Natural Language & Linguistic Theory

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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Argument-introducing pluractionals: An investigation of Kyrgyz and Kazakh assistives11
Apparent minimality violations solved by Nested Agree10
The prosody of Spanish acronyms10
Finiteness in a language without finite morphology: An experimental study of Mandarin Chinese9
Demonstratives locate referents in common space and ground: A comparative syntactic approach9
The common core of relativization in Georgian8
Leftover agreement8
Again, finiteness, and split aspect in Chinese languages7
The syntax of Philippine-type alignment: Insights from case-marking7
Matching domains: The syntax, morphology, and phonology of the verb in Sinhala6
The lexical semantics of finite control: A view from Japanese6
In defense of the clause-internal phase: Evidence from operational opacity in ndebele6
Taking the nominative (back) out of the accusative6
Clause-internal successive cyclicity: Phasality or DP intervention?5
Mandarin null objects: Topic-binding over argument ellipsis5
Movement and cyclic Agree5
Indexical shift in Tabasaran5
Allomorphy in Semitic discontinuous agreement: Evidence for a modular approach to postsyntax4
Compounding words in the syntax can produce phrasal phonology: Evidence from Japanese Aoyagi morphemes4
The role of phases and specificity in definite islands4
Iconicity and expressiveness of grammatical tones targeting ideophones in Mwaghavul4
Correction to: What word-prosodic typology is missing: Motivating foot structure as an analytical tool for syllable-internal prosodic oppositions4
Mayan animacy hierarchy effects and the dynamics of Agree4
Split coordination with adjectives in Italian4
Head movement from non-complements: Evidence from Aleut4
On the interpretation of long-distance agreement in Border Lakes Ojibwe3
Synchronizing meaning with sound and beyond: The role of physical markings in thematic, modal, and informational interpretations3
States and changes-of-state in the semantics of result roots3
Syntactic island effects in Spanish: Experimental evidence3
Syntax of negation in corrective but sentences: Evidence from syntax-semantics and prosody3
Urdu/Hindi polar kya as an expression of uncertainty3
Marked unergatives: Syntactic ergativity and nominalizations3
Omnivorous person, number and gender in Mundari3
Towards a theory of morphosyntactic focus marking3
Weak determinism and the computational consequences of interaction3
Hyperraising, evidentiality, and phase deactivation3
Argument ellipsis as external merge after transfer3
A novel argument for cyclicity from the (in)visibility of infixes at morpheme junctures: Bottoms up!2
Sequence of tense and cessation implicatures: evidence from Polish2
Syntactic variation in contemporary Hebrew: From participial to tensed relatives2
Moving heads to specifiers: Evidence from Mandarin multiple pre-subject modals2
Person effects in agreement with Icelandic low nominatives: An experimental investigation2
Predicate-sluicing in Tokelauan2
Mandarin verb doubling as verb-phrase fronting2
The grammar of gender: Insights from Bantu asymmetries of AGR with conjoined subjects2
Relative clauses are islands in Japanese: The case of double relatives2
Productive phrasal opacity in Gua: A challenge to Stratal Optimality Theory2
Number and person agreement with the subject: Downward Agree vs Spec–Head2
Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling2
Adverbs of change and dynamicity2
The order of operations and A/Ā interactions2
A metrical analysis of light-initial tone sandhi in Suzhou Wu2
On the absence of low focus movement in Brazilian Portuguese2
Agreeing against the odds: When clitic clusters trigger agreement2
Correction to: Cyclicity and prosodic misalignment in Armenian stems2
The rise and fall of a person-case constraint in Breton1
Testing for underlying representations: Segments and clusters in Sevillian Spanish1
Double downstep in Northern Toussian: Implications on tonal representation1
The emergence of case matching in discontinuous DPs1
Reciprocal shift and symmetry breaking1
The duality of syntax: Unstable structures, labelling and linearisation1
Indefinite definites in Italian1
On corrective questions and the position of focus1
The whole picture: Disentangling locality, logophoricity and subjecthood in English picture noun anaphora1
Language change and the Degree Semantics Parameter1
The interaction of idioms and aspect in Polish1
Middle voice as generalized argument suppression1
Manner/result polysemy as contextual allosemy: Evidence from Daakaka1
Subjectless readings of again: A response to Bale (2007) and Smith and Yu (2021)1
Degrees as kinds: The case of Mandarin sortal classifiers1
Personal-evaluation secondary predicates in Japanese and quirky experiencer raising1
Coordinated and local optionality in Serial Noisy Harmonic Grammar1
Lack of c-command in coordinate structures: Evidence from binding1
The prosody of the extended VP1
Small nominalized clauses in Khalkha Mongolian: Asymmetries in mixed extended projections1
On clausal complementation, once more1
The incoherent stress of Kuikuro1
Reflexes of exponent movement in inflectional morphology1
Direct causatives of unergatives: A view from variable unaccusativity1
A unified semantics for distributive and non-distributive universal quantifiers across languages0
Discontinuous noun phrases in Iquito0
Paradigm uniformity effects on French liaison0
*Daroo ka↑: the interplay of deictic modality, sentence type, prosody and tier of meaning0
