OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Topicality and anaphoricity in Dutch scrambling	11
Structure preservation in complex prefields: A note on Müller (2018)	10
Licensing with Case	7
There is something missing in NP and moving in DP	7
Emergent learning bias and the underattestation of simple patterns	5
Decomposing same	5
Mei shenme ‘few/little,’ mei ‘not,’ and neg raising in Mandarin Chinese	5
Indefinites and free choice	5
On the absence of low focus movement in Brazilian Portuguese	4
Moving heads to specifiers: Evidence from Mandarin multiple pre-subject modals	4
Syntactic island effects in Spanish: Experimental evidence	4
Coordinated and local optionality in Serial Noisy Harmonic Grammar	3
Nominalization of clauses: The clausal prolepsis strategy	3
Editorial	3
The prosody of Spanish acronyms	3
Polarity Items in Basque	3
Finiteness in a language without finite morphology: An experimental study of Mandarin Chinese	3
Argument-introducing pluractionals: An investigation of Kyrgyz and Kazakh assistives	2
Bikol clefts and topics and the Austronesian extraction restriction	2
The common core of relativization in Georgian	2
A metrical analysis of light-initial tone sandhi in Suzhou Wu	2
The interaction of idioms and aspect in Polish	2
The Mirror Alignment Principle	2
Discontinuous noun phrases in Iquito	2
Improper case	2

Person effects in agreement with Icelandic low nominatives: An experimental investigation	2
First conjunct clitic doubling in Modern Greek: Evidence for Agree-based approaches to clitic doubling	2
Vowel harmony and phonological phrasing in Gua	2
Middle voice as generalized argument suppression	2
Morphological conditions on movement-chain resolution	2
Semantic variation in exclusive quantifiers	2
Allomorph selection precedes phonology: Evidence from Yindjibarndi	2
Agentless presuppositions and the semantics of verbal roots	2
Productive phrasal opacity in Gua: A challenge to Stratal Optimality Theory	2
Anaphora and agreement in the Turkish DP	1
Resumption in Igbo: Two types of resumptives, complex phi-mismatches, and dynamic deletion domains	1
Prosody as syntactic evidence	1
The lexical semantics of finite control: A view from Japanese	1
The lexical core of a complex functional affix: Russian baby diminutive -onok	1
Movement and cyclic Agree	1
Switch reference as index agreement	1
Semantic agreement in Russian: Gender, declension, and morphological ineffability	1
Taking the nominative (back) out of the accusative	1
What word-prosodic typology is missing: Motivating foot structure as an analytical tool for syllable-internal prosodic oppositions	1
Serial verb constructions and the syntax-prosody interface	1
Clausal embedding in Washo: Complementation vs. modification	1
Mediating functions and the semantics of noun incorporation	1
Two grammars of A’ingae glottalization: A case for Cophonologies by Phase	1
P-omission in ellipsis in Spanish: Evidence for syntactic identity	1
The interpretation and distribution of temporal focus particles	1
Passive vs. unaccusative predicates: A phase-based account	1
Cyclic residues of affix deletion in Armenian passive stems	1
The emergence of case matching in discontinuous DPs	1
Predicate fronting in Yiddish and conditions on multiple copy Spell-Out	1
Paradigm uniformity effects on French liaison	1
Re-analyzing ‘say’ complementation: Implications for case theory and beyond	1
Greek non-negative min, epistemic modality, and positive bias	1
Reflexes of exponent movement in inflectional morphology	1
Personal-evaluation secondary predicates in Japanese and quirky experiencer raising	1
Language change and the Degree Semantics Parameter	1
There is only one más: Spanish que/de comparative alternation	1