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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Morphological conditions on movement-chain resolution	13
Editorial	11
Nominalization of clauses: The clausal prolepsis strategy	10
There is something missing in NP and moving in DP	5
Omnivorous person, number and gender in Mundari	5
Indefinites and free choice	5
Discontinuous noun phrases in Iquito	5
A tale of two EVENs	5
Moving heads to specifiers: Evidence from Mandarin multiple pre-subject modals	4
Licensing with Case	4
Finiteness in a language without finite morphology: An experimental study of Mandarin Chinese	3
Syntactic island effects in Spanish: Experimental evidence	3
Topicality and anaphoricity in Dutch scrambling	3
Coordinated and local optionality in Serial Noisy Harmonic Grammar	3
The prosody of Spanish acronyms	3
Emergent learning bias and the underattestation of simple patterns	3
Polarity Items in Basque	3
First conjunct clitic doubling in Modern Greek: Evidence for Agree-based approaches to clitic doubling	2
Bikol clefts and topics and the Austronesian extraction restriction	2
Personal-evaluation secondary predicates in Japanese and quirky experiencer raising	2
The common core of relativization in Georgian	2
Improper case	2
Mei shenme ‘few/little,’ mei ‘not,’ and neg raising in Mandarin Chinese	2
On the absence of low focus movement in Brazilian Portuguese	2
Agentless presuppositions and the semantics of verbal roots	2

Semantic variation in exclusive quantifiers	2
Person effects in agreement with Icelandic low nominatives: An experimental investigation	2
Movement and crossover in three languages	2
Vowel harmony and phonological phrasing in Gua	2
Decomposing same	2
Structure preservation in complex prefields: A note on Müller (2018)	2
Raising and head-external relatives in Atchan	2
The syntax of Philippine-type alignment: Insights from case-marking	2
Language change and the Degree Semantics Parameter	2
The interaction of idioms and aspect in Polish	2
Productive phrasal opacity in Gua: A challenge to Stratal Optimality Theory	2
Argument-introducing pluractionals: An investigation of Kyrgyz and Kazakh assistives	2
Allomorph selection precedes phonology: Evidence from Yindjibarndi	2
Middle voice as generalized argument suppression	2
The interpretation and distribution of temporal focus particles	1
Indefinite definites in Italian	1
The lexical semantics of finite control: A view from Japanese	1
Anaphora and agreement in the Turkish DP	1
Mediating functions and the semantics of noun incorporation	1
Resumption in Igbo: Two types of resumptives, complex phi-mismatches, and dynamic deletion domains	1
How complex are complex cardinals?	1
Subjectless readings of again: A response to Bale (2007) and Smith and Yu (2021)	1
The emergence of case matching in discontinuous DPs	1
Movement and cyclic Agree	1
Switch reference as index agreement	1
Greek non-negative min, epistemic modality, and positive bias	1
Two grammars of A’ingae glottalization: A case for Cophonologies by Phase	1
Cyclic residues of affix deletion in Armenian passive stems	1
Effects of uniqueness on extraction from definite NP objects	1
P-omission in ellipsis in Spanish: Evidence for syntactic identity	1
A metrical analysis of light-initial tone sandhi in Suzhou Wu	1
The Mirror Alignment Principle	1
Taking the nominative (back) out of the accusative	1
Re-analyzing ‘say’ complementation: Implications for case theory and beyond	1
There is only one más: Spanish que/de comparative alternation	1
Clausal embedding in Washo: Complementation vs. modification	1
Degrees as kinds: The case of Mandarin sortal classifiers	1
The lexical core of a complex functional affix: Russian baby diminutive -onok	1
Reassessing the argument–adjunct asymmetry in wh-in-situ islands in Mandarin: An experimental investigation	0
Head movement from non-complements: Evidence from Aleut	0
Possession and syntactic categories: An argument from Äiwoo	0
Hyperraising, evidentiality, and phase deactivation	0
Weak determinism and the computational consequences of interaction	0
Syntax of either in either… or… sentences	0
Person agreement with inherent case DPs in Chirag Dargwa	0
Type-shifting in headless relative clauses	0
Semantic agreement in Russian: Gender, declension, and morphological ineffability	0
On the (non)optionality of the Turkish classifier tane	0
Argument ellipsis as external merge after transfer	0
