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Books Available on Amazon
(2006) The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, co-edited by Ljiljana Progovac, Kate Paesani, Eugenia Casielles and Ellen Barton. Pages: ix + 372. Linguistik Aktuell (LA) 93. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
(2005) A Syntax of Serbian: Clausal Architecture, pp. 245. Slavica Publishers, Bloomington, Indiana.
(1994) Negative and Positive Polarity: A Binding Approach, pp. 168. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 68. Cambridge University Press.
(1994) Proceedings of MIT Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, co-edited by Sergey Avrutin, Steven Franks and Ljiljana Progovac. Michigan Slavic Publications, Ann Arbor.
Selected Publications (last 5 years)
Book Chapters
(2010) “Imperative in Compounds: Implications for Historical and Evolutionary Studies.” In Development of Language through the Lens of Formal Linguistics, 137¬145, ed. by Petr Karlík. Munich: Lincom Europe.
(2010) “When Clauses Refuse to be Recursive: An Evolutionary Perspective.” In Recursion and Human Language, ed. by Harry van der Hulst, 193¬211. The Hague: Mouton.
(2009) “Layering of Grammar: Vestiges of Proto¬Syntax in Present¬Day Languages.” In Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable, ed. by Geoffrey Sampson, David Gil and Peter Trudgill, 203¬212. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(2006) “The Syntax of Nonsententials: Small Clauses and Phrases at the Root.” In The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidisciplinary Perspectives,” 33¬71, co¬edited by Progovac, Paesani, Casielles and Barton. Benjamins, Amsterdam.
(2006) “Introduction to The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidisciplinary Perspectives,” 1¬9, co-authored by the editors of The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidisciplinary Perspectives: Progovac, Paesani, Casielles and Barton. Benjamins, Amsterdam.
(2006) “Epilogue: Wherefrom and Whereto?” 323¬353, co¬authored by the editors of The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidisciplinary Perspectives:” Progovac, Paesani, Casielles and Barton. Benjamins, Amsterdam.
(2006) The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, co¬edited by Ljiljana Progovac, Kate Paesani, Eugenia Casielles and Ellen Barton. Pages: ix + 372. Linguistik Aktuell (LA) 93. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
(2005) “Nonsententials in Minimalism.” Co¬authored with Ellen Barton as first author. Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech, 71¬93, edited by Ray Elugardo and Robert J. Stainton. New York: Springer.
(2005) "Negative and Positive Feature Checking and the Distribution of Polarity Items." Negation in Slavic, edited by Sue Brown and Adam Przepiórkowski, 179¬217. Slavica Publishers, Bloomington, Indiana.
Journal Articles
Forthcoming) “Syntax: Its Evolution and Its Representation in the Brain.” Biolinguistics.
(2009) “Sex and Syntax: Subjacency Revisited.” Biolinguistics 3.2¬3, 305¬336.
(2009) “The Urge to Merge: Ritual Insult and the Evolution of Syntax.” Joint paper with John L. Locke as second author. Biolinguistics, 3.2¬3, 337¬354.
Papers Published in Conference Proceedings
(2010) “On protolinguistic ‘fossils:’ Subject¬verb vs. verb¬subject structures.” Joint paper with Eugenia Casielles as first author. In Andrew D. M. Smith, Marieke Schouwstra, Bart de Boer, and Kenny Smith, eds., The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference (EVOLANG8), 66¬73. New Jersey: World Scientific.
(2009) “Syntax and Evolutionary Tinkering.” Proceedings of Novi Sad Generative Syntax Workshop 2, 49¬73. Novi Sad, Serbia: University of Novi Sad.
(2009) “Evolving Syntax: Small Clauses, Subjacency, and Some Compounds.” Proceedings of FASL (Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics) 17, The Yale Meeting 2008, 163¬185. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications.
(2009) “What is There When Little Words are not There: Possible Implications for Evolutionary Studies.” In Ronald P. Leow, Héctor Campos & Donna Lardiere (eds.), Little Words: Their History, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Acquisition, 99¬108. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
(2008) “Root Small Clauses with Unaccusative verbs.” Proceedings of FASL (Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics) 16, 359¬373. Editors: Andrei Antonenko, John F. Bailyn, and Christina Y. Bethin. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications.
(2008) “What Use is Half a Clause?” Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference, Barcelona, Spain, March 12¬15, pp. 259¬266. Editors: Andrew Smith, Kenneth Smith, and Ramon Ferrer i Cancho. New Jersey: World Scientific.
(2006) “Classifying Adjectives and Noun Movement in Lithuanian," co¬authored with Pawe³ Rutkowski as first author. Proceedings of the 8th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 8), 265¬277. Published by the Korean Generative Grammar Circle, Sookmyung Womens University, Seoul, Korea.
(2005) “Synthetic Agent Compounds in Serbian: An Incorporation Analysis.” Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 13: The Columbia Meeting 2004, 253¬264, edited by Mila Tasseva¬Kurktchieva, Steven Franks, and Frank Gladney. Michigan Slavic Publications, Ann Arbor.
(2005) “Classification Projection in Polish and Serbian.” Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 13: The Columbia Meeting 2004, co¬authored with Pawe³ Rutkowski as first author, 289¬299, edited by Mila Tasseva¬Kurktchieva, Steven Franks, and Frank Gladney. Michigan Slavic Publications, Ann Arbor.
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