I am a generative linguist and my work spans phonetics, phonology, syntax, and semantics, but I have mostly been concerned with syntax.<\/a> Here’s a list of my books<\/a>. Links to papers on various topics are listed below. There is ample overlap between the topics.<\/p>\n 2025. Animacy effects in Tamil.<\/a> With Akshaya Kirithy Baskar. In: Miriam Butt, Jamie Findlay and Ida Toivonen (eds.), Proceedings of the LFG25 Conference<\/em>, 19–40. University of Konstanz: PubliKon.<\/p>\n 2024. The obligatoriness of arguments.<\/a> With Katie Van Luven. Language and Linguistics Compass<\/em>, e12511. <\/p>\n 2023. Pronoun incorporation.<\/a> In: Mary Dalrymple (ed.), Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar<\/em>. Berlin: Language Science Press.<\/p>\n 2023. Word classes in Lexical Functional Grammar.<\/a> With Mary Dalrymple. In: Eva van Lier (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes.<\/em> Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n 2021. Arguments and adjuncts across levels.<\/a> In: Miriam Butt, Jamie Findlay, and Ida Toivonen (eds.), Proceedings of the LFG21 Conference,<\/em> 306–331. Stanford: CSLI Publications.<\/p>\n 2021. Perception verbs, copy raising and evidentiality in Swedish and English.<\/a> In: I Wayan Arka, Ash Asudeh and Tracy Holloway King (eds.). Modular Design of Grammar.<\/em> Oxford university Press. <\/p>\n 2020. Verbal particles, results, and directed motion. In: Richard Page and Michael Travis Putnam (eds.). Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics.<\/em> Cambridge University Press. Chapter 22, 516–536. Pre-final version available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2019. Detecting foreign accents in song. <\/a> With Marly Mageau, Can Mekik, and Ashley Sokalski. Phonetica<\/em> 76 (6): 429–447. Pre-final version available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2019. Humans, animals, things and animacy features.<\/a> With Shiva Bayanati. Open Linguistics<\/em> 5(1): 156–170.<\/p>\n 2019. The age of Aidans: Cognitive underpinnings of a new trend in English boys’ names.<\/a> With Lauren MacAulay and Daniel Siddiqi. Names: A Journal of Onomastics <\/em> 67(3):160-174.<\/p>\n 2019. The phonetics of code-switched vowels.<\/a> With Kasia Muldner, Leah Hoiting, Leyna Sanger and Lev Blumenfeld. International Journal of Bilingualism <\/em> 23(1): 37-52.<\/p>\n 2019. Distributive possessors in Swedish and Norwegian: binding, agreement, and quantification.<\/a> With Helge L\u00f8drup and Raj Singh. In: Miriam Butt, Tracy Holloway King and Ida Toivonen (eds.), {\\it Proceedings of the LFG19 Conference}, 170–190. Stanford: CSLI Publications.<\/p>\n 2018. Romanian object clitics: Grammaticalization, agreement and lexical splits.<\/a> With Roxana-Maria Barbu. In: Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King (eds.), Proceedings of the LFG18 Conference,<\/em> 67–87. Stanford: CSLI Publications.<\/p>\n 2018. Wh-word conjunction as a test for argumenthood and obligatoriness. <\/a> With Paul Melchin. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 3.<\/em><\/p>\n 2018. Gradience, features and hierarchies.<\/a> Theoretical Linguistics <\/em> 44(1\u20132): 93\u201398.<\/p>\n 2017. A modular approach to evidentiality.<\/a> With Ash Asudeh. Proceedings of the LFG17 Conference.<\/em><\/p>\n 2017. Åländska lateraler. <\/a> With Eva Sundberg. In Östman, Sandström, Gustavsson and Södergård (eds.), Ideologi, identitet, intervention. Nordisk dialektologi 10, 341–349<\/em><\/p>\n 2017. Apokope av slutvokal i \u00e5l\u00e4ndska infinitiver. <\/a> In Östman, Sandström, Gustavsson and Södergård (eds.), Ideologi, identitet, intervention. Nordisk dialektologi 10, 293–302.<\/em><\/p>\n 2016. Event participants and linguistic arguments. With Roxana-Maria Barbu. Proceedings of CogSci 2016<\/em> 2016. A featural paradox in Votic harmony. With Lev Blumenfeld. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 34(4). <\/em> 2015. East Cree Ghost participants. With Marie-Odile Junker. Proceedings of the LFG15 Conference<\/em> 2015. The reliability of testimony and perception: connecting epistemology and linguistic evidentiality.<\/a> With Claire Lesage, Nalini Ramlakhan, and Chris Wildman. Proceedings of CogSci 2015<\/em><\/p>\n 2015. On the morphosyntactic representation of dependent quantification: distance distributivity, dependent indefinites, and Skolemization. With Dejan Milacic and Raj Singh. