RECENT PUBLICATIONS OF PETER W. CULICOVER

 

Books

 

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

 

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 Ray Jackendoff. A domain-general approach to ellipsis interpretation. Language. 2012. [pdf (draft)]

 

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 constructions.  In 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. Jackendoff.  Journal 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 Inquiry.  28.2.195-218. 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. History of Syntax. To appear in Handbook of Syntax,  Andrew Carnie, Dan Siddiqi, Yosuke Sato, eds. Routledge, London. In preparation.

 

Hume, Elizabeth and Peter W. Culicover.  A Linguistic Program for High School Students and Teachers. Language and Linguistics Compass. In preparation.

 

Culicover, Peter W. and Susanne Winkler. Freezing: A conspiracy. Submitted to Language. Under revision.

 

Culicover, Peter W. Linear order effects in computing grammatical dependencies. Under review, Lingua (Special Issue on Information Structure Triggers, ed. by J.Hartmann, J.Rado, S. Winkler) [pdf]

 

Hofmeister, Philip, Peter W. Culicover and Susanne Winkler. Effects of processing on the acceptability of ‘frozen’ extraposed constituents. Submitted to Syntax, 2012. [pdf]

 

Culicover, Peter W. Constructions, complexity and word order variation. Workshop on Grammatical Complexity and its Measurement in Formal Linguistics, U. of Washington, March 22-25, 2012. (slides)

 

Culicover, Peter W. Explaining Syntax: Representation, Structure and Computation. Oxford University Press, Oxford. In preparation.

 

Culicover, Peter W. Grammar and Complexity: Language at the Intersection of Competence and Performance. Oxford University Press, Oxford. In press.

 

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] (to appear 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 May 13, 2012