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Papers are organized per topic. Topics
include:
The Theta System
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With Tal Siloni, "The
Lexicon-Syntax Parameter: reflexivization and other arity operations",
in Linguistic Inquiry 36, 3. 2005, p. 389-436.
MS Word
- The Theta System: An Overview. Theoretical Linguistics 28(3), pp. 229-290, 2002.
(
MS Word,
.pdf>)
- With Tal Siloni, "Thematic Arity Operations and Parametric Variations, OTS working
papers in linguistics, TL-03-001, 2003 [first draft of Reinhart and Siloni, 2005] (MS Word,
.pdf).
- "Experiencing derivations" (Lecture given at SALT XI, New York University, May
2001. Published in: Rachel Hastings, Brendan Jackson, and Zsofia Zvolenszky, eds.,
Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publication
(MS
Word,
.pdf).
- "The theta system: syntactic realization of verbal concepts", OTS working
papers in linguistics (00,01/TL) (February 2000,
MS Word,
.pdf).
- With Tal Siloni - "Against the unaccusative analysis", 1999, (to appear in A.
Alexiadou, E. Anagnostopoulou and M. Everaert (eds) The unaccusativitiy Puzzle:
Studies on the syntax-lexicon interface, Oxford University Press, (MS
Word,
.pdf)
- "Syntactic effects of lexical operations: Reflexives and Unaccusatives", OTS
working papers, 1996. (MS
Word,
.pdf).
- "Lexical Properties of Ergativity", Lecture presented at the conference on Lexical
Structure, Utrecht , (1991,
MS Word,
.pdf).
Focus and Interface Strategies
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"The acquisition of scalar implicatures", section 5.3. of Interface
Strategies-Optimal and Costly Computations, MIT Press, Cambridge Mass, 2006
(MS
Word)
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"The Processing Cost of Reference-Set Computation: Acquisition of Stress Shift
and Focus" in Language Acquisition, 12.2, 2004, p.
109-155 (pre-published version MS Word
, published version Language
Acquisition, 2004, p. 109-155
.pdf)
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“Focus--The PF Interface”, chapter 3 of Interface Strategies: Optimal and Costly Computation, MIT press, 2006
(MS
Word)
- "Topics and the conceptual interface", in H. Kamp and B. Partee (eds.), Context
Dependence in the Analysis of Linguistic Meaning, Amsterdam: Elsevier Press,
2004, p. 275 - 305 Download
part I (pdf)
and
part II (pdf)
- With Kriszta Szendroi, "Optimal Design in Language" - Research Proposal,
September 2003 (
.pdf)
- "the processing cost of reference-set computation:
guess patterns in acquisition", OTS Working Papers in Linguistics, March
1999. (
MS Word,
.pdf)
- With Ad Neeleman: "Scrambling and the PF interface"
in W. Cobler & M. Butt (eds) Projecting form the Lexicon, CSLI, Stanford,
(1997,
MS Word,
.pdf).
- "Interface economy - Focus and markedness", Wilder,
C., H.M. Gaertner & M. Bierwisch (eds) The role of economy principles in Linguistic
Theory Akademic Verlag, Berlin, 1996. (
MS Word,
.pdf)
- "Interface Strategies", OTS working papers in
linguistics, 1995 (MS
Word,
.pdf)
- Gordzinsky, Reinhart and Wexler, Grant proposal 1990
(Implicatures) The development of proposals in grammar and discourse
full document,
document extract.
Choice Functions and
Scope
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"Scope shift with numeral indefinites - syntax or processing?", in
L. Tasmowski & S. Vogeleer (eds), Non-definiteness and Plurality,
John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 2006, Linuistik Aktuell/Linguistics
Today Series, p. 291-311. (MS
Word)
- "Scope shift: an interface repair strategy", section 7 of chapter 2 from Interface strategies:
Reference-set computation, to appear in MIT Press (MS
Word)
- "Quantifier-Scope: How labor is divided between QR
and choice functions", Linguistics and Philosophy, 20:335-397, 1997. (
MS
Word,
.pdf).
- "Wh-in-situ in the framework of the minimalist program"
OTS working Papers, 1994, Natural Language Semantics 6:29-56, 1998. (
MS Word,
.pdf)
- "Wh-in-situ - An apparent paradox" in P. Dekker and
M. Stokhof (eds) Proceedings of the eight Amsterdam Colloquium, Holland,
1992. (MS
Word,
.pdf)
Anaphora