All Articles

This page provides a masterlist of all articles that have been published in all digital volumes of COPiL (Volume 3 onwards). The articles are ordered by author surname and year.

 

Text simplification of legal English: laws on women's rights in Pakistan

Naveed Ahmad and Napoleon Katsos

V6, pp. 295-310

 

The middle voice, valency and Aktionsart in the Arabic verb

Hanna Danbolt Ajer

V10, pp. 1-21

 

Ambipositions: A symptom of disharmony? An investigation of ambipositions and disharmony in Western Uralic languages

Hanna Danbolt Ajer

V10, pp. 256-266

 

Safety in numbers: Geminates in Lisbon Portuguese

Samuel Andersson

V10, pp. 22-37

 

The modal value of ancora/angórə in Barese and northern Apulian varieties

Luigi Andriani

V9, pp. 235-245

 

Negation in Baltic Middle Low German

Caroline Appleby

V9, pp. 35-81

 

Acquisition of tonal targets in Catalan, Spanish, and English

Lluïsa Astruc, Pilar Prieto, Elinor Payne, Brechtje Post, and Maria del Mar Vanrell

V5, pp. 1-14

 

A Third-Factor Account of Locality: Explaining impenetrability and intervention effects with minimal search​

Seth Aycock

V12, pp. 1-30

 

Split intransitivity in English

James Baker

V9, pp. 1-34

 

Split intransitivity in Basque

James Baker

V11, pp. 1-35

 

Conceptualising an Ideal Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training System: Educational Technology

Nick Ballou

V11, pp. 120-130

 

The Mechanics of Mismatched Ellipsis

Ema Banerjee

V13, pp. 118-131

 

Why Ellipsis Needs TOO

Ema Banerjee

V15, pp. 241-290

 

Semi null-subject languages, expletives and expletive pro reconsidered

Theresa Biberauer

V4, pp. 1-45

 

Factors 2 and 3: a principled approach

Theresa Biberauer

V10, pp. 38-65

 

Less IS More: some thoughts on the Tolerence Principle in the context of the Maximise Minimal Means model

Theresa Biberauer

V11, pp. 131-145

 

Subject, Tense and Verb Movement in Germanic and Romance

Theresa Biberauer and Ian Roberts

V3, pp. 24-43

 

Towards a parameter hierarchy for auxiliaries:diachronic considerations

Theresa Biberauer and Ian Roberts

V6, pp. 267-294

 

Rethinking formal hierarchies: a proposed unification

Theresa Biberauer and Ian Roberts

V7, pp. 1-31

 

The IPP Effect in Afrikaans: Southern African Variations on a West Germanic Theme

Theresa Biberauer and Cora Cavirani-Pots

V15, pp. 39-54

 

Noun-Class Prefixes Aren’t Nominalisers: Insights from Deverbal Nominalisation in Chichewa

Theresa Biberauer and Peter Msaka

V16, pp. 229-262

 

Restructuring the tough approach to the Mandarin long passive

Alison Biggs

V6, pp. 237-266

 

Resumption in English: An investigation of usage and acceptability

Hannah Blythe

V9, pp. 156-183

 

'Pronounce φ': 'Number' Clitics in a Non-Redundant Null-Subject System

Caterina Bonan

V13, pp. 1-34

 

Emergence, Complexity and Developing Grammars: A reinterpretation from a Dynamical Systems perspective

Núria Bosch

V14(1), pp. 1-33

 

Not All Complementisers Are Late: a first look at the acquisition of illocutionary complementisers in Catalan and Spanish

Núria Bosch

V15, pp. 1-38

 

The Case of Rita: Incipient Expressive Negation in Catalan and Spanish Proper Nouns

Núria Bosch

V16, pp. 198-228

 

Apparently semantically-motivated extraction in a autonomous syntax

J. M. M. Brown

V8, pp. 6-22

 

Expressive 'dimension'? Towards a redefinition of lexical expressives

Mireia Cabanes-Calabuig

V14(2), pp. 1-26

 

