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Relative embeddings: A Circassian puzzle for the syntax/semantics interface (manuscript). With Maria Polinsky. COMMENTS ARE WELCOME!
   
The nominal nature of where, when, and how: Evidence from free relatives.(2009). With Lisa Pearl. A slightly different version appeared in Linguistic Inquiry 40(1): 155-164..
   
Almost everything is relative in the Caucasus. (2008). With Maria Polinsky. In T. Friedman and S. Ito (eds), Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) XVIII, pp. 158-175. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University.
   
Relatively speaking (in Circassian). (2008). With Maria Polinsky. A slightly different version appeared in Natasha Abner and Jason Bishop (eds), Proceedings of 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 27), pp. 81-89. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
   
On the syntax and semantics of question-answer pairs in American Sign Language. (2008). With Kathryn Davidson (first author) and Rachel Mayberry. In T. Friedman and S. Ito (eds), Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) XVIII, pp. 212-229. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University.
   
Clausal question-answer pairs: Evidence from American Sign Language. (2008). With Kathryn Davidson (first author) and Rachel Mayberry. A slightly different version appeared in Natasha Abner and Jason Bishop (eds), Proceedings of 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 27), pp. 108-115. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
   
Silent prepositions: Evidence from free relatives.(2008) A slightly different version appeared in Anna Asbury, Jakub Dotlacil, Berit Gehrke, and Rick Nouwen (eds), The Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P, pp. 365-385. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
   
Rhetorical questions as questions. (2007). With Jon Sprouse. In Estela Puig Waldmüller (ed.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11, pp. 121-133. Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
   
The non concealed nature of free relatives: Implications for connectivity crosslinguistically. (2007). With Daphna Heller. A slightly different version appeared in Chris Barker and Pauline Jacobson (eds.), Direct Compositionality, pp. 237-263. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
   
The semantic contribution of wh-words and type shifts: evidence from free relatives crosslinguistically. (2004). A slightly different version with a few typos in the references appeared in Robert B. Young (ed.), Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) XIV, pp. 38-55. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications, Cornell University.
   
Parameterizing passive participle movement. (2003). With Carson T. Schütze. A slightly different version appeared in Linguistic Inquiry 34 (2): 293-308.
   
Unbalanced coordination in Maasai. (2003). In Jason Kandybowicz (ed.), Papers in African Linguistics 3, UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics 9, pp. 1-16. Los Angeles, CA: Department of Linguistics, UCLA.
   
On the source of maximality in wh-constructions crosslinguistically. (2002). A slightly different version appeared in Mary Andronis, Erin Debenport, Anne Pycha & Keiko Yoshimura (eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS 38), pp. 129-143. Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistics Society.
   
Free relatives as DPs with a silent D and a CP complement.(2002). A slightly different version appeared in Vida Samiian (ed.), Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics 2000 (WECOL 2000), Fresno, CA: California State University.
   
Report on the 38th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS 38), Chicago, April 25-27, 2002. (2002). GLOT International, 6 (7).
   
On the semantics of indefinite free relatives. (2001). A slightly different version appeared in Marjo van Koppen, Joanna Sio, and Mark de Vos (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th Meeting of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE X), pp. 49-62. Leiden: SOLE.
   
Is essere not to be? Evidence from acquisition. (2000). A slightly different version appeared in Jill Gilkerson, Misha Becker and Nina Hyams (eds.), Language Development and Breakdown, UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics 5, pp. 40-55. Los Angeles, CA: Department of Linguistics, UCLA.
   
 
 
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Free Not to Ask: On the Semantics of Free Relatives and Wh-Words Cross-linguistically. (2003). Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Los Angeles.
   
Too Similar To Be That Close. Coalescence and lengthening of identical segments in Italian. (2000). ms. University of California, Los Angeles.
   
   
   
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