RECENT PUBLICATIONS OF PETER W. CULICOVER

 

Books

Culicover, Peter W. (ed.) Special issue of Cognitive Science in honor of Ray Jackendoff’s Rumelhart Award. 2016.

 

Culicover, Peter W. Explaining Syntax. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2013

 

Culicover, Peter W. Grammar and Complexity. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2013.

 

Culicover, Peter W., and Elizabeth Hume.  Basics of Language for Language Learners. Ohio State University Press. 2010. Second edition, 2017.

 

Culicover, Peter W. Natural Language Syntax. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2009.

 

Culicover, Peter W. and Ray Jackendoff. Simpler Syntax. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2005.

 

Culicover, Peter W. and Andrzej Nowak. Dynamical Grammar. Volume Two of Foundations of Syntax. Oxford University Press, Oxford.  2003.

 

Culicover, Peter W. and Paul M. Postal, eds. Parasitic Gaps.  MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 2001.

 

Culicover, Peter W. Syntactic Nuts: Hard Cases in Syntax. Volume One of Foundations of Syntax. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 1999.

 

 

Articles and chapters

 

Culicover, Peter W. and Susanne Winkler. Why topicalize VP? In Architecture of Topic, ed. by Valeria Molnar, Verner Egeland and Susanne Winkler (eds). De Gruyter. 2019. [pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W. and Susanne Winkler. Freezing: Between grammar and processing. In Freezing, ed. by Jutta Hartmann, Marion Knecht, Andreas Konietzko and Susanne Winkler, De Gruyter. 2018. [pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W. and Ray Jackendoff. Ellipsis in Simpler Syntax. The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis, ed. by Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Tanja Temmerman. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2018. [pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W. and Ray Jackendoff. Simpler Syntax. In Current approaches to syntax – a comparative handbook, edited by András Kertész, Csilla Rákosi, and Edith Moravcsik. Mouton de Gruyter. 2018.

 

Culicover, Peter W., Ray Jackendoff and Jenny Audring. Multiword expressions in the grammar. Invited paper, Topics in Cognitive Science 9:552–568 (Morten Christiansen and Inbal Arnon, eds). 2017.[pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W. Syntactic change in the Parallel Architecture: The case of parasitic gaps. Cognitive Science 41: 213–232. 2017. [pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W.  Cryptoconstructionalism. A Schrift to Fest Kyle Johnson, ed. by Nicolas LaCara, Keir Moulton & Anne-Michelle Tessier, Linguistics Open Access Publications. 1.  http://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_oapubs/1 [pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W. Simpler Syntax and the mind: reflections on syntactic theory and cognitive science. Festschrift for Ray Jackendoff. MIT Press. In press. 2015. [pdf]

 

Hofmeister, Philip, Peter W. Culicover and Susanne Winkler. Effects of processing on the acceptability of ‘frozen’ extraposed constituents. Syntax 18:464-483. 2015. [pdf]

 

Schmeh, Katharina, Peter W. Culicover, Jutta Hartmann and Susanne Winkler. Discourse Function Ambiguity of Fragments: A Linguistic Puzzle. Ambiguität: Produktion und Rezeption/ Ambiguity: Production and Reception, De Gruyter/Niemeyer. 197-214. 2015. [pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W. Constructions, complexity and word order variation. In Frederick J. Newmeyer and Laurel B. Preston (eds.) Measuring Linguistic Complexity, Oxford University Press. 2014. [pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W. Problems with English zero relatives. International Review of Pragmatics 5: 253–270. 2013. [pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W. The history of syntax. In by Andrew Carnie, Dan Siddiqi, and Yosuke Sato, eds. Handbook of Syntax. Routledge, London. 2014. [pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W. Simpler Syntax and Explanation. In Stefan Müller (Ed.): Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Freie Universität Berlin (pp. 263–282). Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 2013.

 

Hume, Elizabeth and Peter W. Culicover.  Teaching about how language works to diverse populations. Language and Linguistics Compass. 2013. [pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W. Culicover, Peter W. Linear order effects in computing grammatical dependencies. Lingua special issue “Information Structure Triggers: Effects on (De)accentuation, Dislocation and Deletion.”, edited by Jutta Hartmann and Susanne Winkler. 136:125–144, 2013. [pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W. and Ray Jackendoff. A domain-general approach to ellipsis interpretation. Language 82(2):305–340  2012. [pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W. A reconsideration of English relative constructions. Constructions 2. 2011. [Available online at http://elanguage.net/journals/index.php/constructions/index]

 

Culicover, Peter W. Core and Periphery. In Patrick C. Hogan, ed., The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 2010.

 

Culicover, Peter W. and Ray Jackendoff. Quantitative methods alone are not enough. Trends in Cognitive Science. 2010.

