Downloadable Papers
Note: Except for the articles that appeared in Working Papers and conference proceedings, articles in this section are draft versions of the published papers. Please use the official publication when citing.
Talk handouts can be downloaded from the Talks section.
- 1996 (with Fred Landman): Carlson's last puzzle; will it go the way of Fermat's last theorem? In Doron and Wintner eds., Proceedings of the Annual Conference and Workshop of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics No. 3. [PDF]
- 2000: Type resolution in relative constructions. Feature marking and dependency encoding. In Alexiadou & Wilder eds., The syntax of relative clauses, John Benjamins. [PDF]
- 2000: Type resolution in relative constructions. Competing restrictive and maximalizing constructions. In Bennis, Everaert & Reuland eds., Interface Strategies, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. [PDF]
- 2000 (with Josef Bayer): Feature-checking meets the criterion approach; three ways of saying 'only' in Romance and Germanic. In Motapanyane ed., Comparative Studies in Romanian Syntax. North Holland Linguistic Series 58: Amsterdam, Oxford & New York. [PDF]
- 2002: Strange relatives at the interface of two millennia. State-of-the-Article, GLOT International 6,6, 145-167. [PDF]
- 2003: A unified theory of 'standard' and 'transparent' free relatives. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 21,2, 247-331. [PDF]
- 2004: Modal Existential wh-Constructions. In: The syntax-Semantics of Balkan Languages, O. Tomic, ed., John Benjamins. [PDF]
- 2005 (with Manfred Krifka): Relative clause constructions with a post-copular gap. In: On Space and Time in Language, M. Coene and L. Tasmovski eds., Cluj-Napoca, Romania. [PDF]
- 2006 (with Julia Horvath): Reply to Bhatt and Pancheva'sa "Late merger of degree clauses": The irrelevance of (non)conservativity. Linguistic Inquitry 37, 3, pp. 457-483. [PDF]
- 2006: An amalgam and its puzzles. In: 40 to 60 puzzles for Manfred Krifka, ed. Hans-Martin Gaertner, website of the Zentrum fuer Alggemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin. [PDF]
- 2007 (with Julia Horvath and Helen Trugman): DegPs as adjuncts and the Head Final Filter. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. VIII, No. 1, A. Cornilescu ed., University of Bucharest Press. [PDF]
- 2007: 'Direct' versus 'indirect' approaches to Transparent Free Relatives. In Pitar Moş: A Building with a View. Papers in Honour of Alexandra Cornilescu. Alboiu, A., A.A.Avram, L. Avram, D. Isac (eds.), University of Bucharest Press, ISBN 978-973-737-312-0. [PDF]
- 2007 (with Manfred Krifka): The gifted mathematician that you claim to be: Equational intensional 'reconstruction' relatives. Linguistics & Philosophy 30, 4, pp. 445-485. [PDF]
- 2009: Head-internal relatives in Japanese/Korean. Proceedings of Incontro di Grammatica Generative XXXV, Siena, February 2009, published on the website www.ciscl.unisi.it. [PDF]
- 2009: Two kinds of degree-denoting relatives: Hebrew versus Romanian. Brill's Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, vol. 1 [PDF]
- 2009: Romanian 'unexpected' relatives, in Revue Roumaine de Linguistique, vol. LIV, No 1, January-March 2009 [PDF]
- 2009: A refined typology of internally-headed relatives, in Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. XI, 1, University of Bucharest Press [PDF]
- 2009: The syntax-semantics of Japanese/Korean internally headed relative clause constructions. Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Philologia, LII, 3/2009. [PDF]
- 2009: (with Hadas Kotek). Degrees/Intervals as restricted entities. Handout of talk given at NELS 40, held at MIT, on November 13, 2009. [PDF]
- 2010: The status of the internally-headed relatives of Japanese/Korean within the broader typology of 'definite' relatives. To appear in The Journal of East Asian Linguistics [PDF]
- To appear: On the pre-theoretical notion "phrasal head": Ignoring the left periphery is always at your own risk. In: Interface properties: edges, heads and projections, Anna-Maria di Sciullo and Virginia Hill (eds.), John Benjamins. [PDF]