Publications

Books

Code Switching: Experimental answers to theoretical questions. In honor of Kay González-Vilbazo. Luis López, editor. 

Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 2018. https://benjamins.com/catalog/ihll.19 

Indefinite objects: Scrambling, choice functions and differential marking. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 63. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. 2012.

 http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/indefinite-objects-0

Reviewed by Peter de Swart for Journal of Linguistics 50: 246-250. http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0022226713000376

 Reviewed by Fuminori Matsubara for Linguistic Analysis 39: 437-451.

 Reviewed by Ross Bilous for Canadian Journal of Linguistics 59: 273-275. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/555344 

A Derivational Syntax for Information Structure.  Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 23. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2009. 

http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199557400

  Reviewed by Lisa Brunetti for Journal of Linguistics 46: 528-533. 

  http://journals.cambridge.org.proxy.cc.uic.edu/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7802299

         Reviewed by Andrew Carnie for elanguage

         http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?p=1640

Locality and the Architecture of Syntactic Dependencies. London: Palgrave-Macmillan. 2007

http://us.macmillan.com/localityandthearchitectureofsyntacticdependencies/LuisLópez 

Language Knowledge and Language Use: Selected Papers from LSRL XXXI. Edited volume with Rafael Núñez-Cedeño and Richard Cameron. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 2004

Recent Articles and Book Chapters

Most of these papers can be found in: https://uic.academia.edu/LuisLopez. Please do not hesitate to contact me.

*Refereed journal article

^Refereed book chapter

C: philosophy of language-law

 2024 * The conceptual structure of perjury.’ Law and Philosophy  43(5): 475-506.

 2024 * 'The meaning of a yawn.' International Review of Pragmatics 16: 281-295.

2024 * “Remarks on bare nouns in Papiamentu.” With Carmen Parafita-Couto, Charlotte Pouw, Rodi Laanen. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.00134.lop

2024 * “The role of INFL in code-switching: A study of heritage Papiamentu speakers in the Netherlands.” With Carmen Parafita-Couto, Charlotte Pouw, Rodi Laanen. Frontiers in Psychology. 2:1288198. doi: 10.3389/flang.2023.1288198

2023 *  “The whole truth? On broadening the scope of the federal perjury statutes.” International Journal of Language and Law 12: 8-30.

2023 *  “Assertion and truth default.” Journal of Pragmatics 203: 17-31. 

2023 *  “Make your mouth agua: Idioms and the integrated lexicon hypothesis.” Borealis 12: 91-121. With Irati de Nicolás, Rodi Laanen, Charlotte Pouw, José Sequeros, M. Carmen Parafita Couto.

  2023 ^  “The ideal speaker-hearer might be bilingual.” In Natascha Pomino, Eva-Maria Remberger & Julia Zwink (eds.) From formal linguistic theory to the art of historical editions: The multifaceted dimensions of Romance linguistics. Vienna, Austria: Vienna University Press (pp 333-346).

2022 *  “Adjective placement in English/Spanish mixed Determiner Phrases: Insights from acceptability judgments.” With Irati de Nicolás (University of Chicago). Languages 7:54 (1-35)

2021 ^ “Contact linguistics: The I-language of a bilingual.” In Sergio Baauw, Luisa Meroni and Frank Drijkoningen (eds.). Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 357. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (pp 131-149).

2021 * “Why is there no Raising to Object in Spanish? An analysis of code-switching. Languages 6: 172 (1-14). With Jeanne Heil (University of Southern Maine).

2021 *  “Did Charles Bronston commit perjury? A study in discourse semantics.” International Journal of Language and Law 10: 1-23.

  2021 *  “Algún quantifier is not bound by adverbs of quantification.” Isogloss 7(1): 1-26.

2020 *  “Acquisition without evidence: English infinitives and poverty of stimulus in adult second language acquisition.” Second Language Research 36: 415-443. With Jeanne Heil (University of Southern Maine).

2020 *  “Case, concord and the emergence of default.” Languages 12: 5 (1-42).

A Selection of Oldies

2018 * “Case and the event structure of nominalizations” Linguistic Inquiry 49(1): 85-121.

2016 ^  “Dislocation and information structure.” In Caroline Féry and Shin Ishihara (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure, Oxford, UK: OUP, pp 402-421.

2016. ^ “(In)definiteness, specificity and differential object marking in Romance.” In Susann Fischer and Christoph Gabriel (eds.) Manual of Grammatical Interfaces in Romance. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp 241-265.

  2015 * “Parallel computation in word formation.” Linguistic Inquiry 46(4): 657-701.

2012 *  “Little v and parametric variation”. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Vol 30.1: 33-77. With Kay González-Vilbazo.

2011 *  “Some properties of light verbs in code-switching”. Lingua 121.5: 832-850. With Kay González-Vilbazo.

2010^ “Givenness and discourse anaphors”. In Carsten Breul and Edward Göbbel (eds) Contrastive Information Structure. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp 51-76.

2009 *  “Ranking the Linear Correspondence Axiom”. Linguistic Inquiry 40(2): 239-278.

2008 ^  “The [person] restriction: why and why not”. In Roberta D’Alessandro, Gunnar Hrafbjargarsson and Susann Fischer (eds) Agreement Restrictions. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp 129-157.

2007 *  “The Origins of Spanish Revisited: Linguistic Science, Language Ideology and Nationalism in Contemporary Spain” Bulletin of Spanish Studies 84.3: 287-313.

2002 ^  “On Agreement: Locality and feature valuation” In Artemis Alexiadou (ed) Formal Approaches to Universals. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, Linguistik Aktuell 49, pp 165-209.

2001 *  "On the (non)complementarity of Theta Theory and Checking Theory", Linguistic Inquiry 32(4): 694-716.

  2000 *  "Verb Phrase Ellipsis and Discourse-Linking". Lingua 110:183-213.

 1999 *  "Verb Phrase Ellipsis in English and Spanish and the features of auxiliaries" Probus 11.2: 263-297.