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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Gender Comes First: Experimental Evidence for the Representation of Gender Closer to the Noun Stem Than Number across Linguistic Populations	25
VP-Preposing and Constituency “Paradox”	22
Asymmetric Coordination in Romanian: A Diagnostic for DOM Position?	21
Embedded Intonation and Quotative Complements to Verbs of Speech	18
The Featural Life of Nominals	14
Learning Phonological Underlying Representations: The Role of Abstractness	12
Category Mismatches in Coordination Vindicated	12
Contiguity Theory and the Ordering of Contrastive Elements	11
Neg-Raising via Proform	10
Two Varieties of Korean: Rightward Head Movement or Polarity Sensitivity?	9
Topic Particles, Agreement, and Movement in an Arabic Dialect	9
(Under)specification Counts: When Nonlocal Anaphors Are Not Exempt	9
When VP-Ellipsis and Sluicing Conspire against Syntactic Neg-Raising	9
Pair-List Interpretation in Multiple Sluicing in Mandarin Chinese	8
Reconciling “Heavy” and “Long”: The Typology of Lexical Geminates	8
Female Diana Monkeys Have Complex Calls	8
A Categorial Grammar View of Syntactic Categories: Evidence from Unexpected Coordinations	7
Picking Up a Friend along the Way: A′-Movement through the v/VP Region in Avatime	7
The Ups and Downs of Pruning: Reply to Paparounas 2024	7
Nasal Assimilation Counterfeeding and Allomorphy in Haitian: Nothing Is Still Something!	7
Still Free to Have a Wh-Phrase: A Reply to	6
Constraints on Reciprocal Scope	6
Intrusion as Template Satisfaction and the QaTaT – QaTa Problem in Semitic	6
3/4 of a Monster: On Mixed Shifty Agreement in Telugu	6
Using Computational Models to Test Syntactic Learnability	6

Quexistentials and Focus	6
The Representation of Gender and Inflectional Class in Italian: A Reply to Kučerová 2018	6
On Referential Parallelism and Compulsory Binding	5
Restrictions on Indexicals in Directive Clauses	5
Case as an Anaphor Agreement Effect: Evidence from Inuktitut	5
When Ellipsis Can Save Defectiveness and When It Can’t	5
Vocabulary Insertion in Two Steps: Evidence from Anti-Homophony Effects in Ethiosemitic	5
Names, Light Nouns, and Countability	4
The Argument/Adjunct Distinction Does Not Condition Islandhood of PPs in English	4
Commitment Phrase: Linking Proposition to Illocutionary Force	4
Inverse Linking and Extraposition	4
Visibility and Intervention in Allomorphy: Lessons from Modern Greek	4
Ā-Probing for the Closest DP	4
Labeling (Reduced) Structures: When VPs Are Sentences	3
In the Beginning Was a To-Phrase	3
An Experimental Comparison of the Availability of Inverse Scope in English and German	3
What Divides, and What Unites, Right-Node Raising	3
An Argument for a Strong Force Semantics of Believe	3
The Position of Wh-Subjects in Labeling Theory	3
Size-Sensitive Sequence of Tense in Hungarian	3
A Program for Eliminating Syntactic Categories	3
The Domain of Formal Matching in Sluicing	3
Extended Phase Boundaries and the Spell-Out Trap	2
Binding and Anticataphora in Mayan	2
Agreement Shift in Embedded Reports	2
The Impersonal Use of German 1st Person SingularIch	2
Suppletion in a Three-Way Number System: Evidence from Creek	2
Does D Select the CP in Light Verb Constructions? A Reply to Hankamer and Mikkelsen 2021	2
Nguni Bare Nouns: Licensing without Case	2
The Informativeness/Complexity Trade-Off in the Domain of Boolean Connectives	2
On Realizing External Arguments: A Syntactic and Implicature Theory of the Disjointness Effect for Passives in Adult and Child Grammar	2
Linking Agreement and Movement: A Case Study of Long Distance Agreement in Border Lakes Ojibwe	2
The Puzzle of Anaphoric Bare Nouns in Mandarin: A Counterpoint toIndex!	2
Locality in Exceptional Tagalog Ā-Extraction	2
A Learning-Based Account of Phonological Tiers	2
Discontinuous DPs, Wh -in-Situ, and Lower Copy Pronunciation in Chichewa	2
Why Plain Futurates are Different	2
Deconstructing SE-Constructions: Number Agreement and Postsyntactic Variation	2
(Im)possible Traces	2
Computing Process-Specific Constraints	2
Silent Resumption: A New Test for Ellipsis	2
Serial Reduplication Is Empirically Adequate and Typologically Restrictive	2
Large Language Models and the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus	2
A Remark on the Ordering of Impoverishment Rules: Differences between Taos and Basque	1
On Until and its Uses	1
Constraint Interaction in Probabilistic Phonology: Deducing Maximum Entropy Grammars from Hayes and Zuraw’s Shifted Sigmoids Generalization	1
On the Representation of Wh -Words and Foci: Evidence from Mixtec	1
Silencing the PCC	1
Restrictions on Long Passives in English and Brazilian Portuguese: A Phase-Based Account	1
Agreement Switch in Verb-Echo Answers: Evidence for Distributed Ellipsis	1

Defectivity Matters: Cliticization in French Causatives Revisited	1
To Be or Not To Be?	1
Can Agree and Labeling Be Reduced to Minimal Search?	1
Salvation by Deletion in Nupe	1
Probe Specification and Agreement Variation: Evidence from the Algonquian Inverse	1
Traveling Shots in Language: Towards an Analysis of Dynamic Viewpoints in ASL	1
Morpheme Structure Constraints Solve Three Puzzles for Theories of Blocking in Nonderived Environments	1
Gaps That Do Not Sprout	1
Conditions on Wh-the-Hell Licensing: Evidence from Colloquial Singapore English	1
Gender Features and Coordination Resolution in Greek and Other Three-Gendered Languages: Implications for the Cross-Linguistic Representation of Gender	1
Locality and Antilocality: The Logic of Conflicting Requirements	1
Turkish Causatives are Recursive: A Response to Key 2013	1
Zero-Weighted Constraints In Noisy Harmonic Grammar	1
Treating Greek o eaftos mu as a Regular Anaphor: Theoretical Implications	1
Talmy’s Typology Revisited: A Spanning Approach	1
Korean VP-Ellipsis and a Derivational Approach to Ellipsis	1
English Particle Verbs Prime Double Object Constructions in Production	1
Restricting Externalization	1
Concord in the Verbal Domain: External Agreement in Nakh-Daghestanian	1