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 dissertation develops a formal and psycholinguistic theory of person-based prominence
effects, the finding that certain categories of person such as" first" and" second"(the" local" …

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 dissertation aims to push forward our understanding of syntactic displacement, a
phenomenon—analyzed here as movement, or Internal Merge (Chomsky 2004)—in which …

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” …

Estimates suggest that approximately 10% of the world's languages exhibit the verb-first
pattern (the V1 pattern), where the verb obligatorily occupies the initial position (with respect …

This dissertation provides a description and analysis of the syntax of Kawahíva, a critically
endangered Tupí-Guaraní language spoken by approximately 560 people in the Brazilian …

A set-based representation of person features: Consequences for AGREE* Christopher
Hammerly University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Page 1 A set-based representation of person …