Linguistic Inquiry

Papers
(The median citation count of Linguistic Inquiry is 0. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Rethinking Scope Islands15
VP-Preposing and Constituency “Paradox”11
Commitment Phrase: Linking Proposition to Illocutionary Force11
Gender Comes First: Experimental Evidence for the Representation of Gender Closer to the Noun Stem than Number across Linguistic Populations9
Evidence from Sason Arabic for Ā-Movement Feeding Case-Licensing Relations8
The Argument/Adjunct Distinction Does Not Condition Islandhood of PPs in English6
That’s a Curious Copular Construction You Have There!6
Treating Greek o eaftos mu as a Regular Anaphor: Theoretical Implications6
PP-Extraposition and Precedence6
The Puzzle of Anaphoric Bare Nouns in Mandarin: A Counterpoint toIndex!6
Visibility and Intervention in Allomorphy: Lessons from Modern Greek6
Suppletion in a Three-Way Number System: Evidence from Creek5
On Referential Parallelism and Compulsory Binding5
Deconstructing Subcategorization: Conditions on Insertion vs. Conditions on Position5
Scope Freezing Restricts Binding in Italian Right-Dislocation5
Person of Interest: Experimental Investigations into the Learnability of Person Systems4
Ā-Probing for the Closest DP4
On the Event-Structural Properties of the EnglishGet-Passive4
Locality in Exceptional Tagalog Ā-Extraction4
Why *if or notbut ✓whether or not4
Predicate Clefting and Long Head Movement in Finnish3
Incongruent Enjambments: The Case of Classical French Verse3
Probe Specification and Agreement Variation: Evidence from the Algonquian Inverse3
Names, Light Nouns, and Countability3
Case in Wholesale Late Merger: Evidence from Mongolian Scrambling3
Case as an Anaphor Agreement Effect: Evidence from Inuktitut3
Rapa Nui: A Case for Correspondence in Reduplication2
A Method to Evaluate Systemic Constraints in Probabilistic Grammars2
The Pronoun Which Comprehenders Who Process It in Islands Derive a Benefit2
The Featural Life of Nominals2
Extending the Person-Case Constraint to Gender: Agreement, Locality, and the Syntax of Pronouns2
Interaction, Satisfaction, and the PCC2
(Under)specification Counts: When Nonlocal Anaphors Are Not Exempt2
Negative Polarity Items in Definite Superlatives2
Contiguity Theory and the Ordering of Contrastive Elements2
Cyclic Selection: Auxiliaries Are Merged, Not Inserted2
Priority Union and Feature Logic in Phonology2
What Divides, and What Unites, Right-Node Raising2
Asymmetric Coordination in Romanian: A Diagnostic for DOM Position?2
Inverse Linking and Extraposition2
Feature Geometry and Head Splitting in the Wolof Clausal Periphery2
Labeling (Reduced) Structures: When VPs Are Sentences2
E-Raising Reconsidered: Constituency, Coordination, and Case-Matching Reciprocals2
Serial Reduplication Is Empirically Adequate and Typologically Restrictive2
Possession in Categorization across Language and Category2
Category Mismatches in Coordination Vindicated2
Statistical Evidence for Learnable Lexical Subclasses in Japanese2
Salvation by Deletion in Nupe2
How Subjects and Possessors Can Obviate Phasehood2
In the Beginning Was a To-Phrase1
Pair-List Interpretation in Multiple Sluicing in Mandarin Chinese1
Type-Restricted Argument Ellipsis and Generalized Quantifiers1
Cyclic Expansion in Agree: Maximal Projections as Probes1
Topic Particles, Agreement, and Movement in an Arabic Dialect1
Relativized Locality: Phases and Tiers in Long-Distance Allomorphy in Armenian1
Definiteness Effect in the PP1
Large Language Models and the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus1
Some Formal Implications of Deletion Saltation1
Extended Phase Boundaries and the Spell-Out Trap1
Reconciling “Heavy” and “Long”: The Typology of Lexical Geminates1
Agreement Switch in Verb-Echo Answers: Evidence for Distributed Ellipsis1
Two Varieties of Korean: Rightward Head Movement or Polarity Sensitivity?1
Turkish Causatives Are Recursive: A Response to Key 20131
Neg-Raising via Proform1
More on (the Lack of) Reconstruction in English Tough-Constructions1
An Experimental Comparison of the Availability of Inverse Scope in English and German1
Does D Select the CP in Light Verb Constructions? A Reply to Hankamer and Mikkelsen 20211
A Program for Eliminating Syntactic Categories1
High and Low Applicatives of Unaccusatives: Dependent Case and the Phase1
When VP-Ellipsis and Sluicing Conspire against Syntactic Neg-Raising1
A Q-Theoretic Solution to A’ingae Postlabial Rounding1
Revisiting the Syntax of Monsters in Uyghur1
Verbal Templates Can Influence L-Selection In Semitic1
The Domain of Formal Matching in Sluicing1
Can Agree and Labeling Be Reduced to Minimal Search?1
An Argument for a Strong Force Semantics of Believe1
A Learning-Based Account of Phonological Tiers1
The Interrogative Left Periphery: How a Clause Becomes a Question0
Restrictions on Long Passives in English and Brazilian Portuguese: A Phase-Based Account0
