OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Argument-introducing pluractionals: An investigation of Kyrgyz and Kazakh assistives	11
The prosody of Spanish acronyms	10
The common core of relativization in Georgian	6
The syntax of Philippine-type alignment: Insights from case-marking	6
Leftover agreement	6
Finiteness in a language without finite morphology: An experimental study of Mandarin Chinese	6
Taking the nominative (back) out of the accusative	5
Clause-internal successive cyclicity: Phasality or DP intervention?	5
The lexical semantics of finite control: A view from Japanese	5
Movement and cyclic Agree	5
Urdu/Hindi polar kya as an expression of uncertainty	4
Mayan animacy hierarchy effects and the dynamics of Agree	4
Head movement from non-complements: Evidence from Aleut	4
Indexical shift in Tabasaran	4
Split coordination with adjectives in Italian	3
Hyperraising, evidentiality, and phase deactivation	3
Allomorphy in Semitic discontinuous agreement: Evidence for a modular approach to postsyntax	3
Towards a theory of morphosyntactic focus marking	3
Correction to: What word-prosodic typology is missing: Motivating foot structure as an analytical tool for syllable-internal prosodic oppositions	3
Argument ellipsis as external merge after transfer	2
Syntactic island effects in Spanish: Experimental evidence	2
Agentless presuppositions and the semantics of verbal roots	2
Productive phrasal opacity in Gua: A challenge to Stratal Optimality Theory	2
The interpretation and distribution of temporal focus particles	2
Predicate-sluicing in Tokelauan	2

Moving heads to specifiers: Evidence from Mandarin multiple pre-subject modals	2
Synchronizing meaning with sound and beyond: The role of physical markings in thematic, modal, and informational interpretations	2
On the interpretation of long-distance agreement in Border Lakes Ojibwe	2
Weak determinism and the computational consequences of interaction	2
The Mirror Alignment Principle	2
Clausal embedding in Washo: Complementation vs. modification	2
The order of operations and A/Ā interactions	2
On the absence of low focus movement in Brazilian Portuguese	2
Person agreement with inherent case DPs in Chirag Dargwa	2
States and changes-of-state in the semantics of result roots	2
A metrical analysis of light-initial tone sandhi in Suzhou Wu	2
Improper case	2
Correction to: Cyclicity and prosodic misalignment in Armenian stems	2
Person effects in agreement with Icelandic low nominatives: An experimental investigation	2
Omnivorous person, number and gender in Mundari	2
Mandarin verb doubling as verb-phrase fronting	1
Adverbs of change and dynamicity	1
The whole picture: Disentangling locality, logophoricity and subjecthood in English picture noun anaphora	1
Personal-evaluation secondary predicates in Japanese and quirky experiencer raising	1
The lexical core of a complex functional affix: Russian baby diminutive -onok	1
Indefinite definites in Italian	1
Lack of c-command in coordinate structures: Evidence from binding	1
The prosody of the extended VP	1
Sequence of tense and cessation implicatures: evidence from Polish	1
Coordinated and local optionality in Serial Noisy Harmonic Grammar	1
Language change and the Degree Semantics Parameter	1
Subjectless readings of again: A response to Bale (2007) and Smith and Yu (2021)	1
Middle voice as generalized argument suppression	1
The rise and fall of a person-case constraint in Breton	1
Testing for underlying representations: Segments and clusters in Sevillian Spanish	1
Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling	1
On corrective questions and the position of focus	1
The interaction of idioms and aspect in Polish	1
Degrees as kinds: The case of Mandarin sortal classifiers	1
What word-prosodic typology is missing: Motivating foot structure as an analytical tool for syllable-internal prosodic oppositions	0
Manner/result polysemy as contextual allosemy: Evidence from Daakaka	0
Not all reconstruction effects are syntactic	0
Mei shenme ‘few/little,’ mei ‘not,’ and neg raising in Mandarin Chinese	0
On case-copying reflexives	0
Control theory and the relationship between logophoric pronouns and logophoric uses of anaphors	0
Possession and syntactic categories: An argument from Äiwoo	0
Bikol clefts and topics and the Austronesian extraction restriction	0
Negative concord in Russian Sign Language	0
Trigger poverty and reduplicative identity in Lakota	0
Detecting variable force in imperatives: A modalized minimal approach	0
