Journal of Linguistics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Linguistics is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Maria Polinsky(ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus (Oxford Handbooks). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xxx + 1158.22
Onset conspiracy in Upper Sorbian11
Diego Gabriel Krivochen, Syntax on the edge: A graph-theoretic analysis of sentence structure. Leiden & Boston, MA: Brill, 2023. Pp. xxi + 518.8
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Aggressively non-D-linked construction and ellipsis: A Direct Interpretation approach6
The distribution of focus and the mapping between syntax and information structure6
Guglielmo Cinque, On linearization: Toward a restrictive theory (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. Pp. vii + 182.6
Pullum’s philosophy of linguistics: towards a unified framework5
Pronouns beyond phi-features: the speaker–addressee relation in Japanese pronouns and its implications for formal pronouns5
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On the syntactic autonomy of theme vowels5
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Gita Martohardjono & Suzanne Flynn (eds.), Language in development: A crosslinguistic perspective. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2021. Pp. xi + 346.4
Editorial Note4
Deborah Arbes (ed.), Number categories: Dynamics, contact, typology (Studia Typologica 32). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2023. Pp. vii + 183.3
A new approach to Negative Concord: Catalan as a case in point3
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Virginia Hill & Alexandru Mardale, The diachrony of differential object marking in Romanian (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 45). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp.3
David R. Olson ,Making sense: What it means to understand. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xii +196.3
Robert Stalnaker, Propositions: Ontology and logic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Hb. Pp. xvi + 1963
Headedness and/or grammatical anarchy? (Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax 11) – ADDENDUM3
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Svenja Krieger, Word order variation in Italian and Spanish why-interrogatives: An empirical perspective (Linguistische Arbeiten 591). Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2024. Pp. xi + 235.3
No escape from syntax: Gĩkũyũ nominalizations and the Complex Head analysis3
Iconicity of grammatical tonal polarity and reduplication in Nigerian Pidgin2
LIN volume 60 issue 3 Cover and Front matter2
Separability of dependents from VP in English: Beyond the argument/adjunct distinction2
Intonation correlates of canonical and non-canonical wh-in-situ questions in Spanish2
William Croft, Morphosyntax: Constructions of the world’s languages (Textbook in Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xxxvi + 688.2
Object control verbs and syntactic causatives: Inflected infinitives as a cue to syntactic structure2
On the rescuing of some -indefinites2
Existential indefinite constructions, in the world and in Mainland Southeast Asia2
The dual face of structural object case: on Lithuanian genitive of negation2
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Edward A. F. Gibson, Syntax: A cognitive approach. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2025. Pp. vii + 366.2
Theme-vowel minimal pairs show argument structure alternations2
Case and agreement as contextually manipulable properties of functional heads2
Steven Mithen, The language puzzle: Piecing together the six-million-year story of how words evolved. New York: Basic Books, 2024. Pp. viii + 534.2
Attack of the snowclones: A corpus-based analysis of extravagant formulaic patterns2
Chinese copy raising and its implications for predication2
Condition C in German A′-movement: Tackling challenges in experimental research on reconstruction2
Editorial Note1
Björn Wiemer & Juana I. Marín-Arrese (eds.), Evidential marking in European languages: Toward a unitary comparative account. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xvii + 732.1
Spanning complement-taking verbs and spanning complementizers: On the realization of presuppositional clauses1
Jordan Fenlon and Julie A. Hochgesang (eds.), Signed Language Corpora. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2022. Pp. xvii+2561
Information structural effects in processing contrastive ellipsis: Eye-tracking evidence from a flexible word order language1
Shift is derived1
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The argument structure of have and other transitive verbs1
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From volition to reportativity: the reportative uses of Latin volo in synchrony and diachrony (with remarks on German wollen 1
Revising and extending Gricean maxims: The TRICS-Principles1
Attributional versus identificational: A dichotomous analysis of appositives in Mandarin Chinese1
Resumption in clitic left dislocation: An experimental study of Peninsular and Rioplatense Spanish1
The syntactic constraint on English auxiliary contraction – CORRIGENDUM1
Romance pronominal clitics as pure heads1
Formalising phonological perception: The role of voicing assimilation in consonant cluster perception in Emilian dialects1
Viewpointed morphology: A unified account of Spanish verb-complement compounds as fictive interaction structures1
Deliminative verbal reduplication in Mandarin Chinese1
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Cartography and the stackability of Mandarin modals1
Alessandro Capone, Pragmatics and philosophy: Connections and ramifications (Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology 22). Cham: Springer, 2019. Pp. iv + 311.1
