Publications

Article in Journals (Refereed)

“Existential Incorporation Constructions” in press. To appear in Lingua.

“Still a Preposition: The Category of ko” (with Josephine Lee and Nicholas Rolle) in Te Reo: Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand 49:3-38. 2006

"On the Edge of Grammar: Discourse Particles in Niuean" (with Donna Starks and Ofania Ikiua) Oceanic Linguistics 45.1:191-205. 2006.

"Number and Events: Verbal Reduplication in Niuean" (with Mohammad Haji Abdolhosseini and Kenji Oda) Oceanic Linguistics 41.2:475-492. 2002.

"Pseudo Noun Incorporation in Niuean", Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 19:1:153-197. 2001.

"Possession in Niuean" (with Wolfgang Sperlich) in Steven Fischer, ed. Possessive Markers in Central Pacific Languages: Thematic volume of Language Typology and Universals (Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung). pp. 281-292. 2000.

"Thing-is Constructions: The thing is, is what's the right analysis" English Language and Linguistics 3.2:335-352. 1999.

"Multiple Case Checking" (with S. Bejar), Syntax: A Journal of Theoretical, Experimental and Interdisciplinary Research, 2.2:65-79. 1999.

"Instrumental aki and the Nature of Niuean Transitivity" Oceanic Linguistics: 37.1:12-28. 1998.

"Lexical/Syntactic Relations Without Projection" (with Jila Ghomeshi) Linguistic Analysis 24.3-4:175-217. 1994.

"The Licensing of Genitives" Linguistica Atlantica 15:115-129. 1994.

"Null Objects and Nonthematic Subjects" The Journal of Linguistics 28:115-137. 1992.

"Cognate Objects as Thematic Objects" The Canadian Journal of Linguistics 35.2:161-190. 1990.

"Predicate Argument Structure in Haitian Creole" Revue quebecoise de linguistique 18.2: 95-130. 1989.

"Recipe Context Null Objects in English" (with Y. Roberge) Linguistic Inquiry 20.1:134-139. 1989.

"Haitian Creole Syntax: A Case for DET as Head" (with C. Lefebvre) Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 3.2:213-243. 1988.

"Case Theory and the Projection Principle: dissertation abstract" The Linguistic Review 5:377-390. 1986.

Chapters in books (Refereed)

"Patterns of Phrasal Movement: The Niuean DP" (with Arsalan Kahnemuyipour). in Hans-Martin Gaertner, Paul Law and Joachim Sabel, eds. Clause Structure and Adjuncts in Austronesian Languages. Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 125-150. 2006.

"Neither Absolutive nor Ergative is Nominative or Accusative" in Alana Johns, Diane Massam, and Juvenal Ndayiragije, eds., Ergativity: Emerging Issues (eds.) Kluwer Press. pp. 27-46. 2006.

"Predicate Fronting and Lexical Category in Niuean" in Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley, and Sheila Dooley-Colburg, eds. Verb First: Studies in Predicate Initial Languages John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 227-242. 2005.

"On Predication and the Status of Subjects in Niuean" in William Davies and Stanley Dubinsky eds. Objects and Other Subjects Amsterdam: Kluwer Publishing. pp. 225-246. 2001.

"VSO is VOS: Aspects of Niuean Word Order" in Andrew Carnie and Eithne Guilfoyle, eds. The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages, Oxford U. Press. pp. 97-117. 2000.

"Introduction" to Arguments and Structure in Austronesian Languages in Canadian Journal of Linguistics 43(3/4):275-281. 1998.

"Operator-Bound Clitics and Niuean ai" (with Yves Roberge) in Black, Jim and Virginia
Motapanyane, eds., Clitics, Pronouns and Movement Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 140 John Benjamins Ltd. Amsterdam and Philadelphia. pp. 273-300. 1997.

"Raising and Binding in Niuean" (with J. Levin) in D. McGinn, ed. Studies in Austronesian Linguistics Ohio University, Athens. pp. 253-274. 1988.

Edited Volumes (Refereed)

Ergativity: Emerging Issues (with Alana Johns and Juvenal Ndayiragije) Edited volume. Springer Press. 2006. (368 pp.)

Arguments and Structure in Austronesian Languages Thematic double issue of the Canadian Journal of Linguistics 43 (3/4). (with Barry Miller) 1998.

Selected Non-Refereed Publications

“Review of Chung, Sandra and William Ladusaw 2004 Restriction and Saturation in Journal of Linguistics” 42: 713-716. 2006.

• “Niuean Determiners: Everywhere and Nowhere” (with Colin Gorrie and Alexandra Kellner) in ed. Claire Gurski and Milica Radisic, 16 pages. The Proceedings of the 2006 Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Conference, http://ling.uwo.ca/publications/CLA2006/Massam.pdf

“The dog, the moon, The Hague, and Canada. (with Jila Ghomeshi) In Proceedings of the 2005 Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Conference, ed. Claire Gurski, (12 pages). http://ling.uwo.ca/publications/CLA-ACL/CLA-ACL2005.htm. 2005.

