Milan Rezac -- Linguistics page
Last updated: December 2007

Publications (pre-proof versions)

Forthcoming. The syntax of eccentric agreement: The Person Case Constraint and Absolutive Displacement in Basque. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

Forthcoming. Cyclic Agree, with Susana Béjar. Linguistic Inquiry.

(This version differs in including an Appendix on "R-Case" elsewhere)

Forthcoming. The forms of dative displacement: From Basauri to Itelmen. Festschrift for Patxi Goenaga, ed. Xabier Artiagoitia and Joseba A. Lakarra.

In press (April 2008). Phi-Agree and theta-related Case. In Φ theory: Φ-features across modules and interfaces, ed. Daniel Harbour, David Adger, and Susana Béjar, Oxford University Press.

2007. Escaping the Person Case Constraint: Reference set computation in the φ-system. Linguistic Variation Yearbook 6: 97-138

Erratum: p. 123: embarrasser 'embarrass' should be embrasser 'kiss' at both occurrences.

2006. The interaction of Th/Ex and locative inversion. Linguistic Inquiry 37: 685-697.

2006. Deriving the Complementarity Effect: Relativized Minimality in Breton phi-agreement, with Mélanie Jouitteau. Lingua 116: 1915-1945.

2006. On tough movement Minimalist Essays, ed. Cedric Boeckx, 288–325, John Benjamins: Amsterdam.

2005. Syntax of clitic climbing in Czech. In Clitic and Affix Combinations: Theoretical perspectives, 2005, ed. Lorie Heggie & Francisco Ordonez, 103–140, John Benjamins.

2004. Agree and Merge: Locality in copy-raising. In [Domain_[E]s], actes du colloque JEL'2004, 183-188. Université de Nantes/Naoned. (Resume of Agree and Merge ms. below)

2004. The EPP in Breton: An Unvalued Categorial Feature. In Triggers, 2004, ed. Anne Breitbarth and Henk van Riemsdijk, 451-492, Walter de Gruyter.

2003. The fine structure of cyclic Agree. Syntax 6: 156-182.

2003. Person licensing and the derivation of PCC effects, with Susana Béjar. In Romance Linguistics: Theory and Acquisition, 2003, ed. Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux and Yves Roberge, 49–62, John Benjamins.

2001. Case licensing and agreement in Icelandic ditransitive constructions. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistics Association 2000, Cahiers Linguistiques d'Ottawa, ed. John T. Jensen and Gerard van Herk, 281-292. Ottawa.

2000. Case and agreement in accusative constructions. In Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 19, 2000, ed. Bettina Spreng, 75-86. (links to free download of the whole volume)

Thesis, 2004: Elements of cyclic syntax: Agree and Merge. University of Toronto.

Manuscripts:

2004: Agree and Merge.

2002. Cyclic domains and multiple specifier constructions (A very drafty ms. about the interaction cyclicity, labels, and projection)

2002. NP-movement in Icelandic and multiple specifier constructions. (Generals paper, University of Toronto).

Monograph draft, 2006: Agreement displacement in Basque: Derivational principles and lexical parameters (unrevised at present)

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Preface (what this is about)
Preliminaries (how to read tables and abbreviations)
Chapter 0: Theoretical introduction
Chapter 1: The syntax and morphology of Basque
Chapter 2: Ergative displacement
Chapter 3: Dative displacement
Chapter 3 annexes
Chapter 4: The spell-out of syntactic structures
Chapter 4 annexes
Chapter 5: Absolutive displacement and the Person Case Constraint (superceded by "The syntax of eccentric agreement" NLLT paper above)
Appendix BM: Additional material on Basque morphology
Appendix TM: Theme Markers
Appendix EL-LOSS: Loss of ergative displacement
Dialect list
References