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Snippets will publish two issues per year.

Editorial Board

Itai Bassi (ZAS and Ben Gurion University)
Gary Thoms (New York University)

Issue 47 – January 2025

   1. Shubham Bokade, Gurujegan Murugesan – Empirical evidence for switch reference involving Agree(ment)
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2024-047-bomu
   2. Imke Driemel, Abigail Anne Bimpeh, Reginald Duah – Resumption as a novel DP/NP diagnostic
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2024-047-drbd
   3. Diego Feinmann – On breaking symmetry by complexity
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2024-047-fein
   4. Pasha Koval – An indicative null C in Russian, they said. But it is a slifting parenthetical
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2024-047-kova
   5. Jéssica Mendes – Against the blocking approach to the Bagel Problem
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2024-047-mend

Issue 46 – June 2024

  1. Andrew Carnie – Inalienable interpretation in attributive possession
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2024-046-carn
  2. Daniel Greeson – Raising, uncased
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2024-046-gree
  3. J. Joseph Perry – Agreement resolution in ditransitives: An undiscussed pattern from Sampang
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2024-046-perr

Issue 45 – December 2023

  1. Diego Feinmann – Ignorance is a problem
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2023-045-fein
  2. Matthew Tyler – Passives and from-phrases in English
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2023-045-tyle

Issue 44 – March 2023

  1. Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine – Can parasitic scope-taking movement be pronounced?
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2023-044-erle
  2. Sampson Korsah, Augustina Pokua Owusu, and Comfort Ahenkorah – On unexpected exceptions to prosodic vacuity and verbal resumption in Akan
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2023-044-kooa
  3. Brian Rabern and Patrick Todd – A puzzle about scope for restricted deontic modals
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2023-044-rato

Issue 43 – October 2022

  1. Jeremy Kuhn, David Nicolas, and Brian Buccola – Deriving dimensions of comparison
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2022-043-knbu
  2. Andrew Murphy – Parasitic gaps diagnose A-movement in quotative and locative inversion
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2022-043-murp
  3. Qiuhao Charles Yan – The structure of SAY verbs and temporal modification
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2022-043-yan1

Issue 42 – April 2022

  1. Zhuo Chen – A note on Logical Integrity
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2022-042-chen
2. Keng Ji Chow – A novel algorithm for minimal search
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2022-042-chow

Issue 41 – July 2021

   1. Abigail Anne Bimpeh and Frank Sode – Not all occurrences of logophoric pronouns are bound by a logophoric operator: The case of Ewe
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2021-041-biso
   2. Hagen Blix and Adina Williams – Pitch and causal inference in English temporal adverbial answers
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2021-041-blwi

Issue 40 – January 2021

   1. Paul Marty – A note on Schlenker’s Translucency
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2021-040-mart
   2. Carlos Muñoz Pérez – Island effects with infinitival hanging topics
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2021-040-muno
   3. Rint Sybesma – Raise is rise+v (rather than rise+Voice)
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2021-040-sybe

Issue 39 – July 2020

   1. Aurore Gonzalez and Karoliina Lohiniva – Exclusivity in unconditionals
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2020-039-golo
   2. Natasha Korotkova – Interrogative flip and indexical shift are distinct phenomena
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2020-039-koro
   3. Jon Ander Mendia – Competing for oddnes
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2020-039-mend
   4. Brian Rabern – Might generics
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2020-039-rabe
   5. Eszter Ronai and Laura Stigliano – NP ellipsis bleeds allomorphy in Hungarian
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2020-039-rost

Issue 38 – February 2020

   1. Maayan Abenina-Adar and Yael Sharvit – Alternative interrogatives and Negative Polarity Items
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2020-038-aash
   2. George Balabanian, Justin Case, and Dennis Ott – Sluicing bleeds differential object marking in Western Armenian
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2020-038-baco
   3. Zhuo Chen – A problem for the even theory of dou in Mandarin Chinese
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2020-038-chen
   4. Takayuki Kimura – Argument ellipsis in Left Node Raising in Japanese
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2020-038-kimu
   5. Marie-Luise Schwarzer – Backward gapping is not RNR: Evidence from Determiner Sharing
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2020-038-schw
   6. Sandhya Sundaresan – A curious A/Ā non-interaction in Tamil double-object constructions
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2020-038-sund

