Available here are some recent papers, along with some papers and
handouts that might not be so easily accessible in the normal ways.
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2017:`Prosody, Focus, and Ellipsis in Irish'
with Ryan Bennett
and Emily Elfner
For several years I have been engaged in a collaborative project with
Emily Elfner and Ryan Bennett, which explores various aspects of the
syntax-phonology interface by way of some relevant puzzles
in Irish. This is the third paper to have emerged from the collaboration. The first is available
here; the second (Lightest to the
Right) is available in pre-publication form here.
Please note that this is a substantially revised version of a paper previously available here under the same title.
Abstract
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2017: `Object Positions (in Irish)'
This paper appears in A Schrift to Fest Kyle Johnson, which is available
here.
Abstract
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2017: `Ellipsis, Polarity, and the Cartography of Verb-Initial Orders in Irish'
This is a pre-publication version of a paper which has now appeared in
a festschrift for Liliane Haegeman: Elements of Comparative Syntax:
Theory and Description, edited by
Enoch Aboh,
Eric Haeberli,
Genoveva Puskás and
Manuela Schönenberger,
De Gruyter Mouton: pp 99151.
Abstract
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2016: `Observations and Speculations on Resumption (in Irish)'
This is a revised and expanded version of a paper which appeared originally in a
festschrift for Sandy Chung, edited by Jason Ostrove, Joey Sabbagh and Ruth Kramer and
available here.
Abstract
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2016: `Interpretation and the Typology of Head Movement: A Reassessment'
The handout for a presentation at
the Workshop
on the Status of Head Movement in Linguistic Theory, Stanford
University, September 16th and 17th 2016.
Abstract
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2015:`Annotating the Implicit Content of Sluices'
This is the first publication to have emerged from
the Santa Cruz Ellipsis Project.
Presented at LAW IX,
The 9th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, co-located with
NAACL, June 2015, in Denver Colorado.
Abstract
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2015:`Resumption'
To appear in the revised and updated edition of the
Syntax Companion.
This is a completely re-written and expanded version of the
original chapter and replaces it.
Abstract
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2014:`Irish Existentials in Context'
This is a major re-working of a paper previously available here
under the title Irish Existentials. This version supersedes all
previous versions. It was accepted for publication in Syntax in March 2012 and was published there late in 2014.
Abstract
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2012:`Polarity, Ellipsis, and the Limits of Identity in Irish'
The handout for a talk that I've given in a number of places in recent
years. This version was presented at a Workshop on Ellipsis held at Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan in July 2012.
Abstract
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2011:`Inflection and Silent Arguments in Irish'
The handout for another talk given in a number of places in recent
years. This version was presented at CASTL, Tromsø, in September 2011.
Abstract
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2011:`The Shape of Irish Clauses'
In Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics, ed. Andrew Carnie, Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
143178.
Abstract
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2011:`Sluicing(:) Between Structure and Inference'
With Sandy Chung and Bill Ladusaw. In Gutiérrez-Bravo, Rodrigo, Line Mikkelsen and Eric Potsdam (2011)
Representing Language: Essays in Honor of Judith Aissen. California
Digital Library eScholarship Repository. Linguistic Research Center,
University of California, Santa Cruz. 3150.
Abstract
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2008:`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:
Why Irish?,
Brian Ó Conchubhar and Breandán Ó Buachalla,
eds., Arlen House and Syracuse University Press.
PDF
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2006:`Déantús an Chlásail i gCanúintí na Nua-Ghaeilge'
In Aistí ar an Nua-Ghaeilge - in ómós do Bhreandán Ó Buachalla
ed. Siobhán Ní Laoire, Cois Life, Dublin.
Abstract
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2003:`Working on Irish'
Published in the much lamented GLOT newsletter (7.3: 6372).
Abstract
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2000:`Reciprocals, Parts, and Wholes'
In the The Jorge Hankamer Web Fest.
Abstract
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1998:`Trí Nóta Comhréire'
Ériu 49: 165169.
Abstract
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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.