Natural Language & Linguistic Theory

Papers
(The median citation count of Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Argument-introducing pluractionals: An investigation of Kyrgyz and Kazakh assistives13
The prosody of Spanish acronyms9
Demonstratives locate referents in common space and ground: A comparative syntactic approach9
Apparent minimality violations solved by Nested Agree8
Finiteness in a language without finite morphology: An experimental study of Mandarin Chinese6
The syntax of Philippine-type alignment: Insights from case-marking6
The common core of relativization in Georgian6
Matching domains: The syntax, morphology, and phonology of the verb in Sinhala5
Movement and cyclic Agree5
Clause-internal successive cyclicity: Phasality or DP intervention?5
Leftover agreement5
Taking the nominative (back) out of the accusative5
Correction to: What word-prosodic typology is missing: Motivating foot structure as an analytical tool for syllable-internal prosodic oppositions4
Indexical shift in Tabasaran4
Compounding words in the syntax can produce phrasal phonology: Evidence from Japanese Aoyagi morphemes4
Mandarin null objects: Topic-binding over argument ellipsis4
The lexical semantics of finite control: A view from Japanese4
Head movement from non-complements: Evidence from Aleut4
Mayan animacy hierarchy effects and the dynamics of Agree4
Split coordination with adjectives in Italian3
Urdu/Hindi polar kya as an expression of uncertainty3
Weak determinism and the computational consequences of interaction3
On the interpretation of long-distance agreement in Border Lakes Ojibwe3
Allomorphy in Semitic discontinuous agreement: Evidence for a modular approach to postsyntax3
Synchronizing meaning with sound and beyond: The role of physical markings in thematic, modal, and informational interpretations3
States and changes-of-state in the semantics of result roots3
Hyperraising, evidentiality, and phase deactivation3
Towards a theory of morphosyntactic focus marking3
Argument ellipsis as external merge after transfer3
Marked unergatives: Syntactic ergativity and nominalizations3
Predicate-sluicing in Tokelauan2
Adverbs of change and dynamicity2
Syntactic island effects in Spanish: Experimental evidence2
Moving heads to specifiers: Evidence from Mandarin multiple pre-subject modals2
The Mirror Alignment Principle2
The order of operations and A/Ā interactions2
Correction to: Cyclicity and prosodic misalignment in Armenian stems2
Agreeing against the odds: When clitic clusters trigger agreement2
Improper case2
Omnivorous person, number and gender in Mundari2
Person effects in agreement with Icelandic low nominatives: An experimental investigation2
A metrical analysis of light-initial tone sandhi in Suzhou Wu2
Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling2
Mandarin verb doubling as verb-phrase fronting2
On the absence of low focus movement in Brazilian Portuguese2
Relative clauses are islands in Japanese: The case of double relatives2
Productive phrasal opacity in Gua: A challenge to Stratal Optimality Theory2
Clausal embedding in Washo: Complementation vs. modification2
Coordinated and local optionality in Serial Noisy Harmonic Grammar1
Sequence of tense and cessation implicatures: evidence from Polish1
Middle voice as generalized argument suppression1
On corrective questions and the position of focus1
Subjectless readings of again: A response to Bale (2007) and Smith and Yu (2021)1
The interaction of idioms and aspect in Polish1
The emergence of case matching in discontinuous DPs1
The rise and fall of a person-case constraint in Breton1
Testing for underlying representations: Segments and clusters in Sevillian Spanish1
Lack of c-command in coordinate structures: Evidence from binding1
Language change and the Degree Semantics Parameter1
Reflexes of exponent movement in inflectional morphology1
Degrees as kinds: The case of Mandarin sortal classifiers1
The whole picture: Disentangling locality, logophoricity and subjecthood in English picture noun anaphora1
Double downstep in Northern Toussian: Implications on tonal representation1
The prosody of the extended VP1
Personal-evaluation secondary predicates in Japanese and quirky experiencer raising1
On the nature of role shift1
Indefinite definites in Italian1
The lexical core of a complex functional affix: Russian baby diminutive -onok1
Greek non-negative min, epistemic modality, and positive bias0
Bikol clefts and topics and the Austronesian extraction restriction0
Spreading and correspondence in Huave vowel copy0
The incoherent stress of Kuikuro0
Manner/result polysemy as contextual allosemy: Evidence from Daakaka0
Exhaustive control as movement: The case of Wolof0
Not all reconstruction effects are syntactic0
Argument ellipsis as topic deletion0
A novel architecture for pseudo-incorporation0
Differential coding of the occurrence of negative eventualities and the nonoccurrence of eventualities in Japanese0
Type-shifting in headless relative clauses0
