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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Argument-introducing pluractionals: An investigation of Kyrgyz and Kazakh assistives11
The prosody of Spanish acronyms10
Apparent minimality violations solved by Nested Agree9
Demonstratives locate referents in common space and ground: A comparative syntactic approach9
Finiteness in a language without finite morphology: An experimental study of Mandarin Chinese9
The syntax of Philippine-type alignment: Insights from case-marking8
Leftover agreement8
Matching domains: The syntax, morphology, and phonology of the verb in Sinhala7
The common core of relativization in Georgian6
The lexical semantics of finite control: A view from Japanese6
Taking the nominative (back) out of the accusative6
In defense of the clause-internal phase: Evidence from operational opacity in ndebele6
Clause-internal successive cyclicity: Phasality or DP intervention?5
Movement and cyclic Agree5
Mayan animacy hierarchy effects and the dynamics of Agree4
Compounding words in the syntax can produce phrasal phonology: Evidence from Japanese Aoyagi morphemes4
Correction to: What word-prosodic typology is missing: Motivating foot structure as an analytical tool for syllable-internal prosodic oppositions4
Indexical shift in Tabasaran4
Head movement from non-complements: Evidence from Aleut4
Iconicity and expressiveness of grammatical tones targeting ideophones in Mwaghavul4
The role of phases and specificity in definite islands4
Mandarin null objects: Topic-binding over argument ellipsis4
Towards a theory of morphosyntactic focus marking4
Urdu/Hindi polar kya as an expression of uncertainty3
Synchronizing meaning with sound and beyond: The role of physical markings in thematic, modal, and informational interpretations3
Hyperraising, evidentiality, and phase deactivation3
Omnivorous person, number and gender in Mundari3
On the interpretation of long-distance agreement in Border Lakes Ojibwe3
Syntax of negation in corrective but sentences: Evidence from syntax-semantics and prosody3
Weak determinism and the computational consequences of interaction3
Marked unergatives: Syntactic ergativity and nominalizations3
Moving heads to specifiers: Evidence from Mandarin multiple pre-subject modals3
Split coordination with adjectives in Italian3
Allomorphy in Semitic discontinuous agreement: Evidence for a modular approach to postsyntax3
Argument ellipsis as external merge after transfer3
Syntactic island effects in Spanish: Experimental evidence3
States and changes-of-state in the semantics of result roots3
Syntactic variation in contemporary Hebrew: From participial to tensed relatives2
Productive phrasal opacity in Gua: A challenge to Stratal Optimality Theory2
The order of operations and A/Ā interactions2
A novel argument for cyclicity from the (in)visibility of infixes at morpheme junctures: Bottoms up!2
Sequence of tense and cessation implicatures: evidence from Polish2
Predicate-sluicing in Tokelauan2
Relative clauses are islands in Japanese: The case of double relatives2
A metrical analysis of light-initial tone sandhi in Suzhou Wu2
Person effects in agreement with Icelandic low nominatives: An experimental investigation2
Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling2
Mandarin verb doubling as verb-phrase fronting2
The whole picture: Disentangling locality, logophoricity and subjecthood in English picture noun anaphora2
On the absence of low focus movement in Brazilian Portuguese2
Agreeing against the odds: When clitic clusters trigger agreement2
Improper case2
Correction to: Cyclicity and prosodic misalignment in Armenian stems2
Adverbs of change and dynamicity2
The grammar of gender: Insights from Bantu asymmetries of AGR with conjoined subjects2
Number and person agreement with the subject: Downward Agree vs Spec–Head2
Coordinated and local optionality in Serial Noisy Harmonic Grammar1
On corrective questions and the position of focus1
Lack of c-command in coordinate structures: Evidence from binding1
The rise and fall of a person-case constraint in Breton1
The emergence of case matching in discontinuous DPs1
Manner/result polysemy as contextual allosemy: Evidence from Daakaka1
Middle voice as generalized argument suppression1
Indefinite definites in Italian1
Personal-evaluation secondary predicates in Japanese and quirky experiencer raising1
The prosody of the extended VP1
Testing for underlying representations: Segments and clusters in Sevillian Spanish1
The interaction of idioms and aspect in Polish1
Dominant domains in vowel harmony: A structural approach to a linear asymmetry1
Reciprocal shift and symmetry breaking1
Subjectless readings of again: A response to Bale (2007) and Smith and Yu (2021)1
Degrees as kinds: The case of Mandarin sortal classifiers1
Direct causatives of unergatives: A view from variable unaccusativity1
Double downstep in Northern Toussian: Implications on tonal representation1
Language change and the Degree Semantics Parameter1
Small nominalized clauses in Khalkha Mongolian: Asymmetries in mixed extended projections1
The duality of syntax: Unstable structures, labelling and linearisation1
The incoherent stress of Kuikuro1
Reflexes of exponent movement in inflectional morphology1
Morphological conditions on movement-chain resolution0
There is something missing in NP and moving in DP0
Experimental evidence from extraction for the D-shell analysis of clausal prolepsis0
