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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
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Argument-introducing pluractionals: An investigation of Kyrgyz and Kazakh assistives13
Apparent minimality violations solved by Nested Agree9
Demonstratives locate referents in common space and ground: A comparative syntactic approach9
The prosody of Spanish acronyms9
The common core of relativization in Georgian8
Finiteness in a language without finite morphology: An experimental study of Mandarin Chinese8
The syntax of Philippine-type alignment: Insights from case-marking7
Movement and cyclic Agree6
Matching domains: The syntax, morphology, and phonology of the verb in Sinhala6
Clause-internal successive cyclicity: Phasality or DP intervention?6
Leftover agreement6
The lexical semantics of finite control: A view from Japanese5
Indexical shift in Tabasaran5
Taking the nominative (back) out of the accusative5
Compounding words in the syntax can produce phrasal phonology: Evidence from Japanese Aoyagi morphemes4
Mandarin null objects: Topic-binding over argument ellipsis4
Towards a theory of morphosyntactic focus marking4
Head movement from non-complements: Evidence from Aleut4
Mayan animacy hierarchy effects and the dynamics of Agree4
Split coordination with adjectives in Italian4
Correction to: What word-prosodic typology is missing: Motivating foot structure as an analytical tool for syllable-internal prosodic oppositions4
On the interpretation of long-distance agreement in Border Lakes Ojibwe3
Argument ellipsis as external merge after transfer3
Relative clauses are islands in Japanese: The case of double relatives3
Marked unergatives: Syntactic ergativity and nominalizations3
Hyperraising, evidentiality, and phase deactivation3
Weak determinism and the computational consequences of interaction3
Syntactic island effects in Spanish: Experimental evidence3
Moving heads to specifiers: Evidence from Mandarin multiple pre-subject modals3
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
Omnivorous person, number and gender in Mundari3
On the absence of low focus movement in Brazilian Portuguese3
Urdu/Hindi polar kya as an expression of uncertainty3
Improper case2
Productive phrasal opacity in Gua: A challenge to Stratal Optimality Theory2
Predicate-sluicing in Tokelauan2
Mandarin verb doubling as verb-phrase fronting2
The order of operations and A/Ā interactions2
A metrical analysis of light-initial tone sandhi in Suzhou Wu2
Clausal embedding in Washo: Complementation vs. modification2
Correction to: Cyclicity and prosodic misalignment in Armenian stems2
Adverbs of change and dynamicity2
Person effects in agreement with Icelandic low nominatives: An experimental investigation2
Agreeing against the odds: When clitic clusters trigger agreement2
The Mirror Alignment Principle2
Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling2
The whole picture: Disentangling locality, logophoricity and subjecthood in English picture noun anaphora2
Testing for underlying representations: Segments and clusters in Sevillian Spanish1
Lack of c-command in coordinate structures: Evidence from binding1
The interaction of idioms and aspect in Polish1
Subjectless readings of again: A response to Bale (2007) and Smith and Yu (2021)1
Degrees as kinds: The case of Mandarin sortal classifiers1
The rise and fall of a person-case constraint in Breton1
Sequence of tense and cessation implicatures: evidence from Polish1
Personal-evaluation secondary predicates in Japanese and quirky experiencer raising1
Reflexes of exponent movement in inflectional morphology1
Language change and the Degree Semantics Parameter1
Indefinite definites in Italian1
The prosody of the extended VP1
Double downstep in Northern Toussian: Implications on tonal representation1
Middle voice as generalized argument suppression1
Coordinated and local optionality in Serial Noisy Harmonic Grammar1
The lexical core of a complex functional affix: Russian baby diminutive -onok1
The emergence of case matching in discontinuous DPs1
On corrective questions and the position of focus1
Case and Voice properties of complex event nominalizations: A Voice-bundling approach0
Emergent learning bias and the underattestation of simple patterns0
Appealing to superlative clauses0
Negative concord in Russian Sign Language0
*Daroo ka↑: the interplay of deictic modality, sentence type, prosody and tier of meaning0
There is something missing in NP and moving in DP0
Cyclic residues of affix deletion in Armenian passive stems0
Structure preservation in complex prefields: A note on Müller (2018)0
Passivization and composite A/Ā-movement in the Mandarin bei-construction0
Anaphora and agreement in the Turkish DP0
Raising and head-external relatives in Atchan0
Resumption in Igbo: Two types of resumptives, complex phi-mismatches, and dynamic deletion domains0
