OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Linguistic Inquiry is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Logophoricity and Locality: A View from French Anaphors	18
Feature Gluttony	17
Chinese Wh-in-Situ and Islands: A Formal Judgment Study	16
Constraining Head-Stranding Ellipsis	12
The Ups and Downs of Head Displacement	10
On the Nonexistence of Verb-Stranding VP-Ellipsis	10
CP Complements to D	8
Cyclic Expansion in Agree: Maximal Projections as Probes	8
A Head Movement Approach to Talmy’s Typology	8
Interaction, Satisfaction, and the PCC	8
The Informativeness/Complexity Trade-Off in the Domain of Boolean Connectives	8
Possessor Extraction in Colloquial English: Evidence for Successive Cyclicity and Cyclic Linearization	7
Using Computational Models to Test Syntactic Learnability	7
Agreeing Adpositions in Avar and The Directionality-of-Valuation Debate	7
Diagnosing Object Agreement vs. Clitic Doubling: An Inuit Case Study	6
Syntactic Head Movement in Japanese: Evidence from Verb-Echo Answers and Negative Scope Reversal	6
The Embedding Puzzle: Constraints on Evidentials in Complement Clauses	6
Coalescence: A Unification of Bundling Operations in Syntax	5
Rethinking Scope Islands	5
Number is Different in Nominal and Pronominal Phrases	5
Person of Interest: Experimental Investigations into the Learnability of Person Systems	5
Extending the Person-Case Constraint to Gender: Agreement, Locality, and the Syntax of Pronouns	5
The Puzzle of Anaphoric Bare Nouns in Mandarin: A Counterpoint to Index!	5
Deriving Head-Final Order in the Peripheral Domain of Chinese	4
PP-Extraposition and the Order of Adverbials in English	4

On the Nonexistence of Asymmetric DOM in Spanish	4
Relativized Locality: Phases and Tiers in Long-Distance Allomorphy in Armenian	4
Vowel Harmony and Disharmony Are Not Equivalent in Learning	4
Successive Cyclicity in DPs: Evidence from Mongolian Nominalized Clauses	4
Can Agree and Labeling Be Reduced to Minimal Search?	4
Null Objects in Korean: Experimental Evidence for the Argument Ellipsis Analysis	3
Case in Wholesale Late Merger: Evidence from Mongolian Scrambling	3
The Complex Beauty of Boundary Adverbials: In Years and Until	3
On the Syntax of Multiple Sluicing and What It Tells Us aboutWh-Scope Taking	3
Adjacency and Case Morphology in Scottish Gaelic	3
‘Only’ in Nguni: A Phrase-Final Particle Meets Antisymmetry Theory	3
On the Implicit Argument of Icelandic Indirect Causatives	3
Supplements without Bidimensionalism	3
Disharmony and the Final-Over-Final Condition in Amahuaca	3
Feature Geometry and Head Splitting in the Wolof Clausal Periphery	3
Two Types of Resumptive Pronouns in Swahili	3
Commitment Phrase: Linking Proposition to Illocutionary Force	3
Translation Mining: Definiteness across Languages (A Reply to Jenks 2018)	3
Philippine Clitic Pronouns and the Lower Phase Edge	3
Active Existential in Lithuanian: Remarks on Burzio’s Generalization	3
Locality and Antilocality: The Logic of Conflicting Requirements	2
AgainstTanglewoodby Focus Movement: A Reply to Erlewine and Kotek 2018	2
Nasal Assimilation Counterfeeding and Allomorphy in Haitian: Nothing Is Still Something!	2
Revisiting the Syntax of Monsters in Uyghur	2
A Remark on the Economics of Quantifier Raising	2
Probe Specification and Agreement Variation: Evidence from the Algonquian Inverse	2
Compound Wh-Questions and Fragment Answers in Japanese: Implications for the Nature of Ellipsis	2
A Lookahead Effect in Mbe Reduplication: Implications for Harmonic Serialism	2
On Adjoined Possessors	2