A tale of two EVENs0
Passivization and composite A/Ā-movement in the Mandarin bei-construction0
C-Agree is local subject-verb agreement in Kipsigis0
Gradience at the syntax-phonology interface: Prosodically constrained VPs in mandarin and wenzhounese0
Resumption in Igbo: Two types of resumptives, complex phi-mismatches, and dynamic deletion domains0
The semantics of applicativization in Kinyarwanda0
Perspectival domains in nouns and clauses0
Negative concord in Russian Sign Language0
Exhaustive control as movement: The case of Wolof0
Soft locality restrictions in negative concord: Evidence from the French future polarity effect0
A novel architecture for pseudo-incorporation0
Indirect causatives in Basque: The syntax of implicit causees0
Verb-initial clauses in Kawahíva0
Reassessing the argument–adjunct asymmetry in wh-in-situ islands in Mandarin: An experimental investigation0
Paradigm uniformity effects on French liaison0
Anticausatives in transitive guise0
Nominalization of clauses: The clausal prolepsis strategy0
What word-prosodic typology is missing: Motivating foot structure as an analytical tool for syllable-internal prosodic oppositions0
Impersonal pronouns: Typological insights from Teochew implicit causees0
Case and Voice properties of complex event nominalizations: A Voice-bundling approach0
Re-analyzing ‘say’ complementation: Implications for case theory and beyond0
Appealing to superlative clauses0
Semantic variation in exclusive quantifiers0
Voice in Turkish: Re-thinking u-syncretism0
*Daroo ka↑: the interplay of deictic modality, sentence type, prosody and tier of meaning0
Portions and countability: A crosslinguistic investigation0
Possession and syntactic categories: An argument from Äiwoo0
Editorial0
The status and distribution of clausal arguments: The case of Mandarin Chinese0
Tets´ǫt’ıné prefix vowel length: Evidence for systematic underspecification0
Agree in restructuring: Evidence from auxiliary switch and clitic climbing in French and Italian0
Two grammars of A’ingae glottalization: A case for Cophonologies by Phase0
The nouns that say -ni: Morpheme-specific phonology in Telugu0
Effects of uniqueness on extraction from definite NP objects0
A new approach to plurals-of-politeness and their number agreement0
The inferential typology of language: Insights from sign language (ASL)0
Spreading and correspondence in Huave vowel copy0
Type-shifting in headless relative clauses0
Metrically conditioned /a/-syncope in Modern Hebrew compounds0
Quotative inversion as smuggling: Evidence from Setswana and English0
There is only one más: Spanish que/de comparative alternation0
Not all reconstruction effects are syntactic0
On the strong–weak status of the Akan definiteness marker0
Detecting variable force in imperatives: A modalized minimal approach0
Mei shenme ‘few/little,’ mei ‘not,’ and neg raising in Mandarin Chinese0
Semantic agreement in Russian: Gender, declension, and morphological ineffability0
Possessor extraction and categorical subject in Tseltalan0
Movement and crossover in three languages0
The variable position of the reflexive affix in Lithuanian0
A syntactic derivation of the reduplication patterns and their interpretation in Mandarin0
Bikol clefts and topics and the Austronesian extraction restriction0
On case-copying reflexives0
A unified semantics for distributive and non-distributive universal quantifiers across languages0
Argument ellipsis as topic deletion0
Scrambling in the nominal domain: Evidence from the Chichewa DP0
Correction to: Anticausatives in transitive guise0
What learning Latin verbal morphology tells us about morphological theory0
Structure preservation in complex prefields: A note on Müller (2018)0
First conjunct clitic doubling in Modern Greek: Evidence for Agree-based approaches to clitic doubling0
Honorifics without [hon]0
Discontinuous noun phrases in Iquito0
Passive vs. unaccusative predicates: A phase-based account0
How complex are complex cardinals?0
Exceptionally optional negative concord with Turkish neither...nor0
Greek non-negative min, epistemic modality, and positive bias0
Control theory and the relationship between logophoric pronouns and logophoric uses of anaphors0
CAP in hand, Editor-in-Chief0
Lexical and grammatical arity-reduction: The case of reciprocity in Romance languages0
Variation in the lexical semantics of property concept roots: Evidence from Wá⋅šiw0
What’s in an X-marked conditional: A temporal puzzle0
Adjectives without syntactic categories0
Assimilation and morpheme boundaries in Mgira0
Boundedness in locative prepositions: Evidence from Catalan0
Jewelry’s missing “jewel”: Containment, doublets, and gaps as probes into countability and the count/mass distinction0
Emergent learning bias and the underattestation of simple patterns0
Anaphora and agreement in the Turkish DP0
On the (non)optionality of the Turkish classifier tane0
Raising and head-external relatives in Atchan0
Detaching Mandarin classifiers from nouns: A mereological solution0
Differential coding of the occurrence of negative eventualities and the nonoccurrence of eventualities in Japanese0
An experimental syntax approach to British English do ellipsis0
Bouletic concord0
Integrated non-restrictive relative clauses in Shupamem0
Cyclic residues of affix deletion in Armenian passive stems0
Extending the typology of quantifier particles0
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