2003. Published in conference precedings.
'On the synchronic and diachronic role of case-marking in
word order'
[PDF]
Handout from talk delivered at the Conference on Comparative
Diachronic Syntax, Leiden, August 29th, 2003.
'The underlying structures of German inherent Case'
[PS] [PDF]
Write-up of talk delivered at the joint meeting of the FGLS and
the SGL, London, January 3rd, 2003.
'Adventures in resolving redundancy: Case vs. the EPP'
[PS] [PDF]
Write-up of talk delivered at PLC 26, March 3rd, 2002, published
in proceedings volume.
'The Morphosyntax of Finno-Ugric Case-marking'
Handout: [PS] [PDF] Write-up: [PS] [PDF].
Talk delivered at NELS 32, October 20th, 2001, appeared in
conference proceedings.
'The rise of the to-dative in Middle English'
[PS] [696 Kb] [PDF] [70 Kb]
Appeared in D. W. Lightfoot, ed. 2002.
Syntactic effects of morphological change. Oxford University
Press.