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Recent MITWPL Publications:

Chomsky's Linguistics
Special edition collected works of Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky; editors Peter Graff, Coppe van Urk
MWPL96: Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (#96, 2016) Edited by George Tsoulas
FONG01: Suzana Fong Nominal licensing: the syntactic distribution and number interpretation of bare nominals in Wolof (2021)
LPWP05: Warlpiri Lexicography Group Warlpiri-English Dictionary: Manufacture Section (#5, 1986)
IOVT01: Snejana P. Iovtcheva The Dative Arguments in Bulgarian (2019)
MWPL95: Proceedings of IATL 2021 (#95, 2021) Edited by Noga Syon and Nir Segal
SISO01: Milena Sisovics Embedded Jussives as Instances of Control: The Case of Mongolian and Korean (2018)
LAND01: Idan Landau Elements of Control (1999)
LONG01: Nicholas Longenbaugh On expletives and the agreement-movement correlation (2019)
DEMI02: Ă–mer Demirok Scope Theory Revisited: Lessons from pied-piping in wh-questions (2019)
ZUKO01: Sam Zukoff Indo-European Reduplication: Synchrony, Diachrony, and Theory (2017)
YUAN01: Michelle Yuan Dimensions of ergativity in Inuit : theory and microvariation (2018)
DAVI01: Colin Davis The Linear Limitations of Syntactic Derivations (2020)
NEWM01: Elise Newman The (in)distinction between wh-movement and c-selection (2021)
PRIV01: Dmitry Privoznov A theory of two strong islands (2021)
BANE01: Neil Banerjee On the interaction of portmanteaux and ellipsis (2021)
MWPL94: Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL17) (2024) Edited by Erdene-Ochir Tumen-Ochir, Julia Sinitsyna, and Shigeru Miyagawa
YIPM01: M. J. W. Yip The Tonal Phonology of Chinese (1980)
LEVI02: L. Levin Operations on Lexical Forms: Unaccusative Rules in Germanic Languages (1986)
ROC091: Spring 2023, Volume 9, Number 1 (#91, 2023) Ash Asudeh