 

Culicover, Peter W. Parataxis and  Simpler Syntax. In Marie-José Béguelin, Mathieu Avanzi, Gilles Corminboeuf, eds., Actes du 1er Colloque International de Macrosyntaxe, Vol. 2. Peter Lang. 2010. [pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W. The birth and death of constructions: the case of English do-support. Journal of Germanic Linguistics. 20:1-52. 2008. [pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W. and Susanne Winkler. English focus inversion. Journal of Linguistics. 44: 625–658. 2008. [pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W. and Ray Jackendoff. The simpler syntax hypothesis. Trends in Cognitive Science, 10.9: 413-418. 2006.

 

Culicover, Peter W. and Ray Jackendoff. Turn over control to the semantics. Syntax. 9.2. 131-152. 2006.

 

Culicover, Peter W. Linguistics, cognitive science, and all that jazz.  Special Issue of Linguistic Review. 2005. [pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W. Squinting at Dali’s Lincoln: On how to think about language. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. Chicago Linguistics Society, Chicago. 2008. [pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W.  Review article on The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language,  by Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum.  Language 80.1.127-141. 2004. [pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W., Andrzej Nowak, and Wojciech Borkowski.  Linguistic Theory, Explanation and the dynamics of grammar.  In John Moore and Maria Kolinsky, eds. Explanation in Linguistic Theory, CSLI Press, Stanford, CA. 2003.[pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W. and Andrzej Nowak. Markedness, antisymmetry and complexity of constructionsIn Pierre Pica and Johann Rooryk, eds. Variation Yearbook. John Benjamins, Amsterdam. 2003.[pdf]

 

Jackendoff, Ray, and Peter W Culicover. The semantic basis of control. Language 79.3.517-556. 2003.

 

Kochanski, Piotr, Andrzej Nowak, Peter W. Culicover and Wojciech Borkowski,  On computational simulations of the acquisition of natural language syntax, Psychology of Language and Communication. 2002.

 

Culicover,  Peter W. Branching and structure, Linguistics and Phonetics 2000, ed. Bohumil Palek, Charles University Press, Prague.  2002. [pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W.  Parasitic gaps: a brief history.  In Peter W. Culicover and Paul M. Postal, eds.  Parasitic Gaps, Oxford University Press. 3-68. 2001.

 

Culicover, Peter W. and Robert D. Levine. Stylistic inversion and the that-t effect in English: a reconsideration.  Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 19.2.283-310. 2001.

 

Culicover, Peter W. and Ray Jackendoff.  Control is not movement.  Linguistic Inquiry. 32.3.493-511. 2001.

 

Culicover, Peter W. Concrete minimalism, branching structure, and linear order, Proceedings of Generative Linguistics in Poland - 2, ed. Piotr Banski and Adam Przepiorkowski. 2001. [pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W. Language acquisition and the architecture of the language faculty. In Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King, eds. Proceedings of the Berkeley Formal Grammar Conference Workshop,  The University of California, Berkeley. CSLI Publications  (http://www‑csli.stanford.edu/publications/).  2000.

 

Culicover, Peter W.  Minimalist architectures. Review article of The Architecture of the Language Faculty, by Ray S. JackendoffJournal of Linguistics. 35. 137-50. 1999.

 

Culicover, Peter W., and Ray Jackendoff. The view from the periphery: The English comparative correlative. Linguistic Inquiry 30.543‑571. 1999.

 

Culicover, Peter W. The minimalist impulse. In Peter W. Culicover and Louise McNally (eds.) The Limits of Syntax, Academic Press, NY. 1998.

 

Culicover, Peter W. and Michael S. Rochemont.  Deriving dependent right adjuncts in English. In Henk van Riemsdijk, David LeBlanc, and Dorothee Beermann (eds.) Rightward Movement, Proceedings of the Tilburg Conference on Rightward Movement, Oct. 6-10, 1994.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1997. [pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W. and Ray S. Jackendoff. Semantic subordination despite syntactic coordination, Linguistic Inquiry28.2.195-218. 1997.

 

Culicover, Peter W. Adaptive Learning and Concrete Minimalism, in Koster, C. and F. Wijnen, eds., Proceedings of the Groningen Assembly on Language Acquisition. Groningen Assembly on Language Acquisition (GALA 1995), Center for Language and Cognition, Groningen, 165‑174.  1996. [pdf]

 

Unpublished work and work in progress

 

Culicover, Peter W., Andrzej Nowak, Wojciech Borkowski and Katherine Woznicki. Adventures with Camille. Ohio State University Working Papers in Linguistics, 2008. [pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W. and Johannes Dellert. Going postal: the architecture of English change of state verbs. 2008. [pdf]

 

Hana, Jiri, and Peter W. Culicover.  Linguistic Complexity Outside of Universal Grammar. Ohio State University Working Papers in Linguistics, 2008. [pdf] (published in Explaining Syntax)

 

Culicover, Peter W. Aspects of a theory of grammatical change. Paper prepared for Santa Fe Institute Workshop on Building Integrated Models of Linguistic Change. 2008. [pdf]

 

 

Last revised June 6, 2020