Predicate doubling in Spanish: On how discourse may mimic syntactic movement	0
Anticausatives in transitive guise	0
Nonunitary structure of unergative verbs in Georgian	0
Perspectival domains in nouns and clauses	0
Neutral paired vowels in Mayak and Kurmuk	0

Exhaustive control as movement: The case of Wolof	0
On the (non)optionality of the Turkish classifier tane	0
Portions and countability: A crosslinguistic investigation	0
The variable position of the reflexive affix in Lithuanian	0
Integrated non-restrictive relative clauses in Shupamem	0
There is something missing in NP and moving in DP	0
Paradigm uniformity effects on French liaison	0
A tale of two EVENs	0
First conjunct clitic doubling in Modern Greek: Evidence for Agree-based approaches to clitic doubling	0
Switch reference as index agreement	0
The emergence of case matching in discontinuous DPs	0
P-omission in ellipsis in Spanish: Evidence for syntactic identity	0
Anaphora and agreement in the Turkish DP	0
On the nature of role shift	0
Cyclic residues of affix deletion in Armenian passive stems	0
Exceptionally optional negative concord with Turkish neither...nor	0
Argument ellipsis as topic deletion	0
Honorifics without [hon]	0
Movement and crossover in three languages	0
The inferential typology of language: Insights from sign language (ASL)	0
Anchoring in truncation: A typological analysis	0
Effects of uniqueness on extraction from definite NP objects	0
Type-shifting in headless relative clauses	0
Assimilation and morpheme boundaries in Mgira	0
Adverbial -s as last resort	0
Greek non-negative min, epistemic modality, and positive bias	0
Emergent learning bias and the underattestation of simple patterns	0
Discontinuous noun phrases in Iquito	0
Spreading and correspondence in Huave vowel copy	0
Impersonal pronouns: Typological insights from Teochew implicit causees	0
Passive vs. unaccusative predicates: A phase-based account	0
What’s in the bucket? Aspectual (non)compositionality in phrasal idioms	0
Structure preservation in complex prefields: A note on Müller (2018)	0
Tets´ǫt’ıné prefix vowel length: Evidence for systematic underspecification	0
Morphological conditions on movement-chain resolution	0
On the strong–weak status of the Akan definiteness marker	0
There is only one más: Spanish que/de comparative alternation	0
Decomposing same	0
Reversibility in specificational copular sentences and pseudoclefts	0
C-Agree is local subject-verb agreement in Kipsigis	0
Reflexes of exponent movement in inflectional morphology	0
Resumption in Igbo: Two types of resumptives, complex phi-mismatches, and dynamic deletion domains	0
How complex are complex cardinals?	0
The duality of syntax: Unstable structures, labelling and linearisation	0
Dominant domains in vowel harmony: A structural approach to a linear asymmetry	0
Voice in Turkish: Re-thinking u-syncretism	0
The semantics of applicativization in Kinyarwanda	0
Extending the typology of quantifier particles	0
Raising and head-external relatives in Atchan	0
Soft locality restrictions in negative concord: Evidence from the French future polarity effect	0
What learning Latin verbal morphology tells us about morphological theory	0
Possessor extraction and categorical subject in Tseltalan	0
Reassessing the argument–adjunct asymmetry in wh-in-situ islands in Mandarin: An experimental investigation	0
Differential coding of the occurrence of negative eventualities and the nonoccurrence of eventualities in Japanese	0
Editorial	0
Layered feet and syllable-integrity violations: The case of Copperbelt Bemba bounded tone spread	0
Verb-initial clauses in Kawahíva	0
Metrically conditioned /a/-syncope in Modern Hebrew compounds	0
A syntactic derivation of the reduplication patterns and their interpretation in Mandarin	0
Indirect causatives in Basque: The syntax of implicit causees	0
Correction to: Anticausatives in transitive guise	0
*Daroo ka↑: the interplay of deictic modality, sentence type, prosody and tier of meaning	0
Boundedness in locative prepositions: Evidence from Catalan	0
Semantic variation in exclusive quantifiers	0
Syntax of either in either… or… sentences	0
Allomorph selection precedes phonology: Evidence from Yindjibarndi	0
Re-analyzing ‘say’ complementation: Implications for case theory and beyond	0
Nominalization of clauses: The clausal prolepsis strategy	0
Two grammars of A’ingae glottalization: A case for Cophonologies by Phase	0
Semantic agreement in Russian: Gender, declension, and morphological ineffability	0
Reciprocal shift and symmetry breaking	0