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| 2019 | Wurmbrand, Susi und Magdalena Lohninger. 2019. An implicational universal in complementation—Theoretical insights and empirical progress. Submitted to: Hartmann, Jutta M. and Angelika Wöllstein (eds), Propositional Arguments in Cross-Linguistic Research: Theoretical and Empirical Issues. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. | Complementation Implicational universals Finiteness Language variation Selection Clause size |
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| 2019 | Christopoulos, Christos, and Susi Wurmbrand. To appear. Germanic infinitives. In Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics, ed. by Richard Page and Michael Putnam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | ECM Infinitives Restructuring Restructuring hierarchy |
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| 2018 | Wurmbrand, Susi und Wilfried Öller. 2018. Grammatiktheoretische Gedanken zur Ungleichheit von man und frau. Talk given at the Treffpunkt Sprache speaker series, Berlin. | Inklusion, Exklusion Indefinitpronomina |
Slides |
| 2018 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2018. Tagalog tough movement is easy. In Heading in the right direction: Linguistic treats for Lisa Travis, ed. by Laura Kalin, Ileana Paul, and Jozina Vander Klok, 467-478. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 25.1 (Special Issue in Honour of Lisa Travis). | A/A'-distinction Tough movement Raising Control Tagalog Improper movement |
Paper |
| 2018 | Wurmbrand, Susi. To appear. Cross-clausal A-dependencies. In Papers from the 54th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 54). Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, Ill. | A/A'-distinction Hyper ECM Hyper Raising Long distance agreement Prolepsis Clause size |
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| 2018 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2018. Markedness as a condition on feature sharing. In From sounds to structures: Beyond the veil of Maya, ed. by Roberto Petrosino, Pietro Cerrone, and Harry van der Hulst, 432-442. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. | Markedness Fake indexicals Features Agree(ment) |
Link to publisher |
| 2018 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2018. The cost of raising quantifiers. Glossa 31.1: 19. DOI:http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.329 | Quantifier raising QR domains Scope economy Clause size Processing |
Published version |
| 2017 | Öller, Wilfried and Susi Wurmbrand. 2017. Gerne. In Festschrift for Martin Prinzhorn, ed. by Clemens Mayr and Edwin Williams, 219-227. Wiener Linguistische Gazette 82, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien | bitte, gerne Levels of modification Politeness strategies |
Published version |
| 2017 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2017. Icelandic as a partial null subject language—Evidence from fake indexicals. In Order and Structure in Syntax II: Subjecthood and argument structure, ed. by Michelle Sheehan and Laura Bailey, 341-347. Berlin: Language Science Press. | Fake indexicals Null subjects Relative clauses |
Link to open access published book |
| 2017 | Wurmbrand, Susi. Formal and semantic agreement in syntax: A dual feature approach. In: Language Use and Linguistic Structure: Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2016, ed. by Joseph Emonds and Markéta Janebová, 19-36. Olomouc: Palacký University. | Formal, semantic agreement Agreement mismatches Agreement Hierarchy Nominal ellipsis |
Link to published book |
| 2017 | Todorović, Neda and Susi Wurmbrand. Finiteness across domains. To appear in: Current developments in Slavic Linguistics—Twenty years after, ed. by Teodora Radeva-Bork and Peter Kosta: Peter Lang. | Finiteness Restructuring Clause size Types of complementation |
Draft version (2016) |
| 2017 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2017. Stripping and topless complements. Linguistic Inquiry 48.2: 341–366. | Phases Ellipsis Clause size |
Published version (pdf and full text html freely available) |
| 2017 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2017. Feature sharing or how I value my son. In The Pesky Set: Papers for David Pesetsky, ed. by Claire Halpert, Hadas Kotek and Coppe van Urk, 173-182. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics | Fake indexicals Binding Features, feature sharing Agree Markedness Rule H |
Published version |
| 2017 | Wurmbrand, Susi and Koji Shimamura. 2017. The features of the voice domain: actives, passives, and restructuring. In: The verbal domain, ed. by Roberta d'Alessandro, Irene Franco and Ángel Gallego, 179-204. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | Restructuring Long passive Complex predicates Voice domain, little v Passive |
Prepublication version, LingBuzz |
| 2017 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2017. Verb clusters, verb raising, and restructuring. In: The Blackwell Companion to Syntax 2, ed. by Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk. Oxford: Blackwell. | Verb clusters Verb (projection) raising Directionality IPP Language variation |
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| 2017 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2017. Universals and variation in clausal complementation. Talk given at the workshop "Linguistic Knowledge and Patterns of Variation", Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Complementation Restructuring Signature Implicational universals Clause size Language variation |
Slides |
| 2016 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2016. Crossing clauses covertly—difficult but not impossible. In: Proceedings of the North Eastern Linguistics Society Annual Meeting 46 (NELS 46), ed. by Christopher Hammerly and Brandon Prickett, vol. 3, 271-284. Amherst: University of Massachusetts, GLSA. | Quantifier raising Scope economy Clause size Processing |
Published version |
| 2016 | Wurmbrand, Susi and Youssef A. Haddad. 2016. Cyclic Spell-Out Derived Agreement in Arabic Raising Constructions. In: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVIII, 193-226. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. | Agree (upward, reverse) Downward valuation Phases, cyclicity Full, partial agreement |
Prepublication version |
| 2016 | Wurmbrand, Susi. Semantic and formal agreement features—Evidence from nominal ellipsis in German. Talk given at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 49), Naples, Italy.
