Publications

September 2011

Books
1997 On the Typology of Wh-Questions. Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.
1991 On the Typology of Wh-Questions.  PhD Dissertation. MIT.

Inaugural Lecture
2001 Het is allemaal wat, Leiden University, January 2001.

Edited Books
2006 Wh-movement Moving on. MIT Press (edited with Norbert Corver).
2003 The second Glot International State-of-the-Article Book. Mouton de Gruyter, (edited with Rint Sybesma).
2000 The first Glot International State-of-the-Article Book. Mouton de Gruyter, (edited with Rint Sybesma).
1991 Papers on Wh-movement. MITWPL volume 13, M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts (edited with Hamida Demirdash).
1991 More Papers on Wh-movement. MITWPL volume 15, M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts (edited with Hamida Demirdash).

Book Chapters
To appear    “Mandarin,” in Artemis Alexiadou et al. (eds.) The Handbook of Contemporary Syntax. Mouton de Gruyter. (with Rint Sybesma).
To appear “Counting and Classifiers,” in Diane Massam (ed.) Count and Mass. Oxford University Press.
To appear “Against FocusP: arguments from Zulu,” in Ivona Kucerova and Ad Neeleman (eds.) Information Structure (with Laura Downing).
To appear “The Non-uniformity of Wh-indeterminates with Free Choice in Chinese,” in Kook-hee Gil and George Tsoulas (eds.) Quantificational Structures (with Anastasia Giannakidou). Oxford University Press.
2009 “On every type of quantificational expression in Chinese,” in Monika Rathert and Anastasia Giannakidou (eds.) Quantification, Definiteness, and Nominalization, 53-75, Oxford University Press.
2007 “Verb copying in Mandarin Chinese,” in Norbert Corver and Jairo Nunes (eds.) The Copy Theory of Movement On the PF Side, John Benjamins, p. 151- 174.
2007 “The autonomy of syntax,” in A. in ‘t Groen, H. J. de Jonge, E. Klasen, H. Papma, P. van Slooten (eds.) Knowedge in Ferment, dilemmas in science, scholarship and society, Leiden University Press, p. 209-226.
2006 “Lines of inquiry on Wh-movement,” in L. Cheng and N. Corver (eds.) Whmovement Moving on, MIT Press (with Norbert Corver), p. 1-18.
2006 “A Chinese Relative,” in H. Broekhuis, N. Corver, R. Huybregts, U. Kleinhenz, J. Koster (eds.) Organizing Grammar. Linguistic Studies in Honor of Henk van Riemsdijk, Mouton (with Rint Sybesma), p. 69-76.
2005 “The nominal cleft construction in Coptic Egyptian,” in K. É. Kiss (ed.) Universal Grammar in the Reconstruction of Ancient Languages, Mouton (with Chris Reintges and Anikó Lipták), p. 105-135.
2005 “Classifiers in four varieties of Chinese,” in G. Cinque and R.S. Kayne (eds.) Handbook of Comparative Syntax, Oxford University Press (with Rint Sybesma), p. 259-292.
2000 “Moving just the feature,” in Uli Lutz, Gereon Müller and A. von Stechow (eds.) Wh-Scope Marking. John Benjamins Ltd., Amsterdam, p. 77-99.
1996 “Negative Particle Questions: A Dialectal Comparison,” in James R. Black and Virginia Motapanyane (eds.) Microparametric Syntax and dialectal Variation. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 139. John Benjamins Ltd., Amsterdam and Philadelphia, p. 41-78. (with James Huang and Jane Tang) [supported by CCK Foundation Grant]
1994 “On the Argument Structure of Resultative Compounds,” in Matthew Chen and Ovid Tzeng (eds.) A Festschrift for William S.-Y. Wang, p. 187-221 (with James Huang)
1993 “External Arguments in Basque,” in J. I. Hualde and J. Ortiz de Urbina (eds.) Studies in Basque Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing Co., Amsterdam/Philadelphia, p. 71-87 (with Hamida Demirdash).

