The links below will allow you to download pdf files, often from LingBuzz.
  Paper Where
To appear The position of adjectives and other phrasal modifiers in the decomposition of DP. Does for the DP what 1...3-2 does for the clause To appear in Adjectives and Adverbs: Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse, edited by Louise McNally and Chris Kennedy, Oxford University Press
  Spatial P in English. A detailed investigation of the syntax and semantics of spatial prepositions in English, arguing for an articulated functional structure. In The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, vol. 6, edited by Guglielmo Cinque and Luigi Rizzi, Oxford University Press.
  Case Alternations in the Icelandic Passive. I investigate the distribution of accusative and dative on Icelandic objects and discuss why the latter, but not the former, survive under passivization. I argue against lexical or inherent case. Passives and Impersonals in European Languages, edited by Satu Manninen, Diane Nelson, Katrin Hiietam, Elsi Kaiser, and Virve Vihman. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
In Press 'Mapping a parochial lexicon onto a Universal Semantics' (with Gillian Ramchand) Limits of Syntactic Variation, edited by M.T. Biberauer. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
 

Paradigm Generation and Northern Sámi Stems. I show how the complex morphology of Sámi can be understood as regular and concatenative.

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The Bases of Inflectional Identity, edited by Asaf Bachrach and Andrew Nevins. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  Adpositions, Particles, and the Arguments they Introduce. A cross-linguistic examination of the relationship between members of the category P and arguments. Argument Structure, edited by Eric Reuland, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, and Giorgos Spathas, 71-110. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
2007 1...3-2: An investigation of roll-up movement. I discuss various patterns of cluster formation in syntax and what is usually thought of as morphology.

Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces, edited by Gillian Ramchand and Charles Reiss, pp. 239-288. Oxford University Press.

  'Interpreting Uninterpretable Features' Linguistic Analysis 33.3-4:375-413
2006 Northern Norwegian Degree Questions and the Syntax of Measurement, with Chris Kennedy. This paper provides a detailed analysis of why you can say "Are you old?" in Northern Norwegian to mean, 'How old are you?'

Phases of Interpretation, edited by Mara Frascarelli, pp. 129-157. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.

  The Emergence of Axial Parts. An investigation into those little relational words like top, front, back and side. Nordlyd, Tromsø University Working Papers in Language and Linguistics 33.1: 49-77
2005 Extending the Extension Condition to Discontinuous Idioms. This paper introduces the Banyan Tree architecture which allows multi-rooted structures at intermediate stages of a derivation.

