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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Argument-introducing pluractionals: An investigation of Kyrgyz and Kazakh assistives12
Finiteness in a language without finite morphology: An experimental study of Mandarin Chinese9
The prosody of Spanish acronyms8
Demonstratives locate referents in common space and ground: A comparative syntactic approach7
The common core of relativization in Georgian6
Apparent minimality violations solved by Nested Agree6
Matching domains: The syntax, morphology, and phonology of the verb in Sinhala5
Leftover agreement5
Movement and cyclic Agree5
The syntax of Philippine-type alignment: Insights from case-marking5
Taking the nominative (back) out of the accusative5
Indexical shift in Tabasaran4
Mandarin null objects: Topic-binding over argument ellipsis4
Clause-internal successive cyclicity: Phasality or DP intervention?4
Head movement from non-complements: Evidence from Aleut4
The lexical semantics of finite control: A view from Japanese4
Mayan animacy hierarchy effects and the dynamics of Agree4
Split coordination with adjectives in Italian3
States and changes-of-state in the semantics of result roots3
Allomorphy in Semitic discontinuous agreement: Evidence for a modular approach to postsyntax3
Towards a theory of morphosyntactic focus marking3
Urdu/Hindi polar kya as an expression of uncertainty3
Correction to: What word-prosodic typology is missing: Motivating foot structure as an analytical tool for syllable-internal prosodic oppositions3
Compounding words in the syntax can produce phrasal phonology: Evidence from Japanese Aoyagi morphemes3
Hyperraising, evidentiality, and phase deactivation3
Marked unergatives: Syntactic ergativity and nominalizations2
On the interpretation of long-distance agreement in Border Lakes Ojibwe2
A metrical analysis of light-initial tone sandhi in Suzhou Wu2
The Mirror Alignment Principle2
Clausal embedding in Washo: Complementation vs. modification2
On the absence of low focus movement in Brazilian Portuguese2
Weak determinism and the computational consequences of interaction2
Relative clauses are islands in Japanese: The case of double relatives2
Productive phrasal opacity in Gua: A challenge to Stratal Optimality Theory2
Agreeing against the odds: When clitic clusters trigger agreement2
Person effects in agreement with Icelandic low nominatives: An experimental investigation2
Omnivorous person, number and gender in Mundari2
Synchronizing meaning with sound and beyond: The role of physical markings in thematic, modal, and informational interpretations2
Syntactic island effects in Spanish: Experimental evidence2
Argument ellipsis as external merge after transfer2
Improper case2
The interpretation and distribution of temporal focus particles2
Moving heads to specifiers: Evidence from Mandarin multiple pre-subject modals2
The whole picture: Disentangling locality, logophoricity and subjecthood in English picture noun anaphora1
The order of operations and A/Ā interactions1
Correction to: Cyclicity and prosodic misalignment in Armenian stems1
Double downstep in Northern Toussian: Implications on tonal representation1
Middle voice as generalized argument suppression1
The interaction of idioms and aspect in Polish1
Lack of c-command in coordinate structures: Evidence from binding1
The prosody of the extended VP1
Mandarin verb doubling as verb-phrase fronting1
Predicate-sluicing in Tokelauan1
Testing for underlying representations: Segments and clusters in Sevillian Spanish1
Coordinated and local optionality in Serial Noisy Harmonic Grammar1
Personal-evaluation secondary predicates in Japanese and quirky experiencer raising1
The lexical core of a complex functional affix: Russian baby diminutive -onok1
Adverbs of change and dynamicity1
Sequence of tense and cessation implicatures: evidence from Polish1
Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling1
The rise and fall of a person-case constraint in Breton1
On corrective questions and the position of focus1
Language change and the Degree Semantics Parameter1
Degrees as kinds: The case of Mandarin sortal classifiers1
Possession and syntactic categories: An argument from Äiwoo0
Anticausatives in transitive guise0
Argument ellipsis as topic deletion0
Differential coding of the occurrence of negative eventualities and the nonoccurrence of eventualities in Japanese0
Soft locality restrictions in negative concord: Evidence from the French future polarity effect0
Tets´ǫt’ıné prefix vowel length: Evidence for systematic underspecification0
Neutral paired vowels in Mayak and Kurmuk0
Type-shifting in headless relative clauses0
Voice in Turkish: Re-thinking u-syncretism0
A unified semantics for distributive and non-distributive universal quantifiers across languages0
The inferential typology of language: Insights from sign language (ASL)0
