A. Formal grammar:
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under review | Specificational sentences: an investigation into syntax, semantics and information structure. Ms. submitted to MIT Press. (co-authored with Caroline Heycock) |
2001 | Studies in General Linguistics. Beijing: Beijing University Language and Culture Press. |
under contract | An Introduction to Transformational Syntax, a textbook in the linguistics series of Harcourt Brace. (co-authored with Beatrice Santorini) |
1989 | Alternative Conceptions of Phrase Structure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (volume edited with Mark Baltin) |
1979 | The Semantics of Scope in English. New York: Garland Publishing Co. |
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2002 | "Topic, focus, and syntactic representations." In Line Mikkelsen and Chris Potts (eds.) Proceedings of WCCFL 21. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, pp. 141—165. (with C. Heycock) |
1999 | "Pseudocleft connectivity: implications for the LF interface level." Linguistic Inquiry.30(3):365—398. (with Caroline Heycock) |
1998 | "Amount quantification, referentiality, and long wh-movement." Dimitriadis et al. (eds.), Penn Working Papers in Linguistics. (reprinting of 1989 paper) |
1998 | "Inversion and equation in copular sentences." Wilder et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the ZAS Workshop on (pseudo)clefts. (with Caroline Heycock) |
1998 | "Pseudocleft sentences." In Beck et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Tübingen Workshop on the Syntax/Semantics Interface. (with Caroline Heycock) |
1995 | "Generalized Transformations and the Theory of Grammar." Studia Linguistica.49(2):103—151. (with Robert Frank) |
1994 | "Verb Movement and Coordination in a Relational Theory of Licensing." The Linguistic Review.11:257—283. (with Caroline Heycock) |
1994 | "Nominal Structures and Structural Recursion." Computational Intelligence.10:453—470. (with Robert Frank) |
1994 | "Morphosyntactic Variation." In Beals et al., (eds.),Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, vol. 2, pp. 180—201. |
1992 | "CP-recursion and its Relevance to the Germanic Verb-Second Phenomenon." In Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax, vol. 50, pp. 1—24. (with Sabine Iatridou) |
1991 | "The Derived Constituent Structure of the West Germanic Verb Raising Construction." In Freidin, (ed.), Principles and Parameters in Comparative Grammar. Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 269—338. (with Beatrice Santorini) |
1989 | "Asymmetries in Long Distance Extraction in a Tree Adjoining Grammar." In Baltin and Kroch, (eds.), Alternative Conceptions of Phrase Structure. |
1987 | "Unbounded Dependencies and Subjacency in a Tree Adjoining Grammar." In A. Manaster-Ramer, (ed.), Mathematics of Language. Philadelphia: John Benjamins. |
1987 | "Extraposition in a Tree Adjoining Grammar." In Huck, et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Conference on Discontinuous Constituents. Syntax and Semantics, vol. 20. New York: Academic Press. (with Aravind Joshi) |
1985 | "The Linguistic Relevance of Tree Adjoining Grammar." University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report no. MS-CIS-85-16. (with Aravind Joshi) |
B. Historical linguistics:
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under contract | Introduction to Historical Linguistics, a textbook in the red series of Cambridge University Press. (co-authored with Donald Ringe) |
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2005 | The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English. A syntactically annotated corpus of 1.3 million words of running Middle English text from the Helsinki corpus and elsewhere. Philadelphia: Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania. Available at www.ling.upenn.edu/mideng. (with Beatrice Santorini) |
2001 | "Verb-object order in early Middle English." In Pintzuk, Tsoulas and Warner (eds.), Diachronic Syntax: Models and Mechanisms. pp. 132-163, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (with Ann Taylor) |
2000 | "The rise of do-support in English: implications for clause structure." In Proceedings of NELS 30. (with Chung-hye Han) |
2000 | The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English, second edition. A syntactically annotated corpus of 1.3 million words of running Middle English text from the Helsinki corpus and elsewhere. Philadelphia: Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania. Available at www.ling.upenn.edu/hist-corpora/. (with Ann Taylor) |
2000 | "Syntactic change." In Mark Baltin and Chris Collins, eds., The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory. pp. 629-739, Malden, MA: Blackwells. |
2000 | "The Middle English verb-second constraint: a case study in language contact and language change." In Susan Herring, Lene Schoesler, and Pieter van Reenen. (eds.), Textual Parameters in Older Language, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 195. pp. 353—391, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (with Ann Taylor and Donald Ringe) |
1997 | "Comments on the Syntax Shindig papers." Transactions of the Philological Society.95(1):133—147. |
1997 | "Verb movement in Old and Middle English: Dialect variation and language contact." In Ans van Kemenade and Nigel Vincent (eds.), Parameters of Morphosyntactic Change. pp. 297—325. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (with Ann Taylor) |
1989 | "Reflexes of Grammar in Patterns of Language Change." Language Variation and Change. vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 199—244. |
1989 | "The Rightward Movement of Complements and Adjuncts in the Old English of Beowulf." Language Variation and Change. vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 115—144. (with Susan Pintzuk) |
1989 | "Function and Grammar in the History of English: Periphrastic do." In Fasold and Schiffrin, (eds.), Language Variation and Change: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. vol. 52. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 133 — 172. |
C. Sociolinguistics:
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1995 | "Dialect and Style in the Speech of Upper Class Philadelphia." In Gregory Guy, John Baugh, Deborah Schiffrin & Crawford Feagin (eds.), Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in Honor of William Labov. vol. 1, pp. 23—46, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. |
1983 | "Syntactic Interference from the Spoken Language in the Prose of Unskilled Writers." In M. Siegel and T. Olson, (eds.), Writing Talks. New York: Boynton/Cook. |
1980 | "A Quantitative Study of the Syntax of Speech and Writing." Final report to the NIE on grant G78-0169. |
1978 | "Toward a Theory of Social Dialect Variation." Language in Society, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 1978. Reprinted in H. Allen and M. Linn, (eds.), Dialects and Language Variation. New York: Academic Press. |
1978 | "Grammatical Ideology and its Effect on Speech," In D. Sankoff (ed.), Linguistic Variation: Models and Methods. New York: Academic Press. (with Cathy Small) |