Same Root, Different Categories: Encoding Direction in Chinese	2
Deconstructing SE-Constructions: Number Agreement and Postsyntactic Variation	2
Attention and Locality: On Clause-Boundedness and Its Exceptions in Multiple Sluicing	2
The Scrambling Paradox	2
Case as an Anaphor Agreement Effect: Evidence from Inuktitut	2
Communicative Stability and the Typology of Logical Operators	2
VP-Nominalization and the Final-over-Final Condition	2
Quexistentials and Focus	2
Restrictions on Long Passives in English and Brazilian Portuguese: A Phase-Based Account	2
Category Mismatches in Coordination Vindicated	2
Ā-Probing for the Closest DP	2
Deconstructing Subcategorization: Conditions on Insertion vs. Conditions on Position	2
PP-Extraposition and Precedence	1
High and Low Applicatives of Unaccusatives: Dependent Case and the Phase	1
A Formal Investigation of Q-Theory in Comparison to Autosegmental Representations	1
When Ellipsis Can Save Defectiveness and When It Can’t	1
More on (the Lack of) Reconstruction in English Tough-Constructions	1
The Impersonal Use of German 1st Person SingularIch	1
The Final-over-Final Condition, Stringency, and Typological Structure	1
Shifting Interactions and Countershifting Opacity: A Note on Opacity in Harmonic Serialism	1
Two Varieties of Korean: Rightward Head Movement or Polarity Sensitivity?	1

Ambivalent Adpositions and “P-Stranding” in Russian	1
Predicate Clefting and Long Head Movement in Finnish	1
Breton Masculine Human Plurals, Locality, and Impoverishment	1
Priority Union and Feature Logic in Phonology	1
Variation in Mainland Scandinavian Object Shift: A Prosodic Analysis	1
The Role of the Absolutive Object in Morphological Accessibility	1
∃-Closure and Alternatives	1
Type-Restricted Argument Ellipsis and Generalized Quantifiers	1
Ergativity in Tabasaran: A Reply to Woolford 2015	1
Salvation by Deletion in Nupe	1
Condition B and Other Conditions on Pronominal Licensing in Serbo-Croatian	1
Some Formal Implications of Deletion Saltation	1
Contiguity Theory and Pied-Piping	1
Contiguity Theory and the Ordering of Contrastive Elements	1
Deducing the Coordinand Constraint	1
Negative Polarity Items in Definite Superlatives	1
(Im)possible Traces	1
The Pronoun Which Comprehenders Who Process It in Islands Derive a Benefit	1
Selectional Violations in Coordination (A Response to Patejuk and Przepiórkowski 2023)	1
Cyclic Selection: Auxiliaries Are Merged, Not Inserted	1
Hvor ‘Each’ Reciprocals and Distributives in Icelandic: E-Raising + Short Main Verb Movement	1
On the Event-Structural Properties of the English Get-Passive	1
The Concatenative Structure of Tonal Overwriting	1
Missing Elsewhere: Domain Extension in Contextual Allomorphy	1
Diagnosing Clause Structure in a Polysynthetic Language: Wh-Agreement and Parasitic Gaps in West Circassian	1
Why Plain Futurates are Different	1
The Domain of Formal Matching in Sluicing	1
3/4 of a Monster: On Mixed Shifty Agreement in Telugu	1
Definiteness Effect in the PP	1
Metrical Structure and Licensing: An Argument from Ukrainian	1
How Subjects and Possessors Can Obviate Phasehood	1
Correspondence between XPs and Phonological Phrases	1
Serial Reduplication Is Empirically Adequate and Typologically Restrictive	1
The Interrogative Left Periphery: How a Clause Becomes a Question	1
A Method for Projecting Features from Observed Sets of Phonological Classes	1
Strictly Local Impoverishment: An Intervention Effect	1
Treating Greek o eaftos mu as a Regular Anaphor: Theoretical Implications	1
Agreement Shift in Embedded Reports	1