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

"Passive Syntactic Structures." Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Kobe Shoin 4, 1-29, 2001.
- Argues that adjectival agreement causes suppression of external theta roles in all analytic passives.

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"La relation entre la Dislocation à Droite et le clitique franco-italien en/ne." Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan 119, 1-32, 2001.

- Counter to widespread assumptions, Romance clitics always represent clause-mates of a verb.

"The Flat Structure Economy of Semi-Lexical Heads." Semi-Lexical Categories: The Function of Content Words and the Content of Function Words. N. Corver and H. van Riemsdijk (eds.). Mouton de Gruyter, 23-66, 2001

- Explores explanations available for many recalcitrant paradigms by re-introducing flat structures.
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"The Lower Operator Position with Parasitic Gaps," Features and Interfaces in Romance. J. Herschensohn, E. Mallén and K. Zagona (eds.), 85-106. John Benjamins, 2001.

- Revives Chomsky's anti-c-command condition and locates lower operators in SPEC(IP/ DP).

"A Common Basis for Syntax and Morphology: Tri-level Lexical Insertion." Many Morphologies. P. Boucher (ed.), 235-262. Cascadilla Press, 2002.

- Argues against any version of "autonomous morphology" and in favor of restricted late insertion.
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"Formatting Lexical Entries: Interface Optionality and Zero." Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Kobe Shoin 5, 1-22, 2002.

- Justifies utilization and uniform format for both Ø and parentheses in all parts of lexical entries.

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Extensive review article: "The Lexicon-Syntax Interface," Junya Morita, English Linguistics 20-2 (2003), 584-608, and response: "The Computational Lexicon," English Linguistics 22-1, 1-35.

"Two Types of Lexical Access: Why Syntacticon Items can be Null." Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Kobe Shoin 6, 1-23, 2003.

- Examines asymmetric design features that distinguish the open and closed class lexicons.

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With Rosemarie Ostler. "Thirty Years of Double Object Debates." The Blackwell Companion to Syntax. Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.). Blackwell Publishing, 2006.

- Summarizes outcomes of debates on double objects and situates current open questions.
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"Adjectival Passives." The Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Vol 1. Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.). Blackwell Publishing, 2006.

- Summarizes outcomes of debates on adjectival passives and situates current open questions.
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"English Indirect Passives." Facts and Explanations in Linguistic Theory: A Festschrift for Masaru Kajita. Shuji Chiba et al. (eds.), 19-41. Kaitakusha Press, 2003.

"Unspecified Catgories as the Key to Root Constructions." Peripheries: Syntactic Edges and their Effects. D. Adger, C. de Cat and G. Tsoulas (eds.), 75-120. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.

- Argues that all instances of Move are substitutions that strictly preserve structure, whose targets in root sentences consist of category-less discourse shells.

"Organizace lexikonu (Two Types of Lexical Access: Why such Design?)" Čestina- univeriáLia specifika 5, Z. Hladká & P. Karl k (eds.), 9-32. Lidové noviny Brno, 2004.

"How do we Construct Convergent Numerations?" Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Kobe Shoin 7,1-20, 2004.

- Crucially uses the Syntacticon to define a new relation between a competence model of syntactic derivations and tentative performance models of comprehension and production.

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"From Primate to Human in Two Easy Steps." Festschrift for Lars Hellan. T. Afarli and M. Vulchanova (eds.). Novus Forlag, 2005.

- Proposes that (only) the discrete categories of primate vision play a fundamental role in the earliest evolution of a system of grammatical categories.

"The Computational Lexicon." English Linguistics 22, 232-266, 2005.

- answers a range of critiques in J. Morita's review of Lexicon and Grammar in English Linguistics. It also incorporates and extends that author's proposal that non-productive derivational morphemes and inflections can be special cases of productive late-inserted grammatical morphology.

"Syntactic Conditions on Phonetically Empty morphemes," Organizing Grammar. Linguistic Studies in Honor of Henk van Riemsdijk. Hans Broekhuis, Norbert Corver, Riny Huybregts, Ursula Kleinhenz and Jan Koster (eds.), Mouton de Gruyter, 111-121, 2005.

- Proposes and justifies a general criterion for when grammatical categories must be listed as null allomorphs in the Syntacticon vs. when only their "alternatively realized" counterparts must be.

"How Much should we Distribute Morphology?" Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Kobe Shoin 9, 1-25, 2006.

- Argues that no principles or rules are actually specific to any "Morphological Component" or level of "Morphological Structure "; i.e., that morphology should be "fully distributed."

Discovering Syntax: Clause Structures of English, German and Romance. Mouton de Gruyter, 2007, 393 pages.

"Q: the only Functional Head above N and A." Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Kobe Shoin, 10, 2007.

- Argues that only one functional head (Q) expressing existential quantification and numerals is needed in extended nominal and adjectival projections. Members of Q_A include more, less, as, too, that and this. SPEC(Q_N) contains universal quantifiers and possessive phrases, while SPEC(Q_A) contains measure phrases.

"Syntax and Semantic Constraints on Null Lexical Items."* Lexical Forum, T. Kageyama (ed.) 2007.

- Extends the claims and arguments of "Syntactic Conditions" above to cover the lexical form of phonetically null items and their limitation to the closed class lexicon.

"Czech Cases and the Syntacticon." Czech in Generative Grammar, Mojmir Dočekal, Petr Karlík and Jana Zmrz.íková (eds.). Lincom GmbH, 2007.

- Proposes a system of case assigners based on features of P for the genitive, locative, dative and instrumental cases, and formulates closed class lexical entries for the morphemes that realize these assignments. In particular, the paper argues that dative and locative case assigners are limited to lexical and empty P that are members of the closed class "Syntacticon."

"Q: the one and only Functional Head." Phrases Fantômes: Festschrift for Ann Banfield, Robert Kawashima, Gilles Phillippe and Thelma Sowley (eds.) Peter Lang, 2008.

- Extends the argumentation of the 2007 essay on Q to PPs and more crucially to IPs. The functional head I is identified with Q_V and its content is claimed to crucially require specification for number, i.e. agreement. The role of a subject phrase in SPEC(Q_VP) is then to provide this specification, explaining obligatory unique subjects as well as number agreement in English-type languages.

"Valuing V features and N features: What Adjuncts tell us about Case, Agreement, and syntax in general." Papers from GLOW 2006, Oxford University Press, 2008.

- A first section describes many superficially diverse adjuncts. These are then reduced to two types: underlying PPs and "agreeing" adjuncts. The paper proposes to answer: why only these two? A general principle for "valuing" basic N and V features emerges, which identifies Abstract Case with "valued N" and complement positions with "valued V."

*   Much material in this essay has been extracted and reorganized from articles in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Kobe-Shoin, numbers 5 (2002) and 6 (2003), and from my contribution to the Festschrift for Henk van Riemsdijk, Emonds (2005).