Downloadable Papers
2013. Restrictions on Inversion in English: Not the Subject-in-Situ Generalization, but Linear Order. [Download draft (new version 2/20/2013)]
2012. Chinese-Type ``Passives'': A Vietnamese Perspective (with Thuan Tran, Universitaet Potsdam). [Download draft]
2012. R-Dative Shift Revisited: Reply to Ormazabal and Romero. [Download draft]
2012. No Such Thing as "Defective Intervention." [Download draft (revised 12/23/2012)]
2012. Word Formation is Syntactic: Adjectival Passives in English. To appear in NLLT. [Download (final prepublication version 9/26/2012)]
2012. Precede-and-Command Revisited. [Download draft] (revised 11/3/2012)
2011. Pseudopassives, Expletive Passives, and Locative Inversion. [Download draft]
2009. Wh-Phrases as Indefinites: A Vietnamese Perspective (with Thuan Tran, Hue University). Talk given at workshop Linguistics of Vietnamese, Stuttgart, Germany, July 6--7, 2009. [Download draft for proceedings] (updated 10/2010)
2007. Passamaquoddy as a Split Ergative Language and Its Consequences for Marantz's Ergative Case Generalization. [Download draft (12/2007)]
2007. On the Word Order of Quantificational Elements in Passamaquoddy. [Download handout from a recent talk]
2007. On Diagnostics of Structural Case and the Nature of Ergative Case. [Download draft (7/2007)]
2006. Discrepancies between Projection and Selection: Split Coordination and Raising to Object in Passamaquoddy. [Download draft]
2006. Against Predicate-Based Reflexivity: Anaphors as Subjects of Embedded Clauses. [Download handout from recent talk]
2006. The Morphosyntax and Semantics of Verbal Reciprocals. [Download draft]
2004. Split Coordination in Passamaquoddy. [Download rough draft]
2004. The Algonquian Inverse is Syntactic: Binding in Passamaquoddy. [Download draft]
2003. Split Coordination and Successive-Cyclic Movement in Passamaquoddy. WECOL, University of Arizona, September 2003. [Download handout]
2001. Raising to Object and Proper Movement. [Download draft]
1999. Morphological Templates and Phonological Opacity. Talk presented at the Second Mediterranean Meeting on Morphology, University of Malta. September 1999. [Download updated handout (used in a guest lecture for a phonology class at MIT)]