Publications

Forth-    “TH/EX, Agreement, and Case in Expletive Sentences,” Syntax.

coming

2011    Syntactic Analysis: The basics.  Blackwell: Oxford.

2010    “Echo Questions in MP,’ Linguistic Inquiry 41, 131-148.

2009    “Echo  Questions and Split CP,”   Dislocated Elements in Discourse:  Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic Perspectives. Benjamin

            Shaer, Philippa Cook, Werner Frey,  and Claudia Maienborn,eds., Routledge,  New York. 95-113

2009    “Prestige Case Forms and the Comp-trace Effect,” Syntax 12, 32-59.

2008    “Do so and VP,” Linguistic Inquiry  39,147-160.

2004    “Expletive Constructions Are Not LRC Movement Constructions.” Linguistic Inquiry 35, 503-508.

2004    “The Relative Roles of Theory and Acquisition Studies.” Journal of Child Language 31, 505-507.

2003    “Negative Inversion as Non-movement.” Syntax 6, 183-212.

2003    “On the Role of Prescriptive Grammar.” Syntax in the Schools 19, 1-4.

2002    “The Comp-trace Effect, the Adverb Effect, and Minimal CP,” Journal of Linguistics 38, 527-560.

2002    “Determiners in Genitive Constructions,”  Lingua 112, 597-618.

2000    “Minimal CP and the Adverb Effect,” Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics vol. 25, J. Kyle & S. Stowers, eds., Linguistics Graduate

            Student Association, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 15-38.

2000    with Howard Lasnik, "The Who/whom Puzzle: On the preservation of an archaic feature,"  Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 18,

            343-371.

1999    “Prestige English is not a Natural Language,” Language Alive in the Classroom, R. S. Wheeler, ed., Praeger, Westport, CT, 23-36.

1997    “Agreement, Default Rules, and Grammatical Viruses,” Linguistic Inquiry 28, 318-343.

1996    Review of Alison Henry (1995), Belfast English and Standard English, Language 72, 630-633.

1994    “An Acceptable Ungrammatical Construction,” The Reality of Linguistic Rules, R. Corrigan, G.K. Iverson, and S. Lima, eds., John

            Benjamins, Amsterdam, 51-65.

1994    “Why We Should Reconsider Teaching Grammar: A  response to the romantic position,”Language Quarterly 32(1-2), 51-74.

1991    “Agreement in CP,” Lingua 84, 43-54.

1991    “An AI Approach to Teaching Linguistics,” Innovations in LinguisticEducation 5.2, 21-34.

1990    “On the Syntax of English Echo Questions,” Lingua 81, 141-167.

1989    “Echo Question Formation in English,” Proceedings of the 19th Western Conference on Linguistics, F.H. Brengelman, V. Samiian,

            and W. Wilkins, eds., Dept. of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno, 310-317.

1987    “The Variable Status of COMP-Trace Phenomena,” Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 5(1), 33-60.

1987-    “On the Study of Bilingual Acquisition,”  a review of A Fantini, Language Acquisition of a Bilingual Child (1985), The Bilingual

1988    Review/La Revista Bilingue, 14(3), 79-83.

1985    “Case Assignment in Ukrainian Morphological Passive Constructions,”Linguistic Inquiry 16(4), 649-662.

1984    “On Code-Switching Inside NP,” Applied Psycholinguistics, 5, 293-303.

1983    “Gapping as Evidence of Distinct L2 Acquisition,” Spanish in the U.S.Setting, L. Elias-Olivares, ed., National Clearinghouse for

            Bilingual Education, Washington, D.C., 37-50.

1982    “On Gapping and Discontinuous Constituent Structure,” Linguistics 20, 727-745.

1982    “Texas Spanish and Lexical Borrowing,” Spanish in the United States, J. Amastae and E. Elias-Olivares, eds., Cambridge University

            Press, Cambridge, 166-181 (republication of 1976 article).

1981    “On Adv/PP-First Reductions,” Linguistic Inquiry  12(3), 488-491.

1980    “On Deletion Rules and Transference,” Speaking, Singing and Teaching: a Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Language Variation,

            F. Barkin and E. Brandt, eds., Arizona State University Press, Tempe,409-419.

1980    “On Transference and Inversion,” Festschrift for Jacob Ornstein,  E. Blansitt and R. Teschner, eds., Newbury House, Rowley, Mass.,

            265-273.

1980    “On the Subject of Gapped Sentences,” Papers in Linguistics, 13(1),101-115.

1978    “On Echo Questions in English,” Papers from the  1977 Mid-America Linguistics Conference, D. Lance and D. Gulstad, eds.,

            University of Missouri-Columbia, 247-259.

1978    “On Complex Sentence Constructions,” Bilingual and Biliterate Perspectives, A. G. Lozano, ed., University of Colorado, Boulder,

            112-121

1977    “On the Study of Syntax and Bilingualism,” Southwest Areal Linguistics Then and Now:Proceedings of the Fifth Southwest  Areal

            Language and Linguistics Workshop , B. Hoffer and B. L. Dubois, eds., Trinity UniversityPress, San Antonio, Texas, 247-263.

1977    “Notes on the Acquisition of Interrogative-Word Questions,” ERIC ED144 377.

1977    with J. Amastae, Describing Languages, Pan American University Print Shop, Edinburg, Texas.

1976    “Pragmatics of Lurking,” Linguistic Inquiry 7(4), 726-728.

1976    “Texas Spanish and Lexical Borrowing,” Papers in Linguistics 9(1-2), 15-47.

1973    with M. Loflin and J. L. Dillard, “Auxiliary Structures and Time Adverbs in Black American English,”American Speech 48(1-2), 22-28.

1971    with M. Garcia-Zamor, “On the Inadequacy of Some Recent Syntactic Proposals,” Papers in Linguistics 4(3), 559-575.