Raymond Hickey, Life and language beyond Earth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. iii + 694.0
Syntactic predicates0
True wh -movement and wh -in-situ in one language: Evidence from Colloquial Singapore English0
Processing dissociations between raising and control in Brazilian Portuguese0
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R.M.W. Dixon & Nerida Jarkey (eds.), The integration of language and society: A cross-linguistic typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 000 + 408.0
The mighty moon: colexification and change in north-west Amazonia0
Demonstratives and Mandarin relative types0
Mutation, allomorphy and Galician clitics0
How do ‘rumours’ and reportative evidentiality match? A comparative study of the French conditional, Dutch zou + inf, and German sollen + inf0
Non-agreeing degree constructions0
Book review 1 of Benoît Leclercq and Cameron Morin. 2025. The Meaning of Constructions. (Elements in Construction Grammar). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ0
Gender marking in the first-person singular: A case of paradigm (in)consistency0
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Cedric Boeckx, Reflections on language evolution: From minimalism to pluralism (Conceptual Foundations of Language Science 6). Berlin: Language Science Press, 2021. Pp. 76.0
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Parsability revisited and reassessed0
Deconstructing notions of morphological ‘complexity’: Lessons from creoles and sign languages0
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Non-canonical questions at the syntax–prosody interface0
Simin Karimi, Narges Nematollahi, Roya Kabiri, Jian Gang Ngui (eds.), Advances in Iranian Linguistics II (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory). Amsterdam0
Explaining microvariation using the Tolerance Principle: plugging the amn’t gap0
Investigating nominative object constructions in Korean: An experimental and corpus study0
Factivity and complementizer omission in English embedded gapping0
Ulrike Freywald, Horst J. Simon and Stefan Müller (eds.), Headedness and/or grammatical anarchy? (Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax 11). Berlin: Language Science Press, 2022. Pp. 0
Andreas Trotzke, Non-canonical questions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. x + 213.0
Dissimilation and phonological conspiracy in Tenyidie tone0
Daniël Van Olmen & Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.), Pragmatic markers and peripheries (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021. Pp. 452.0
The three degrees of metrical strength in Strict CV metrics, a theory without parsing0
Bundling telicity, verbal quantification, and perfective aspect: A study on lǝ in Yixing Chinese0
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Model-theoretic syntax for the working syntactician0
Introduction to the special issue Experimental and Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis0
Affective coronal alternations in Mapudungun: Sound symbolism, change, and morpho-phonological structure0
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The intricate inflectional relationships underpinning morphological analogy0
On the status of NCIs: An experimental investigation on so-called Strict NC languages0
Stress in French loanwords in British and American English0
Lexical be0
The syntactic flexibility of German and English idioms: Evidence from acceptability rating experiments0
The blurring history of intervocalic devoicing0
Tim Wharton, & Louis De Saussure, Pragmatics and emotion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. ix + 169.0
The relation between head movement and periphrasis0
Processing and production of affixes in Georgian and English: Testing a processing account of the suffixing preference0
George Aaron Broadwell, The Timucua language: A text-based reference grammar. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2024. Pp. xvi, 476.0
Against distributed deletion0
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On the Irish agreement pattern and its parallels: Asymmetric chains and defective goals0
On the licensing of complementizer agreement with nominals in the left periphery0
Semantic taxonomy, direct compositionality, and unlike nominal coordinations in Korean0
Object drop in Spanish is not island-sensitive0
Clause types, intonation and stranded embedded clauses0
When information structure exploits syntax: The relation between the loss of VO and scrambling in Dutch0
Vera Lee-Schoenfeld & Dennis Ott (eds.), Parameters of predicate fronting (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. vii + 225.0
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Ahmad Alqassas, A unified theory of polarity sensitivity: Comparative syntax of Arabic (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. x + 246.0
Ryan Nefdt, The philosophy of theoretical linguistics: A contemporary outlook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xii + 231.0
Attributive adjective ordering and the complement-modifier distinction0
Bidirectional grammaticalization: Chinese modal and conditional0
Old Spanish and the Split V2 hypothesis0
Oblique complements in Estonian: A corpus perspective0
The prosody of surprise questions in Estonian0
The syntactic constraint on English auxiliary contraction0
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Modal raising and focus marking in Chinese0
Fuzhen Si & Luigi Rizzi (eds.), Current issues in syntactic cartography: A crosslinguistic perspective. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021. Pp. vi + 327.0
Intransparent-Gap Relatives in Japanese0
Why more and less are never adverbs0
Filler–gap dependencies and the remnant–correlate dependency in backward sprouting: Sensitivity to distance and islands0
Affixal rivalry and its purely semantic resolution among English derived adjectives0