Girls, glasses, and you — The distribution of formal vs. semantic agreement. Talk given at Generative Grammatik des Südens (GGS), Leipzig, Germany. |
Semantic, formal agreement Agreement mismatches Agreement hierarchy Gender mismatch nouns Polite pronouns Pluralia tantum |
Slides of the GGS talk |
| 2016 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2016. Agreement in nominal ellipsis: Consequences for the Agreement Hierarchy and the direction of Agree. Invited talk given at a workshop on Agreement. Frankfurt, Germany. | Agree systems Case, agreement systems Downward valuation Semantic agreement PF agreement |
Link to workshop
Slides (pdf) |
| 2015 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2015. Complex predicate formation via voice incorporation. In: Approaches to Complex Predicates, ed. by Léa Nash and Pollet Samvelian, 248-290. Leiden: Brill. | Restructuring Language variation Complex predicates Voice domain |
Prepublication version |
| 2015 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2015. Restructuring cross-linguistically. In: Proceedings of the North Eastern Linguistics Society Annual Meeting 45, ed. by Thuy Bui and Deniz Özyıldız, 227-240. Amherst: University of Massachusetts, GLSA. | Restructuring Language variation Clause size Syntactic domains |
Published version, Ling Buzz |
| 2015 | Bobaljik, Jonathan and Susi Wurmbrand. 2015. Questions with declarative syntax tell us what about selection? In: 50 Years Later: Reflections on Chomsky's Aspects, ed. by Ángel J. Gallego and Dennis Ott, 13-32. MITWPL. | Wh-in-situ Agree (upward, reverse) Downward valuation |
Published version |
| 2015 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2015. Does gender depend on number? Snippets 30: 14-16. | Features | Published version |
| 2014 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2014. Tense and aspect in English infinitives. Linguistic Inquiry 45.3: 403-447.
doi: 10.1162/LING_a_00161 |
Tense Infinitives Clause size |
Published version, © 2014 Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2014 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2014. Restructuring across the world. In: Complex Visibles Out There. Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2014: Language Use and Linguistic Structure, ed. by Ludmila Veselovská and Markéta Janebová, 275-294. Olomouc: Palacký University. | Restructuring Language variation Clause size Syntactic domains |
Published version |
| 2014 | Alexiadou, Artemis, Elena Anagnostopoulou, and Susi Wurmbrand. 2014. Movement vs. long distance Agree in raising: Disappearing phases and feature valuation. In: Proceedings of the North Eastern Linguistics Society Annual Meeting 43 (NELS 43), ed. by Hsin-Lun Huang, Ethan Poole and Amanda Rysling, 1-12. Amherst: University of Massachusetts, GLSA. | Phases Phase extension Agree (upward, reverse) (Backward) Raising |
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| 2014 | Shimamura, Koji and Susi Wurmbrand. 2014. Two types of restructuring in Japanese—Evidence from scope and binding. In: Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics: Proceedings of FAJL 7, 203-214. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. | Restructuring Complex predicates Lexical, functional Anti-reconstruction |
Published version |
| 2014 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2014. The Merge Condition: A syntactic approach to selection. In: Minimalism and Beyond: Radicalizing the interfaces, ed. by Peter Kosta, Lilia Schürcks, Steven Franks, and Teodora Radev-Bork, 139–177. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. | Merge Selection T-to-C movement, V2 Spell-Out, Transfer |
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| 2013 | Bobaljik, Jonathan and Susi Wurmbrand. 2013. Suspension across domains. In: Distributed Morphology Today—Morphemes for Morris Halle, ed. by Ora Matushansky and Alec Marantz, 185-198. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. | Locality domains Phase extension Morphology, syntax |
Published version |
| 2013 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2013. QR and selection: Covert evidence for phasehood. In: Proceedings of the North Eastern Linguistics Society Annual Meeting 42 (NELS 42), ed. by Stefan Keine and Shayne Sloggett, 619-632. Amherst: University of Massachusetts, GLSA. | Quantifier raising QR domains Phase extension Control, raising |