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 5: 227-263

  Review of Toivonen’s (2003, Kluwer) Non-Projecting Words; submitted to Language
  How Phonological is Object Shift? This is a response to Pesetsky and Fox’s and Erteschik-Shir’s recent analyses of Object Shift in terms of linearization 2005, Theoretical Linguistics 31.1/2:215-227
2004 Russian Prefixes are Phrasal. Russian prefixes show signs of involving not head-incorporation, but phrasal movement. To appear in Proceedings of FDSL 5
  Review of Déhe (2001, Benjamins) Particle Verbs in English: Syntax, Information Structure, and Intonation Submitted to Linguistische Berichte
  On the Edge. A close look at the predictions of Phase theory in four case studies: agreement across the vP and CP phases, and movement across the vP and CP phases 2004, in Peripheries: Syntactic Edges and their Effects ed. by David Adger, Cécile de Cat, and George Tsoulas. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp. 261-287
  Slavic Prefixes and Morphology: An Introduction to the Nordlyd Volume -- introduction to a special issue on Slavic Prefixes 2004, Nordlyd 32.2:177-204
  Slavic Prefixes Inside and Outside VP -- a joyful romp through the wild and wacky world of Slavic prefixes 2004, Nordlyd 32.2:205-253
  Prepositions and External Argument Demotion, with Gillian Ramchand. We examine the relationship of P-arguments to verbal structure through the interaction with passive. 12 pages long in a proceedings, there must be some mistake in the bibliographic reference. 2004, Demoting the Agent: Passive and other Voice-related Phenomena, ed. by Torgrim Solstad, Benjamin Lyngfelt, and Maria Filiouchkina Krave, University of Oslo, pp. 93-99.
2003 Limits on P: Filling in holes vs. falling in holes. This is the write-up of my triumphant 2002 Amsterdam GLOW talk, where I showed how Scandinavian (and English) particles are different from Dutch and German separable prefixes 2003, Nordlyd 31.2:431-445
  Swedish Particles and Directional Prepositions: In Swedish, because of the absence of particle shift, it can be difficult to distinguish particles from prepositions. I try anyway. 2003, in Grammar in Focus: Festschrift for Christer Platzack ed. by Lars-Olof Delsing, Cecilia Falk, Gunlög Josefsson, and Halldór Ármann Sigurdsson, Dept. of Scandinavian, Lund University, pp. 343-351.
2002 The Lexical Syntax and Lexical Semantics of the Verb-Particle Construction. With Gillian Ramchand. The best analysis of the verb-particle construction there is. 2002, Proceedings of WCCFL 21, ed. by Line Mikkelsen and Chris Potts, Cascadilla Press, Somerville, Ma. pp. 387-400
  Icelandic Case and the Structure of Events. This article attempts to explain the distribution of Dative and Accusative case on objects of Icelandic verbs by appealing to their Aktionsart; so-called ‘inherent’ or lexically specified case is structural, just at a deeper level; and case is uninterpretable aspect. 2002, Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 5:197-225
  Strains of Negation in Norwegian. Norwegian n-negation (in words like ‘nobody,’ ‘nothing’) has very interesting properties, and is quite different from n-negation in English 2002, Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 69:121-146
  Review of Zeller (2001, Benjamins) Particle Verbs and Local Domains 2002, Linguist List 13:743
  Introduction to the volume Subjects Expletives and the EPP - A history and overview of the issues and summaries of the chapters in the book 2002, In Subjects, Expletives, and the EPP, ed. by Peter Svenonius, Oxford, New York, pp. 1-25.
  Subject Positions and the Placement of Adverbials - How to get two subject positions without two functional heads 2002, In Subjects, Expletives, and the EPP, ed. by Peter Svenonius, Oxford, New York, pp. 199-240.
  Case is Uninterpretable Aspect - An examination of Icelandic Dative-Accusative alternations in terms of checking uninterpretable features 2002, In Proceedings of the Perspectives on Aspect Conference at the University of Utrecht
2001 Case and Event Structure - On the link between interpretation of the verb phrase and the case on the object in Icelandic, long thought to be lexically idiosyncratic 2001, ZASPIL 26 (Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Papers in Linguistics).
  Impersonal Passives: A Phase-based analysis. This paper investigates the microvariation in impersonal passives across the Northern Germanic languages and proposes an analysis in terms of Impatient Spell-Out 2001, Arthur Holmer, Jan Olof Svantesson, and Åke Viberg, Proceedings of the 18th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. Travaux de l'Institut de Linguistique de Lund. 39.2:109-125
  On Object Shift, Scrambling, and the PIC. An attempt to characterize relative freedom of movement out of VP in certain languages in terms of a 'delay' in the spell-out of a phase 2001, In A Few from Building E39 MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 39, edited by Elena Guerzoni and Ora Matushansky. 267-289.
2000 Introduction to the Derivation of VO and OV - an overview of the issues, with discussion of the papers in the volume 2000, in The Derivation of VO and OV, ed. by Peter Svenonius, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 1-26.
  Quantifier Movement. Icelandic can move quantified DPs to the left of the verb. This paper investigates the properties of this kind of movement in detail. 2000, in The Derivation of VO and OV, ed. by Peter Svenonius, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 255-292.
1996 The Verb-Particle Alternation in the Scandinavian Languages. A classic. Points out the strong correlation between particle incorporation and overt agreement on participles, across Scandinavian dialects. Never published
  Review of den Dikken (1995, Oxford) Particles 1996, Language 74:816-820
  The Optionality of Particle Shift. Whether the particle precedes or follows the DP depends on information structure, in English, Norwegian, and Icelandic 1996, Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 57:47-75
     
     
     
     
     

 

 

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