This book examines a challenging problem at the intersection of theoretical linguistics and
the psychology of language: the interpretation of gradient judgments of sentence …

Ergative and accusative behave as dependent cases insofar as their appearance on a
nominal depends on the presence of another nominal in the same domain. Recent work on …

When we couple the cyclic expansion of a probe's domain assumed in Cyclic Agree (,,) with
the lack of formal distinction between heads, intermediate projections, and phrases …

I argue that third person is not underspecified: there must be a distinct third person feature. I
add to the existing body of morphological arguments for this conclusion (Nevins 2007; …

This paper explores patterns of agreement and word order in the Central Algonquian
language Border Lakes Ojibwe. This variety of Ojibwe shows alternations between VOS and …

This article argues for an extension of current models of Agree to capture relativized EPP
effects, where a probe for movement targets an element with a specific set of features. We …

Two recent papers on variation in agreement, one by Deal (2024) for the person-case
constraint (PCC) and one by Oxford (2022) for Algonquian direct/inverse Voice, have argued …

Distinctions related to person and animacy have long been known to impact both the
grammar and incremental processing in a way that can be described through “prominence” …

We are used to thinking about person, number, and gender as features to which the
grammar is sensitive. But the place of animacy is less familiar, despite its robust syntactic …

Agree is one of the few core syntactic operations posited in minimalist syntax (Chomsky,
2000, 2001) and as such its nature has been subject to debate from various perspectives …