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| 2012 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2012. Parasitic participles: Evidence for the theory of verb clusters. Taal en Tongval 64.1: 129-156. | Agree (upward, reverse) Downward valuation Verb clusters Morphological selection |
Published version,
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| 2012 | Bobaljik, Jonathan and Susi Wurmbrand. 2012. Word order and scope: Transparent interfaces and the 3/4 signature. Linguistic Inquiry 43.3: 371-421.
doi: 10.1162/LING_a_00094 |
Quantifier raising Scope rigidity PF-LF isomorphism, LF first Reconstruction |
Published version, © 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2012 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2012. The syntax of valuation in auxiliary–participle constructions. In: Coyote Working Papers: Proceedings of the 29th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 29), ed. by Jaehoon Choi et al., 154-162. University of Arizona, Tucson. | Agree (upward, reverse) Downward valuation Morphological selection Participles |
Prepublication version |
| 2012 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2012. Agree(ment): Looking up or looking down? Lecture given in Agreement Seminar, MIT. | Agree (upward, reverse) Downward valuation Ellipsis Parasitic morphology Morphological selection Semantic agreement Raising |
Handout |
| 2012 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2012. The timing of Merge: Deriving certain clause-linking mismatches. Talk given at a Workshop on (Mis)matches in clause linkage, ZAS, Berlin, Germany. | Embedded root phenomena Clausal integration Merge at Transfer |
Handout |
| 2010 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2010. Reconstructing the A/A'-distinction in reconstruction. In: Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 16.1: Proceedings of the 33rd annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, ed. by Jon Scott Stevens, Article 27, 245-254. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. | Reconstruction Quantifier raising Scope rigidity PF-LF isomorphism, LF first |
UPenn repository |
| 2008 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2008. Nor: Neither disjunction nor paradox. Linguistic Inquiry 39.3: 511-522.
doi:10.1162/ling.2008.39.3.511 |
Neither, nor Conjunction Disjunction |
Published version, © 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2008 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2008. Word order and scope in German. In: Groninger Arbeiten zur germanistischen Linguistik 46, 89-110. | Quantifier raising Scope rigidity Syntactic, semantic reconstruction | Published version |
| 2008 | Bobaljik, Jonathan and Susi Wurmbrand. 2008. Case in GB/Minimalism. In: Handbook of Case, ed. by Andrej Malchukov and Andrew Spencer, 44-58. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | Case Overview article |
Prepublication version |
| 2007 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2007. Back to the future—Part 2. Snippets 14: 12-13. | Tense | Published version |
| 2007 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2007. How complex are complex predicates. Syntax 10: 243-288. | Restructuring VP vs. complex heads Adjacency |
Prepublication version, Link to published version |
| 2007 | Bobaljik, Jonathan and Susi Wurmbrand. 2007. Complex predicates, aspect, and anti-reconstruction. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 16.1: 27-42. | Restructuring Reconstruction VP vs. complex heads Aspect |
Link to published version |
| 2006 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2006. Licensing Case. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 18.3: 175-236. | Case via Agree EPP Low subjects VP-external licensing |
Published version |
| 2005 | Bobaljik, Jonathan and Susi Wurmbrand. 2005. Adjacency, PF, and extraposition. In: Organizing Grammar: Linguistic Studies in Honor of Henk van Riemsdijk, ed. by Hans Broekhuis, Norbert Corver, Riny Huybregts, Ursula Kleinhenz, and Jan Koster, 679-688. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. | Verb clusters Extraposition VP vs. complex heads Adjacency |
Published version |
| 2005 | Bobaljik, Jonathan and Susi Wurmbrand 2005. The domain of agreement. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 23.4: 809-865. | Locality domains Agree vs. Move Anti-reconstruction |
Link to published version |