Issue 37 – December 2019
Special issue in honor of Uli Sauerland

Guest Editors:
Andreea C. Nicolae (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft)
Patrick D. Elliott (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft)
Yasutada Sudo (University College London)

   1. Andreea C. Nicolae, Patrick D. Elliott, and Yasutada Sudo – Introduction
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-intr
   2. Dorothy Ahn – ASL IX to locus as a modifier
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-dahn
   3. Artemis Alexiadou – Decomposing scalar approximatives in Greek
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-alex
   4. Anna Alsop, Lucas Champollion, and Ioana Grosu – A problem for Fox’s (2007) account of free choice disjunction
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-alcg
   5. Anton Benz and Nicole Gotzner – Quantifier irgendein and local implicature
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-bego
   6. Jonathan David Bobaljik and Susi Wurmbrand – Fake indexicals, binding, and the PCC
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-bowu
   7. Brian Buccola and Emmanuel Chemla – Alternatives of disjunctions: when a disjunct contains the antecedent of a pronoun
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-buch
   8. Luka Crnic and Brian Buccola – Scoping NPIs out of DPs
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-crbu
   9. Chris Cummins – Some contexts requiring precise number meanings
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-cumm
   10. Patrick D. Elliott and Paul Marty – Exactly one theory of multiplicity inferences
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-elma
   11. Anamaria Falaus and Andreea C. Nicolae – Two coordinating particles are better than one: free choice items in Romanian
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-flnc
   12. Danny Fox – Individual concepts and narrow scope illusions
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-foxa
   13. Danny Fox – Degree concepts and narrow scope illusions
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-foxb
   14. Nicole Gotzner – Disjunction, conjunction, and exhaustivity
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-gotz
   15. Martin Hackl – On Haddock’s puzzle and the role of presupposition in reference resolution
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-hack
   16. Andreas Haida – Symmetry, density, and formal alternatives
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-haid
   17. Nina Haslinger and Viola Schmitt – Strengthened disjunction or non-classical conjunction?
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-hasl
   18. Fabian Heck and Anke Himmelreich – Two observations about reconstruction
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-heck
   19. Aron Hirsch – Modal adverbs and constraints on type-flexibility
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-hirs
   20. Natalia Ivlieva and Alexander Podobryaev – On variable agreement and scope reconstruction in Russian
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-ivli
   21. Hadil Karawani – The past is rewritten
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-kara
   22. Manfred Krifka and Fereshteh Modarresi – Persian ezafe and proportional quantifiers
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-krmo
   23. Paul Marty – Maximize Presupposition! and presupposition satisfaction
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-mart
   24. Lisa Matthewson, Sihwei Chen, Marianne Huijsmans, Marcin Morzycki, Daniel Reisinger, and Hotze Rullmann – Restricting the English past tense
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-mchr
   25. Clemens Mayr – On a seemingly nonexistent cumulative reading
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-mayr
   26. Marie-Christine Meyer – Scalar Implicatures in complex contexts
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-meye
   27. Moreno Mitrovic – Null disjunction in disguise
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-mitr
   28. Andreea C. Nicolae and Yasutada Sudo – The exhaustive relevance of complex conjunctions
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-nisu
   29. Rick Nouwen – Scalar vagueness regulation and locative reference
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-nouw
   30. Robert Pasternak – Unifying partitive and adjective-modifying percentr
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-past
   31. Hazel Pearson and Frank Sode – ‘Not in my wildest dreams’: a part time minimizer?
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-peso
   32. Orin Percus – Uli and our generation: some reminiscences
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-perc
   33. Jacopo Romoli – Why them?
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-romo
   34. Fabienne Salfner – The rise and fall of non-conservatives
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-salf
   35. Petra B. Schumacher – Vagueness and context-sensitivity of absolute gradable adjectives
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-schu
   36. Stephanie Solt – More or less an approximator
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-solt
   37. Giorgos Spathas – Plural anaphoric reference and non-conservativity
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-spat
   38. Benjamin Spector – An argument for the trivalent approach to presupposition projection
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-spec
   39. Bob van Tiel – ‘The case against fuzzy logic revisited’ revisited
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-tiel
   40. Lyn Tieu – A developmental asymmetry between the singular and plural
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-tieu
   41. Tue Trinh – A tense question
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-trin
   42. Hubert Truckenbrodt – On remind-me presuppositions and embedded question acts
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-truc
   43. Michael Wagner – Disjuncts must be mutually excludable
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-wagn
   44. E. Cameron Wilson – Constraints on non-conservative readings in English
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-wils
   45. Susi Wurmbrand – Indexical shift meets ECM
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-wurm

