New Work on the Linguistic Cycle:
The Negative Cycle, May 2008 version, accepted by Linguistic Typology.
The DP Cycle in Germanic, December 2007, appeared in Journal of Germanic Linguistics 19.4.
Where did Late merge go? March 2008 version, accepted by Studia Linguistica.
Negation in Athabaskan, October 2007
The Suject Cycle, August 2007
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Recent Articles
Interface Conditions and Code Switching: Pronouns, lexical DPs, and Checking Theory, co-authored with Jeff MacSwan, Lingua 118.6, June 2008: 765-776.
The Peterborough Chronicle and Accelerated Grammaticalization. In Alex Bergs and Janne Skaffari (eds), The Language of the Peterborough Chronicle. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 2007: 93-110.
Economy of Merge and Grammaticalization: Two steps in the Evolution of Language.
Linguistic Cycles and Economy Principle: The role of Universal Grammar in Language Change, to appear in a volume edited by Thorhallur Eythorsson The Rosendal Papers.
Structures behind Grammaticalization, to appear in the DIGS Proceedings, Stephen Anderson and Diane Jonas (eds). Oxford University Press.
Economy against Prescriptivism: internal and external factors of language change: LASSO presidential address, in SWJL.
Economy, Innovation, and Prescriptivism: from Spec to Head and Head to Head:The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 7.1. 2004: 59-98.
Principles and Parameters in Change. In: Leonie Cornips and Karen Corrigan (eds), Syntax and Variation: Reconciling the Biological and Social. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2005: 179-198. ( page proofs as a pdf-file).
"The CP and Split CP cross-linguistically", WORD 55.3 (2004, appeared in 2005): 369-403. (needs to be downloaded in word first).
"Aspect, Infinitival Complements, and Evidentials", in The Composition of meaning: from lexeme to discourse, Alice ter Meulen et al. (eds). Amsterdam: John Benjamins (2004): 39-68.
"Grammaticalization as Economy: Late Merge as the Cause of Linguistic Change", to appear in WECOL 2003 Proceedings.
"ASP(ect) in English Modal Complements", in Studia Linguistica 57.1 2003: 27-44.
"The Force of ForceP", in Southwest Journal of Linguistics 20.2. 2001: 107-120.
"Modal Particles in Germanic", in Folia Linguistica Historica 22.1-2 (2001): 310-33, early version in .pdf.
"Towards personal subjects in English: Variation in feature interpretability". Grammatical Relations, Jan Terje Faarlund (ed.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins (2001): 137-157.
"The absence of Verb-movement and the role of C: Some negative constructions in Shakespeare", Studia Linguistica 54.3 (2000) 412-23.
"Bound Pronouns and Non-Local Anaphors", in Reflexives, edited by Z. Frazyngier & T. Curl. Amsterdam: Benjamins. (1999): 187-225.
"The Role of Person in the Loss of Verbal Agreement and of Pro-drop", in Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization Processes in older English, Olga Fischer & Dieter Stein (eds.). Berlin: Mouton-de Gruyter. (to appear 2000): 187-206.
"Binding Theory and Minimalist Features", in the WCCFL 18 Proceedings (1999): 558-569. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
"Structures of Tense and Aspect", Linguistic Analysis 27.3-4 (1997): 138-165, appeared in 1999.
"For to in the History of English", in the American Journal of Germanic Language and Literature 10.1 (1998): 45-72.
"Inflection and movement in Old English", in German: Syntactic Problems - Problematic Syntax, W. Abraham and E. van Gelderen (eds). Tübingen: Niemeyer. (1997): 71-82.