Physical activity as an enhancer of vocabulary learning: a brief narrative overview

Carla Pastorino Campos

V11, pp. 146-151

 

Italian Middle si: Evidence from non-finite clauses

Leonardo Russo Cardona

V14(1), pp. 228-241

 

Plausibility, Probability, Prediction and the P600 (Squib)

Grace Carrier

V17, pp. 37-51

 

The conceptual network approach to semantic typology: introduction and application

James N. Chancharu

V7, pp. 83-134

 

Whose Metaphor?: Metaphor in Belief Reports

Xiaoxuan Chen

V13, pp. 132-143

 

A Cognitive Analysis of the Relationships between Chinese EFL Writers' Strategy Use and Writing Achievement Performance

Shih-Chih Chien

V3, pp. 44-61

 

Questions in the Syntax of English Similative Constructions

Georgia Clothier

V15, pp. 111-154

 

Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have with Presupposition: An Experimental Investigation into the Role of Presuppositions in Gradient Judgements of Lying and Misleading

Oliver Cooney

V17, pp. 68-93

 

The syntax-semantics interface in generative, parallel and functional frameworks

Lucía Contreras-García

V8, pp. 23-40

 

The syntactic role of discourse-related features

Silvio Cruschina

V5, pp. 15-30

 

Pragmatic to Semantic Meaning: The Case of Non-Literal Use of Emojis

Laura Collins

V17, pp. 108-139

 

Should Rhythm metrics take account of fundamental frequency?

Ruth Cumming

V4, pp. 1-16

 

Codeswitching Practices of Bulgarian-English Bilinguals

Yoana I. Dancheva

V14(1), pp. 200-213

 

"Mae probl monolingual yn minority"": Factors favouring the production of code-switching by Welsh English bilingual speakers

Margaret Deuchar, Kevin Donnelly, and Caroline Piercy

V9, pp. 212-234

 

Agreement (and disagreement) among relatives

Jamie A. Douglas

V7, pp. 33-60

 

Unifying the that-trace and anti-that-trace effects

Jamie Douglas

V9, pp. 184-211

 

Control into infinitival relatives

Jamie Douglas

V10, pp. 66-87

 

Exploring Emergence with Substance-Free Categories

Jamie Douglas

V16, pp. 127-145

 

Intervention effects in English and Russian speakers' L2 Chinese wh-questions

Esuna Dugarova

V5, pp. 31-45

 

The underlying conditionality of conditionals which do not use if

Chi-Hé Elder

V6, pp. 177-200

 

Classifying conditionals: the case of metalinguistic &nbspif you like

Chi-Hé Elder

V7, pp. 61-82

 

Idiom Processing in Non-Native Languages: A Theoretical Review

Grete Feldman

V16, pp. 164-177

 

What Can Menstrual Euphemisms Tell Us About Politeness Theory's Claim of Universality?

Jessica Flack

V16, pp. 146-163

 

The dynamics of structure building in Rangi: at the syntax-semantics interface

Hannah Gibson

V8, pp. 41-55

 

Comparative method algorithm

Sophia Gilman

V6, pp. 131-175

 

Linguistic Insights into Implicit Bias: Identifying Unconscious Mechanisms in Discourse (Squib)

Pamela Gitani

V17, pp. 157-172

 

A Diachronic Study of the Pre- and Post-Verbal Distribution of Prepositional Phrases in Latin

Sarah Gordon 

V14(1), pp. 34-87

 

Towards Glue Semantics for Minimalist syntax

Matthew Gotham

V8, pp. 56-83

 

An Analysis of Scalar Items under Memory Load Using an Inference Task

Blanche Gonzales de Linares

V12, pp. 31-46

 

The challanges of cross-linguistic parsing

Maja Gwóźdź

V10, pp. 267-278

 

Nullius In Verba Conceptual Engineering and the Royal Society Corpus

Nina Haket

V15, pp. 155-195

 

An OT Analysis of French Schwa Deletion

Ethan L. Hawkins

V14(1), pp. 214-227

 

