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)