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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.
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