Published and to Appear

• Matthew Barros and Robert Frank. 2022. Attention and Locality: On clause-boundedness and its exceptions in multiple sluicing. Linguistic Inquiry (early access)

• Vicente, Luis, Matthew Barros, Troy Messick and Andrés Saab. 2020. On a non-argument for cleft sources in sluicing. Linguistic Inquiry (early access)

• Wood, Jim, Matthew Barros, and E.F. Sigurðsson. 2020. Case Mismatching in Icelandic and Clausal Ellipsis. Journal of Linguistics 56 (2), 399—439.

• Barros, Matthew and Hadas Kotek. 2019. Ellipsis Licensing, and Redundancy Reduction: A focus based approach. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics 4(1): 100. 1–36. 

• Kotek, Hadas and Matthew Barros. 2018. Multiple sluicing, scope, and superiority: Consequences for ellipsis identity. Linguistic Inquiry 49(4): 781–812.

• Wood, Jim, Matthew Barros, and E.F. Sigurðsson 2016. Clausal Ellipsis and Case (mis)matching in Icelandic. Working papers in Scandinavian Syntax 96, 46-90

• Barros 2012. Sluiced Fragment Answers: Another Puzzle Involving Islands and Ellipsis. Snippets Issue 25

• Barros 2010. Sluicing and the Brazilian Portuguese Null Copula. Rutgers Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 3

Submitted and Under Revision

• Antecedentless Clausal Ellipsis: A Case Study in Brazilian Portuguese (Under Revision - e-mail me for a copy!)

• Specification as an Inter-Taxonomic Phenomenon (Lingbuzz version)

• Syntactic Identity in Ellipsis, and Deviations Therefrom: The Case of Copula Clauses in Sluicing (lingbuzz version)

Selected Conference Proceedings

• Barros and Vicente 2016. `A Remnant Condition for Ellipsis.' Proceedings of the 33rd meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL)

• Barros, Elliott and Thoms 2013. `Even More Variation in Island Repair.' Proceedings of the 49th meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS)

• Barros 2013. `Harmonic Sluicing: Which Remnant/Correlate Pairs Work, and Why.' Proceedings of the 23rd meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT)

• Barros 2012. `A Non-Repair Approach to Island Sensitivity in Contrastive TP Ellipsis.' Proceedings of the 48th Meeting of Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 

• Barros and Vicente 2011. `Right Node Raising Requires Both Ellipsis and Multidominance.' University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 17

Unpublished Manuscripts

• Barros and Saab 2016. `Implicatures from Silence: A Remark on Chung's Puzzle.' Ms., Yale University and CONICET

• Barros, Elliott and Thoms 2014. `There is no Island Repair.' Ms. Rutgers University, University College London, and University of Edinburgh

• Barros 2012 `Else-Modification as a Diagnostic for Pseudosluicing.' Rutgers University Ms. 

• Barros and Vicente 2011. `The Eclectic Nature of Right Node Raising.' Ms., Rutgers University and Universität Potsdam

• Barros 2011. `A Compositional Semantics for the Exceptive Modifier `Else' in English.' Rutgers University Ms. 

PhD Thesis

Barros 2014 'Sluicing and Identity in Ellipsis' Rutgers University