The Syntactic and Semantic Roots of Floating Quantification (June 2006, MIT) [ps (789kb)][pdf (700kb)][BibTeX]
Committee: Norvin Richards (chair), Shigeru Miyagawa, David Pesetsky
Some published papers available elsewhere:
(2006) 'Deletion through Movement.' Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 24, 2, 399–431. [abstract]
[BibTeX]
(2002) 'On Minimalist Approaches to the Locality of Movement.' Linguistic Inquiry 33, 3, 443–463. [abstract] [BibTeX]
Some conference proceedings papers, handouts, and posters:
(To appear) 'A Concatenative Theory of Possible Affix Types.' To appear in A. Salanova (ed.), Papers from EVELIN I, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. [paper]
(2006) 'Sources of Multiple Reduplication in Salish and Beyond.' In Shannon T. Bischoff, Lynnika Butler, Peter Norquest, and Daniel Siddiqi (eds.), Studies in Salishan, MIT Working Papers on Endangered
and Less-Familiar Languages 7, pp. 211–240. [paper]
(2005) 'The Timing of Syntactic Operations: Phases, C-command, Remerger, and Lebeaux Effects.' EC05 Syntax Conference, Harvard. (with Erich Groat) [handout]
(2005) 'The Whys and How Comes of Presupposition and NPI Licensing in Questions.' In John Alderete, Chung-hye Han, and Alexei Kochetov (eds.), The Proceedings of the 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Cascadilla Press, pp. 138–145. [paper] [BibTeX]
(2004) 'Exchange Rules and Feature-Value Variables.' Presented at the 3rd North American Phonology Conference, Concordia University, Montreal. (with A. Nevins and B. Vaux) [handout]
(2003) 'MEG Evidence for the morphological complexity of the English Irregular Past Tense.' Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. (with Linnaea Stockall, Priya Singh, Pranav Anand, and Alec Marantz) [JPEG of poster]