| 2005 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2005. Verb clusters, verb raising, and restructuring. In: The Blackwell Companion to Syntax, ed. by Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk, Volume V, Article 75, 227-341. Oxford: Blackwell. | Verb clusters Directionality IPP Verb (projection) raising |
Published version
New version (prepublication) |
| 2004 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2004. Two types of restructuring: Lexical vs. functional. Lingua 114.8: 991-1014. | Restructuring Clausal architecture Functional domain |
Link to published version |
| 2004 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2004. West Germanic verb clusters: The empirical domain. In Verb clusters: A study of Hungarian, German, and Dutch, ed. by Katalin É. Kiss and Henk van Riemsdijk, 43-85. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. | Verb clusters Language variation Verb (projection) raising |
Published version |
| 2004 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2004. Syntactic vs. post-syntactic movement. In Proceedings of the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA), ed. by Sophie Burelle and Stanca Somesfalean, 284-295. | Verb clusters PF linearization Word order variation |
Published version |
| 2004 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2004. No TP-fronting meets Nearly Headless Nick. Ms. University of Connecticut. | Topicalization vP/VP fronting Definiteness |
Paper |
| 2002 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2002. Syntactic vs. semantic control. In Studies in comparative Germanic syntax, ed. by Jan-Wouter Zwart and Werner Abraham, 95-129. Amsterdam: Benjamins. | Control PRO-less infinitives Restructuring Clause size |
Prepublication version |
| 2002 | Bobaljik, Jonathan and Susi Wurmbrand. 2002. Notes on agreement in Itelmen. Linguistic Discovery 1.1. | Agreement Discourse prominence Multiple exponence |
Published version |
| 2002 | Bobaljik, Jonathan and Susi Wurmbrand. 2002. Seven prefix-suffix asymmetries in Itelmen. In Papers from the 37th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS 37). | Agreement | Prepublication version |
| 2001 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2001. Back to the future. Snippets 3: 15-16. | Tense | Published version |
| 2001 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2001. Infinitives: Restructuring and clause structure. Mouton de Gruyter (Studies in Generative Grammar 55). | Restructuring Infinitives |
Table of contents
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| 2000 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 2000. The structure(s) of particle verbs. Ms., McGill University. | Particle verbs Idiomatic and transparent particles |
Paper |
| 1999 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 1999. Modal verbs must be raising verbs. In: Proceedings of the 18th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL18). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. | Modals Raising, control |
Published version |
| 1999 | Bobaljik, Jonathan and Susi Wurmbrand. 1999. Modals, raising, and A-reconstruction. Talk given at Leiden University, the Netherlands. | A-reconstruction Scope trapping Modals Raising, control |
Handout |
| 1998 | Wurmbrand, Susi. 1998. Heads or Phrases? Particles in Particular. In: Phonology and morphology of the Germanic languages, ed. by Richard Wiese and Wolfgang Kehrein, 267-296. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. | Particle verbs Separable/non-separable prefixes |
Published version |
The following recent talks are posted there:
SinFonIJA: A synthesis model of complementation. Invited plenary speaker at SinFonIJA 12, Brno, Czech Republic (September 2019).
MMM: (with Iva Kovač, Magdalena Lohninger, Caroline Pajančič, Neda Todorović). Finiteness in South Slavic complement clauses: Evidence for an implicational finiteness universal. Workshop on the Morphology of South Slavic languages, Ljubljana, Slovenia (June 2019).
Parameters workshop: (with Magdalena Lohninger). Implicational hierarchies in the domain of complementation. Invited plenary speaker at Parameters Workshop in Honour of Lisa Travis, Montréal (May 2019).
CamCoS: Phases in cross-clausal A-dependencies. Invited plenary speaker at Rethinking Comparative Syntax, CamCoS8, Cambridge, UK (May 2019).
DISCO: Thoughts on uniformity, covariance, and fake indexicals. Invited speaker at Dependency in Syntactic Covariance (DiSCO), Leipzig, Germany (April 2019).