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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Argument-introducing pluractionals: An investigation of Kyrgyz and Kazakh assistives12
Demonstratives locate referents in common space and ground: A comparative syntactic approach9
The prosody of Spanish acronyms6
Finiteness in a language without finite morphology: An experimental study of Mandarin Chinese6
The syntax of Philippine-type alignment: Insights from case-marking6
Leftover agreement5
Taking the nominative (back) out of the accusative5
The common core of relativization in Georgian5
Matching domains: The syntax, morphology, and phonology of the verb in Sinhala5
Indexical shift in Tabasaran4
Mandarin null objects: Topic-binding over argument ellipsis4
The lexical semantics of finite control: A view from Japanese4
Movement and cyclic Agree4
Clause-internal successive cyclicity: Phasality or DP intervention?4
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 oppositions3
Urdu/Hindi polar kya as an expression of uncertainty3
Towards a theory of morphosyntactic focus marking3
Split coordination with adjectives in Italian3
On the interpretation of long-distance agreement in Border Lakes Ojibwe3
Head movement from non-complements: Evidence from Aleut3
Allomorphy in Semitic discontinuous agreement: Evidence for a modular approach to postsyntax3
Synchronizing meaning with sound and beyond: The role of physical markings in thematic, modal, and informational interpretations3
Productive phrasal opacity in Gua: A challenge to Stratal Optimality Theory2
The interpretation and distribution of temporal focus particles2
Predicate-sluicing in Tokelauan2
Weak determinism and the computational consequences of interaction2
Moving heads to specifiers: Evidence from Mandarin multiple pre-subject modals2
Person effects in agreement with Icelandic low nominatives: An experimental investigation2
The Mirror Alignment Principle2
Clausal embedding in Washo: Complementation vs. modification2
A metrical analysis of light-initial tone sandhi in Suzhou Wu2
States and changes-of-state in the semantics of result roots2
Argument ellipsis as external merge after transfer2
Omnivorous person, number and gender in Mundari2
Hyperraising, evidentiality, and phase deactivation2
Improper case2
Correction to: Cyclicity and prosodic misalignment in Armenian stems2
Agentless presuppositions and the semantics of verbal roots2
On the absence of low focus movement in Brazilian Portuguese2
Syntactic island effects in Spanish: Experimental evidence2
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