| 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. |
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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