Recent: Third Factors, 2022 CUP book; NEC in 2022; What for in JCGL 2021; Chomsky and Historical Linguistics 2021; New Modal Cycle 2020; Intro to Lindisfarne 2019
PoP, Labelling, and Language Change: Cyclical change and PoP (also in Cycles in Language Change, edited by Anne Breitbarth, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert, and Elisabeth Witzenhausen, 2019: 13-32. OUP)
Argument Structure: Stability and Change in Intransitive Argument Structure (Open Linguistics 5: 217-232), The case of stun (McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 25.1, 2018: 439-446), Copulas (Lingue e Linguaggio XIV.2, 2015): 287-301, Psych-verbs, and Causatives (Journal of Historical Linguistics 1.1 2011: 106-143)
Other: `The particle How' (2015), Generative Coda (2017), CPs in the history of English (2019), and Features (2016)
The Linguistic Cycle: 2018 Cyclical Change Continued: Introduction and Cycles in conflict
The Diachrony of Pronouns and Demonstratives, In Search of Universal Grammar: From Old Norse to Zoque, edited by Terje Lohndal. 2013: 195-218. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Are there Null Arguments in Athabascan? co-authored with Mary Willie, Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 45.1 (2012): 1-19.
Pro-drop and pronominal subjects, paper for a conference in Regensburg.
Language Change as Cyclical, Studies in Modern English 27 (2011): 1-23.
Reflexive cartography (2010), In Jan-Wouter Zwart and Mark de Vries (eds) Structure Preserved, 141-148. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Features in Reanalysis and Grammaticalization. In Elizabeth Traugott & Graeme Trousdale (eds), Gradience, Gradualness, and Grammaticalization, (2009): 129-147. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
“Language Change and Survive: Feature economy in the numeration”. In Michael Putnam (ed.), Towards a derivational syntax: Survive-Minimalism (2009): 257-266. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
“Grammaticalization from a Biolinguistic Perspective”. In Rudie Botha and Chris Knight (eds), The Prehistory of Language, Volume I (2009): 225-243. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Linguistic Cycles and Economy Principle: The role of Universal Grammar in Language Change In Thorhallur Eythorsson (ed), The Rosendal Papers (2008). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
The position of adjectives and double definiteness, co-authored with Terje Lohndal, Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 2008, 82: 1-22.
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.
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.
"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.