"Genitive Relative Constructions in Polynesian" (with Jonathon Herd and Catherine MacDonald) In Proceedings of the 2004 Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Conference, ed. Marie-Odile Junker, Martha McGinnis and Yves Roberge, 12 pages. http://www.carleton.ca/~mojunker/ACL-CLA/ 2004.

"Fully Internal Case: Surface Ergativity can be Profound" in A. Rackowski and N. Richards eds. Proceedings of AFLA 8, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Cambridge, Massachusetts. pp. 185-196. 2002.

"Subjects and Predicates in Niuean" in Wolfgang Sperlich and Stephen Fischer, eds. Leo Pasifika, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics, Niue Island. Institute for Polynesian Languages and Literatures, Auckland, New Zealand. pp. 218-232. 2000. (non-refereed)

"Niuean Nominalization" in Marian Klamer, ed. Proceedings of AFLA 7: The seventh meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. pp. 121-132. 2000.

"Essential Features of Predication in Niuean and English" (with Carolyn Smallwood) in K. Kusumoto, ed. Proceedings of NELS 27, GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. pp. 236-272. 1996.

"Middles, Tough and Recipe Context Constructions in English" in J. Blevins and J.
Carter, eds. NELS 18. GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. pp. 315-332. 1988.

"Classification of Niuean Verbs: Notes on Case" (jointly with J. Levin) in P. Geraghty, et al. eds. Focal 1: Papers from the fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics Research School of Pacific Studies, Canberra. pp. 231-244. 1986. (non-refereed)

"Surface Ergativity: Case/Theta Relations Reexamined" (jointly with J. Levin) in S. Berman, et al., eds. NELS 15. GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. pp. 286-301. 1985.

"Raising an Exceptional Case" in J. Drogo, V. Mishra, D. Testen, eds. Papers from the 20th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society University of Chicago. pp. 281-300. 1984.

"Some Notes on the Quantifier Oti in Niuean" Rongorongo Studies: A Forum for studies in Polynesian Philology 12.2:56-65. ed. Stephen Fischer, Auckland N.Z. 2002. (invited submission)

"The Morphology of Irish Mutation" in I. Haïk and D. Massam, eds. Papers in Grammatical Theory: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics Vol. 5. 1983

Case Theory and the Projection Principle Ph.D. thesis, (advisor: Noam Chomsky) 1985, Published by MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, MIT, Cambridge






