Available here are some recent papers, along with some papers and handouts that might not be so easily accessible in the normal ways.
Lightest to the Right: An Apparently Anomalous
Displacement in Irish
(with Ryan Bennett
and Emily Elfner)
For several years I have been engaged in a project with
Emily
Elfner
and Ryan Bennett
which involves exploration of the syntax-prosody interface
in Irish. In the course of that investigation, we are led to
analyze certain rightward displacements as being fundamentally
prosodic, rather than syntactic, in nature. The paper above, along
with this one, represents the principal
outcome of the collaboration so far.
Inflection and Silent Arguments in Irish
The handout for a talk that I've given in a number of places in recent
years. This version was presented at CASTL, Tromsų, in September 2011.
Irish Existentials in Context
This is a major re-working of a paper previously available here
under the title Irish Existentials. It supersedes all
previous versions and is scheduled to appear in Syntax.
Déantús an Chlásail i
gCanúintí na Nua-Ghaeilge
Irish as a World Language
This is the written version of a talk presented at
the seminar Why Irish? held at Notre Dame University
on September 30th, 2005. Now in a volume of the same name from
Arlen House Press/Syracuse University Press.
Resumption
Working on Irish
The Prosody of Quantifier Float under WH-Movement in West Ulster English
Reciprocals, Parts, and Wholes
Trí Nóta Comhréire
Varia and Ephemera
Below are some papers which
are not intended for formal
publication in anything much like their current form. They are made
available in the hope that they might be useful or interesting.