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2023
Prolegomena to a theory of X-marking, (with Kai von Fintel), Linguistics and Philosophy
Quexistentials and Focus, (with Kees Hengeveld and Floris Roelofsen), Linguistic Inquiry, Volume 54, Number 3
2021
Negation-Licensed Commands Linguistic Inquiry, Volume 52, Number 3, 519-549
2019
The complex beauty of boundary adverbials: in years and until (with Hedde Zeijlstra), to appear in Linguistic Inquiry
2019
Since since (with Kai von Fintel). In Daniel Altshuler & Jessica Rett (eds.), The semantics of plurals, focus, degrees, and times: Essays in honor of Roger Schwarzschild, 305–333. Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04438-1_15
2018
"Quexistentials I" (with Kees Hengeveld and Floris Roelofsen)
2017
"A modest proposal for the meaning of imperatives" Ana Arregui, Marisa Rivero, and Andrés Pablo Salanova (eds.), Modality Across Syntactic Categories, 288-319. Oxford University Press.
2017
2016
"Our even" Iatridou, S. & Tatevosov, S. Linguistics and Philosophy (2016) 39: 295-311.
Talk delivered at Sinn und Bedeutung 19, Goettingen, Sept 15-17, 2014
2014
"Definiteness as Maximal Informativeness" (with Kai von Fintel and Danny Fox), The Art and Craft of Semantics: A Festschrift for Irene Heim, 165-174. Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
2014
"Grammar matters" to appear in Conditionals, Probability, and Paradox: Themes from the Philosophy of Dorothy Edgington. Lee Walters and John Hawthorne (eds), Forthcoming, Oxford University Press.
2014
"About determiners on event descriptions, about time being like space (when we talk), and about one particularly strange construction" in Natural Language Semantics
2013
"Looking for Free Relatives in Turkish (and the unexpected places this leads to)" proceedings of WAFL 8, ed. by Umut Özge, published by MITWPL
2012
"Negation, polarity and deontic modals" (with Hedde Zeijlstra) to appear inLinguistic Inquiry.
2011
"Negative DPs, A-Movement, and Scope Diminishment" (with Ivy Sichel)Linguistic Inquiry, Volume 42, Number 4, Fall 2011, pp. 595-629
2009
2009 LSA Institute Class on Modals with Kai von Fintel
2009
About the Imperfective in Counterfactuals, handout from Yale Imperfective Workshop, April 10-11, 2009
2008
"De Modo Imperativo" (Lecture notes for a course on the syntax and semantics of imperatives at Ealing6, ENS, Paris)
2008
"NegDPs and Scope Diminishment: Some Basic Patterns" (with Ivy Sichel). To appear in the proceedings of NELS 38.
2007
“Anatomy of a Modal Construction” (with Kai von Fintel). Linguistic Inquiry, 38(3):445–483.
2006
"How to Say Ought in Foreign: The Composition of Weak Necessity Modals" (with Kai von Fintel). To appear in Time and Modality, Guéron & Lecarme (eds.), Springer
2005
"Anatomy of a Modal" (with Kai von Fintel). In Jon Gajewski, Valentine Hacquard, Bernard Nickel, Seth Yalcin, eds. New Work on Modality. No. 52 inMIT Working Papers in Linguistics. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT.
2003
"A bit more about the English Perfect" in Perfect Explorations, A. von Stechow et al. Eds, Mouton
2003
"Epistemic Containment" in Linguistic Inquiry 34.2 (with Kai von Fintel)
2002
"Observations about the Form and Meaning of the Perfect" in Ken Hale: A Life in Language, M. Kenstowicz ed. MIT Press
Reprinted in Perfect Explorations, A. von Stechow et al. eds (with Elena Anagnostopoulou and Roumi Izvorski)
2002
Since Since with Kai von Fintel.(2005 version)
2002
If and When If-Clauses Can Restrict Quantifiers with Kai von Fintel, contribution to the Workshop in Philosophy and Lingustics at the University of Michigan, November 8—10, 2002.
2000
"The Grammatical Ingredients of Counterfactuality" in Linguistic Inquiry 31.2
1998
"Pseudoclefts Crosslinguistically" in Natural Language Semantics 6 (with Spyridoula Varlokosta)
1997
"A propos pro" in Language 73 (with David Embick)
1996
"To Have and Have Not" Proceedings of WCCFL XIV
1994
"On the Meaning of Conditional then" in Natural Language Semantics 2
1994
"The relevance of the A versus A-bar distinction for heads" in Verb Movement, D. Lightfoot and N. Hornstein eds. Cambridge University Press (comments on the paper by Ian Roberts in the same volume)
1993
"Conditional Inversion" in Proceedings of NELS 24 (with David Embick)
1993
"The licensing of CP-recursion and its relevance to Germanic verb-second phenomena" in Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 50 (with Tony Kroch)
1990
"Clitics and Island Effects" in Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 2
1990
"About Agr(P)" in Linguistic Inquiry 21
1990
"The Past, the Possible, and the Evident" in Linguistic Inquiry 21
1988/
1993
"On Nominative Case Assignment and a few related things" in MITWPL 19
1988
"Clitics, Anaphors, and a problem of Coindexation" in Linguistic Inquiry 19
1986
"An Anaphor not bound in its Governing Category" in Linguistic Inquiry 17