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Articles
2010 “The Biological Nature of Human Language,” Biolinguistics 4.1: 004-34 (with Anna Maria Di Sciullo as first author, and 11 other colleagues).
2010 “Locative relatives in Zulu,” In ZAS Working Papers in Linguistics, Downing, L., A. Rialland, J. -M. Beltzung, S. Manus, C. Patin and K. Riedel (eds.) Papers from the Workshop on Bantu Relative Clauses.  Berlin: ZAS, 33-51 (with Laura Downing).
2010 “Cantonese as a Tense Second Language,” in Jan-Wouter Zwart and Mark de Vries (eds.) Structure Preserved, Studies in syntax for Jan Koster, 73-79, John Benjamins.
2009  De, 的 as an underspecified classifier: first exploration.  Lucong (with Rint Sybesma)
2009 “Wh-in-situ from the 1980s to now,” Language and Linguistics Compass 3.3: 767-791, Blackwell Publishing.
2009 “Trapped at the edge: on long distance pair-list readings,” Lingua (with Hamida Demirdache)
2009 “Where is the topic in Zulu,” The Linguistic Review 2009 (with Laura Downing).
2008 “Deconstructing the shi…de construction,” The Linguistic Review
2008 “How universal is the Universal Grinder,” Linguistics in the Netherlands 2008: 50-62 (with Jenny Doetjes and Rint Sybesma).
2007 “Phonological and syntactic phrasing in Bemba relatives,” Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (with Nancy Kula).
2007 “The prosody and syntax of Zulu relative clauses,” SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics 15, 51-63 (with Laura Downing).
2006 “(In)definiteness, polarity, and the role of wh-morphology in Free Choice,” Journal of Semantics 23, 135-183 (with Anastasia Giannakidou).
2006 “Syntactic and phonological phrasing in Bemba,” ZAS Working Papers in Linguistics, Downing L., L. Marten and S. Zerbian (eds.), p. 31-54 (with Nancy Kula).
2006 “Decomposing Bantu Relatives,” NELS 36, Christopher Davis, Amy Rose Deal, and Youri Zabbal (eds.), 197-215.
2004 “Postverbal ‘can’ in Cantonese (and Hakka) and Agree,” Lingua 114.4., 419- 446 (with Rint Sybesma).
2003 “Forked modality,” Linguistics in the Netherlands 2003, 13-23 (with Rint Sybesma).
2003 “Wh-in-situ,” Glot International 7.4 (103-109) & 7.5. (129-137).,
2000 “Licensing Wh-in-situ,” SYNTAX 3.1, 1-19 (with Johan Rooryck).
1999 “Bare and not-so-bare nouns and the structure of NP,” Linguistic Inquiry 30.4, 509-542 (with Rint Sybesma).
1999 “Hoo Hoo Hoo in Taiwanese,” in Pang-Hsin Ting, ed. Contemporary Studies on the Min Dialects, Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph Series #14, 146-203 (with James Huang, Audrey Li, and Jane Tang). [supported by CCK Foundation Grant]
1998 “On dummy objects and the transitivity of run,” in Renée van Bezooijen and René Kager (eds.) Linguistics in the Netherlands 1998, 81-93 (with Rint Sybesma).
1998 “Yi-wang Tang, yi-ge Tang: Classifiers and Massifiers,” Tsing-Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, New Series XXVIII: 3, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, 385-412 (with Rint Sybesma).
1997 ““Partial” Wh-movement,” in Luther C.-S. Liu and Kazue Takeda (eds.) UCI Working Papers in Linguistics 3:27-50.
1997 “Causative Compounds across Chinese Dialects: a study of Cantonese, Mandarin and Taiwanese,” Chinese Languages and Linguistics IV: Typological Studies of Languages in China, Symposium Series of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, p. 199-224. (with James Huang, Audrey Li, and Jane Tang). [supported by CCK Foundation Grant]
1997 “Negative Particle Questions: a dialectal comparison,” Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Special issue (with James Huang and Jane Tang) 66-112. [supported by CCK Foundation Grant]
1997 “Resultative Compounds and Lexical Relational Structures,” Chinese Languages and Linguistics III: Morphology and Lexicon, Symposium Series of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, p. 167-197.
1996 “Two Types of Donkey Sentences,” Natural Language Semantics, 4.2: 121-163.(with James Huang).
1995 “On Dou-quantification,” Journal of East Asian Linguistics 4: 197-234.
1994 “Wh-words as Polarity Items,” Chinese Languages and Linguistics II, Symposium Series of Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. p. 615-640.
1991 “Feature Geometry of Vowels and Co-occurrence Restrictions in Cantonese,” in Proceedings of the Ninth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Stanford University, p. 107-124.
1991 “External Arguments in Basque,” in Proceedings of the Ninth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Stanford University (with Hamida Demirdash), p. 125-139.
1990 “Superiority Violations,” in Lisa L.-S. Cheng and Hamida Demirdash (eds.) MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 13, Issues on Wh-movement, M.I.T. (with Hamida Demirdash), p. 27-46.
1989 “Transitivity Alternations in Mandarin Chinese,” in M. Chan and T. Ernst (eds.) Proceedings of the Third Ohio State University Conference on Chinese Linguistics,Indiana University Linguistics Club Publications, p.81-94.
1988 “On a Small Clause Analysis of Mandarin and French Inalienable Possession,” in J. Blevins and J. Carter (eds.) Proceedings of NELS 18, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, p.65-78, (with Elizabeth Ritter).
1988 “Aspects of the Ba-Construction,” in C. Tenny (ed.) Studies in Generative Approaches to Aspect, Lexicon Project Working Papers 24, M.I.T., Cambridge, p.73-84.
1987 “On the prosodic hierarchy and tone sandhi in Mandarin,” in P. Avery (ed.) Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 7, Linguistic Graduate Course Union, University of Toronto, p. 24-52.
1987 “On passive in Mandarin Chinese,” in P. Avery (ed.) Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 8, Linguistic Graduate Course Union, University of Toronto, p. 42-59.
1987 “Derived domains and Mandarin Third Tone Sandhi,” in A. Bosch, B. Need and E. Schiller (eds.) CLS 23, Papers from the 23rd Annual Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Part Two: Parasession on Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology, p. 16-28. 1986 “De in Mandarin Chinese.” Canadian Journal of Linguistics 31:4, p. 313-326.
1986 “De in Mandarin Chinese.” Canadian Journal of Linguistics 31:4, p. 313-326.

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