Issue 36 – August 2019

   1. Paul Marty – A note on non-distributive belief ascriptions
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-036-mart
   2. Gesoel Mendes and Marta Ruda – First conjunct agreement in Polish: Evidence for a mono-clausal analysis
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-036-meru

Issue 35 – February 2019

   1. Patrick D. Elliott – #Only zero
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-035-elli
   2. Patrick D. Elliott and Andrew Murphy – Unconditional sluicing: An ellipsis identity puzzle
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-035-elmu
   3. Andrew Murphy – A Distinctness Effect in the German Noun Phrase
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-035-murp
   4. Michael Nguyen – Extraction of R-pronouns via an intermediate position within the prepositional domain
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-035-nguy

Issue 34 – December 2018
Special issue on Non-local Contextual Allomorphy
Guest Editors: Itamar Kastner (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Beata Moskal (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

   1. Itamar Kastner and Beata Moskal – Non-local contextual allomorphy: Introduction to the special issue
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2018-034-intr
   2. Marijke De Belder – Root allomorphy depends on head movement: Support from Breton pluralization
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2018-034-beld
   3. Benjamin Bruening – Non-local allomorphy in Passamaquoddy-Maliseet
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2018-034-brue
   4. Amy Rose Deal – Locality in allomorphy and presyntactic bundling: A case of tense and aspect
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2018-034-deal
   5. Dmitry Ganenkov – The ABA pattern in Nakh-Daghestanian pronominal inflection
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2018-034-gane
   6. Hyunjung Lee and Irene Amato – A hybrid locality constraint on allomorphy: Evidence from Korean
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2018-034-leam
   7. Yi-Chi Yvette Wu – Non-local allomorphy in Kannada
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2018-034-wuyv

Issue 33 – July 2018

   1. Amir Anvari – A problem for Maximize Presupposition! (Locally)
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2018-033-anva
   2. Brian Buccola – A restriction on the distribution of exclusive only
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2018-033-bucc
   3. Patrick D. Elliott – Collective predication and ellipsis
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2018-033-elli
   4. Maria Esipova – QUD-addressing appositives don’t have to be clause-final
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2018-033-esip
   5. Naga Selvanathan – Dative adjuncts are not interveners in Tamil tough-movement
               doi: 10.7358/snip-2018-033-selv
   6. Gary Thoms – Quantifiers and the derivation of fragments
               doi: 10.7358/snip-2018-033-thom
   7. Erik Zyman – Super-local Remove in nominal preposing around though
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2018-033-zyma

Issue 32 – January 2018

   1. Wm. G. Bennett –Subject-Auxiliary inversion in interrogative complex NPs
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2017-032-benn
   2. Ken Hiraiwa – Anatomy of what and NUMBER in Japanese
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2017-032-benn/10.7358/snip-2017-032-hira
   3. Erik Zyman – Gestures and nonlinguistic objects are subject to the Case Filter
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2017-032-zyma
   4. Erik Zyman – Interjections select and project
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2017-032-zymb