Indirect causatives in Basque: The syntax of implicit causees0
Voice in Turkish: Re-thinking u-syncretism0
Editorial0
The status and distribution of clausal arguments: The case of Mandarin Chinese0
A tale of two EVENs0
Two grammars of A’ingae glottalization: A case for Cophonologies by Phase0
Exceptionally optional negative concord with Turkish neither...nor0
The variable position of the reflexive affix in Lithuanian0
Argument ellipsis as topic deletion0
Spreading and correspondence in Huave vowel copy0
A novel architecture for pseudo-incorporation0
Type-shifting in headless relative clauses0
Possession and syntactic categories: An argument from Äiwoo0
Semantic variation in exclusive quantifiers0
Differential coding of the occurrence of negative eventualities and the nonoccurrence of eventualities in Japanese0
Gradience at the syntax-phonology interface: Prosodically constrained VPs in mandarin and wenzhounese0
Tets´ǫt’ıné prefix vowel length: Evidence for systematic underspecification0
On the strong–weak status of the Akan definiteness marker0
Detecting variable force in imperatives: A modalized minimal approach0
Mei shenme ‘few/little,’ mei ‘not,’ and neg raising in Mandarin Chinese0
C-Agree is local subject-verb agreement in Kipsigis0
How complex are complex cardinals?0
Possessor extraction and categorical subject in Tseltalan0
Strict modularity at the morphosyntax-phonology interface: The case of Irish preverbal d’0
Anaphora and agreement in the Turkish DP0
Effects of uniqueness on extraction from definite NP objects0
Raising and head-external relatives in Atchan0
Appealing to superlative clauses0
Control theory and the relationship between logophoric pronouns and logophoric uses of anaphors0
Detaching Mandarin classifiers from nouns: A mereological solution0
Scrambling in the nominal domain: Evidence from the Chichewa DP0
Correction to: Anticausatives in transitive guise0
Re-analyzing ‘say’ complementation: Implications for case theory and beyond0
Structure preservation in complex prefields: A note on Müller (2018)0
First conjunct clitic doubling in Modern Greek: Evidence for Agree-based approaches to clitic doubling0
Quotative inversion as smuggling: Evidence from Setswana and English0
Passive vs. unaccusative predicates: A phase-based account0
Dominant domains in vowel harmony: A structural approach to a linear asymmetry0
Greek non-negative min, epistemic modality, and positive bias0
The inferential typology of language: Insights from sign language (ASL)0
CAP in hand, Editor-in-Chief0
The nouns that say -ni: Morpheme-specific phonology in Telugu0
Exhaustive control as movement: The case of Wolof0
Lexical and grammatical arity-reduction: The case of reciprocity in Romance languages0
What learning Latin verbal morphology tells us about morphological theory0
Adjectives without syntactic categories0
Anticausatives in transitive guise0
Reassessing the argument–adjunct asymmetry in wh-in-situ islands in Mandarin: An experimental investigation0
Honorifics without [hon]0
Boundedness in locative prepositions: Evidence from Catalan0
Jewelry’s missing “jewel”: Containment, doublets, and gaps as probes into countability and the count/mass distinction0
Emergent learning bias and the underattestation of simple patterns0
Semantic agreement in Russian: Gender, declension, and morphological ineffability0
On the (non)optionality of the Turkish classifier tane0
Movement and crossover in three languages0
A new approach to plurals-of-politeness and their number agreement0
A syntactic derivation of the reduplication patterns and their interpretation in Mandarin0
What’s in an X-marked conditional: A temporal puzzle0
Integrated non-restrictive relative clauses in Shupamem0
There is only one más: Spanish que/de comparative alternation0
On case-copying reflexives0
Morphological conditions on movement-chain resolution0
There is something missing in NP and moving in DP0
Agree in restructuring: Evidence from auxiliary switch and clitic climbing in French and Italian0
Passivization and composite A/Ā-movement in the Mandarin bei-construction0
Case and Voice properties of complex event nominalizations: A Voice-bundling approach0
Resumption in Igbo: Two types of resumptives, complex phi-mismatches, and dynamic deletion domains0
The semantics of applicativization in Kinyarwanda0
Perspectival domains in nouns and clauses0
Negative concord in Russian Sign Language0
Variation in the lexical semantics of property concept roots: Evidence from Wá⋅šiw0
Extending the typology of quantifier particles0
Metrically conditioned /a/-syncope in Modern Hebrew compounds0
Not all reconstruction effects are syntactic0
Soft locality restrictions in negative concord: Evidence from the French future polarity effect0
Experimental evidence from extraction for the D-shell analysis of clausal prolepsis0
Portions and countability: A crosslinguistic investigation0
Verb-initial clauses in Kawahíva0
An experimental syntax approach to British English do ellipsis0
Bouletic concord0
Cyclic residues of affix deletion in Armenian passive stems0
Assimilation and morpheme boundaries in Mgira0
Nominalization of clauses: The clausal prolepsis strategy0
What word-prosodic typology is missing: Motivating foot structure as an analytical tool for syllable-internal prosodic oppositions0
Impersonal pronouns: Typological insights from Teochew implicit causees0
Bikol clefts and topics and the Austronesian extraction restriction0
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