Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Rethinking Comparative Syntax (ReCoS)
Publications
Biberauer, T & Sheehan, M. in press. Disharmony, Antisymmetry, and the Final-over-Final Constraint. In M. Uribe-Etxebarria & V. Valmala (eds.) Ways of Structure Building. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [to appear in June 2012, please contact the authors for a copy of the revised final version]
Biberauer, T. & Sheehan, M. to appear. Theoretical Approaches to Disharmonic Word Orders. Oxford University Press. Biberauer, T. & Sheehan, M. 2011 a The Linguistic Review (special edition on Particles in Syntax) 28.
Biberauer, T. & Sheehan, M. 2011 b (with T. Biberauer) Introduction: particles through a modern syntactic lens, The Linguistic Review (special edition on Particles in Syntax) 28: 387-410.
Biggs, A. 2012. Restructuring the 'tough' approach to the Mandarin long passive. In Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics 6: 237-266.
Sheehan, M. to appear a. Explaining the Final-over-Final Constraint: formal and functional approaches. To appear in T. Biberauer & M. Sheehan (eds.), Theoretical approaches to disharmonic word orders.
Sheehan, M. to appear b. Some implications of a copy theory of labeling. Accepted by Syntax (to be published 2012) [this is a much revised version of the paper circulated on Lingbuzz - please contact the author for the revised version]
Sheehan, M. to appear c. A note on Case-assignment to CP. To appear in Snippets.
Sheehan, M. 2011. Review of 'Richard S. Kayne, Comparisons and contrasts'. Journal of Linguistics 47.3: 724-730.
Sheehan, M. & Hinzen, W. 2011. Moving towards the edge: the grammar of reference. Linguistic Analysis 37: 405-458.
van der Wal, J. to appear a. Subject agreement and the EPP in Bantu Agreeing Inversion.
van der Wal, J. to appear b. Subordinate clauses and exclusive focus in Makhuwa.
Conference Papers and other Presentations
Bazalgette, T. 2012. Contrastive Reduplication as Extensional Focus. 53rd meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Manchester.
Bazalgette, T., Roberts, I., Sheehan, M., & van der Wal, J. 2012. Two statistical typological generalisations and some consequences. Syntax of the World's Languages V, Dubrovnik.
Biberauer, T. & van der Wal, J. 2012. Why languages don't like expletives. Syntax of the World's Languages V, Dubrovnik.
Biggs, A. 2012 a. Detransitivising constructions in ergative languages: antipassives and anti-agreement. Paper presented at Cambridge Comparative Syntax 1, University of Cambridge.
Biggs, A. 2012 b. Improper approaches to the Mandarin long bei passive. 44th Societas Linguistica Europaea, Stockholm.
Biggs, A. 2012 c. Improper Movement and the long passive in Mandarin. Paper presented at 7th Postgraduate Conference, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Biggs, A. 2012 d. Restructuring the ‘tough’ approach to the Mandarin long bei passive. Paper presented at 53rd meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Salford.
Biggs, A. 2013. An abstract Case for A-movement: microvariation in Northwest British English. Paper presented at 39th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia.
Sheehan, M. 2011 a. Control inside DP: evidence from English and European Portuguese. Paper presented at Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) Annual Meeting, Manchester, September 2011.
Sheehan, M. 2011 b. (with W. Hinzen and U. Reichard) Radicalising the interface: a case study of intensionality. Paper presented at The Minimalist Program: Quo Vadis? - Newborn, Reborn, or Stillborn?, Potsdam, October 2011.
Sheehan, M. 2011 c. (with W. Hinzen) PF-parameters and clausal/nominal denotation. Paper presented at Rethinking Parameters, Madrid, October 2011.
Sheehan, M. 2011 d. How much variation is PF-variation? Paper presented at UG: the minimum, Durham, December 2011.
van der Wal, J. 2011. Focus on conjugations: conjoint and disjoint verb forms in Bantu. Invited at the 6th South of England LFG meeting, London.
van der Wal, J. 2012 a. Tests for focus. Workshop 'Categories of information structure across languages', Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen.
van der Wal, J. 2012 b. Parameterising Case: other evidence from Bantu. 53rd meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Manchester.
van der Wal, J. 2012 c. Why does focus want to be adjacent to the verb? Workshop 'Parametric variation in discourse configurationality', meeting Societas Linguistica Europaea, Stockholm.
van der Wal, J. 2012 d. Unpronounced locatives in inversion constructions. Manchester symposium on existentials, Manchester.
van der Wal, J. 2012 e. Subordinate clauses and focus in Makhuwa. Invited at Newcastle University.
van der Wal, J. & Bazalgette T. 2012. Parametric Variation in Discourse Configurationality. Workshop introduction, meeting Societas Linguistica Europaea, Stockholm.
Other Related Papers
Bazalgette, T. 2011. A Crosslinguistic Investigation of Wh-Internal Structure: Minimalism, Macroparameters, and the Borer-Chomsky Conjecture. MPhil Thesis, University of Cambridge.
Biggs, A. 2011. Distinguishing ‘root’ from ‘embedded’ in Mandarin Chinese: the empirical evidence and some theoretical consequences. MPhil Thesis, University of Cambridge.