Issue 31 – June 2017

   1. Lisa Bylinina –Count lists cross-linguistically vs bootstrapping the counting system
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2017-031-byli
   2. Isabelle Charnavel and Emmanuel Chemla – More hybrid agreement: simultaneous agreement with two competing triggers
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2017-031-char
   3. Kleanthes Grohmann, Markus Pöchtrager, Tobias Scheer, Michael Schiffmann and Neven Wenger – The Apex Paradox
              doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2017-031-groh
   4. Nina Haslinger and Viola Schmitt – Stressed non-Boolean und (and) in German
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2017-031-hasl
   5. Sara S. Loss – Two types of subordinate subject contact relatives
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2017-031-loss
   6. Andreea Nicolae, Patrick D. Elliott and Yasutada Sudo – Do superiority-violating multiple singular which-questions have pair-list readings?
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2017-031-nico
   7. Hazel Pearson – He himself and I
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2017-031-pear
   8. Uli Sauerland – A note on grammaticality and analyticity
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2017-031-saue
   9. Tatjana Scheffler – Root infinitives on Twitter
              doi: /10.7358/snip-2017-031-sche
   10. Yasutada Sudo – Another problem for alternative-based theories of plurality inferences: the case of reduplicated plural nouns in Japanese
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2017-031-sudo
   11. Yasutada Sudo – De re readings of nested which-phrases in embedded questions
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2017-031-yasu

Issue 30 – June 2015

   1. Andreea Nicolae, Patrick D. Elliott and Yasutada Sudo – Pair-list readings of conjoined singular which-phrases
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2015-030-nico
   2. Rick Nouwen – Presuppositions of superlatives with neg-raisers
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2015-030-nouw
   3. Philippe Schlenker – Gestural presuppositions
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2015-030-schl
   4. Yasutada Sudo – Japanese nominal conjunction only has the split reading
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2015-030-sudo
   5. Susi Wurmbrand – Does gender depend on number?
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2015-030-wurm
   6. Ed Zoerner and Brian Agbayani – Stripping, deletion and insubordinators
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2015-030-zoer

Issue 29 – June 2015

   1. Heidi Harley and Jeffrey Punske – Some PP modifiers of NP block relative readings in superlatives
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2015-029-harl
   2. Natalia Ivlieva and Yasutada Sudo – Another problem for alternative-based theories of plurality inferences: the case of mass plurals
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2015-029-ivli
   3. Hideki Kishimoto – Ergativity of adjectives in Japanese
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2015-029-kish
   4. Todor Koev – An ‘antiproviso problem’ for appositive relative clauses
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2015-029-koev
   5. Philippe Schlenker – Gradient and iconic features in ASL
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2015-029-schl
   6. Luis Vicente – Morphological case mismatches under sluicing
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2015-029-vice

Issue 28 – December 2013

   1. Katrin Axel-Tober and Patrick Grosz – Even strong evaluatives can occur under negation
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2013-028-axel
   2. Antonio Fabregas – Not all locative subjects are arguments: two classes of weather verbs
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2013-028-fabr
   3. Claire Halpert and David Schueler – That sentential subjects are (linked to) DPs is explained herein
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2013-028-halp
   4. Negin Ilkhanipour – Having ‘need’ in Farsi
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2013-028-ilkh
              ERRATA. Please note that the author’s affiliation and contact address were misprinted in the initial posting. They should read as follows: University of Tehran, n.ilkhanipour@ut.ac.ir .
   5. Bradley Larson – An argument against null prepositions in certain stative passives
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2013-028-lars
   6. Milan Rezac – The gender of bound variable he
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2013-028-reza
   7. Philippe Schlenker – Restrictor set readings across ontological domains in ASL
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2013-028-schl

Issue 27 – September 2013

   1. Peter Arkadiev and Yury Lander – Non-quantificational distributive quantifiers in Besleney Kabardian
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2013-027-arka
   2. Katharina Hartmann and Viola Schmitt – Violations of the Right Edge Constraint in Right Node Raising
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2013-027-hart
   3. Giorgio Magri – An argument for nominal lexical cumulativity
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2013-027-magr
   4. Emar Maier and Kees de Schepper – Fake indexicals in Dutch: a counterexample to Kratzer 2009
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2013-027-maie
   5. Jacopo Romoli – A problem for the structural characterization of alternatives
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2013-027-romo
   6. Philippe Schlenker and Gaurav Mathur – A Strong Crossover effect in ASL
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2013-027-schl
   7. Hideaki Yamashita – On (multiple) long-distance scrambling of adjuncts and subjects and the generalized additional scrambling effect
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2013-027-yama

