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Papers

(The median citation count of Linguistic Inquiry is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Gender Comes First: Experimental Evidence for the Representation of Gender Closer to the Noun Stem Than Number across Linguistic Populations	25
VP-Preposing and Constituency “Paradox”	22
Asymmetric Coordination in Romanian: A Diagnostic for DOM Position?	21
Embedded Intonation and Quotative Complements to Verbs of Speech	18
The Featural Life of Nominals	14
Category Mismatches in Coordination Vindicated	12
Learning Phonological Underlying Representations: The Role of Abstractness	12
Contiguity Theory and the Ordering of Contrastive Elements	11
Neg-Raising via Proform	10
Topic Particles, Agreement, and Movement in an Arabic Dialect	9
(Under)specification Counts: When Nonlocal Anaphors Are Not Exempt	9
When VP-Ellipsis and Sluicing Conspire against Syntactic Neg-Raising	9
Two Varieties of Korean: Rightward Head Movement or Polarity Sensitivity?	9
Reconciling “Heavy” and “Long”: The Typology of Lexical Geminates	8
Female Diana Monkeys Have Complex Calls	8
Pair-List Interpretation in Multiple Sluicing in Mandarin Chinese	8
A Categorial Grammar View of Syntactic Categories: Evidence from Unexpected Coordinations	7
Picking Up a Friend along the Way: A′-Movement through the v/VP Region in Avatime	7
The Ups and Downs of Pruning: Reply to Paparounas 2024	7
Nasal Assimilation Counterfeeding and Allomorphy in Haitian: Nothing Is Still Something!	7
Constraints on Reciprocal Scope	6
Intrusion as Template Satisfaction and the QaTaT – QaTa Problem in Semitic	6
3/4 of a Monster: On Mixed Shifty Agreement in Telugu	6
Using Computational Models to Test Syntactic Learnability	6
Quexistentials and Focus	6

The Representation of Gender and Inflectional Class in Italian: A Reply to Kučerová 2018	6
Still Free to Have a Wh-Phrase: A Reply to	6
Case as an Anaphor Agreement Effect: Evidence from Inuktitut	5
When Ellipsis Can Save Defectiveness and When It Can’t	5
Vocabulary Insertion in Two Steps: Evidence from Anti-Homophony Effects in Ethiosemitic	5
On Referential Parallelism and Compulsory Binding	5
Restrictions on Indexicals in Directive Clauses	5
Commitment Phrase: Linking Proposition to Illocutionary Force	4
Inverse Linking and Extraposition	4
Visibility and Intervention in Allomorphy: Lessons from Modern Greek	4
Ā-Probing for the Closest DP	4
Names, Light Nouns, and Countability	4
The Argument/Adjunct Distinction Does Not Condition Islandhood of PPs in English	4
What Divides, and What Unites, Right-Node Raising	3
An Argument for a Strong Force Semantics of Believe	3
The Position of Wh-Subjects in Labeling Theory	3
Size-Sensitive Sequence of Tense in Hungarian	3
A Program for Eliminating Syntactic Categories	3
The Domain of Formal Matching in Sluicing	3
Labeling (Reduced) Structures: When VPs Are Sentences	3
In the Beginning Was a To-Phrase	3
An Experimental Comparison of the Availability of Inverse Scope in English and German	3
Suppletion in a Three-Way Number System: Evidence from Creek	2
Does D Select the CP in Light Verb Constructions? A Reply to Hankamer and Mikkelsen 2021	2
Nguni Bare Nouns: Licensing without Case	2
The Informativeness/Complexity Trade-Off in the Domain of Boolean Connectives	2
On Realizing External Arguments: A Syntactic and Implicature Theory of the Disjointness Effect for Passives in Adult and Child Grammar	2
Linking Agreement and Movement: A Case Study of Long Distance Agreement in Border Lakes Ojibwe	2
The Puzzle of Anaphoric Bare Nouns in Mandarin: A Counterpoint toIndex!	2
Locality in Exceptional Tagalog Ā-Extraction	2
A Learning-Based Account of Phonological Tiers	2
Discontinuous DPs, Wh -in-Situ, and Lower Copy Pronunciation in Chichewa	2
Why Plain Futurates are Different	2
Deconstructing SE-Constructions: Number Agreement and Postsyntactic Variation	2
(Im)possible Traces	2
Computing Process-Specific Constraints	2
Silent Resumption: A New Test for Ellipsis	2
Serial Reduplication Is Empirically Adequate and Typologically Restrictive	2
Large Language Models and the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus	2
Extended Phase Boundaries and the Spell-Out Trap	2
Binding and Anticataphora in Mayan	2
Agreement Shift in Embedded Reports	2
The Impersonal Use of German 1st Person SingularIch	2
Agreement Switch in Verb-Echo Answers: Evidence for Distributed Ellipsis	1
Morpheme Structure Constraints Solve Three Puzzles for Theories of Blocking in Nonderived Environments	1
Defectivity Matters: Cliticization in French Causatives Revisited	1
Gaps That Do Not Sprout	1
To Be or Not To Be?	1
Can Agree and Labeling Be Reduced to Minimal Search?	1
Salvation by Deletion in Nupe	1

Probe Specification and Agreement Variation: Evidence from the Algonquian Inverse	1
Traveling Shots in Language: Towards an Analysis of Dynamic Viewpoints in ASL	1
Conditions on Wh-the-Hell Licensing: Evidence from Colloquial Singapore English	1
Talmy’s Typology Revisited: A Spanning Approach	1
Gender Features and Coordination Resolution in Greek and Other Three-Gendered Languages: Implications for the Cross-Linguistic Representation of Gender	1
Korean VP-Ellipsis and a Derivational Approach to Ellipsis	1
Locality and Antilocality: The Logic of Conflicting Requirements	1
Turkish Causatives are Recursive: A Response to Key 2013	1
Zero-Weighted Constraints In Noisy Harmonic Grammar	1
Treating Greek o eaftos mu as a Regular Anaphor: Theoretical Implications	1
English Particle Verbs Prime Double Object Constructions in Production	1
Restricting Externalization	1
Silencing the PCC	1
Concord in the Verbal Domain: External Agreement in Nakh-Daghestanian	1
Restrictions on Long Passives in English and Brazilian Portuguese: A Phase-Based Account	1
A Remark on the Ordering of Impoverishment Rules: Differences between Taos and Basque	1
On Until and its Uses	1
Constraint Interaction in Probabilistic Phonology: Deducing Maximum Entropy Grammars from Hayes and Zuraw’s Shifted Sigmoids Generalization	1
On the Representation of Wh -Words and Foci: Evidence from Mixtec	1