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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Apparent minimality violations solved by Nested Agree11
Argument-introducing pluractionals: An investigation of Kyrgyz and Kazakh assistives11
Demonstratives locate referents in common space and ground: A comparative syntactic approach10
The prosody of Spanish acronyms9
Finiteness in a language without finite morphology: An experimental study of Mandarin Chinese9
Leftover agreement8
The syntax of Philippine-type alignment: Insights from case-marking7
The common core of relativization in Georgian7
Mandarin null objects: Topic-binding over argument ellipsis6
Clause-internal successive cyclicity: Phasality or DP intervention?6
Matching domains: The syntax, morphology, and phonology of the verb in Sinhala6
The lexical semantics of finite control: A view from Japanese6
Again, finiteness, and split aspect in Chinese languages6
Taking the nominative (back) out of the accusative6
In defense of the clause-internal phase: Evidence from operational opacity in ndebele6
Indexical shift in Tabasaran5
The role of phases and specificity in definite islands5
Mayan animacy hierarchy effects and the dynamics of Agree5
Urdu/Hindi polar kya as an expression of uncertainty4
Correction to: What word-prosodic typology is missing: Motivating foot structure as an analytical tool for syllable-internal prosodic oppositions4
Allomorphy in Semitic discontinuous agreement: Evidence for a modular approach to postsyntax4
Head movement from non-complements: Evidence from Aleut4
Syntax of negation in corrective but sentences: Evidence from syntax-semantics and prosody4
Compounding words in the syntax can produce phrasal phonology: Evidence from Japanese Aoyagi morphemes4
Argument ellipsis as external merge after transfer3
Synchronizing meaning with sound and beyond: The role of physical markings in thematic, modal, and informational interpretations3
Marked unergatives: Syntactic ergativity and nominalizations3
Syntactic island effects in Spanish: Experimental evidence3
Relative clauses are islands in Japanese: The case of double relatives3
Iconicity and expressiveness of grammatical tones targeting ideophones in Mwaghavul3
On the interpretation of long-distance agreement in Border Lakes Ojibwe3
Weak determinism and the computational consequences of interaction3
Omnivorous person, number and gender in Mundari3
Hyperraising, evidentiality, and phase deactivation3
Split coordination with adjectives in Italian3
Towards a theory of morphosyntactic focus marking3
States and changes-of-state in the semantics of result roots3
Syntactic variation in contemporary Hebrew: From participial to tensed relatives3
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
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
Productive phrasal opacity in Gua: A challenge to Stratal Optimality Theory2
A metrical analysis of light-initial tone sandhi in Suzhou Wu2
Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling2
Mandarin verb doubling as verb-phrase fronting2
The prosody of the extended VP2
On the absence of low focus movement in Brazilian Portuguese2
Agreeing against the odds: When clitic clusters trigger agreement2
Identity with double ellipsis2
Correction to: Cyclicity and prosodic misalignment in Armenian stems2
Adverbs of change and dynamicity2
Predicate-sluicing in Tokelauan2
Moving heads to specifiers: Evidence from Mandarin multiple pre-subject modals2
Person effects in agreement with Icelandic low nominatives: An experimental investigation2
Personal-evaluation secondary predicates in Japanese and quirky experiencer raising1
The rise and fall of a person-case constraint in Breton1
Testing for underlying representations: Segments and clusters in Sevillian Spanish1
Double downstep in Northern Toussian: Implications on tonal representation1
Subjectless readings of again: A response to Bale (2007) and Smith and Yu (2021)1
On clausal complementation, once more1
The semantics of applicativization in Kinyarwanda1
A successive-cyclic dependent case account of Korean case-marked adverbials1
The interaction of idioms and aspect in Polish1
Direct causatives of unergatives: A view from variable unaccusativity1
Small nominalized clauses in Khalkha Mongolian: Asymmetries in mixed extended projections1
What Backward Negative Concord tells us about control1
The emergence of case matching in discontinuous DPs1
Indefinite definites in Italian1
Exceptionally optional negative concord with Turkish neither...nor1
The duality of syntax: Unstable structures, labelling and linearisation1
Degrees as kinds: The case of Mandarin sortal classifiers1
Language change and the Degree Semantics Parameter1
Coordinated and local optionality in Serial Noisy Harmonic Grammar1
Lack of c-command in coordinate structures: Evidence from binding1
The whole picture: Disentangling locality, logophoricity and subjecthood in English picture noun anaphora1
On corrective questions and the position of focus1
Dominant domains in vowel harmony: A structural approach to a linear asymmetry1
Manner/result polysemy as contextual allosemy: Evidence from Daakaka1
The incoherent stress of Kuikuro1
Reciprocal shift and symmetry breaking1
Type-shifting in headless relative clauses0
Spreading and correspondence in Huave vowel copy0
What’s in an X-marked conditional: A temporal puzzle0
A novel architecture for pseudo-incorporation0
Possessor extraction and categorical subject in Tseltalan0
How complex are complex cardinals?0