A syntactic account for the parametric variation of the Number feature

Christopher Hicks

V9, pp. 82-107

 

Demonstratives and personal pronouns

Georg Höhn

V8, pp. 84-105

 

English resultatives revisited

Xuhui Hu

V7, pp. 135-157

 

Manifestation of vagueness in language use: two experiments

Minyao Huang

V6, pp. 63-94

 

Phonetic Effects of Codeswitching on the Production of English Vowels in Hinglish (Squib)

Nikita Jain

V17, pp. 1-21

 

The Implicature and Perspective-Taking Task: A novel way of investigating the relation between pragmatics and mind-reading

Napoleon Katsos

V13, pp. 144-157

 

Language Skills and Identity in Bilingual Education: A case study of a bilingual primary school in England

Napoleon Katsos, Jenny Gibson, Isabelle Lorge, Lisa-Maria Müller, Özge Öztürk, Julie Reynolds, Elspeth Wilson and Karen Forbes

V13, pp. 35-62

 

Case-Mismatching in Urdu Sluicing

Sana Kidwai

V12, pp. 47-78

 

A Survey of Urdu Subjects and their Properties

Sana Kidwai 

V14(2), pp. 27-70

 

Null arguments in Old Norwegian: Interaction between pronouns and functional domains

Kari Kinn

V9, pp. 108-129

 

Compositionality of Complex Concepts

Imogen Lemon

V12, pp. 79-112

 

Priming the Mental Representation of Tone Sandhi in Kunming Dialect

Xiyuan Li

V13, pp. 158-167

 

Brother Citizens: Divided WE Stand, United I Fall Deictics and Anaphora of the Arab Spring Speeches of Mubarak

Mohyi Eldeen Maziad

V11, pp. 36-56

 

American English Rhotic Rhymes: Phonemic rhotacized schwa or underlying /V+ɹ/?

Connor McCabe

V11, pp. 36-56

 

Linearization and post-syntactic operations in the Quechua DP

Neil Myler

V5, pp. 46-66

 

The Problematic Distribution of the Irish Past Tense Marker d': Development of a case of phonologically conditioned allomorphy

Eimear McKnight

V14(1), pp. 88-123

 

On Person-Animacy Hierarchy Effects in Chamorro

James Morley

V15, pp. 196-240

 

Exploring the nature of the syntax-phonology interface: A post-syntactic account of the Old Irish verbal system

Glenda Newton

V4, pp. 1-20

 

Hierarchical Syntax and Domain-Generality: A Review

Dag-Tore Nordbø Kristiansen

V14(2), pp. 165-175

 

Case Contiguity from the Germanic Perspective: Typology, diachrony and reconstruction

Adam Nicholas

V14(2), pp. 71-138

 

Agreeing with nothing: opacity and the implications of the minimalist program for phonology

J. Joseph Perry

V6, pp. 49-62

 

In Search of Russian Seichas ('Now') as the 'Conceptual Spacious Present'

Anastasiia Petrenko

V16, pp. 178-197

 

Asymmetry in Polar Interrogatives: An exploratory work

Valentin Rădulescu

V13, pp. 168-184

 

Shi as a Focus Particle and Exhaustifying Operator in Mandarin Chinese

Fangning Ren

V16, pp. 57-112

 

Making the Implicit Explicit: Language as nature, culture, and structure

Martin Renard

V13, pp. 185-196

 

Negative inversion without negation: On fuck-inversion in British English

Craig Sailor

V10, pp. 88-110

 

On the Potential for Maximising Minimal Means in Transformer Language Models: A Dynamical Systems Perspective

Suchir Salhan

V15, pp. 55-110

 

Linguistics in the Age of Language Models: What Can Cognitively-Inspired Language Models Offer to Linguistic Theory?

