JUSTIN COLLEY

I am a sixth year PhD student at MIT linguistics. My research focuses on syntax and morphology, and what they reveal about the character of human language. I have a particular interest in the A/A-bar distinction, locality, case, agreement, nominalization, and the interaction between ellipsis and prosody. You can reach me at jcolley at mit dot edu, and find my CV here.

➢ A prosodic theory of possible ellipsis remnants. With Itai Bassi. [GLOW 43]

♦ Paper (submitted)

➢ A layering approach to the A/A-bar distinction.

♦ In progress

➢ What object preference tells us about agreement.

♦ In progress

➢ On the topic of subjects: composite probes in Khanty. With Dmitry Privoznov. [NELS50]

♦ Proceedings / Handout

➢ Object movement derives object preference. [NELS 48].

♦ Proceedings / Handout

➢ On the restricted distribution of subject heavy NP shift. With Colin Davis. [LSA 94]

♦ Poster

➢ Phase extension and case/agreement marking in Turkish nominalized clauses. With Colin Davis. [WAFL 12, Tu+2]

♦ Proceedings / Handout