Indirect causatives in Basque: The syntax of implicit causees0
The duality of syntax: Unstable structures, labelling and linearisation0
Passive vs. unaccusative predicates: A phase-based account0
Exceptionally optional negative concord with Turkish neither...nor0
CAP in hand, Editor-in-Chief0
Extending the typology of quantifier particles0
The semantics of applicativization in Kinyarwanda0
A novel architecture for pseudo-incorporation0
Anchoring in truncation: A typological analysis0
Perspectival domains in nouns and clauses0
Verb-initial clauses in Kawahíva0
C-Agree is local subject-verb agreement in Kipsigis0
Argument ellipsis as topic deletion0
Anticausatives in transitive guise0
Boundedness in locative prepositions: Evidence from Catalan0
Reassessing the argument–adjunct asymmetry in wh-in-situ islands in Mandarin: An experimental investigation0
Jewelry’s missing “jewel”: Containment, doublets, and gaps as probes into countability and the count/mass distinction0
Mei shenme ‘few/little,’ mei ‘not,’ and neg raising in Mandarin Chinese0
On the (non)optionality of the Turkish classifier tane0
Control theory and the relationship between logophoric pronouns and logophoric uses of anaphors0
A unified semantics for distributive and non-distributive universal quantifiers across languages0
There is only one más: Spanish que/de comparative alternation0
The variable position of the reflexive affix in Lithuanian0
Morphological conditions on movement-chain resolution0
First conjunct clitic doubling in Modern Greek: Evidence for Agree-based approaches to clitic doubling0
What word-prosodic typology is missing: Motivating foot structure as an analytical tool for syllable-internal prosodic oppositions0
A syntactic derivation of the reduplication patterns and their interpretation in Mandarin0
Two grammars of A’ingae glottalization: A case for Cophonologies by Phase0
Semantic agreement in Russian: Gender, declension, and morphological ineffability0
Bikol clefts and topics and the Austronesian extraction restriction0
Greek non-negative min, epistemic modality, and positive bias0
Voice in Turkish: Re-thinking u-syncretism0
Dominant domains in vowel harmony: A structural approach to a linear asymmetry0
Spreading and correspondence in Huave vowel copy0
Reciprocal shift and symmetry breaking0
Exhaustive control as movement: The case of Wolof0
On case-copying reflexives0
The inferential typology of language: Insights from sign language (ASL)0
Metrically conditioned /a/-syncope in Modern Hebrew compounds0
Not all reconstruction effects are syntactic0
What learning Latin verbal morphology tells us about morphological theory0
A new approach to plurals-of-politeness and their number agreement0
Differential coding of the occurrence of negative eventualities and the nonoccurrence of eventualities in Japanese0
Correction to: Anticausatives in transitive guise0
Type-shifting in headless relative clauses0
Assimilation and morpheme boundaries in Mgira0
Soft locality restrictions in negative concord: Evidence from the French future polarity effect0
Neutral paired vowels in Mayak and Kurmuk0
Nominalization of clauses: The clausal prolepsis strategy0
Impersonal pronouns: Typological insights from Teochew implicit causees0
A tale of two EVENs0
Integrated non-restrictive relative clauses in Shupamem0
Reversibility in specificational copular sentences and pseudoclefts0
Re-analyzing ‘say’ complementation: Implications for case theory and beyond0
Editorial0
The status and distribution of clausal arguments: The case of Mandarin Chinese0
How complex are complex cardinals?0
Discontinuous noun phrases in Iquito0
P-omission in ellipsis in Spanish: Evidence for syntactic identity0
Paradigm uniformity effects on French liaison0
On the nature of role shift0
Portions and countability: A crosslinguistic investigation0
The incoherent stress of Kuikuro0
Layered feet and syllable-integrity violations: The case of Copperbelt Bemba bounded tone spread0
Bouletic concord0
Manner/result polysemy as contextual allosemy: Evidence from Daakaka0
Variation in the lexical semantics of property concept roots: Evidence from Wá⋅šiw0
Tets´ǫt’ıné prefix vowel length: Evidence for systematic underspecification0
Semantic variation in exclusive quantifiers0
Effects of uniqueness on extraction from definite NP objects0
Honorifics without [hon]0
Movement and crossover in three languages0
On the strong–weak status of the Akan definiteness marker0
Possessor extraction and categorical subject in Tseltalan0
Possession and syntactic categories: An argument from Äiwoo0
Lexical and grammatical arity-reduction: The case of reciprocity in Romance languages0
Detecting variable force in imperatives: A modalized minimal approach0
Predicate doubling in Spanish: On how discourse may mimic syntactic movement0
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