Publications

2006, `Questions and Questioning in a Local English,' in Crosslinguistic Research in Syntax and Semantics: Negation, Tense, and Clausal Architecture, Raffaella Zanuttini, Héctor Campos, Elena Herburger, Paul H. Portner, eds., Georgetown University Press: 87–126.

2006, `Resumption,' in The Blackwell Companion to Syntax,' Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk, eds., Blackwell Publishing: 94–117.

2005, `Predicates and Heads in Irish Clausal Syntax,' in Verb First: On the Syntax of Verb-Initial Languages, Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley, Sheila Ann Dooley, eds., John Benjamins: 155–174.

2003, `Working on Irish,' GLOT 7.3: 63–72.

2002 `Resumption, Successive Cyclicity, and the Locality of Operations,' in Derivation and Explanation, Samuel Epstein and Daniel Seeley, eds., Blackwell Publishers: 184–226.

2001 `On the Distribution of Subject Properties in Irish,' in Objects and Other Subjects, William D. Davies and Stanley Dubinsky, eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers: 157–192.

2001 `The Morphosyntax of WH-extraction in Irish,' Journal of Linguistics 37: 67–100.

2001 Voices Silenced/Guthanna in Éag, Cois Life: Dublin. [102pp]

2000 `Quantifier Float and Wh-Movement in an Irish English,' Linguistic Inquiry 31: 57–84.

1999 `On the Right Edge in Irish,' Syntax 2: 189–209.

1998 `Trí Nóta Comhréire,' Ériu 49: 165–169.

1997 `Subjecthood and Subject Positions,' in Elements of Grammar, Liliane Haegeman, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers: 197–235.

1997 `Guthanna in Éag,' Irish Times. Wednesday May 7th, 1997.

1997 `A Global Silencing,'Poetry Ireland Review 52: 41–47.

1997. `Progress in Irish?' in Dán do Oide, a Memorial Volume for Conn Ó Cléirigh, Anders Ahlqvist and Vera Capkova, eds., Linguistics Institute of Ireland.

1996. `On the Scope of Verb Movement in Irish,' Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 14: 47–104.

1996. `Subjects and Subject Positions in Irish,' in The Syntax of The Celtic Languages—A Comparative Perspective, Robert Borsley and Ian Roberts, eds., Cambridge University Press: 241–283.

1996 `Nótaí Comhréire,' Ériu 46: 159–164.

1995. `Sluicing and Logical Form,' (with Sandra Chung and William Ladusaw) Natural Language Semantics 3: 239–282.

1994. `Chomsky's 1962 Program for Linguistics: A Retrospective,' with S. R. Anderson, S. Chung and F. Newmeyer, in C. Otero, ed., Noam Chomsky: Critical Assessments (Volume One), Routledge: 691–707.

1993. `Constraints on Syntactic Processes,' in Joachim Jacobs, Arnim von Stechow, Wolfgang Sternefeld and Theo Venneman, eds., SYNTAX: Ein internationales Handbuch zeitgenössischer Forschung, Walter de Gruyter: Berlin and New York: 496–506.

1993. `A crude test for unaccusativity in English,' Syntax At Santa Cruz, Volume 2, ed. by Geoffrey K. Pullum and Eric Potsdam, 21–24, Santa Cruz, California: Linguistics Research Center.

1991. `Control,' in International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, William Bright editor in chief, Oxford University Press: 304–306.

1991. `Clause Structure, Ellipsis and Proper Government in Irish,' Lingua 85: 259–302.

1991. `There, It and Agreement,' Linguistic Inquiry 22: 563–567.

1991. `Coordination and Agreement in Old Irish,' in A Festschrift for William Shipley, J. Hankamer and S. Chung, eds., Syntax Research Center, UC Santa Cruz 105–114.

1990. `Resumptive Pronouns, Ã-Binding and Levels of Representation in Irish,' in The Syntax of the Modern Celtic Languages ed. Randall Hendrick, Volume 23 of Syntax and Semantics, Academic Press: 199–248.

1988. `Control and A-Chains in Modern Irish,' with P. Sells, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 6: 143–189.

1988. `Syntactic Theory,' in F. Newmeyer, ed., Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey, Vol. 1: 18–59, Cambridge University Press.

1987. `Government, Barriers and Small Clauses in Modern Irish,' with S. Chung, Linguistic Inquiry 18: 173–237.

1986. `Inflection and Conjunction in Modern Irish,' Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 4: 245–281.

1986. Review of N. Chomsky: Lectures on Government and Binding, in Journal of Symbolic Logic 50: 238–240.

1986. `Right Node Raising and Preposition Stranding,' Linguistic Inquiry 17: 183–186.

1985. `Case, Movement and Raising in Modern Irish,' in J. Goldberg, S. MacKaye and M. Wescoat, eds., WCCFL Vol. 4: Proceedings of the Fourth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Stanford Linguistics Association, 190–205.

1985. `The Modern Irish Double Relative and Syntactic Binding,' Ériu 36: 45–84.

1984. `Raising, Subcategorization and Selection in Modern Irish,' Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 1: 441–485.

1984. `On the Syntax of Person-Number Inflection in Modern Irish,' with K. Hale, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 1: 487–533.

1983. `On the Interpretation of Certain Island Facts in GPSG,' with S. Chung, Linguistic Inquiry 14: 704–713.

1983. `The Syntax of Inflection in Modern Irish,' with K. Hale, NELS XIII: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistics Society, Montréal, Canada, GLSA, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 173–190.

1983. `String-Vacuous Rule-Application,' with G. N. Clements, J. Maling, and A. Zaenen, Linguistic Inquiry 14: 1–17.

1983. `A VP in a VSO Language?' in G. Gazdar, E. Klein and G. Pullum, eds., Order, Concord and Constituency, Foris Publications, 9–55.

1980. `Is There Raising in Modern Irish?' Ériu 31: 59–99.

1980. `Modern Irish Verbal Nouns and the VP-Complement Analysis,' Linguistic Analysis, 6: 345–357.

1979. Transformational Syntax and Model Theoretic Semantics: A Case-Study in Modern Irish, D. Reidel, Dordrecht and Boston.

1978. A Fragment of a Grammar of Modern Irish, PhD thesis, published as Texas Linguistic Forum 11.

1978. `Stress and Syntax in Old Irish Compound Verbs,' Texas Linguistic Forum 10: 58–71.

1977. `An Acceptable Ambiguity in Modern Irish,' Linguistic Inquiry 8: 604–609.

1976. `Conditions on Transformations in Modern Irish,' in J. Kegl, D. Nash and A. Zaenen, eds., NELS VII: Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistics Society, MIT.