SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
(under construction)

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BOOK
In preparation
Updated August 2006
Inner Aspect, under contract to Kluwer Academic Publishers

        Title page
        Table of Contents
        Chapter 1: Introduction
        Chapter 2: Inner Derived Objects
        Chapter 3: Inner Aspect and Event
        Chapter 4: Event Structure and Phrase Structure
        Chapter 5: Interaction of Objects and Aspect
        Chapter 6: L-Syntax and S-Syntax
        Chapter 7: The Syntax of Achievements
        Chapter 8: Bounds and Coercion
        References

PAPERS
2005

•  Articulated vPs and the Computation of Aktionsart. In Aspectual Inquiries, eds. Paula Kempchinsky and Roumyana Slabakova, 69-94. New York: Springer Publishers.
  
  
•  VP-internal structure in a VOS language. In Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages, eds. Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley and Sheila Ann Dooley, 203-224. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  
  
•  Agents and Causes in Malagasy and Tagalog. In The Syntax of Aspect: Deriving Thematic and Aspectual Interpretation, eds. Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport, 174-189. New York: Oxford University Press.
  
  

•  (To appear in 2005)
  VP, D0 movement languages. In Negation, Tense and Clausal Architecture: Cross-linguistic Investigations, eds. Raffaella Zanuttini, Héctor Campos, Elena Herburger and Paul Portner. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

•  Through the looking glass: Malagasy in Wonderland. In Clause structure and adjuncts in Austronesian languages, eds. Hans-Martin Gärtner, Paul Law and Joachim Sabel. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

•  Case as feature checking and the status of predicate initial languages. In Competition and variation in natural languages: the case for case, eds. Mengistu Amberber and Helen de Hoop. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

•  Syntactic categories: Lexical, functional, cross-over, and multifunctional. In Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science, eds. Henri Cohen and Claire Lefebvre. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

•  A Recipe for Ergativity. In Ergativity, eds. Alana Johns, Diane Massam and Juvenal Ndirajaye, 28: Kluwer Academic Publishers. (w/Ileana Paul)

  2001

•  The syntax of reduplication. In Proceedings of NELS 31, eds. Minjoo Kim and Uri Strauss, 455-469.

•  Derived Objects in Malagasy. In Objects and other Subjects: Grammatical Functions, Functional Categories and Configurationality, eds. William D. Davies and Stanley Dubinsky, 123-155. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.                   
  
  
  2000
  

•  The l-syntax/s-syntax boundary: evidence from Austronesian. In Formal Issues in Austronesian Linguistics, eds. Ileana Paul, Vivianne Phillips and Lisa Travis, 167-194. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

•  Event Structure in Syntax. In Events as Grammatical Objects: the converging perspectives of lexical semantics and syntax, eds. Carol Tenny and James Pustejovsky, 145-185. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

•  Eight Possible Paper Topics on Chamorro and Related Languages. Oceanic Linguistics 39:1-29.

  1998

• Theta-Positions and Binding in Balinese and Malagasy. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 43(3/4):435-467.

  1999
  

• A Syntactician's view of reduplication. In Proceedings of AFLA VI, eds. Carolyn Smallwood and Catherine Kitto, 313-331.

   

  RECENT PRESENTATIONS
  2005
  

• States, Abilities, and Accidents. Paper presented at Canadian Linguistics Association, London. (handout: pdf, Word)
  

• Passives, states, and roots in Malagasy. Paper presented at Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, Los Angeles. (handout: pdf, Word)

  2004
  

• VP-, D- movement languages. Paper presented at Georgetown University Round Table, Georgetown University. (handout: pdf, Word)
  

• Features, movement asymmetries, and a typology of movement. Paper presented at Hsinchu, Taiwan. (handout: pdf, Word)
  

• Through the looking glass: Malagasy in Wonderland. Paper presented at Berlin, Germany. (handout: pdf, Word)