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19<\/em> 2014. Vowel height and duration. With Lev Blumenfeld, Andrea Gormley, Leah Hoiting, John Logan, Nalini Ramlakhan and Adam Stone. Proceedings of WCCFL 32<\/em> 2014. Meaning and valency. With Ash Asudeh and Gianluca Giorgolo.Proceedings of the LFG14 Conference,<\/em> 68–88. 2014. With<\/em> Lexical Integrity. With Ash Asudeh. Theoretical Linguistics.<\/em> 40(12): 175–186. 2013. Constructions with Lexical Integrity. With Ash Asudeh and Mary Dalrymple. Journal of Language Modelling.<\/em> 1(1): 1–54. 2013. English benefactive NPs Proceedings of the LFG13 Conference,<\/em> 503–523. 2012. Copy raising and perception. With Ash Asudeh. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory<\/em> 30(2): 321–380. 2011. Derived arguments With Stephanie Needham. Proceedings of the LFG11 Conference,<\/em> 401–421. link<\/a><\/p>\n 2009. Phonetic duration, phonological quantity and prosodic structure in Inari Saami. With Patrik Bye and Elin Sagulin. Phonetica<\/em> 66(4): 199–121. 2009. Lexical-Functional Grammar. In Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis<\/em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 425-458. With Ash Asudeh. [Prepublication draft] pdf<\/a><\/p>\n 2008. Review of William D. Davies and Stanley Dubinsky’s The Grammar of Raising and Control: A Course in Syntactic Argumentation<\/em>. Language<\/em> 84(4): 880-882. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n 2008. Constructions with Lexical Integrity: Templates as the lexicon-syntax interface. In Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King, eds., Proceedings of the LFG08 Conference. <\/em>Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 68-88. With Ash Asudeh and Mary Dalrymple. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n 2007. Saami Linguistics<\/em>. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 288. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Diane Nelson. Book website<\/a><\/p>\n 2007. Verbal agreement in Inari Saami. In: Ida Toivonen and Diane Nelson, eds., Saami Linguistics<\/em>, CILT 288, 227-258. John Benjamins. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n 2007. Microvariation in Inari Saami. In: Jussi Ylikoski and Ante Aikio, eds., S\u00e1mit, s\u00e1nit, s\u00e1tneh\u00e1mit. Riepmo\u010d\u00e1la Pekka Sammallahti miessem\u00e1nu 21. beaivve 2007<\/em>. M\u00e9moires de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Finno-Ougrienne 253. Helsinki. 363-374. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n 2007. Copy raising and its consequences for perceptual reports. In Annie Zaenen, Jane Simpson, Tracy Holloway King, Jane Grimshaw, Joan Maling and Chris Manning, eds., Architectures, Rules, and Preferences: Variations on Themes by Joan W. Bresnan<\/em>. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 49\u201367. With Ash Asudeh. 2006. On continuative on. <\/em>Studia Linguistica<\/em>\u00a060(2): 181-219. 2006. Expletives and the syntax and semantics of copy raising. In Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King, eds., Proceedings of the LFG06 Conference<\/a><\/em>. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 13-29. With Ash Asudeh. 2006. Symptomatic Imperfections. [Review article of David Adger (2003) Core Syntax<\/em> and Andrew Radford (2004) Minimalist Syntax<\/em>] \u00a0 Journal of Linguistics<\/em> 42(2): 395-422. With Ash Asudeh. 2003. Non-Projecting Words: A Case Study of Swedish Verbal Particles<\/em>. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer. 2003. Counting and the grammar: Numerals in Inari Sami. In: Satu Manninen and Diane Nelson, eds., Generative Approaches to Finnic and Saami Linguistics<\/em>. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 321\u2013341. With Diane Nelson.<\/p>\n 2002. Particles and Results in Swedish and English. 2002. WCCFL 21. 2002. Swedish particles and syntactic projection. In: Nicole Deh\u00e9, Silke Urban, Andrew McIntyre and Ray Jackendoff, eds., Verb-Particle Explorations<\/em>. Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter. 191\u2013209.<\/p>\n 2001. The Directed Motion Construction in Swedish. 2001. Language Change, Lexical Features and Finnish Possessors. In Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King, eds., Time over Matter: Diachronic Perspectives on Morphosyntax<\/em>. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 209–225. 2000. The Morphosyntax of Finnish Possession. 2001. The Phrase-Structure of Non-Projecting Words. 1998. Swedish place expressions. NELS 29.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n 1997. The acquisition of Swedish body-posture words.\n
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