New Research in Linguistics and English Language
The papers below, downloadable as pdfs, represent some of the recent research conducted by colleagues in Linguistics and English Language. These are at various stages of pre-publication ranging from draft to close-to-final. Where forthcoming publication details are known they are given. Unless otherwise indicated, they can all be freely cited though we recommend you contact the author to learn about the latest status of the paper before citing it in published work.
- There are no clitics
Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero and John Payne (September 2008)
- Anticausativisation
Andrew Koontz-Garboden (September 2008)
- Ulwa verb class morphology
Andrew Koontz-Garboden (March 2008)
- Subject agreement in Marovo: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives
Bethwyn Evans (March 2008)
- From aspect/mood marker to discourse particle: Reconstructing syntactic and semantic change
Bethwyn Evans (March 2008)
- The development of Scandinavian bound definiteness marking
Kersti Börjars & Pauline Harries (April 2008)
- Phonological and morphological domains in Kyirong Tibetan
Kristine Hildebrandt (8 January 2008)
- Cuzco Quechua quantifiers
Martina Faller & Rachel Hastings (8 January 2008)
- Is the English possessive 's truly a right edge phenomenon?
Alan Scott, David Denison & Kersti Börjars (21 December, 2007)
- Patterns and productivity
David Denison (21 December 2007)
- The acquisition of the multiple senses of with
Thea Cameron-Faulkner (15 November, 2007)
- Argument structure
David Denison (15 November 2007)
- Jespersen's Cycle in Middle English: Parametric variation and grammatical competition
Phillip Wallage (15 November, 2007)
- English without VPs
John Payne (June 2007)