To Be or Not To Be?0
The Relevance of Unaccusativity to Possessive Datives0
(Im)possible Traces0
We Don’t Agree (Only) Upward0
Applicative Recursion and Nominal Licensing0
Revisiting Passive Participles: Category Status and Internal Structure0
Communicative Stability and the Typology of Logical Operators0
Computing Process-Specific Constraints0
Hvor ‘Each’ Reciprocals and Distributives in Icelandic: E-Raising + Short Main Verb Movement0
Head and Dependent Marking in Clausal Possession0
When Ellipsis Can Save Defectiveness and When It Can’t0
On the Syntax of Multiple Sluicing and What It Tells Us aboutWh-Scope Taking0
Movement and Islands in Right Node Raising0
Probing for the Closest DP: A Reply to Branan and Erlewine 20220
Disharmony and the Final-Over-Final Condition in Amahuaca0
The Representation of Gender and Inflectional Class in Italian: A Reply to Kučerová 20180
Scrambling, Specificity Effects, and Phasal Variation in Turkish and Uyghur0
The Concatenative Structure of Tonal Overwriting0
Picking Up a Friend along the Way: A′-Movement through the v/VP Region in Avatime0
Quexistentials and Focus0
Prenominal Adverbs, or Apparent Selectional Violations in Coordination0
Constraining Predicate Fronting0
Agreement Shift in Embedded Reports0
Adjective Order and Adnominal Modification in Naasioi0
Restricted Structure Preservation in Stratal OT0
Probabilistic Feature Attention as an Alternative to Variables in Phonotactic Learning0
The Grammar of PP-like Free Relatives: Evidence from Subordinatewo-Clauses in German0
Deconstructing SE-Constructions: Number Agreement and Postsyntactic Variation0
Constraints on Reciprocal Scope0
Gender Features and Coordination Resolution in Greek and Other Three-Gendered Languages: Implications for the Cross-Linguistic Representation of Gender0
Directional Constraint Evaluation Solves the Problem of Ties in Harmonic Serialism0
The Impersonal Use of German 1st Person SingularIch0
On Realizing External Arguments: A Syntactic and Implicature Theory of the Disjointness Effect for Passives in Adult and Child Grammar0
Variable Force Modality in English Infinitival Relatives: A Matter of Degree0
Restrictions on Indexicals in Directive Clauses0
Nguni Bare Nouns: Licensing without Case0
Syntactic Ergativity as a Constraint on Crossing Dependencies: The Perspective from Mayan0
Linking Agreement and Movement: A Case Study of Long Distance Agreement in Border Lakes Ojibwe0
Suppletion in Global Perspective0
Using Computational Models to Test Syntactic Learnability0
Translation Mining: Definiteness across Languages (A Reply to Jenks 2018)0
Zero-Weighted Constraints in Noisy Harmonic Grammar0
Anaphora and Depictives Do Not Rule Out Small Clause Approaches to Argument Structure: A Reply to Bruening 20180
Attention and Locality: On Clause-Boundedness and Its Exceptions in Multiple Sluicing0
Gaps That Do Not Sprout0
Still Free to Have a Wh-Phrase: A Reply to Donati, Foppolo, Konrad, and Cecchetto 20220
Breton Masculine Human Plurals, Locality, and Impoverishment0
Deducing the Coordinand Constraint0
Selectional Violations in Coordination (A Response to Patejuk and Przepiórkowski 2023)0
Talmy’s Typology Revisited: A Spanning Approach0
The Position of Wh-Subjects in Labeling Theory0
Korean VP-Ellipsis and a Derivational Approach to Ellipsis0
Dependent Case by Agree: Ergative in Shawi0
On Internal Merge0
Intrusion as Template Satisfaction and the QaTaT – QaTa Problem in Semitic0
Morpheme Structure Constraints Solve Three Puzzles for Theories of Blocking in Nonderived Environments0
Same Root, Different Categories: Encoding Direction in Chinese0
Binding and Anticataphora in Mayan0
Concord in the Verbal Domain: External Agreement in Nakh-Daghestanian0
Deriving Head-Final Order in the Peripheral Domain of Chinese0
VP-Nominalization and the Final-over-Final Condition0
Locality and Antilocality: The Logic of Conflicting Requirements0
The Informativeness/Complexity Trade-Off in the Domain of Boolean Connectives0
3/4 of a Monster: On Mixed Shifty Agreement in Telugu0
Shifting Interactions and Countershifting Opacity: A Note on Opacity in Harmonic Serialism0
On Contracted Negation in Scots0
Condition B and Other Conditions on Pronominal Licensing in Serbo-Croatian0
Why Plain Futurates are Different0
Outscoping the Directive Force of Imperatives0
Defectivity Matters: Cliticization in French Causatives Revisited0
Supplements without Bidimensionalism0
Female Diana Monkeys Have Complex Calls0
Ergativity in Tabasaran: A Reply to Woolford 20150
Ambivalent Adpositions and “P-Stranding” in Russian0
Obligatorily Overt PRO in San Martín Peras Mixtec0
Nasal Assimilation Counterfeeding and Allomorphy in Haitian: Nothing Is Still Something!0
Whatever His Arguments, Whatever-Relatives Are Not Free Relatives: A Reply to Caponigro’s Reply0
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