Jewelry’s missing “jewel”: Containment, doublets, and gaps as probes into countability and the count/mass distinction0
Movement and crossover in three languages0
First conjunct clitic doubling in Modern Greek: Evidence for Agree-based approaches to clitic doubling0
Anticausatives in transitive guise0
Case and Voice properties of complex event nominalizations: A Voice-bundling approach0
Anaphora and agreement in the Turkish DP0
On the (non)optionality of the Turkish classifier tane0
Quotative inversion as smuggling: Evidence from Setswana and English0
A new approach to plurals-of-politeness and their number agreement0
Detecting variable force in imperatives: A modalized minimal approach0
Lexical and grammatical arity-reduction: The case of reciprocity in Romance languages0
Unaccusativity out of control0
Scrambling in the nominal domain: Evidence from the Chichewa DP0
Detaching Mandarin classifiers from nouns: A mereological solution0
Structure preservation in complex prefields: A note on Müller (2018)0
There is something missing in NP and moving in DP0
Tets´ǫt’ıné prefix vowel length: Evidence for systematic underspecification0
Semantic variation in exclusive quantifiers0
Passivization and composite A/Ā-movement in the Mandarin bei-construction0
C-Agree is local subject-verb agreement in Kipsigis0
Verb-initial clauses in Kawahíva0
Resumption in Igbo: Two types of resumptives, complex phi-mismatches, and dynamic deletion domains0
Control theory and the relationship between logophoric pronouns and logophoric uses of anaphors0
Greek non-negative min, epistemic modality, and positive bias0
Soft locality restrictions in negative concord: Evidence from the French future polarity effect0
Metrically conditioned /a/-syncope in Modern Hebrew compounds0
Reassessing the argument–adjunct asymmetry in wh-in-situ islands in Mandarin: An experimental investigation0
Exhaustive control as movement: The case of Wolof0
Emergent learning bias and the underattestation of simple patterns0
Mari and Udmurt do not require postsyntactic operations (A reply to Georgieva et al. 2021 and Guseva and Weisser 2018)0
Assimilation and morpheme boundaries in Mgira0
Bikol clefts and topics and the Austronesian extraction restriction0
Portions and countability: A crosslinguistic investigation0
A syntactic derivation of the reduplication patterns and their interpretation in Mandarin0
Gradience at the syntax-phonology interface: Prosodically constrained VPs in mandarin and wenzhounese0
Re-analyzing ‘say’ complementation: Implications for case theory and beyond0
Agree in restructuring: Evidence from auxiliary switch and clitic climbing in French and Italian0
Nominalization of clauses: The clausal prolepsis strategy0
On case-copying reflexives0
A unified semantics for distributive and non-distributive universal quantifiers across languages0
Bouletic concord0
Morphological conditions on movement-chain resolution0
Semantic agreement in Russian: Gender, declension, and morphological ineffability0
Possession and syntactic categories: An argument from Äiwoo0
Discontinuous noun phrases in Iquito0
On the strong–weak status of the Akan definiteness marker0
Honorifics without [hon]0
Integrated non-restrictive relative clauses in Shupamem0
Two grammars of A’ingae glottalization: A case for Cophonologies by Phase0
Extending the typology of quantifier particles0
Differential coding of the occurrence of negative eventualities and the nonoccurrence of eventualities in Japanese0
Adjectives without syntactic categories0
Argument ellipsis as topic deletion0
CAP in hand, Editor-in-Chief0
An experimental syntax approach to British English do ellipsis0
Variation in the lexical semantics of property concept roots: Evidence from Wá⋅šiw0
Mei shenme ‘few/little,’ mei ‘not,’ and neg raising in Mandarin Chinese0
Not all reconstruction effects are syntactic0
Correction to: Double downstep in Northern Toussian: Implications on tonal representation0
Strict modularity at the morphosyntax-phonology interface: The case of Irish preverbal d’0
The variable position of the reflexive affix in Lithuanian0
From motion to speech act: The discourse function of luai-$k^{h}$ə in Ji’an Gan Chinese0
Raising and head-external relatives in Atchan0
What word-prosodic typology is missing: Motivating foot structure as an analytical tool for syllable-internal prosodic oppositions0
Appealing to superlative clauses0
Effects of uniqueness on extraction from definite NP objects0
Paradigm uniformity effects on French liaison0
Impersonal pronouns: Typological insights from Teochew implicit causees0
Cyclic residues of affix deletion in Armenian passive stems0
Voice in Turkish: Re-thinking u-syncretism0
*Daroo ka↑: the interplay of deictic modality, sentence type, prosody and tier of meaning0
The nouns that say -ni: Morpheme-specific phonology in Telugu0
Editorial0
Correction to: Anticausatives in transitive guise0
Experimental evidence from extraction for the D-shell analysis of clausal prolepsis0
A tale of two EVENs0
The status and distribution of clausal arguments: The case of Mandarin Chinese0
What learning Latin verbal morphology tells us about morphological theory0
There is only one más: Spanish que/de comparative alternation0
Passive vs. unaccusative predicates: A phase-based account0
Boundedness in locative prepositions: Evidence from Catalan0
The inferential typology of language: Insights from sign language (ASL)0
Indirect causatives in Basque: The syntax of implicit causees0
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