Linguistics page
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Submitted and in progress
A hybrid theory of Right Node Raising
A collaboration with Matt Barros (Rutgers), on the proper analysis of various subtypes of Right Node Raising.
Past counterfactuality in Spanish imperatives
Talk presented at CGG 20 in Barcelona. If you want a completely different perspective on the same data, read María Biezma-Garrido's work.
Indefinites and the expression of reciprocity
Handout used for talks at TINdag and DGfS, dealing with the modifier otro 'other' and its use in reciprocal sentences.
Semantically triggered verb doubling in Spanish unconditionals
Joint work with Josep Quer. This is the handout of our talk at CGG 19 (watch the talk here).
Deriving word order restrictions on remnants of ellipsis from information structure factors
Joint work with Marcela Depiante, presented at the 2009 LSA meeting and a seminar at Potsdam.
An argument in favour of a vP phase boundary in raising, passive, and unaccusative predicates
A joint squib with Naiara Centeno, currently under review for Linguistic Inquiry.
Verb fronting in Mandarin Chinese
Joint work with Lisa Cheng on two types of verb doubling in Mandarin.
Syntactic isomorphism and non-isomorphism under ellipsis
A sequel to the Rodrigues, Nevins & Vicente (2009), under review for publication in Lingua
2010
A note on the copy vs. multidominance theories of movement
Invited contribution, to appear in a special issue of Catalan Journal of Linguistics.
A note on the movement analysis of gapping
To appear in Linguistic Inquiry.
[this is a very early version. Due to LI's policy, I cannot upload the final version here yet, but if you are really interested in it, you can always ask me.]
On the syntax of adversative coordination
To appear in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory; written-up version of the talk at NELS 38.
El movimiento y la morfología del verbo (in Spanish)
Joint work with Marcela Depiante, to appear in Brucart and Gallego (eds.) El movimiento de constituyentes (Visor Libros, Madrid).
2009
An alternative to remnant movement for partial predicate fronting
Paper based on chapters 2 and 3 of my PhD dissertation, published in Syntax 12:2, 158-191.
Pronominal doubling under VP topicalization
Joint work with Anikó Lipták, published in Lingua 119:5, 650-683 (special issue on the left periphery of Hungarian).
Cleaving the interactions between sluicing and P-stranding
Joint work with Andrew Nevins and Cilene Rodrigues, to appear in Torck & Wetzels (ed.) Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006, John Benjamins, 245-270.
2008
La sintaxis de los objetos y el análisis antisimétrico del euskera (in Spanish)
In Spanish, published in Arteatx, Artiagoitia & Elordieta (eds.) Antisimetriaren hipotesia vs. buru parametroa: euskararen oinarrizko hitz hurrenkera ezbaian, University of the Basque Country Press.
2007
Constraints on the remnants of Spanish noun ellipsis
Handout for TABUdag 2007. I have abandoned this project, as Luis Eguren has already written a paper where he exploits this analysis.
PhD dissertation: The syntax of heads and phrases: a study of verb (phrase) fronting
My main source of malnutrition, frustration, lack of sleep, and general bad karma for most of the year.
2006
Short negative replies in Spanish
Article in Linguistics in the Netherlands 2006, edited by van de Weijer & Los and published by John Benjamins. A longer version including some interesting quantification data, is available here, but please don't quote without asking me first.
2005
Review of di Sciullo's UG and external systems
Appeared on Linguist List issue 16.3500
Case, argument structure, and A movement in ditransitive constructions
Handout for the talk at LAGB 2005. This version is an expansion of the TABUdag handout.
Review of Hawkins Efficiency and complexity in grammars
Appeared in Linguist List issue 16.1542
Review of Hualde & Ortiz de Urbina A grammar of Basque
Appeared in Lingua 116:1138-1141. Georges Rebuschi has published a similar review in LinguistList issue 14.3478.
Object Licensing with and without movement
Appeared in the proceedings of WCCFL 24. Supersedes the 2004 LWP paper.
Coordination under Right Node Raising
With Mark de Vos, appeared in the proceedings volume of WCCFL 24
Towards a unified theory of movement: an argument from Spanish predicate clefts
Appeared in Leiden Working Papers in Linguistics 2.3 [43-67], special issue for the proceedings of SAM 1. Superseded by the 2009 Syntax article
2004
Review of Aboh's The morphosyntax of complement-head sequences
Appeared in LinguistList issue 15.2565
Derived vs base generated OV
This version appeared in Leiden Working Papers in Linguistics 1.1. Superseded by the paper in the WCCFL 24 proceedings volume.
Word order permutation in Basque as non-feature-driven movement
My attempt to understand word order variation in Basque, though I do not believe any more that this particular implementation works
Verb placement in Basque and the theory of movement
Paper complementary to the above one
Inversion, reconstruction, and the structure of relative clauses
Appeared in Current approaches to Romance linguistics, edited by Auger, Clements & Vance and published by John Benjamins. This is a pre-final uncorrected version.
2003
Review of Hornstein's Move!
Appeared 2004 in Lingua 114. This is a pre-final, uncorrected version
Extraposition as stranding
First year syntax squib
2002
Prenominal relatives in Basque and Antisymmetry
Revised version of my undergraduate dissertation, defended in April 2002
2001
The use of empty categories in syntax
Term paper for a graduate course I took while I was in Manchester as an undergraduate exchange student. Something I'm really proud of :)