Books Available on Amazon

(2006) The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, co-edited by Ljiljana Progovac, Kate Paesani, Eugenia Casielles and Ellen Barton. Pages: ix + 372. Linguistik Aktuell (LA) 93. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.

(2005) A Syntax of Serbian: Clausal Architecture, pp. 245. Slavica Publishers, Bloomington, Indiana.

(1994) Negative and Positive Polarity: A Binding Approach, pp. 168. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 68. Cambridge University Press.

(1994) Proceedings of MIT Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, co-edited by Sergey Avrutin, Steven Franks and Ljiljana Progovac. Michigan Slavic Publications, Ann Arbor.

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

In Press. “Compounds and commands in the evolution of human language.” Theoria et Historia Scientiarum IX: 49-71.

In Press. “Protosyntax: A thetic (unaccusative) stage.” Joint paper with Eugenia Casielles as first author. Theoria et Historia Scientiarum IX: 29-48.

(2010) “Syntax: Its Evolution and Its Representation in the Brain.” Biolinguistics 4.2-3, 233-254.

(2009) “Sex and Syntax: Subjacency Revisited.” Biolinguistics 3.2-3, 305-336.

(2009) “The Urge to Merge: Ritual Insult and the Evolution of Syntax.” Joint paper with John L. Locke as second author. Biolinguistics, 3.2-3, 337-354.(2002)

(2009) "Correlative Conjunctions and Events: A Reply to a Reply." Syntax: A Journal of Theoretical, Experimental and Interdisciplinary Research, 5.3, 277-283.

(1999) “Events and Economy of Coordination.” Syntax: A Journal of Theoretical, Experimental and Interdisciplinary Research, 2.2., 141-159.

(1998) "Determiner Phrase in a Language without Determiners." Journal of Linguistics, 34.1, 165-179.

(1998) “Structure for Coordination, Part 1,” State-of-the-Articles. Glot International 3.7, 3-6 (newspaper format).

(1998) “Structure for Coordination, Part 2,” State-of-the-Articles. Glot International 3.8, 3-9 (newspaper format).

Book Chapters

(2010) “Imperative in Compounds: Implications for Historical and Evolutionary Studies.” In Development of Language through the Lens of Formal Linguistics, 137-145, ed. by Petr Karlík. Munich: Lincom Europe.

(2010) “When Clauses Refuse to be Recursive: An Evolutionary Perspective.” In Recursion and Human Language, ed. by Harry van der Hulst, 193-211. The Hague: Mouton.

(2009) “Layering of Grammar: Vestiges of Proto-Syntax in Present-Day Languages.” In Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable, ed. by Geoffrey Sampson, David Gil and Peter Trudgill, 203-212. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

(2006) “The Syntax of Nonsententials: Small Clauses and Phrases at the Root.” In The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidisciplinary Perspectives,” 33-71, co-edited by Progovac, Paesani, Casielles and Barton. Benjamins, Amsterdam.

(2006) “Epilogue: Wherefrom and Whereto?” 323-353, co-authored by the editors of The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidisciplinary Perspectives:” Progovac, Paesani, Casielles and Barton. Benjamins, Amsterdam.

(2005) “Nonsententials in Minimalism.” Co-authored with Ellen Barton as first author. Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech, 71-93, edited by Ray Elugardo and Robert J. Stainton. New York: Springer.

(2005) "Negative and Positive Feature Checking and the Distribution of Polarity Items." Negation in Slavic, edited by Sue Brown and Adam Przepiórkowski, 179-217. Slavica Publishers, Bloomington, Indiana.

(2000) “Where do Clitics Cluster?” Clitic Phenomena in European Languages, 249-258, edited by Frits Beukema and Marcel den Dikken. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.

(2000) "Coordination, C-command, and Logophoric N-words." Studies on Negation and Polarity, 88-114, edited by Laurence Horn and Yasuhiko Kato. Oxford University Press.

Papers Published in Conference Proceedings

(2010) “On protolinguistic ‘fossils:’ Subject-verb vs. verb-subject structures.” Joint paper with Eugenia Casielles as first author. In Andrew D. M. Smith, Marieke Schouwstra, Bart de Boer, and Kenny Smith, eds., The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference (EVOLANG8), 66-73. New Jersey: World Scientific.

(2009) “What is There When Little Words are not There: Possible Implications for Evolutionary Studies.” In Ronald P. Leow, Héctor Campos & Donna Lardiere (eds.), Little Words: Their History, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Acquisition, 99-108. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

(2008) “Root Small Clauses with Unaccusative verbs.” Proceedings of FASL (Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics) 16, 359-373. Editors: Andrei Antonenko, John F. Bailyn, and Christina Y. Bethin. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications.

(2008) “What Use is Half a Clause?” Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference, Barcelona, Spain, March 12-15, pp. 259-266. Editors: Andrew Smith, Kenneth Smith, and Ramon Ferrer i Cancho. New Jersey: World Scientific.

(2002) "Aspect Phrases, Perfective Prefixes and Congruent Prepositional Phrases in Serbian." Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 10: The Second Ann Arbor Meeting 2001, 201-221, edited by Jindřich Toman. Michigan Slavic Publications, Ann Arbor.