20th Century Publications

Books:

A Transformational Approach to English Syntax: Root, Structure-preserving, and Local Transformations. Academic Press, 1976, 260 pages. Paperback edition, 1988.

A Unified Theory of Syntactic Categories. Foris Publications, 1985, 356 pages.

Lexicon and Grammar: the English Syntacticon. Mouton de Gruyter, 2000, 470 pages.

Publications (collections of previously published articles with new introductions):

The Syntax of Local Processes, Collected Essays Volume 1. Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1999.

The Syntactic Basis of Lexical Structure, Collected Essays Volume 2. Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1999.


Articles:

"Arguments that There-insertion is a structure-preserving rule." Papers from the Fifth Regional Meeting. Chicago Linguistics Society, 1969.

With Frederick Newmeyer. "The linguist in American society." Papers from the Seventh Regional Meeting. Chicago Linguistics Society, 1971.

"A reformulation of certain syntactic transformations." Goals of Linguistic Theory, P.S. Peters (ed.). Prentice-Hall, 1972.

"Evidence that indirect object movement is a structure-preserving rule." Foundations of Language 8, 1972. Reprinted in The Formal Analysis of Natural Languages. M. Gross, M. Halle, and C. Schutzenberger (eds.). Mouton, 1973.

"A reformulation of Grimm's Law." Contributions to Generative Phonology, M. Brame (ed.). University of Texas Press, 1973.

"Alternatives to global derivational constraints." Glossa 7, 1973. French translation in La théorie standard-étendue, M. Ronat (ed.). Hermann, 1977. A Japanese translation also appeared.

"Derived nominals, gerunds, and participles in Chaucer's English." Issues in Linguistics, B. Kachru et al. (eds.). University of Illinois Press, 1973.

"Arguments for assigning tense meanings after certain syntactic transformations apply." Formal Semantics, E. Keenan (ed.). Cambridge University Press, 1974.

"A transformational analysis of French clitics without positive output constraints". Linguistic Analysis 1, 1975, 3-24.

"Comments on the paper by Lightfoot." Formal Syntax, A. Akmajian, P. Culicover, and T. Wasow (eds.). Academic Press, 1977.

"Appositive relative clauses." Descriptive and Applied Linguistics, X: International Christian University, 1977.

"The verbal complex V'-V in French." Linguistic Inquiry 9, 1978, 151-175. French translation in Proceedings of the Montreal Colloquium in French Syntax, J.McA'Nulty (ed.). Presses Universitaires de Québec, 1978.

"Word order in generative grammar." Explorations in Linguistics, M. Muraki et al. (ed.). Kenkyusha Press, 1979.

"Appositive relatives have no properties." Linguistic Inquiry 10, 1979, 211-243. Expanded version of "Appositive relative clauses."

"Inversion généralisée de NP." Langages 60, 13-45. A. Rouveret (ed.), 1980.

"Word order in generative grammar." Journal of Linguistic Research I (revised version of earlier article). Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1981.

"Differences between French and English finite verb formation." Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Symposium on Romance Linguistics, H. Contreras and J. Klausenburger (eds.). University of Washington, 1981.

"The prepositional copula as." Linguistic Analysis 13, 1984.

"The necessity of three-cornered comparative syntax." Selected Papers from the XIIIth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, L. King and C. Maley (eds.). John Benjamins Publishing, 1985.

"Les parties du discours en grammaire générative." Recherches Linguistiques 14-15. P. Pica (ed.), 1986. Translation of "Parts of speech in generative grammar" below.

"Theta-role assignment in derived nominals." Revue Québécoise de Linguistique 15.2, 1986.

"Grammatically deviant prestige constructions." A Festschrift for Sol Saporta, M. Brame, H. Contreras, and F. Newmeyer (eds.). Noit Amrofer Press, 1986.

"Generalized NP-α inversion: hallmark of English." The Twentieth Anniversary Volume. Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1986.

"Gerundios SV, infinitivos O y las modificaciones teóricas correspondientes." Revista Argentina de Linguistica 2.2, 1986.

"Parts of speech in generative grammar." Linguistic Analysis 16, 247-286, 1986.

"The Invisible Category Principle." Linguistic Inquiry 18, 613-632, 1987.

"The autonomy of the (syntactic) lexicon and syntax: insertion conditions for derivational and inflectional morphemes." Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language: Essays in Honor of S.-Y. Kuroda, C. Georgopoulos and R. Ishihara (eds.). Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. Reprinted in ASJU-International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology, 1992.

"Subcategorization and syntax-based theta-role assignment." Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 9, 369-429, 1991.

"Complement selection and the syntactic lexicon: rereading Syntactic Structures." De la musique ŕ la linguistique: Hommages ŕ Nicolas Ruwet, L. Tasmowski and A. Zribi-Hertz (eds.). Communication and Cognition, 1992.

"Economy of Representation: the realizations of X, +__YP." Papers from the 1991 Western Conference of Linguistics, K. Hunt, T. Perry, and V. Samiian (eds.). California State University at Fresno, 1993.

"Projecting indirect objects." Linguistic Review 10, 211-263, 1993.

"Two principles of economy." Paths towards Universal Grammar: Studies in Honor of Richard S. Kayne, G. Cinque et al. (eds.). Georgetown University Press, 1994.

"Deep free and surface bound pronouns." Evolution and Revolution in Linguistic Theory, H. Campos and P. Kempchinksy (eds.). Georgetown University Press, 1995.

"Secondary predication, stationary particles, and silent prepositions." Essays in Linguistics and Philology presented to Professor Kinsuke Hasegawa. A. Baba et al. (eds.). Kenkyusha Press, 1995.

"A mapping principle for linking language-particular morphology with universal syntax." Newcastle-Durham Working Papers in Linguistics. University of Durham, 1996.

"Stating syntactic co-occurrence." Festschrift for Prof. Akira Ota. M. Kajita et al. (eds.) Tokyo: Kenkyusha Press, 1997.

"How clitics license null phrases: a theory of the lexical interface." Empirical Approaches to Language Typology: Clitics in the Languages of Europe. H. van Riemsdijk (ed.). Mouton de Gruyter, 1999.

"Subcategorization as the Unique Source of Null Complements." In Search of the Human Mind-a Festschrift for Prof. Kazuko Inoue. E. Iwamoto et al. (eds.). Kaitakusha Press, 1999.