Downloadable Papers

Scope, weak islands ........ Interaction with negatives ........ Categorial grammar
Syntax, misc.: infinitival subjects, verbal complexes, determiner phrase
Semantics, misc.: proof theory, superlatives, definiteness effect, performatives, focus
Teaching materials, misc.: syntax, semantics, history of linguistics

Scope, weak islands

Optionality, scope, and licensing: An application of partially ordered categories (with Raffaella Bernardi). JoLLI 17/3, 2008.
Scope and binding. Draft for Maienborn, von Heusinger & Portner Handbook, 2007.
How unitary are intervention effects? Handout for Quantification in the Lexicon and in Syntax, Brussels. 2006.
Strong and weak islands. The Blackwell Companion to Syntax. 2006.
Overt scope in Hungarian (with Michael Brody). Syntax 6/1, 2003.
The syntax of scope. Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory, 2000.
Introduction to "Ways of Scope Taking". Kluwer, 1997.

Interaction with negatives

The effect of NPIs on inference verification (with L. Bott & B. McElree) Journal of Semantics doi:10.1093/jos/ffn005 , 2008.
Do negative polarity items facilitate the processing of decreasing inferences? Proceedings of the 16th Amsterdam Colloquium, 2007.
Polarity: Some questions for discussion. Handout for Polarity from Different Perspectives, NYU. 2005.
Conjunction meets negation: a study in crosslinguistic variation (with Bill Haddican). Journal of Semantics 21/3. 2004.
Positive polarity - negative polarity. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 22/2. 2004.
Hungarian disjunctions and positive polarity. Approaches to Hungarian 8, 2002.
Bulgarian corpus: Conjunction, disjunction, and negation (with Boyana Stamenova). 2001.

Categorial grammar with combinators

Binding on the fly: cross-sentential anaphora in variable-free semantics. In Kruijff & Oehrle, Resource Sensitivity in Binding and Anaphora, 2003.
Combinatory grammar and projection from the lexicon. In Sag & Szabolcsi, Lexical Matters, 1992.
Across-the-board binding meets verb second. In Mascaro & Nespor, Grammar in Progress, 1990.
Bound variables in syntax (Are there any?). 6th Amsterdam Colloquium Proceedings, 1987.

Syntax, misc.

Overt nominative subjects in infinitival complements in Hungarian. Submitted to den Dikken & Vago, eds. 2008.
Hidden in plain sight: Overt subjects in infinitival control and raising complements . May 2008.
Overt infinitival subjects (if that's what they are). In Broekhuis et al., Organizing Grammar, 2005.
Verbal Complexes (with Hilda Koopman). The MIT Press, 2000.
The noun phrase. In Kiefer & Kiss, The Syntactic Structure of Hungarian, 1994.

Semantics, misc.

Questions about proof theory vis-a-vis natural language semantics. ESSLLI CD, 2007.
Comparative superlatives. MITWPL 8, 1986.
Indefinites in complex predicates. Theoretical Linguistic Research, 1986.
Model theoretic semantics of performatives. In Kiefer, Hungarian Linguistics, 1982.
The semantics of topic-focus articulation. 3rd Amsterdam Colloquium Proceedings, 1981.

Teaching materials, misc.

Syntax I, 2000.
Semantics I, 2006.
222 Years in Linguistics, 2007.

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