My curriculum vitae.
Downloadable papers: (PDF format; download free Acrobat Reader to view)
| Year | Title | Notes |
| 2005 | A-not-A questions | Copyedited version appears in Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Syntax (Syncom). Volume 1, ch. 7. Oxford: Blackwell. |
| 2005 | Review of Grohmann (2003) | Copyedited version to appear in The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics. Should appear in vol. 9 (2006). |
| 2004 | Particle movement in Sinhala and Japanese | In Dayal, V., and A. Mahajan (eds.), Clause Structure in South Asian Languages, Dordrecht: Kluwer. 227-252. |
| 2004 | Deriving Output Probabilities in Child Mandarin from a Dual-Optimization Grammar | (with Géraldine Legendre [first author], Joan Chen-Main, Liang Tao, and Paul Smolensky. Copyedited version appears in Lingua 114:1147-1185. |
| 2003 | What questions mean | Copyedited version appears in Glot International 7(7/8):188-201. |
| 2003 | A particle of indefiniteness in American Sign Language | (with Frances Conlin [first author], and Carol Neidle). Linguistic Discovery 2(1):1-21. |
| 2003 | Presuppositions, Wh-questions, and Discourse Particles: Russian že | (with Svetlana McCoy) In Wayles Browne, Ji-Yung Kim, Barbara H. Partee, and Robert A. Rothstein (eds.), Annual Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Languages: The Amherst Meeting 2002, 201-218. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications. |
| 2002 | Roots, Constituents, and c-command | (with Robert Frank [first author] and K. Vijay-Shanker) Copyedited version appeared in Alexiadou (ed.), Theoretical Approaches to Universals. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 109-137. |
| 2002 | Default ne in Child Mandarin Chinese | (with Joan Chen-Main, Géraldine Legendre, and Liang Tao) Copyedited version appeared in the Korean Journal of Cognitive Science 2(2):81-118. |
| 2002 | Partial constraint ordering in Child French syntax | (with Géraldine Legendre [first author], Anne Vainikka, and Marina Todorova), Copyedited version appeared in Language Acquisition10(3):189-227. |
| 2002 | Implications of child errors for the syntax of negation in Korean | Copyedited version appeared in Journal of East Asian Linguistics, issue 11(3): 211-242. |
| 2000 | Phrasal movement in Korean negation | In MITWPL 35 (2000), the proceedings of SCIL 9 (originally 1997). |
| 2000 | Evidence for syntactic competition in the acquisition of tense and agreement in child French | (With Géraldine Legendre [first author], Anne Vainikka, and Marina Todorova) In the Proceedings of the 36th annual Chicago Linguistic Society meeting. Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society, 431-443. |
| 2000 | An Optimality-Theoretic model of acquisition of tense and agreement in French | (with Géraldine Legendre [first author], Anne Vainikka, and Marina Todorova) In Lila Gleitman and A. Joshi (eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. |
| 1999 | Partial constraint ordering in child French syntax | (with Géraldine Legendre [first author], Anne Vainikka, and Marina Todorova) Technical Report #11, Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University. Abridged and updated version listed as 2002 above. |
| 1999 | The movement of question particles | In M. Hirotani, A. Coetzee, N. Hall, and J.-Y. Kim (eds.), NELS 30: Proceedings of the North East Linguistics Society. GLSA, Amherst, MA. Also available: the poster. |
| 1999 | Q-movement | Paper presented at the Linguistics Society of America meeting 1999. (abstract) |
| 1998 | Ph.D thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Print copy available from MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. The PDF file requires Padma font to see Sinhala text in a couple of footnotes in chapters 1-2 (found at the Srinkie resources page for Windows, or converted for MacOS here). Certain fonts show up funny in the PDF version (particularly in the Ryukyuan and Premodern Japanese examples). (abstract) | |
| 1998 | Attraction of general features and intervention effects in Japanese | Paper presented at the Linguistics Society of America meeting 1998 |
| 1997 | Scope interactions and phrasal movement in Korean negation | In Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics VII. |
| 1997 | Appears in MITWPL 30. (abstract) | |
| 1997 | Contextual metrical invisibility and weak vowels | Appears in CLS proceedings |
| 1997 | Contextual metrical invisibility in Mohawk and Passamaquoddy | Talk given at the Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas |
| 1996 | do-support in Korean: Evidence for an interpretive morphology | In SICOGG 1996 proceedings. |
| 1996 | Object shift in Korean negation | Paper presented at the Linguistics Society of America meeting 1996. |
| 1995 | Syntax generals paper, MIT. (abstract) | |
| 1995 | When a Passamaquoddy unstressable schwa, that's a mora | Phonology generals paper, MIT. (abstract) |
| 1994 | Written for Chomsky's Fall 1994 class, MIT. (comments) | |
| 1993 | On the problem of infinity and Gen-Eval in Optimality Theory | Short 5-page squib written for a survey course. (abstract) |
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