		Article in Journals (Refereed) “Existential Incorporation Constructions” in press. To appear in Lingua. “Still a Preposition: The Category of ko” (with Josephine Lee and Nicholas Rolle) in Te Reo: Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand 49:3-38. 2006 "On the Edge of Grammar: Discourse Particles in Niuean" (with Donna Starks and Ofania Ikiua) Oceanic Linguistics 45.1:191-205. 2006. "Number and Events: Verbal Reduplication in Niuean" (with Mohammad Haji Abdolhosseini and Kenji Oda) Oceanic Linguistics 41.2:475-492. 2002. "Pseudo Noun Incorporation in Niuean", Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 19:1:153-197. 2001. "Possession in Niuean" (with Wolfgang Sperlich) in Steven Fischer, ed. Possessive Markers in Central Pacific Languages: Thematic volume of Language Typology and Universals (Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung). pp. 281-292. 2000. "Thing-is Constructions: The thing is, is what's the right analysis" English Language and Linguistics 3.2:335-352. 1999. "Multiple Case Checking" (with S. Bejar), Syntax: A Journal of Theoretical, Experimental and Interdisciplinary Research, 2.2:65-79. 1999. "Instrumental aki and the Nature of Niuean Transitivity" Oceanic Linguistics: 37.1:12-28. 1998. "Lexical/Syntactic Relations Without Projection" (with Jila Ghomeshi) Linguistic Analysis 24.3-4:175-217. 1994. "The Licensing of Genitives" Linguistica Atlantica 15:115-129. 1994. "Null Objects and Nonthematic Subjects" The Journal of Linguistics 28:115-137. 1992. "Cognate Objects as Thematic Objects" The Canadian Journal of Linguistics 35.2:161-190. 1990. "Predicate Argument Structure in Haitian Creole" Revue quebecoise de linguistique 18.2: 95-130. 1989. "Recipe Context Null Objects in English" (with Y. Roberge) Linguistic Inquiry 20.1:134-139. 1989. "Haitian Creole Syntax: A Case for DET as Head" (with C. Lefebvre) Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 3.2:213-243. 1988. "Case Theory and the Projection Principle: dissertation abstract" The Linguistic Review 5:377-390. 1986. Chapters in books (Refereed) "Patterns of Phrasal Movement: The Niuean DP" (with Arsalan Kahnemuyipour). in Hans-Martin Gaertner, Paul Law and Joachim Sabel, eds. Clause Structure and Adjuncts in Austronesian Languages. Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 125-150. 2006. "Neither Absolutive nor Ergative is Nominative or Accusative" in Alana Johns, Diane Massam, and Juvenal Ndayiragije, eds., Ergativity: Emerging Issues (eds.) Kluwer Press. pp. 27-46. 2006. "Predicate Fronting and Lexical Category in Niuean" in Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley, and Sheila Dooley-Colburg, eds. Verb First: Studies in Predicate Initial Languages John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 227-242. 2005. "On Predication and the Status of Subjects in Niuean" in William Davies and Stanley Dubinsky eds. Objects and Other Subjects Amsterdam: Kluwer Publishing. pp. 225-246. 2001. "VSO is VOS: Aspects of Niuean Word Order" in Andrew Carnie and Eithne Guilfoyle, eds. The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages, Oxford U. Press. pp. 97-117. 2000. "Introduction" to Arguments and Structure in Austronesian Languages in Canadian Journal of Linguistics 43(3/4):275-281. 1998. "Operator-Bound Clitics and Niuean ai" (with Yves Roberge) in Black, Jim and Virginia Motapanyane, eds., Clitics, Pronouns and Movement Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 140 John Benjamins Ltd. Amsterdam and Philadelphia. pp. 273-300. 1997. "Raising and Binding in Niuean" (with J. Levin) in D. McGinn, ed. Studies in Austronesian Linguistics Ohio University, Athens. pp. 253-274. 1988. Edited Volumes (Refereed) Ergativity: Emerging Issues (with Alana Johns and Juvenal Ndayiragije) Edited volume. Springer Press. 2006. (368 pp.) Arguments and Structure in Austronesian Languages Thematic double issue of the Canadian Journal of Linguistics 43 (3/4). (with Barry Miller) 1998. Selected Non-Refereed Publications “Review of Chung, Sandra and William Ladusaw 2004 Restriction and Saturation in Journal of Linguistics” 42: 713-716. 2006. • “Niuean Determiners: Everywhere and Nowhere” (with Colin Gorrie and Alexandra Kellner) in ed. Claire Gurski and Milica Radisic, 16 pages. The Proceedings of the 2006 Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Conference, http://ling.uwo.ca/publications/CLA2006/Massam.pdf “The dog, the moon, The Hague, and Canada. (with Jila Ghomeshi) In Proceedings of the 2005 Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Conference, ed. Claire Gurski, (12 pages). http://ling.uwo.ca/publications/CLA-ACL/CLA-ACL2005.htm. 2005. "Genitive Relative Constructions in Polynesian" (with Jonathon Herd and Catherine MacDonald) In Proceedings of the 2004 Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Conference, ed. Marie-Odile Junker, Martha McGinnis and Yves Roberge, 12 pages. http://www.carleton.ca/~mojunker/ACL-CLA/ 2004. "Fully Internal Case: Surface Ergativity can be Profound" in A. Rackowski and N. Richards eds. Proceedings of AFLA 8, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Cambridge, Massachusetts. pp. 185-196. 2002. "Subjects and Predicates in Niuean" in Wolfgang Sperlich and Stephen Fischer, eds. Leo Pasifika, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics, Niue Island. Institute for Polynesian Languages and Literatures, Auckland, New Zealand. pp. 218-232. 2000. (non-refereed) "Niuean Nominalization" in Marian Klamer, ed. Proceedings of AFLA 7: The seventh meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. pp. 121-132. 2000. "Essential Features of Predication in Niuean and English" (with Carolyn Smallwood) in K. Kusumoto, ed. Proceedings of NELS 27, GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. pp. 236-272. 1996. "Middles, Tough and Recipe Context Constructions in English" in J. Blevins and J. Carter, eds. NELS 18. GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. pp. 315-332. 1988. "Classification of Niuean Verbs: Notes on Case" (jointly with J. Levin) in P. Geraghty, et al. eds. Focal 1: Papers from the fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics Research School of Pacific Studies, Canberra. pp. 231-244. 1986. (non-refereed) "Surface Ergativity: Case/Theta Relations Reexamined" (jointly with J. Levin) in S. Berman, et al., eds. NELS 15. GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. pp. 286-301. 1985. "Raising an Exceptional Case" in J. Drogo, V. Mishra, D. Testen, eds. Papers from the 20th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society University of Chicago. pp. 281-300. 1984. "Some Notes on the Quantifier Oti in Niuean" Rongorongo Studies: A Forum for studies in Polynesian Philology 12.2:56-65. ed. Stephen Fischer, Auckland N.Z. 2002. (invited submission) "The Morphology of Irish Mutation" in I. Haïk and D. Massam, eds. 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