Paradigm uniformity effects on French liaison0
Portions and countability: A crosslinguistic investigation0
Assimilation and morpheme boundaries in Mgira0
Soft locality restrictions in negative concord: Evidence from the French future polarity effect0
Anaphora and agreement in the Turkish DP0
On the (non)optionality of the Turkish classifier tane0
Nominalization of clauses: The clausal prolepsis strategy0
Voice in Turkish: Re-thinking u-syncretism0
A unified semantics for distributive and non-distributive universal quantifiers across languages0
Semantic variation in exclusive quantifiers0
Possession and syntactic categories: An argument from Äiwoo0
What’s in the bucket? Aspectual (non)compositionality in phrasal idioms0
There is something missing in NP and moving in DP0
Tets´ǫt’ıné prefix vowel length: Evidence for systematic underspecification0
The status and distribution of clausal arguments: The case of Mandarin Chinese0
Correction to: Anticausatives in transitive guise0
Structure preservation in complex prefields: A note on Müller (2018)0
P-omission in ellipsis in Spanish: Evidence for syntactic identity0
Anchoring in truncation: A typological analysis0
A tale of two EVENs0
Reversibility in specificational copular sentences and pseudoclefts0
The duality of syntax: Unstable structures, labelling and linearisation0
Layered feet and syllable-integrity violations: The case of Copperbelt Bemba bounded tone spread0
Exceptionally optional negative concord with Turkish neither...nor0
The semantics of applicativization in Kinyarwanda0
Metrically conditioned /a/-syncope in Modern Hebrew compounds0
Effects of uniqueness on extraction from definite NP objects0
Movement and crossover in three languages0
There is only one más: Spanish que/de comparative alternation0
Possessor extraction and categorical subject in Tseltalan0
Lexical and grammatical arity-reduction: The case of reciprocity in Romance languages0
What word-prosodic typology is missing: Motivating foot structure as an analytical tool for syllable-internal prosodic oppositions0
Allomorph selection precedes phonology: Evidence from Yindjibarndi0
Detecting variable force in imperatives: A modalized minimal approach0
Predicate doubling in Spanish: On how discourse may mimic syntactic movement0
Semantic agreement in Russian: Gender, declension, and morphological ineffability0
Raising and head-external relatives in Atchan0
Emergent learning bias and the underattestation of simple patterns0
Bouletic concord0
Integrated non-restrictive relative clauses in Shupamem0
Negative concord in Russian Sign Language0
On case-copying reflexives0
On the strong–weak status of the Akan definiteness marker0
What learning Latin verbal morphology tells us about morphological theory0
Morphological conditions on movement-chain resolution0
Passivization and composite A/Ā-movement in the Mandarin bei-construction0
The variable position of the reflexive affix in Lithuanian0
Discontinuous noun phrases in Iquito0
Passive vs. unaccusative predicates: A phase-based account0
Case and Voice properties of complex event nominalizations: A Voice-bundling approach0
Resumption in Igbo: Two types of resumptives, complex phi-mismatches, and dynamic deletion domains0
Dominant domains in vowel harmony: A structural approach to a linear asymmetry0
CAP in hand, Editor-in-Chief0
Reciprocal shift and symmetry breaking0
The inferential typology of language: Insights from sign language (ASL)0
Variation in the lexical semantics of property concept roots: Evidence from Wá⋅šiw0
Verb-initial clauses in Kawahíva0
Control theory and the relationship between logophoric pronouns and logophoric uses of anaphors0
Cyclic residues of affix deletion in Armenian passive stems0
Perspectival domains in nouns and clauses0
Anticausatives in transitive guise0
Reassessing the argument–adjunct asymmetry in wh-in-situ islands in Mandarin: An experimental investigation0
How complex are complex cardinals?0
Indirect causatives in Basque: The syntax of implicit causees0
Neutral paired vowels in Mayak and Kurmuk0
Mei shenme ‘few/little,’ mei ‘not,’ and neg raising in Mandarin Chinese0
A new approach to plurals-of-politeness and their number agreement0
A syntactic derivation of the reduplication patterns and their interpretation in Mandarin0
Nonunitary structure of unergative verbs in Georgian0
Extending the typology of quantifier particles0
*Daroo ka↑: the interplay of deictic modality, sentence type, prosody and tier of meaning0
Re-analyzing ‘say’ complementation: Implications for case theory and beyond0
Honorifics without [hon]0
First conjunct clitic doubling in Modern Greek: Evidence for Agree-based approaches to clitic doubling0
C-Agree is local subject-verb agreement in Kipsigis0
Editorial0
Two grammars of A’ingae glottalization: A case for Cophonologies by Phase0
Boundedness in locative prepositions: Evidence from Catalan0
Impersonal pronouns: Typological insights from Teochew implicit causees0
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