*Daroo ka↑: the interplay of deictic modality, sentence type, prosody and tier of meaning0
The variable position of the reflexive affix in Lithuanian0
On the strong–weak status of the Akan definiteness marker0
P-omission in ellipsis in Spanish: Evidence for syntactic identity0
Syntax of either in either… or… sentences0
First conjunct clitic doubling in Modern Greek: Evidence for Agree-based approaches to clitic doubling0
Correction to: Anticausatives in transitive guise0
Predicate doubling in Spanish: On how discourse may mimic syntactic movement0
Passive vs. unaccusative predicates: A phase-based account0
There is only one más: Spanish que/de comparative alternation0
Subjectless readings of again: A response to Bale (2007) and Smith and Yu (2021)0
Perspectival domains in nouns and clauses0
Reversibility in specificational copular sentences and pseudoclefts0
On the nature of role shift0
What word-prosodic typology is missing: Motivating foot structure as an analytical tool for syllable-internal prosodic oppositions0
Bikol clefts and topics and the Austronesian extraction restriction0
Exceptionally optional negative concord with Turkish neither...nor0
CAP in hand, Editor-in-Chief0
On case-copying reflexives0
Effects of uniqueness on extraction from definite NP objects0
The semantics of applicativization in Kinyarwanda0
A novel architecture for pseudo-incorporation0
Honorifics without [hon]0
Detecting variable force in imperatives: A modalized minimal approach0
Adverbial -s as last resort0
Emergent learning bias and the underattestation of simple patterns0
Nonunitary structure of unergative verbs in Georgian0
What learning Latin verbal morphology tells us about morphological theory0
A syntactic derivation of the reduplication patterns and their interpretation in Mandarin0
The incoherent stress of Kuikuro0
On the (non)optionality of the Turkish classifier tane0
Discontinuous noun phrases in Iquito0
A new approach to plurals-of-politeness and their number agreement0
Integrated non-restrictive relative clauses in Shupamem0
Allomorph selection precedes phonology: Evidence from Yindjibarndi0
Portions and countability: A crosslinguistic investigation0
Editorial0
Two grammars of A’ingae glottalization: A case for Cophonologies by Phase0
Semantic variation in exclusive quantifiers0
The emergence of case matching in discontinuous DPs0
Greek non-negative min, epistemic modality, and positive bias0
Re-analyzing ‘say’ complementation: Implications for case theory and beyond0
Indefinite definites in Italian0
Spreading and correspondence in Huave vowel copy0
Anaphora and agreement in the Turkish DP0
The duality of syntax: Unstable structures, labelling and linearisation0
Trigger poverty and reduplicative identity in Lakota0
Movement and crossover in three languages0
Nominalization of clauses: The clausal prolepsis strategy0
Metrically conditioned /a/-syncope in Modern Hebrew compounds0
Extending the typology of quantifier particles0
Possessor extraction and categorical subject in Tseltalan0
Control theory and the relationship between logophoric pronouns and logophoric uses of anaphors0
Anchoring in truncation: A typological analysis0
Assimilation and morpheme boundaries in Mgira0
Reassessing the argument–adjunct asymmetry in wh-in-situ islands in Mandarin: An experimental investigation0
Verb-initial clauses in Kawahíva0
Negative concord in Russian Sign Language0
C-Agree is local subject-verb agreement in Kipsigis0
Impersonal pronouns: Typological insights from Teochew implicit causees0
A tale of two EVENs0
What’s in the bucket? Aspectual (non)compositionality in phrasal idioms0
Indirect causatives in Basque: The syntax of implicit causees0
Structure preservation in complex prefields: A note on Müller (2018)0
Morphological conditions on movement-chain resolution0
Passivization and composite A/Ā-movement in the Mandarin bei-construction0
There is something missing in NP and moving in DP0
Mei shenme ‘few/little,’ mei ‘not,’ and neg raising in Mandarin Chinese0
Boundedness in locative prepositions: Evidence from Catalan0
Paradigm uniformity effects on French liaison0
Reflexes of exponent movement in inflectional morphology0
Resumption in Igbo: Two types of resumptives, complex phi-mismatches, and dynamic deletion domains0
Cyclic residues of affix deletion in Armenian passive stems0
Reciprocal shift and symmetry breaking0
Layered feet and syllable-integrity violations: The case of Copperbelt Bemba bounded tone spread0
How complex are complex cardinals?0
Not all reconstruction effects are syntactic0
Manner/result polysemy as contextual allosemy: Evidence from Daakaka0
Semantic agreement in Russian: Gender, declension, and morphological ineffability0
Raising and head-external relatives in Atchan0
Dominant domains in vowel harmony: A structural approach to a linear asymmetry0
Exhaustive control as movement: The case of Wolof0
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