Bobaljik - Papers

Last update: August 2009

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Current drafts / / handouts / to appear:

Conspiracies in Chukotko-Kamchatkan Agreement. MOWL 1 (June 2009) [slides.pdf]
Disharmony and Decay: Itelmen Vowel Harmony in the Soviet Period. Amsterdam Workshop (January 2009) [handout.pdf]
Gender Markedness: The anatomy of a counter-example. (with Cynthia Levart Zocca). Revised May 2009. To appear in special issue of Morphology.
Word Order and Scope: Transparent Interfaces and the 3/4 Signature. (with Susi Wurmbrand). First draft. July 2008.
On Comparative Suppletion. Draft (lightly revised, July 2007).

2009:

Itelmen: A Language on the Brink. University of Connecticut Humanities Institute. 23 April 2009. [podcast here]
Icelandic Control is not A-Movement: The case from case. (with Idan Landau). pre-print Nov 2007. Linguistic Inquiry 40.1:113-132.

2008:

Case in GB/Minimalism (with Susi Wurmbrand). In Andrej Malchukov and Andrew Spencer, eds. Handbook of Case. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 44-58.
Missing Persons: A Case study in Morphological Universals. The Linguistic Review, special theme issue Examples of Linguistic Universals 25.1-2:203-230.
Where's Phi? Agreement as a Post-Syntactic Operation. In Daniel Harbour, David Adger, and Susana Béjar, eds. Phi-Theory: Phi features across interfaces and modules, Oxford University Press, 295-328.
Paradigms, Optimal and Otherwise: A case for Skepticism. In Asaf Bachrach and Andrew Ira Nevins, eds. Inflectional Identity. Oxford University Press, 29-54.

2007:

The limits of deponency: a Chuktoko-centric perspective. In Matthew Baerman et al., eds., Deponency and morpho-syntactic mismatches. London, The British Academy/Oxford University Press, 175-201.
Complex predicates, aspect and anti-reconstruction (with Susi Wurmbrand) Journal of East Asian Linguistics 16:27-42.

2006

Problems with Honorification-As-Agreement in Japanese: A reply to Boeckx & Niinuma (with Kazuko Yatsushiro) Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 24:355-384
Itelmen Reduplication: Edge-In Association and Lexical Stratification Journal of Linguistics
Eccentric Agreement and Multiple Case-Checking (with Phil Branigan) in Alana Johns, Diane Massam & Juvenal Ndayiragije (eds.), Ergativity: Emerging Issues, Springer: Dordrecht.

2005

Adjacency, PF and Extraposition (with Susi Wurmbrand). In Broekhuis et al, eds. Organizing Grammar: Linguistic Studies in Honor of Henk van Riemsdijk.
The Domain of Agreement (with Susi Wurmbrand) Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 23, 809-865.
Itelmen Diminutives: A belated reply to Perlmutter 1988. In Yearbook of Morphology 2004.
Re: CycLin and the role of PF in Object Shift (commentary on papers by Erteschik-Shir and Fox and Pesetsky) Theoretical Linguistics 31: 111-125.

2004

Clustering Theories. In Katalin É. Kiss and Henk van Riemsdijk, eds. Verb clusters: A study of Hungarian, German and Dutch. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 121-145.
Anti-reconstruction effects are anti-reconstruction effects. (with Susi Wurmbrand) Proceedings of CLA. Superseded by Bobaljik & Wurmbrand 2005, NLLT.
Long distance agreement, restructuring and anti-recontruction. (with Susi Wurmbrand) Proceedings of NELS 33. Superseded by Bobaljik & Wurmbrand 2005, NLLT.

2003

Auspicious Compounds. In Theres Grüter and Tomokazu Takehisa, eds. Papers in Memory of Lara Riente, McGill Working Papers in Linguistics vol 17.2, 65-71
Realizing Germanic Inflection: Why Morphology Does Not Drive Syntax. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
Floating Quantifiers: Handle with care. (revision of 1998 Glot article and bibliography) In Lisa Cheng and Rint Sybesma, eds. The Second Glot International State-of-the-Article Book. Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 107-148.

2002

Paradigmaticity without paradigms. Handout [Rutgers version]; parts of this presentation included in 2008 paper: Paradigms, Optimal and Otherwise.
A-Chains at the PF-Interface: Copies and "Covert" Movement. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20.2, 197-267.
Syncretism without paradigms: Remarks on Williams 1981, 1994. Yearbook of Morphology 2001.
Notes on Agreement in Itelmen. (with Susi Wurmbrand) Linguistic Discovery 1.1

2001

2000

The Ins and Outs of Contextual Allomorphy. In K.K. Grohmann and C. Struijke, eds., University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics, volume 10, 35-71.

1999

1998

Floating Quantifiers: Handle with care [State of the Article] Glot International 3.6: 3-10; Revised version published 2003.
Visions and Realities: Researcher-Activist-Indigenous Collaboration in Indigenous Language Maintenance.
In Erich Kasten, ed. Bicultural Education in the North: Ways of Preserving and Enhancing Indigenous Languages and Traditional Knowledge, Waxman Verlag, Berlin, 13-28.
Pseudo-Ergativity in Chukotko-Kamchatkan Agreement Systems. In Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes, vol 27. Special issue on Ergativity, Léa Nash, ed. Pp. 21-44.
Two heads aren't always better than one (with Höskuldur Thráinsson) Syntax 1.1, 37-71
Mostly Predictable: Cyclicity and the distribution of schwa in Itelmen. Proccedings of WECOL 9, U.C. Santa Cruz (1996) [ROA 208-0797]

1997

If the Head Fits:..On the Morphological Determination of Germanic Syntax. In Linguistics 35 (1997), 1029-1055. Paper.ps.gz
Interarboreal Operations: head Movement and the Extension Requirement. Linguistic Inquiry 28.2, 345-356.

1996

Subject Positions and the Roles of TP (with Dianne Jonas) Linguistic Inquiry, 27.2 pp. 195-236.
Jonathan Bobaljik, Rob Pensalfini and Luciana Storto, eds. Papers on Language Endangerment and the Maintenance of Linguistic Diversity (MITWPL 1996), includes a bibliography on language endangerment, published online at Terralingua.

1995 and earlier

In Terms of Merge: Copy and Head Movement. In Pensalfini and Ura, eds. MITWPL 27. [1995]
Ergativity and Ergative Unergatives. [pdf with minor pagination/font issues]. In C. Phillips, ed., MIT Working Papers in Linguistics vol. 19: Papers on Case and Agreement II, pp. 45-88. [1993]