Recent and forthcoming papers by Ray Jackendoff

 

     The faculty of language: What’s special about it? With Steven Pinker

     Cognition 95, 201-236 (2005).


     The Nature of the Language Faculty and its Implications for Evolution of Language

     (Reply to Fitch, Hauser, & Chomsky) With Steven Pinker. In press, Cognition.

 

     The capacity for music: What is it, and what’s special about it?

     With Fred Lerdahl. Under review, Cognition.


     The semantic basis of control, with Peter Culicover.

     Language 79, 517-556 (2003).


     Precis of Foundations of Language, with peer commentary and

     response. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26, 651-707.

 

English particle constructions, the lexicon, and the autonomy of syntax.

     In Nicole Dehe, Ray Jackendoff, Andrew McIntyre, and Silke Urban

     (eds.), Verb-Particle Explorations, Mouton de Gruyter, 2002.

 

Focus reduplication in English (the salad-salad paper), with Jila

     Ghomeshi, Nicole Rosen, and Kevin Russell.

     Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 22, 307-357 (2004).   

     Corpus of examples of focus reduplication construction


     Construction after construction, under review by Natural Language

     and Linguistic Theory

 

The English resultative as a family of constructions, with Adele Goldberg, Language 80, 532-568 (2004)

 

Outline/handout for talk: The structure of language: Why it matters to education


     Outline/handout for talk: Alternative minimalist visions of language