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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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Gender Comes First: Experimental Evidence for the Representation of Gender Closer to the Noun Stem than Number across Linguistic Populations	17
VP-Preposing and Constituency “Paradox”	16
Why *if or notbut ✓whether or not	15
Learning Phonological Underlying Representations: The Role of Abstractness	13
Category Mismatches in Coordination Vindicated	10
Asymmetric Coordination in Romanian: A Diagnostic for DOM Position?	9
The Featural Life of Nominals	9
Contiguity Theory and the Ordering of Contrastive Elements	8
Two Varieties of Korean: Rightward Head Movement or Polarity Sensitivity?	8
Neg-Raising via Proform	8
Topic Particles, Agreement, and Movement in an Arabic Dialect	7
(Under)specification Counts: When Nonlocal Anaphors Are Not Exempt	7
Female Diana Monkeys Have Complex Calls	7
When VP-Ellipsis and Sluicing Conspire against Syntactic Neg-Raising	6
Pair-List Interpretation in Multiple Sluicing in Mandarin Chinese	6
Reconciling “Heavy” and “Long”: The Typology of Lexical Geminates	6
Nasal Assimilation Counterfeeding and Allomorphy in Haitian: Nothing Is Still Something!	5
Still Free to Have a Wh-Phrase: A Reply to	5
Quexistentials and Focus	5
Picking Up a Friend along the Way: A′-Movement through the v/VP Region in Avatime	5
Using Computational Models to Test Syntactic Learnability	5
A Categorial Grammar View of Syntactic Categories: Evidence from Unexpected Coordinations	5
Ambivalent Adpositions and “P-Stranding” in Russian	5
The Ups and Downs of Pruning: Reply to Paparounas (2024)	5
The Argument/Adjunct Distinction Does Not Condition Islandhood of PPs in English	4

Names, Light Nouns, and Countability	4
Intrusion as Template Satisfaction and the QaTaT – QaTa Problem in Semitic	4
Case as an Anaphor Agreement Effect: Evidence from Inuktitut	4
When Ellipsis Can Save Defectiveness and When It Can’t	4
Restrictions on Indexicals in Directive Clauses	4
Constraints on Reciprocal Scope	4
On Referential Parallelism and Compulsory Binding	4
The Representation of Gender and Inflectional Class in Italian: A Reply to Kučerová 2018	4
3/4 of a Monster: On Mixed Shifty Agreement in Telugu	4
Visibility and Intervention in Allomorphy: Lessons from Modern Greek	3
Inverse Linking and Extraposition	3
An Experimental Comparison of the Availability of Inverse Scope in English and German	3
Ā-Probing for the Closest DP	3
In the Beginning Was a To-Phrase	3
What Divides, and What Unites, Right-Node Raising	3
Commitment Phrase: Linking Proposition to Illocutionary Force	3
An Argument for a Strong Force Semantics of Believe	3
Locality in Exceptional Tagalog Ā-Extraction	2
Agreement Shift in Embedded Reports	2
Extended Phase Boundaries and the Spell-Out Trap	2
Labeling (Reduced) Structures: When VPs Are Sentences	2
Deconstructing SE-Constructions: Number Agreement and Postsyntactic Variation	2
The Impersonal Use of German 1st Person SingularIch	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
The Informativeness/Complexity Trade-Off in the Domain of Boolean Connectives	2
The Domain of Formal Matching in Sluicing	2
(Im)possible Traces	2
Computing Process-Specific Constraints	2
Why Plain Futurates are Different	2
Suppletion in a Three-Way Number System: Evidence from Creek	2
Binding and Anticataphora in Mayan	2
On Realizing External Arguments: A Syntactic and Implicature Theory of the Disjointness Effect for Passives in Adult and Child Grammar	2
Revisiting the Syntax of Monsters in Uyghur	2
A Program for Eliminating Syntactic Categories	2
The Position of Wh-Subjects in Labeling Theory	2
Ergativity in Tabasaran: A Reply to Woolford 2015	2
Shifting Interactions and Countershifting Opacity: A Note on Opacity in Harmonic Serialism	2
Selectional Violations in Coordination: A Response to Patejuk and Przepiórkowski 2023	1
High and Low Applicatives of Unaccusatives: Dependent Case and the Phase	1
Restrictions on Long Passives in English and Brazilian Portuguese: A Phase-Based Account	1
Turkish Causatives are Recursive: A Response to Key 2013	1
Talmy’s Typology Revisited: A Spanning Approach	1
Probe Specification and Agreement Variation: Evidence from the Algonquian Inverse	1
On the Representation of Wh-words and Foci: Evidence from Mixtec	1
Outscoping the Directive Force of Imperatives	1
Large Language Models and the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus	1
Morpheme Structure Constraints Solve Three Puzzles for Theories of Blocking in Nonderived Environments	1
Defectivity Matters: Cliticization in French Causatives Revisited	1
On Internal Merge	1

Korean VP-Ellipsis and a Derivational Approach to Ellipsis	1
Can Agree and Labeling Be Reduced to Minimal Search?	1
To Be or Not To Be?	1
On the Syntax of Multiple Sluicing and What It Tells Us aboutWh-Scope Taking	1
On the Event-Structural Properties of the EnglishGet-Passive	1
Some Formal Implications of Deletion Saltation	1
Serial Reduplication Is Empirically Adequate and Typologically Restrictive	1
A Learning-Based Account of Phonological Tiers	1
Agreement Switch in Verb-Echo Answers: Evidence for Distributed Ellipsis	1
Locality and Antilocality: The Logic of Conflicting Requirements	1
Zero-Weighted Constraints In Noisy Harmonic Grammar	1
Gender Features and Coordination Resolution in Greek and Other Three-Gendered Languages: Implications for the Cross-Linguistic Representation of Gender	1
Salvation by Deletion in Nupe	1
Gaps That Do Not Sprout	1
Extending the Person-Case Constraint to Gender: Agreement, Locality, and the Syntax of Pronouns	1
Treating Greek o eaftos mu as a Regular Anaphor: Theoretical Implications	1
Nguni Bare Nouns: Licensing without Case	1
Does D Select the CP in Light Verb Constructions? A Reply to Hankamer and Mikkelsen 2021	1
Concord in the Verbal Domain: External Agreement in Nakh-Daghestanian	1