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• To appear. Rebecca Tollan & Lauren Clemens. Syntactic ergativity as a processing-based constraint against crossing dependencies. To appear in Linguistic Inquiry.
• 2021. Clemens, Lauren & Lee Bickmore. The role of attachment height in explaining prosodic phrasing in Rutooro. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 39: 803-842.
• 2021. Clemens, Lauren & Rebecca Tollan. Syntactic ergativity as absolutive movement in Tongic Polynesian. In L. Clemens and D/ Massam (eds.) Polynesian syntax and its interfaces, 89-112. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• 2021. Clemens, Lauren. The use of prosody as a diagnostic for syntactic structure: The case of verb-initial order. In V. Lee-Schoenfeld & D. Ott (eds.) VP-fronting, Oxford University Press, Studies in Comparative Syntax, 63-95. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• 2021. Clemens, Lauren & Diane Massam. Polynesian languages and their contributions to theoretical linguistics. In L. Clemens and D. Massam (eds.) Polynesian syntax and its interfaces, 1-10. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• ​2019. Clemens, Lauren. Prosodic noun incorporation: The relationship between prosody and argument structure in Niuean. Syntax 22(4): 337–377.
• 2019. Clemens, Lauren. Mayan Languages. In D. Siddiqi, M. Barrie, C. Gillon, J. Haugen, & E. Mathieu (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages, 365-396. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. 

• 2018. Clemens, Lauren & Jessica Coon. Deriving verb-initial word order in Mayan. Language 94.2: 237-280.
• 2018. Clemens, Lauren. Niuean nākai as a negative verb: Implications for the derivation of V1 order. In Festschrift in Honor of Lisa DeMena Travis. Montreal: McGill Working Papers in Linguistics, 78-90.

• 2017. Becker, Michael, Lauren Clemens & Andrew Nevins. Generalization of French and Portuguese Plural Alternations and Initial Syllable Protection, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 35: 299-345.
• 2017. Clemens, Lauren & Maria Polinsky. VSO and VOS Word Order, Primarily in Austronesian and Mayan Languages. In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, 2nd edition, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell.​

• 2016. Clemens, Lauren. ARGUMENT-φ: A Prosodic Account of Pseudo Noun Incorporation. In Proceedings of the 46th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society: 217-226. 

• 2015. Clemens, Lauren, Jessica Coon, Pedro Mateo Pedro, Adam Morgan, Maria Polinsky, Gabrielle Tandet, & Matt Wagers, Ergativity and the complexity of extraction: A view from Mayan. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 33: 417-467.