Natural Language & Linguistic Theory

Papers
(The TQCC of Natural Language & Linguistic Theory is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
The prosody of Spanish acronyms10
Argument-introducing pluractionals: An investigation of Kyrgyz and Kazakh assistives10
Demonstratives locate referents in common space and ground: A comparative syntactic approach9
Apparent minimality violations solved by Nested Agree8
Finiteness in a language without finite morphology: An experimental study of Mandarin Chinese8
The syntax of Philippine-type alignment: Insights from case-marking7
The common core of relativization in Georgian7
Leftover agreement7
Matching domains: The syntax, morphology, and phonology of the verb in Sinhala6
Movement and cyclic Agree6
Clause-internal successive cyclicity: Phasality or DP intervention?5
Mayan animacy hierarchy effects and the dynamics of Agree5
Taking the nominative (back) out of the accusative5
Indexical shift in Tabasaran5
The lexical semantics of finite control: A view from Japanese5
Urdu/Hindi polar kya as an expression of uncertainty4
Head movement from non-complements: Evidence from Aleut4
Towards a theory of morphosyntactic focus marking4
Correction to: What word-prosodic typology is missing: Motivating foot structure as an analytical tool for syllable-internal prosodic oppositions4
Compounding words in the syntax can produce phrasal phonology: Evidence from Japanese Aoyagi morphemes4
Mandarin null objects: Topic-binding over argument ellipsis4
Syntax of negation in corrective but sentences: Evidence from syntax-semantics and prosody3
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
Omnivorous person, number and gender in Mundari3
On the absence of low focus movement in Brazilian Portuguese3
Split coordination with adjectives in Italian3
On the interpretation of long-distance agreement in Border Lakes Ojibwe3
Marked unergatives: Syntactic ergativity and nominalizations3
Relative clauses are islands in Japanese: The case of double relatives3
Person effects in agreement with Icelandic low nominatives: An experimental investigation3
Allomorphy in Semitic discontinuous agreement: Evidence for a modular approach to postsyntax3
Hyperraising, evidentiality, and phase deactivation3
Weak determinism and the computational consequences of interaction3
Syntactic island effects in Spanish: Experimental evidence3
Moving heads to specifiers: Evidence from Mandarin multiple pre-subject modals3
Argument ellipsis as external merge after transfer3
The prosody of the extended VP2
A metrical analysis of light-initial tone sandhi in Suzhou Wu2
The Mirror Alignment Principle2
Improper case2
Adverbs of change and dynamicity2
Predicate-sluicing in Tokelauan2
Agreeing against the odds: When clitic clusters trigger agreement2
The order of operations and A/Ā interactions2
Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling2
The whole picture: Disentangling locality, logophoricity and subjecthood in English picture noun anaphora2
Productive phrasal opacity in Gua: A challenge to Stratal Optimality Theory2
Correction to: Cyclicity and prosodic misalignment in Armenian stems2
Mandarin verb doubling as verb-phrase fronting2
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