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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Argument-introducing pluractionals: An investigation of Kyrgyz and Kazakh assistives13
The prosody of Spanish acronyms9
Demonstratives locate referents in common space and ground: A comparative syntactic approach9
Apparent minimality violations solved by Nested Agree8
The syntax of Philippine-type alignment: Insights from case-marking6
The common core of relativization in Georgian6
Finiteness in a language without finite morphology: An experimental study of Mandarin Chinese6
Clause-internal successive cyclicity: Phasality or DP intervention?5
Leftover agreement5
Taking the nominative (back) out of the accusative5
Matching domains: The syntax, morphology, and phonology of the verb in Sinhala5
Movement and cyclic Agree5
Compounding words in the syntax can produce phrasal phonology: Evidence from Japanese Aoyagi morphemes4
Mandarin null objects: Topic-binding over argument ellipsis4
The lexical semantics of finite control: A view from Japanese4
Head movement from non-complements: Evidence from Aleut4
Mayan animacy hierarchy effects and the dynamics of Agree4
Correction to: What word-prosodic typology is missing: Motivating foot structure as an analytical tool for syllable-internal prosodic oppositions4
Indexical shift in Tabasaran4
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
Hyperraising, evidentiality, and phase deactivation3
Towards a theory of morphosyntactic focus marking3
Argument ellipsis as external merge after transfer3
Marked unergatives: Syntactic ergativity and nominalizations3
Split coordination with adjectives in Italian3
Urdu/Hindi polar kya as an expression of uncertainty3
Weak determinism and the computational consequences of interaction3
On the interpretation of long-distance agreement in Border Lakes Ojibwe3
Allomorphy in Semitic discontinuous agreement: Evidence for a modular approach to postsyntax3
Improper case2
Omnivorous person, number and gender in Mundari2
Person effects in agreement with Icelandic low nominatives: An experimental investigation2
A metrical analysis of light-initial tone sandhi in Suzhou Wu2
Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling2
Mandarin verb doubling as verb-phrase fronting2
On the absence of low focus movement in Brazilian Portuguese2
Relative clauses are islands in Japanese: The case of double relatives2
Productive phrasal opacity in Gua: A challenge to Stratal Optimality Theory2
Clausal embedding in Washo: Complementation vs. modification2
Predicate-sluicing in Tokelauan2
Adverbs of change and dynamicity2
Syntactic island effects in Spanish: Experimental evidence2
Moving heads to specifiers: Evidence from Mandarin multiple pre-subject modals2
The Mirror Alignment Principle2
The order of operations and A/Ā interactions2
Correction to: Cyclicity and prosodic misalignment in Armenian stems2
Agreeing against the odds: When clitic clusters trigger agreement2
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