Complete CV

Dissertation

• Clemens, Lauren. Prosodic noun incorporation: The relationship between prosody and argument structure in Niuean.  To Appear in Syntax.
• Clemens, Lauren. Mayan Languages. To Appear in the Routledge Handbook of North American Languages, 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