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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Feature Gluttony	17
The Ups and Downs of Head Displacement	12
Using Computational Models to Test Syntactic Learnability	11
Cyclic Expansion in Agree: Maximal Projections as Probes	11
CP Complements to D	11
Interaction, Satisfaction, and the PCC	10
The Informativeness/Complexity Trade-Off in the Domain of Boolean Connectives	9
Possessor Extraction in Colloquial English: Evidence for Successive Cyclicity and Cyclic Linearization	9
Syntactic Head Movement in Japanese: Evidence from Verb-Echo Answers and Negative Scope Reversal	9
Successive Cyclicity in DPs: Evidence from Mongolian Nominalized Clauses	8
The Puzzle of Anaphoric Bare Nouns in Mandarin: A Counterpoint toIndex!	8
The Embedding Puzzle: Constraints on Evidentials in Complement Clauses	7
Communicative Stability and the Typology of Logical Operators	6
Deriving Head-Final Order in the Peripheral Domain of Chinese	6
Extending the Person-Case Constraint to Gender: Agreement, Locality, and the Syntax of Pronouns	6
Translation Mining: Definiteness across Languages (A Reply to Jenks 2018)	6
Coalescence: A Unification of Bundling Operations in Syntax	6
Person of Interest: Experimental Investigations into the Learnability of Person Systems	6
Diagnosing Object Agreement vs. Clitic Doubling: An Inuit Case Study	6
Relativized Locality: Phases and Tiers in Long-Distance Allomorphy in Armenian	6
On the Implicit Argument of Icelandic Indirect Causatives	6
On the Nonexistence of Asymmetric DOM in Spanish	5
Can Agree and Labeling Be Reduced to Minimal Search?	5
Vowel Harmony and Disharmony Are Not Equivalent in Learning	5
Rethinking Scope Islands	5

Supplements without Bidimensionalism	4
Case in Wholesale Late Merger: Evidence from Mongolian Scrambling	4
Same Root, Different Categories: Encoding Direction in Chinese	4
Commitment Phrase: Linking Proposition to Illocutionary Force	4
Locality and Antilocality: The Logic of Conflicting Requirements	4
Feature Geometry and Head Splitting in the Wolof Clausal Periphery	4
Philippine Clitic Pronouns and the Lower Phase Edge	3
Active Existential in Lithuanian: Remarks on Burzio’s Generalization	3
The Argument/Adjunct Distinction Does Not Condition Islandhood of PPs in English	3
The Complex Beauty of Boundary Adverbials:In YearsandUntil	3
On the Syntax of Multiple Sluicing and What It Tells Us aboutWh-Scope Taking	3
Two Types of Resumptive Pronouns in Swahili	3
Names, Light Nouns, and Countability	3
Nasal Assimilation Counterfeeding and Allomorphy in Haitian: Nothing Is Still Something!	3
Disharmony and the Final-Over-Final Condition in Amahuaca	3
Category Mismatches in Coordination Vindicated	3
On Adjoined Possessors	3
Shifting Interactions and Countershifting Opacity: A Note on Opacity in Harmonic Serialism	2
(Im)possible Traces	2
The Interrogative Left Periphery: How a Clause Becomes a Question	2
Attention and Locality: On Clause-Boundedness and Its Exceptions in Multiple Sluicing	2
Two Varieties of Korean: Rightward Head Movement or Polarity Sensitivity?	2
Cyclic Selection: Auxiliaries Are Merged, Not Inserted	2
Case as an Anaphor Agreement Effect: Evidence from Inuktitut	2
Deconstructing Subcategorization: Conditions on Insertion vs. Conditions on Position	2
Why Plain Futurates are Different	2
Deconstructing SE-Constructions: Number Agreement and Postsyntactic Variation	2
Hvor ‘Each’ Reciprocals and Distributives in Icelandic: E-Raising + Short Main Verb Movement	2
Revisiting the Syntax of Monsters in Uyghur	2
Definiteness Effect in the PP	2
CompoundWh-Questions and Fragment Answers in Japanese: Implications for the Nature of Ellipsis	2
Ā-Probing for the Closest DP	2
Probe Specification and Agreement Variation: Evidence from the Algonquian Inverse	2
VP-Nominalization and the Final-over-Final Condition	2
Restrictions on Long Passives in English and Brazilian Portuguese: A Phase-Based Account	2
Quexistentials and Focus	2
Selectional Violations in Coordination (A Response to Patejuk and Przepiórkowski 2023)	2
The Concatenative Structure of Tonal Overwriting	2
Negative Polarity Items in Definite Superlatives	2
Locality in Exceptional Tagalog Ā-Extraction	2
Treating Greek o eaftos mu as a Regular Anaphor: Theoretical Implications	2
Variation in Mainland Scandinavian Object Shift: A Prosodic Analysis	1
The Pronoun Which Comprehenders Who Process It in Islands Derive a Benefit	1
Correspondence between XPs and Phonological Phrases	1
VP-Preposing and Constituency “Paradox”	1
Breton Masculine Human Plurals, Locality, and Impoverishment	1
A Formal Investigation of Q-Theory in Comparison to Autosegmental Representations	1
Type-Restricted Argument Ellipsis and Generalized Quantifiers	1
The Domain of Formal Matching in Sluicing	1
How Subjects and Possessors Can Obviate Phasehood	1

The Impersonal Use of German 1st Person SingularIch	1
Predicate Clefting and Long Head Movement in Finnish	1
3/4 of a Monster: On Mixed Shifty Agreement in Telugu	1
Asymmetric Coordination in Romanian: A Diagnostic for DOM Position?	1
Deducing the Coordinand Constraint	1
On the Event-Structural Properties of the EnglishGet-Passive	1
Agreement Shift in Embedded Reports	1
PP-Extraposition and Precedence	1
Whatever His Arguments, Whatever-Relatives Are Not Free Relatives: A Reply to Caponigro’s Reply	1
High and Low Applicatives of Unaccusatives: Dependent Case and the Phase	1
Turkish Causatives Are Recursive: A Response to Key 2013	1
More on (the Lack of) Reconstruction in English Tough-Constructions	1
When Ellipsis Can Save Defectiveness and When It Can’t	1
Contiguity Theory and the Ordering of Contrastive Elements	1
Metrical Structure and Licensing: An Argument from Ukrainian	1
Editors’ Note Re: “Syntactic Head Movement in Japanese: Evidence from Verb-Echo Answers and Negative Scope Reversal” by Yosuke Sato and Masako Maeda, Linguistic Inquiry 52:2, 359–376, https://d	1
On Realizing External Arguments: A Syntactic and Implicature Theory of the Disjointness Effect for Passives in Adult and Child Grammar	1
Priority Union and Feature Logic in Phonology	1
Ambivalent Adpositions and “P-Stranding” in Russian	1
The Role of the Absolutive Object in Morphological Accessibility	1
∃-Closure and Alternatives	1
Diagnosing Clause Structure in a Polysynthetic Language:Wh-Agreement and Parasitic Gaps in West Circassian	1
No Gender Polarity in Arabic Numeral Phrases	1
Some Formal Implications of Deletion Saltation	1
Salvation by Deletion in Nupe	1
Ergativity in Tabasaran: A Reply to Woolford 2015	1
Serial Reduplication Is Empirically Adequate and Typologically Restrictive	1
Condition B and Other Conditions on Pronominal Licensing in Serbo-Croatian	1
What Divides, and What Unites, Right-Node Raising	1