DOWNLOADABLE PAPERS
This page contains links to Project-related papers by the various members of the Project.
From here, you can also follow this link to a debate on the value of parametric theory
involving Frederick Newmeyer and Project members.
And here you can find links to some recent work on null subjects
Papers by Anders Holmberg
Null Subjects and Polarity Focus
Anders Holmberg (2006)
[To appear in Studia Linguistica]
Subject doubling in Finnish: the role of deficient pronouns
Anders Holmberg & Urpo Nikanne (Åbo Akademi)
[To appear in Meertens on-line publications]
Is there a little pro? Evidence from Finnish
Anders Holmberg (2005)
Linguistic Inquiry 36(4): 533 - 564
[This is a pre-final version]
The Null Generic Subject Pronoun in Finnish
Anders Holmberg (2004)
[Forthcoming in: Kaiser, E., K. Hiietam, S. Manninen & V. Vihman (eds.).
Passives and impersonals in European languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins]
Expletives, Subjects and Topics
in Finnish
Anders Holmberg & Urpo Nikanne
In: Svenonius, P.(ed.). (2002). Subjects, expletives, and the EPP.
Oxford: OUP, 71 - 106.
[This is a pre-final version]
The syntax of yes and no in Finnish
Anders Holmberg (2001).
Studia Linguistica 55: 141 - 175.
Papers by Ian Roberts
Taraldsen’s Generalisation and Language Change: Two Ways to Lose Null Subjects
Ian Roberts (2007)
Unpublished ms: University of Cambridge [This is work in progress: comments very welcome]
A deletion analysis of null subjects: French as a case study
Ian Roberts (2007)
[Forthcoming in: Holmberg, A. & I. Roberts (eds.). Null Subjects: the structure of parametric variation.
Cambridge: CUP. This is a draft version; comments very welcome.]
The EPP as a Condition on Tense Dependencies
Ian Roberts & Anna Roussou (1998).
[A revised version of this paper was published as: Ian Roberts & Anna Roussou (2002).
The Extended Projection Principle as a Condition on the Tense Dependency. In:
Svenonius, P. (ed.). Subjects, expletives, and the EPP.
Oxford: OUP, 125 - 156.]
Clause Structure and X-Second
Anna Cardinaletti & Ian Roberts (1991)
[A revised version of this paper was published as: Anna Cardinaletti & Ian Roberts (2003).
In: Cinque, G. (ed.). Functional Structure in DP and IP. The Cartography of
Syntactic Structures. Volume 1. Oxford: OUP, 123 - 166.]
Papers by David Willis
A Minimalist Approach to Jespersen's Cycle in Welsh
David Willis (2005)
Agsinst N-raising and NP-raising analyses of Welsh noun phrases
David Willis (2006)
Lingua 116(11): 1807 - 1839
Syntactic lexicalisation as a third type of degrammaticalisation
David Willis (2004)
Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics (COPiL) 1: 251 - 274
Papers by Theresa Biberauer
True Optionality: when the grammar doesn't mind
Theresa Biberauer & Marc Richards (2006)
In: Boeckx, C. (ed.). (2006) Minimalist Essays.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 35 - 67
[This is a pre-final version]
Explaining Expl
Marc Richards & Theresa Biberauer (2005)
In: den Dikken, M. & C. Tortora (eds.).
The function of function words and functional categories. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 115 - 154.
[This is a pre-final version]
Reconsidering the EPP and Spec-TP in Germanic
Theresa Biberauer (2003)
Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics (COPiL) 1:15 - 40.
Papers by Michelle Sheehan
The Status of Preverbal Subjects in Romance Null Subject Languages
Michelle Sheehan (2006)
[Handout from talk given in Cambridge on 27 January - comments welcome]
An interface analysis of verb subject inversion in Romance
Michelle Sheehan (2004)
Durham Working Papers in Linguistics 10: 195 - 209.
And Michelle's thesis, successfully defended in November 2006:
The EPP and Null Subjects in Romance
Papers by Chris Johns
Unassigned Theta Roles in Finnish: The Null Generic Subject.
Chris Johns (2005)
Proceedings of CamLing 4: University of Cambridge
Null Subjects and the EPP. Towards a unified account of pro-drop.
Chris Johns (2005)
[This is a written up version of the paper presented at the LAGB annual meeting in Roehampton (September 2004)]
Joint work by members of the Project
The Return of the Subset Principle
Theresa Biberauer & Ian Roberts (2006)
[Under review for the Proceedings volume from DiGS 9 (OUP). This is a first-draft version; comments very welcome]
Cascading parameter changes:
internally-driven change in Middle and Early Modern English
Theresa Biberauer & Ian Roberts (2006)
To appear in: Eythórsson, Th. & J.T. Faarlund (eds.). Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory:
the Rosendal Papers.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
[This is a draft version; comments very welcome.]
Subjects, Tense and Verb-movement in Germanic and Romance
Theresa Biberauer & Ian Roberts (2006)
To appear in: Proceedings of GLOW V in Asia
[This is the first-draft version of a paper which is due to be refined and elaborated substantially; comments very welcome]
The loss of residual "head-final" orders and remnant fronting in late Middle English: causes and consequences
Theresa Biberauer & Ian Roberts (2006)
In: Hartmann, J. & L. Molnárfi (eds.) Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 263 - 298
[This is a prefinal version]
Changing EPP-parameters in the history of English: accounting for variation and change
Theresa Biberauer & Ian Roberts (2005)
English Language and Linguistics 9(1): 5 - 46
[This is a pre-final version]