Peter Sells - Papers

Peter Sells: Recent Papers and Publications

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  • Optimality Theory

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    Backward and Forward Control and Raising in LFG via Subsumption. 2006.   In Miriam Butt and Tracy King (eds.) Proceedings of LFG-06, Universitaet Konstanz. Online Proceedings, CSLI Publications.

    Words versus Phrases in Syntactic Theory. 2004. Studies in Modern Grammar 38, 1-26.

    Comments on Object Shift and Cyclic Linearization. 2005. Review of the papers by Erteshik-Shir and by Fox and Pesetsky. In Katalin E. Kiss (ed.), special edition of Theoretical Linguistics 31, 185-198.

    Finiteness in Non-Transformational Syntactic Frameworks. 2006. To appear in Irina Nikolaeva (eds.) Finiteness: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

    Preposition Incorporation in Modern Mandarin: Economy within VP. 2006. [Jeeyoung Peck and Peter Sells].   In Miriam Butt and Tracy King (eds.) Proceedings of LFG-06, Universitaet Konstanz. Online Proceedings, CSLI Publications.

    Honorification in Korean as Expressive Meaning. 2006. [Peter Sells and Jong-Bok Kim]. Korean Linguistics 13, 167-195.

    Copy Constructions and their Interaction with the Copula in Korean. 2005. [Jong-Bok Kim and Peter Sells]. In Stefan Mueller (ed.) Proceedings of HPSG-05. Stanford, CSLI Publications online, 213-231.

    Case Assignment in the Clause on Adjuncts. 2006. [Jong-Bok Kim and Peter Sells]. Proceedings of the 11th Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Harvard University, 506-519.

    Interactions of Negative Polarity Items in Korean. 2006. Proceedings of the 11th Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Harvard University, 724-737.

    Oblique Case Marking on Core Arguments. 2004. In Jong-Bok Kim and Byung-Soo Park (eds.) Perspectives on Korean Case and Case Marking. Seoul, Thaehaksa, 151-182.

    Korean Copular Constructions: A Lexical Sharing Approach. 2004. [Jong-Bok Kim, Peter Sells and Michael T. Wescoat]. To appear in M. Hudson, S.-A. Jun and P. Sells (eds.) Proceedings of the 13th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. Stanford, CSLI Publications.

    Mismatches between Morphology and Syntax in Japanese Complex Predicates. [Masayo Iida and Peter Sells]. 2004. To appear in special issue of Lingua, Irina Nikoleva and Andrew Spencer (eds.).

    Contrastive Verb Constructions in Korean. 2004. [Sae-Youn Cho, Jong-Bok Kim and Peter Sells]. Proceedings of the 10th Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Harvard University.

    Negative Imperatives in Korean. 2004. Proceedings of the 10th Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Harvard University.

    On the Role of Argument Structure in Focus Projections. 2003. [Chan Chung, Jong-Bok Kim and Peter Sells]. Proceedings of the 39th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. University of Chicago, Department of Linguistics. (doc file)

    Some Observations on the Distribution of Nominative Objects in Korean. 2002. In S.-O. Lee et al. (eds.) Pathways into Korean Language and Culture: Essays in Honor of Young-Key Kim-Renaud. Seoul, Pagijong Press, 357-385.

    Argument-Structure Properties and Case-Marking in Complex Predicates. 2002. Proceedings of the Workshop on Complex Predicates, Linguistic Society of Korea, Kyung-Hee University, Seoul.

    Mixed Categories and Multiple Inheritance Hierarchies in English and Korean Gerundive Phrases.  [Chan Chung, Jong-Bok Kim, Byung-Soo Park and Peter Sells].   2001.  Language Research (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Korea) 37. (postscript file)

    Three Aspects of Negation in Korean.  2001.  Journal of Linguistic Studies (Linguistic Society of Cheju), 6, 1-15.

    Negative Polarity Licensing and Interpretation.  2001.  In S. Kuno et al. (eds.) Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics 9.  Harvard University, 3-22.

    Constituent Order as Alignment.  1999.  In S. Kuno et al. (eds.) Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics 8.  Harvard University, 546-560.

    Structural Relationships Within Complex Predicates.  1998.  In Byung-Soo Park and James Hye Suk Yoon (eds.) Selected Papers from the 11th meeting of the International Circle of Korean Linguists. ICKL, Seoul, 115-147.

    Japanese Postposing Involves No Movement.  Presented at the meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Lancaster, April 1998. Revised version of August 1999 now posted here.

    Optimality and Economy of Expression in Japanese and Korean.  1998.  In Noriko Akatsuka et al. (eds.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics 7. CSLI, Stanford Linguistics Association, 499-514.

    Positional Constraints and Faithfulness in Morphology.  1997.  In S. Kuno et al. (eds.) Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics 7.  Harvard University, 488-503.

    Morphological Expression and Ordering in Korean and Japanese.  1996. Language Research (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Korea) 32, 601-620.

    Case, Categories, and Projection in Korean and Japanese.  1996.  In Hee-Don Ahn, Myung-Yoon Kang, Yong-Suck Kim, and Sookhee Lee (eds.), Morphosyntax in Generative Grammar (Proceedings of 1996 Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar).  The Korean Generative Grammar Circle, Hankwuk Publishing Co., Seoul, 47-62.

    The Projection of Phrase Structure and Argument Structure in Japanese. 1996.  In Takao Gunji (ed.) Studies on the Universality of Constraint-Based Phrase Structure Grammars. Report of the International Scientific Research Program, Joint Research, Project No. 06044133.  Osaka University, Graduate School of Language and Culture, 39-60.

    The Function of Voice Markers in the Philippine Languages.  1998.  In Steven Lapointe et al. (eds.) Morphology and Its Relation to Phonology and Syntax. Stanford, CSLI Publications, 111-137.

    Raising and the Order of Clausal Constituents in the Philippine Languages.  2000.  In Ileana Paul, Vivianne Phillips and Lisa Travis (eds.) Formal Issues in Austronesian Linguistics. Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 117-143. 

    The Peripherality of the Icelandic Expletive.  2005.  In Miriam Butt and Tracy King (eds.) Proceedings of LFG-05, University of Bergen. Online Proceedings, CSLI Publications, 408-428.

    Morphological and Constructional Expression and Recoverability of Verbal Features. 2005. In C. Orhan Orgun and Peter Sells (eds.) Morphology and the Web of Grammar: Essays in Memory of Steven G. Lapointe. Stanford, CSLI Publications, 197-224.

    Syntactic Information and Its Morphological Expression.  2004.  In Andrew Spencer and Louisa Sadler (eds.) Projecting Morphology. Stanford, CSLI Publications, 187-225.

    Stylistic Fronting in Icelandic: A Base-Generated Construction. 2002. Gengo Kenkyuu (Journal of the
    Linguistic Society of Japan) 123, 257-297.

    Negation in Swedish: Where It's Not At.  2000.  In Miriam Butt and Tracy King (eds.) Proceedings of LFG-00, University of California, Berkeley, July 2000. Online Proceedings, CSLI Publications.

    OT-LFG. 2004. To appear in Keith Brown (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition. Oxford, Elsevier Limited.

    The INPUT and Faithfulness in OT Syntax. 2003. In In Jennifer Spenader, Anders Eriksson and Oesten Dahl (ed.) Proceedings of the workshop on Variation within Optimality Theory, University of Stockholm, 92-101.

    Form and Function in the Typology of Grammatical Voice Systems. 2001. In G. Legendre, J. Grimshaw, and S. Vikner (eds.) Optimality-Theoretic Syntax. Cambridge, MIT Press.

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