What word-prosodic typology is missing: Motivating foot structure as an analytical tool for syllable-internal prosodic oppositions	0

The semantics of applicativization in Kinyarwanda	0
On case-copying reflexives	0
The whole picture: Disentangling locality, logophoricity and subjecthood in English picture noun anaphora	0
Perspectival domains in nouns and clauses	0
Manner/result polysemy as contextual allosemy: Evidence from Daakaka	0
Impersonal pronouns: Typological insights from Teochew implicit causees	0
Spreading and correspondence in Huave vowel copy	0
N-effects are not-P-effects	0
Adverbs of change and dynamicity	0
Indexical shift in Tabasaran	0
Synchronizing meaning with sound and beyond: The role of physical markings in thematic, modal, and informational interpretations	0
Adverbial -s as last resort	0
Voice in Turkish: Re-thinking u-syncretism	0
Honorifics without [hon]	0
Reversibility in specificational copular sentences and pseudoclefts	0
Allomorphy in Semitic discontinuous agreement: Evidence for a modular approach to postsyntax	0
States and changes-of-state in the semantics of result roots	0
The prosody of the extended VP	0
Correction to: Anticausatives in transitive guise	0
Sequence of tense and cessation implicatures: evidence from Polish	0
What’s in the bucket? Aspectual (non)compositionality in phrasal idioms	0
The rise and fall of a person-case constraint in Breton	0
On the nature of role shift	0
On the interpretation of long-distance agreement in Border Lakes Ojibwe	0
Minimality, maximality and perfect prosodic word in Alcozauca Mixtec	0
Reflexes of exponent movement in inflectional morphology	0
Testing for underlying representations: Segments and clusters in Sevillian Spanish	0
*Daroo ka↑: the interplay of deictic modality, sentence type, prosody and tier of meaning	0
Verb-initial clauses in Kawahíva	0
Anchoring in truncation: A typological analysis	0
Layered feet and syllable-integrity violations: The case of Copperbelt Bemba bounded tone spread	0
Tets´ǫt’ıné prefix vowel length: Evidence for systematic underspecification	0
Detecting variable force in imperatives: A modalized minimal approach	0
Possessor extraction and categorical subject in Tseltalan	0
A syntactic derivation of the reduplication patterns and their interpretation in Mandarin	0
Trigger poverty and reduplicative identity in Lakota	0
Boundedness in locative prepositions: Evidence from Catalan	0
Assimilation and morpheme boundaries in Mgira	0
Exceptionally optional negative concord with Turkish neither...nor	0
What learning Latin verbal morphology tells us about morphological theory	0
Control theory and the relationship between logophoric pronouns and logophoric uses of anaphors	0
Metrically conditioned /a/-syncope in Modern Hebrew compounds	0
Neutral paired vowels in Mayak and Kurmuk	0
Nonunitary structure of unergative verbs in Georgian	0
Exhaustive control as movement: The case of Wolof	0
Portions and countability: A crosslinguistic investigation	0
Split coordination with adjectives in Italian	0
C-Agree is local subject-verb agreement in Kipsigis	0
Argument ellipsis as topic deletion	0
Integrated non-restrictive relative clauses in Shupamem	0
Predicate doubling in Spanish: On how discourse may mimic syntactic movement	0
Passive vs. unaccusative predicates: A phase-based account	0
Mandarin verb doubling as verb-phrase fronting	0
Negative concord in Russian Sign Language	0
Paradigm uniformity effects on French liaison	0
Indirect causatives in Basque: The syntax of implicit causees	0
Differential coding of the occurrence of negative eventualities and the nonoccurrence of eventualities in Japanese	0
Correction to: What word-prosodic typology is missing: Motivating foot structure as an analytical tool for syllable-internal prosodic oppositions	0
Furthest conjunct agreement in Jordanian Arabic	0
Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling	0
Towards a theory of morphosyntactic focus marking	0
The duality of syntax: Unstable structures, labelling and linearisation	0
Anticausatives in transitive guise	0
The inferential typology of language: Insights from sign language (ASL)	0
Reciprocal shift and symmetry breaking	0
Soft locality restrictions in negative concord: Evidence from the French future polarity effect	0
Correction to: Cyclicity and prosodic misalignment in Armenian stems	0
Urdu/Hindi polar kya as an expression of uncertainty	0
The order of operations and A/Ā interactions	0
Not all reconstruction effects are syntactic	0
Extending the typology of quantifier particles	0