Book

All of David’s former and current students (defined as anyone whose committee David served on) were invited to contribute a paper to a book honoring David’s 60th birthday. Our goal was to celebrate David’s contributions to the field in general, and to teaching and advising in particular.

In total, exactly 60 linguists(!) submitted a paper to the festschrift. The authors and paper titles are listed below, in alphabetical order.

Now available on Amazon and soon on the MITWPL website.

  1. Abbott, Alya. Lessons from David.
  2. Antonyuk, Svitlana. How QP scope can weigh in on a long-time debate: The puzzle of Russian ditransitives.
  3. Aravind, Athulya. A-bar interactions and feature-geometries.
  4. Barbiers, Sjef. Adverbs and bridges.
  5. Bjorkman, Bronwyn. How to do things with verbs.
  6. Bobaljik, Jonathan. Knocking twice intentionally.
  7. Branan, Kenyon. In-situ wh-phrases in superiority violating contexts don’t have to be in-situ.
  8. Bruening, Benjamin. Syntactic constraints on idioms (do not include locality).
  9. Cable, Seth. Some observations on the plural pronoun constructions of Tlingit, Polish, and Russian.
  10. Carnie, Andrew. Sluicing and pied-piping in Scottish Gaelic.
  11. Cheng, Lisa-Lai and Hamida Demirdache. On covert movement: Partially fronted wh vs. wh-in-situ.
  12. Citko, Barbara and Martina Gracanin-Yuksek. On variation in COMP & WH coordination structures.
  13. Coon, Jessica. Two types of ergative agreement: Implications for case.
  14. Costa, João. Linearization, spell-out domains and morphological bootstrapping.
  15. Csirmaz, Aniko. Too many ‘there’s.
  16. Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka. Why the null complementizer is special in complementizer-trace effects.
  17. Fox, Danny. Extraposition and non-intersective adjectives: Evidence for embedded late merge.
  18. Giblin, Iain. Text-setting and Syncopation.
  19. Gould, Isaac. What does it take to learn Swedish?
  20. Gracanin-Yuksek, Martina. Negation in Croatian.
  21. Grosz, Patrick. Ready, willing and able – A remark
  22. Halpert, Claire. Existential crisis: The curious case of borrowed adjectives in Zulu.
  23. Hartman, Jeremy. What kind of construction is this, that we should be puzzled by it?
  24. Hiraiwa, Ken. On so-called “so-called “so-called pronouns””.
  25. Iatridou, Sabine and Hedde Zeijlstra. Negated perfects and temporal in-adverbials.
  26. Imanishi, Yusuke. (Pseudo) noun incorporation and its kin.
  27. Ionin, Tania and Tatiana Luchkina. The one kitten who was stroked by every girl: Revisiting scope and scrambling in Russian.
  28. Iovtcheva, Snejana. Distinguishing raising possessors from ‘affected’ external possessors in Bulgarian.
  29. Katz, Jonah. Exceptional cadential chords and tonal interpretation.
  30. Kipka, Peter. Towards a fundamental theorem of language.
  31. Kitagawa, Yoshihisa. Morphosyntax at LF.
  32. Ko, Heejeong. Right dislocation: Copies vs. fragments.
  33. Koizumi, Masatoshi, Shin-Ichi Tamura, Takuya Goro, Noriakia Yusa, Yoshiaki Kaneko, and Hiroko Hagiwara. Children’s word order preferences in Japanese ditransitive constructions.
  34. Kotek, Hadas. Questioning superiority.
  35. Kucerova, Ivona. Beyond Russian: On Dnom, person, and case.
  36. Landau, Idan. Adjunct control depends on voice.
  37. Levin, Theodore. The EPP is independent of Case: On illicit unaccusative incorporation.
  38. Marty, Paul and Despoina Oikonomou. French causatives: The reflexivity puzzle.
  39. Matsuoka, Mikinari. On the predication of mental-attitude adverbs.
  40. Matushansky, Ora. Ни хуя себе! Russian genitive IV.
  41. Moltmann, Friederike. A plural reference interpretation of three-dimensional syntactic trees.
  42. Murasugi, Kumiko. Linguistic fieldwork and scientific methodology.
  43. Podobryaev, Sasha. Successive cyclicity in a language game.
  44. Preminger, Omer. How can feature-sharing be asymmetric? Valuation as UNION over geometric feature structures.
  45. Richards, Norvin. Multidominance and parasitic gaps.
  46. Sauerland, Uli. Experimental evidence for complex syntax in Pirahã.
  47. Schlenker, Philippe. Gradient and iconic features in ASL.
  48. Schoorlemmer, Erik and Elena Karvovskaya. The possessor that should have stayed close to home, but ran away.
  49. Stanton, Juliet. Antipronominality and E-Type pronouns.
  50. Storto, Luciana. Case and argument structure in Tupian.
  51. Sugawara, Ayaka. The morpheme -ish is a degree head.
  52. Szczegielniak, Adam. Dynamic Phase Heads. The case of the invisible DP in Slavic.
  53. Tancredi, Chris. Contrastive topic, Focus and Givenness.
  54. Tateishi, Koichi. The immediate evidential suffixaion in Japanese and the typology of suffixes.
  55. Trinh, Tue. Splitting friends, wives and boxes of books.
  56. van Urk, Coppe. Why A-movement does not license parasitic gaps.
  57. Webelhuth, Gert, Sascha Bargmann and Christopher Götze. More empirical evidence against the raising analysis of relative clauses.
  58. Wu, Hsiao-Hung Iris. Some comparative notes on restructuring and verbal morphology.
  59. Wurmbrand, Susanne. Feature sharing or how I value my son.
  60. Yuan, Michelle. More on Undermerge: Phrasal and head movement interactions in Kikuyu.