Margaret Thomas, Formalism and functionalism in linguistics: The engineer and the collector. New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. viii + 118.0
To move or not to move: Is focus on the edge?0
Clause type vs. speech act: Knowledge confirmation questions in Basque0
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Voice mismatch and contrast in French Right-Node Raising0
From null pronouns to full NPs: Exploring accessibility markers in Korean0
Metrical strength in Persian poetic metres0
Andreas Kehl, Adjunct islands in English: Theoretical perspectives and experimental evidence (Studies in Generative Grammar 152). Berlin & Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xv + 330.0
Directional serial verb constructions in Mandarin: A neo-constructionist approach0
Natalia Knoblock (ed.), The grammar of hate: Morphosyntactic features of hateful, aggressive, and dehumanizing discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xvi + 293.0
Internally caused change as change by inner predisposition: Comparative evidence from Romance0
Acoustic disambiguation of homophonous morphs is exceptional0
Delayed exponence in Murrinhpatha: Stratal OT, not position classes0
Mirative extensions in the postmodal domain0
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Hanging Topic Left Dislocations in seemingly embedded contexts: An English–Spanish asymmetry0
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Indefinite determiners: Why DE can be enough – Insights from Francoprovençal0
The syntax of nominal appositives0
Gender marking in the first-person singular: A case of paradigm (in)consistency – ERRATUM0
Fluctuations in allomorphy domains: Applying Stump 2010 to Armenian ordinal numerals0
Remnant connectivity in pseudogapping: Experimental evidence for a direct generation approach0
System size and system complexity: A case study in Pamean nouns and verbs0
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The syntax of Italian col cavolo and un cavolo : Between emphatic negation and utterance minimisation0
Active participles are (deverbal) adjectives0
Daniel Altshuler & Robert Truswell, Coordination and the syntax-discourse interface (Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology 11). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xii + 315.0
Simone Guesser, Ani Carla Marchesan and Paulo Medeiros Junior (eds.), Wh-exclamatives, imperatives and wh-questions: Issues on Brazilian Portuguese. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. 463.0
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Clause size as a metric for null-subject licensing with defective tense in Slavic0
Frederick J. Newmeyer, American linguistics in transition: From post-Bloomfieldian structuralism to generative grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xvi + 412.0
Distributive numerals in Albanian0
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A pragmatics-cognitive approach to the opposition relations lexicalized in Chinese0
Gréte Dalmi, Jacek Witkoś & Piotr Cegłowski (eds.), Strict negative concord in Slavic and Finno-Ugric: Licensing, structure and interpretation. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2024.0
Peter W. Culicover & Giuseppe Varaschin, Deconstructing syntactic theory: A critical review. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 381 + x.0
Irrealis as modality: evidence from Gιsιɖa Anii0
The antipassive and verbal projections0
Recomplementation as a paratactic phenomenon: Evidence from Spanish and English0
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Processing and production of clitics in Udi and European Portuguese: Testing a processing account of an extension of the suffixing preference0
All TRs are not created equal: L1 and L2 perception of English cluster affrication0
Shigeru Miyagawa, Syntax in the treetops (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs). Cambridge, MA & London: MIT Press, 2022. Pp. xviii + 234.0
Accounting for non-constituents in hybrid quotations: Why unquotation is not the answer0
Feature reassembly and meso-parameters versus interpretability: From inconsistent null subjects in L1 Hebrew to no null subjects in L2 English0
Towards a unitary and differentiated analytical approach to the evolution of mood from Latin to Romance0
The interaction of discourse markers and prosody in rhetorical questions in German0
Clitic left dislocation and inverse scope: Plain indefinites versus numerals0
Opaque morphology and phonology: Historical prefixes in English0
From Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar to Categorial Grammar (and partway back again)0
L’é ciaro che se dise cusì. On Change in the System of Expletive Subject Clitics in Opitergino0
Phonologization of cumulative phonetic length in Kashubian0
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Editorial Note0
Comprehending non-canonical and indirect speech acts in German0
A gradualist view of word meaning in language acquisition and language use0
Borja Herce, The typological diversity of morphomes: A cross-linguistic study of unnatural morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. x + 303.0
The linguistic factors of semantic transparency: Evidence from verb-to-noun derivation in French0
Enam Al-Wer, Uri Horesh, Bruno Herin and Rudolf De Jong, Arabic sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xvi + 238.0
Raised and in-situ preverbal foci: A unified prosodic account0
EDITORIAL NOTE0
Susana Rodríguez Rosique (ed.), Expressing surprise at the crossroads: Mirativity, exclamativity and cooptation in Romance languages (Trends in Linguisti0
Characterizing English Preposing in PP constructions0
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Palatalisation can be quantity-sensitive: Dorsal Fricative Assimilation in Liverpool English0
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