Articles

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Exuberant Exponence in Batsbi, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (2009)

Although multiple exponence has long been recognized by some, morpheme-based theories predict that it will...

 

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Light Verbs as Classifiers in Udi, Diachronica (2008)

In Udi, most verbal lexemes are composed, in all tense-aspect-mood categories, of a light verb...

 

On Agreement in Udi, Bulletin of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences (2007)
 

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Trapped Morphology (with Jan Terje Faarlund), Journal of Linguistics (2006)

We argue that there is a diachronic process, distinct from phonological erosion, that results in...

 

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Revisiting Anaphoric Islands, Language (2006)

Postal (1969) discusses words as anaphoric islands. So-called OUTBOUND ANAPHORA was further discussed in a...

 

Contributions to Books

Explaining Typologically Unusual Structures: The Role of Probability, Rethinking Universals - How Rarities affect Linguistic Theory (2010)
 

On the Fused Pronoun in Andi, Avar and Andian Languages, Essais de typologie et de linguistique générale: Mélanges offerts à Denis Creissels (2010)

Conçu comme un hommage à l'un des plus grands typologues contemporains, ce recueil rassemble trente-quatre...

 

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Origins of Differential Unaccusative/Unergative Case Marking: Implications for Innateness, Hypothesis A/ Hypothesis B: Linguistic Explorations in Honor of David M. Perlmutter (2010)
 

Explaining Exuberant Agreement, Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal Papers (2008)
 

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On the Explanation of Typologically Unusual Structures, Linguistic Universals and Language Change (2008)