linguistics

Professor of Linguistics at Université du Québec à Montréal

Research interests: Morphology, Syntax, Determiners

• Books

  • (with Lena Baunaz) Introduction à l'analyse morphologique. In preparation for Language Science Press. 

  • The Architecture of Determiners. 2014. Oxford University Press.

  • (co-edited with Richard Kayne and Raffaella Zanuttini) An Annotated Syntax Reader. Lasting Insights and Questions. 2013. Wiley-Blackwell. 

• Dissertation

  • The Internal Syntax of Determiners. 2008. Ph.D. Thesis, New York University

• Articles

  • Generalized x-to-C in Germanic. 2015. Studia Linguistica 69.3, p.272-303

  • The internal syntax of `jeder' (`every'). 2010. Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2009, p.153-204

  • `What for' internally. 2008. Syntax 11.1, p.1-25

• Chapters

  • A non-identical twin structure for indefinite pronouns. In Lena Baunaz, Giuliano Bocci, and Anfdrew Nevins (eds.) A festschrift for Ur Shlonsky.

  • Genres et nombre en allemand, dans une perspective globale. In preparation for Franck Neveu and Delphine Pasques (eds.). La catégorie du nombre. DeGruyter

  • (with Richard Compton)  Adjacency and Linearization. to appear. In Artemis Alexiadou, Ruth Kramer, Alec Marantz et Isabel Oltra Massuet (eds.) Handbook of Distributed Morphology. CUP

  • Nominal Syntax of (Swiss) German. to appear. In Susi Wurmbrand, Katarina Hartmann, and Johannes Mursell (eds.) Handbook of Germanic Syntax. DeGruyter

  • The Morphology of Determiners. to appear. In Martina Wiltschko and Solveiga Armoskaite (eds). Oxford Handbook of Determiners, OUP

  • The Status of the Morpheme. 2020. In: Rochelle Lieber, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Antonio Fàbregas, Christina Gagné, and Francesca Masini (eds). Oxford Encyclopedia of Morphology, OUP

  • Morphology driven by Syntax: XP-movement and allomorphy. 2019. In: Metin Bagriacik, Anne Breitbarth, and Karen De Clercq (eds). WebFestschrift for Liliane Haegeman, 161-170

  • Ein is ein and that is that: A note on anti-homophony and metamorphology. 2017. In: Heather Newell, Maire Noonan, Glyne Piggot, and Lisa DeMena Travis (eds). The Structure of Words at the Interfaces, OUP, 185-208

  • Feminine bleeds dative: The syntax of a syncretism pattern. 2012. In: Beatriz Fernandes and Ricardo Etxepare (eds.) Variation in Datives: A Micro-Comparative Perspective, OUP

  • From Greek to Germanic: Poly-(*in)-definiteness and weak/strong adjectival declension. 2009. In: Anna Gavarro, Josep M. Brucart, and Jaume Sola (eds.) Merging Features: Computation, Interpretation, and Acquisition, OUP

• Proceedings and Working Papers

  • The indefinite article - Indefinite? - Article? 2012. In: UPenn Working Papers in Linguistics 18.1: Proceedings of PLC 35, p.161-168

  • A note on `what for' split. 2007. In: NYU Working Papers in Linguistics 1

  • These HERE demonstratives. 2007. In: UPenn Working Papers in Linguistics 13.1: Proceedings of PLC 30, p.141-154

  • Donkey pronouns: Void descriptions? 2005. In: Proceedings of NELS 35, Vol. 2, GLSA, p.379-390

  • Something invisible in English. 2005. In: UPenn Working Papers in Linguistics 11.1: Proceedings of PLC 28, p.143-155

  • (with Laura Rimell) VP preposing and relative scope. 2005. In UPen Working Papers in Linguistics 11.1: Proceedings of PLC 28, p.241-251

  • (with Laura Rimell and Erez Levon) English VP preposing and relative scope. 2003. In: Proceedings of ConSole XI

  • A sketchy note on the Article-Modifier relation. 2001. In: Generative Grammar in Geneva 2, p.55-70

• Some handouts

  • • On the structural analogy between German gender and types of classifiers: ACL-2024-ho.pdf (handout, CLA /ACL 17.06.2024)

    • Dividing up the definite article between verbal inflection and personal pronoun: mo-mot-2016-HO-bis.pdf (handout Mo-MOT 18.11.2016)

    • Anchoring in the utterance situation: The so-called 3SG suffix in German `mach-t' and English `make-s' as present tense variants of the definite article: GLOW 2017 poster (poster GLOW 17/3/17)