Suchir Salhan

V17, pp. 173-209

 

The interrelation between prosodic patterns and phonemic inventory: A comparative study of challenges and learning strategies in early English language acquisition

Julia Schwarz

V10, pp. 111-151

 

The Source and Nature of Conventions in Discourse: An Arabic survey-based study

Sadiya Shahid

V12, pp. 113-125

 

Comparing Chinese-English Bilingual and Heritage Speaker Stroop Effects: Evidence for the BIA+ Model and a Heritage Bilingual Advantage

Grace Shan

V16, pp. 26-56

 

A new take on partial control: defective thematic intervention

Michelle Sheehan

V6, pp. 1-47

 

Syntactic Priming in Child Language: Evidence from CHILDES Database (Squib)

Jinwen Shi

V17, pp. 52-67

 

The semantics and pragmatics of racial and ethnic slurs: Towards a psychologically real contextualist account

Roberto B. Sileo

V11, pp. 86-119

 

Towards a Conceptual-Semantic Model of Cross-Sentential Anaphora

Roberto B. Sileo and Kasia M. Jaszczolt

V13, pp. 62-97

 

Conjunct Case in Insular Scandinavian: A corpus study

Oddur Snorrason

V14(2), pp. 176-192

 

Prosodically-driven morphosyntactic change? Revisiting the history of Chinese disyllabic words

Chenchen Song

V10, pp. 152-196

 

Accelerating Human Translation of Public Health Information into Low-Resource Languages with Machine Translation

Dimitra Stasinou, Theresa Biberauer, Ebele Mọgọ and Andrew Caines

V14(1), pp. 124-144

 

Labelling in Syntax

Richard Stockwell

V9, pp. 130-155

 

Modelling Unnatural Classes of Harmonic Vowels in Substance-Free Phonology

Ariwan Kai Addy Suhairi

V14(1), pp. 145-179

 

Who Moo-ved my Cow? The Lexicalization of Onomatopoeia and Imitative Shift in Mandarin

Arthur Thompson

V9, pp. 246-253

 

The Role of Information Structure on Prenuclear Accents: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Squib)

Xueyun Tian

V17, pp. 94-108

 

Prosody and Syllabic Structure in the Banawá Language

Laísa Tossin

V12, pp. 126-133

 

Phasing out phases and re-relativizing relativized minimality

John Torr

V6, pp. 96-129

 

CP Complements of Er-Nominalisations in English

Matthew Tyler

V13, pp. 98-117

 

Subject agreement and the EPP in Bantu agreeing inversion

Jenneke van der Wal

V6, pp. 201-236

 

Deriving the Final-over-Final Constraint from third factor considerations

George Walkden

V5, pp. 67-72

 

Towards a typology of sibling languages

Mary Ann Walter and Imogen Lemon

V11, pp. 152-162

 

Is the Syntax-Prosody Interaction ‘Unidirectional’?

Melody Wang

V14(1), pp. 242-258

 

The computability and computational complexity of generativity

Jeffery Watumull

V6, pp. 311-329

 

Embodiment Effects in Idiom Processing

T. R. Williamson

V14(1), pp. 180-199

 

A minimalist approach to Jespersen's cycle in Welsh

David Willis

V3, pp. 2-23

 

The geometrical structure of linguistic theory: The case of Russian split scrambling

Thomas Jolyon Wood

V10, pp. 197-236

 

Lexical Ambiguity and Lexicalizations of Punctual Until in the Diachrony of Ancient Greek

Travis Wright

V16, pp. 1-25

 

Psychotypology of Chinese learners of English and its influence on the acquisition of metaphorical expressions: An offline study

Chris Mengying Xia

V10, pp. 237-255

 

A Critical Review of Voice-Space Models (Squib)

Tianze Xu

V17, pp. 22-36

 

Exploring the Effects of Second Language Proficiency on Bilinguals’ Spatio-Temporal Conceptualisation (Squib)

Yushu Yin

V17, pp. 140-156

 

The Role of the Duration Cue and Tonal Contour in Lexical Tone Recognition in Whispered Mandarin Chinese

Yueke Zeng

V16, pp. 113-126

 

A Featural Analysis of Mandarin Classifiers and Plural Morpheme -Men and Its Implications on the Semi-Lexicality of Mandarin Chinese

Fanghua Zheng

V14(2), pp. 139-164