Book
2016. Building and Interpreting Possession Sentences. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press)
Dissertation (Winner of the NYU Dean's Outstanding Dissertation Prize in the category of Social Sciences, 2014/2015)
2014. Building and Interpreting Possession Sentences.
(Advisor: Alec Marantz. Committee: Richard S. Kayne, Stephanie Harves, Pieter Muysken, Anna Szabolcsi)
Journal articles
2024. Imagining Life without Rules of Exponence and the Elsewhere Condition. Continua 1.1:1-40.
2021. Neil Myler and Zoliswa Mali. Two Places for Causees in Productive isiXhosa Morphological Causatives. Syntax 24.1:1-43. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/synt.12208
2018. Complex Copula Systems as Suppletive Allomorphy. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 3(1), 51. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.214
2017. Cliticization Feeds Agreement: A View from Quechua. (Natural Language and Linguistic Theory:35:751-800; first published online 2016)
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2015. Josef Fruehwald and Neil Myler. I'm done my homework- Case assignment in a stative passive. Linguistic Variation 15.2:141-168.
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2015. Stem Storage? Not Proven: A Reply to Bermúdez-Otero 2015. Linguistic Inquiry 46.1. 173-186.
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2014. Stephanie Harves and Neil Myler. Licensing NPIs and licensing silence: have/be yet to in English. Lingua 148:213-239
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2013. On coming the pub in the North West of England: Accusative Unaccusatives, Dependent Case and Preposition Incorporation. (Online at the Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics).
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Conference Proceedings
2024. Myler, Neil and Mali, Zoliswa. « Accounting for the Mirror Principle and its Exceptions in Causative Applicative Interactions: The case of isiXhosa » (Colloque 50 ans de linguistique à l'UQAM : Regards croisés sur les enjeux de la linguistique, Université du Québec à Montréal, 22 au 24 avril 2021), sous la dir. de Pinsonneault, Reine et Léveillé, Yoann. Montréal, pp. 156-175.
2018. Variation in the Syntax and Semantics of Predicative Possession in Quechua. In Megan Keough (ed.) Proceedings of the Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas 21, University of British Colombia Working Papers in Linguistics.
2017. Some Predictions of a Suppletive Allomorphy Approach to Complex Copula Systems. In Proceedings of NELS 47.
2014. How to turn a (not-yet-)possessed DP into a predicate nominal in Cochabamba Quechua. LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 2014. 21:1-5.
2014. Neil Myler and Stephanie Harves. Movement and Silence in the English have yet to construction. (Proceedings of the 37th Penn Linguistics Colloquium)
2014. Cliticization Feeds Agreement: A view from Cuzco Quechua. In Hsin-Lun Huang, Ethan Poole, Amanda Rysling (eds.) NELS 43: Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society: Volume 2. pp.15-26.
2012. Light verbs, hidden relatives and control: the case of derived nominals. (Proceedings of JeNom 4, University of Stuttgart)
Papers in edited volumes
2023. Argument Structure and Morphology in Cochabamba Quechua (with Occasional Comparison with Other Quechua Varieties) In Rodrigues, Cilene and Andrés Saab (eds) . Formal Approaches to Languages of South America. 311-345. Dordrecht: Springer.
2020. Rethinking the Reach of Categorical Constraints: The Final-over-Final Constraint and Combinatorial Variability. In András Bárány, Theresa Biberauer, Jamie Douglas & Sten Vikner (eds.) Syntactic architecture and its consequences II: Between syntax and morphology. 137–147. Berlin: Language Science Press.
2019. Jim Wood and Neil Myler. Morphology and Argument Structure. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2018. Bert Vaux and Neil Myler. Issues and Prospects in Rule-Based Phonology. In SJ Hannahs and Anna Bosch (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory. London: Routledge.
2017. Exceptions to the Mirror Principle and Morphophonological "action at a distance": The role of "word"-internal Phrasal Movement and Spell Out. In Heather Newell, Maire Noonan, Glyne Piggott, and Lisa Travis (eds.) The Structure of Words at the Interfaces. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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2017. Brett Miller, Neil Myler and Bert Vaux. Phonology in Universal Grammar. In Ian Roberts (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Universal Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2014. Andrew Ira Nevins & Neil Myler. A Brown-Eyed Girl. UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics: Papers in Honor of Sarah van Wagenen.
2013. Linearization and Post-Syntactic Operations in the Quechua DP. In Biberauer, Theresa. & Ian Roberts (eds.) Challenges to Linearization. pp 171-210. Mouton de Gruyter.
2012. Bert Vaux & Neil Myler. Metre is Music: a Reply to Fabb and Halle. In Rebuschat, Patrick, Martin Rohrmeier, John A. Hawkins and Ian Cross (eds.) Language and Music as Cognitive Systems. pp 43-50. Oxford, OUP.
2011. Come the pub with me: Silent TO in a dialect of British English. In Myler, Neil and Jim Wood (eds.) NYU Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 3: Papers in Syntax.
MPhil Thesis
The following is the extended version of my MPhil Thesis, which investigates whether the Final-over-Final Constraint holds in morphology. The conclusion is a guarded "yes", at least in the domain of inflection.
2009. Form, Function, and Explanation at the Syntax/Morphology Interface: Agreement, Agglutination and Post-syntactic Operations. (Extended version) (MPhil Thesis: University of Cambridge)