Issue 26 – December 2012

   1. Luka Crnic – Projection of supplements in alternatives
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2012-026-crni
   2. Michael Erlewine – Structurally distant haplology
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2012-026-erle
   3. Natalia Fitzgibbons – Pied-pipe your preposition and strand it too
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2012-026-fitz
   4. Michael Frazier and Masaya Yoshida – Remarks on gapping in ASL
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2012-026-fraz
   5. Sumiyo Nishiguchi – Shifty operators in Dhaasanac
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2012-026-nish
   6. Jacopo Romoli – Strong NPIs and Neg-raising desire predicates
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2012-026-romo
   7. Philippe Schlenker – Informativity-based maximality conditions
              doi: 10.7358/snip-2012-026-schl

Issue 25 – March 2012

   1. Matthew Barros – Sluiced fragment answers: another puzzle involving islands and ellipsis
   2. Feng-shi Liu – Change of state and change of location verbs in Chinese
   3. Joanna Nykiel – Sprouting tolerates preposition omission
   4. Jacopo Romoli – Obligatory scalar implicatures and relevance
   5. Uli Sauerland – Where does the Strongest Meaning Hypothesis apply?
   6. Philippe Schlenker – Complement anaphora and structural iconicity in ASL
   7. Daniel Siddiqi and Andrew Carnie – The English modal had
  8. Benjamin Spector – Being simultaneously an NPI and a PPI

Issue 24 – November 2011

   1. Theresa Biberauer and Johan Oosthuizen – More unbearably light elements? Silent verbs demanding overt complementizers in Afrikaans
   2. Alex Drummond – The ban on rightward P-stranding is a global constraint
   3. Giorgio Magri – The plurality inference of object mass nouns
   4. Jacopo Romoli – Presupposition wipe-out can’t be all or nothing: a note on conflicting presuppositions
   5. Philippe Schlenker – Generalized bishop sentences
   6. Carson Schütze – There does not undergo predicate inversion
   7. Michelle Sheehan – A note on case assignment to CP
   8. Gary Thoms – P-stranding diagnoses A’-movement in tough constructions
  9. Honglei Wang, David Potter and Masaya Yoshida – Cross-conjunct binding in nominal gapping

Issue 23 – May 2011

   1. Jason Kandybowicz and Harold Torrence – How why is different: wh-in-situ in Krachi
   2. Hideki Kishimoto – Empty verb support as a morphological adjustment rule
   3. Timothy Leffel – English proximal/distal non-deictic demonstratives align with hearer-new/hearer-old information status
   4. Joan Mascaró – The realization of features in asymmetric agreement in DPs
   5. Philippe Schlenker – Singular pronouns with split antecedents
   6. Daniel Siddiqi – The English intensifier ass
   7. Christos Vlachos – Sluicing and relatives

Issue 22 – November 2010

   1. Galia Hatav – States and embedded tense interpretation in non-SOT languages
   2. Hazel Pearson – A modification of the “Hey, Wait a Minute” test
   3. Yosuke Sato – Complementizer deletion in Kansai Japanese revisited: a prosodic account
   4. Philippe Schlenker – A phonological condition that targets discontinuous syntactic units: ma/mon suppletion in French.
   5. Shuichi Yatabe – Association of floated quantifiers with expressions other than the local grammatical subjects in John Updike’s Rabbit, Run

Issue 21 – April 2010

   1. Teresa Biberauer and Roberta d’Alessandro – On the role of gemination in passives: the case of Abruzzese
   2. Andrew Ryan Dowd – More on instrumental denominal verbs
   3. Alex Drummond – An argument for the existence of null DPs
   4. Akira Omaki and Chizuru Nakao – Does English resumption really fail to repair island violations?
   5. Yosuke Sato – Evidence for the bimorphemic analysis of ‘everything’ from relative clauses
   6. Yosuke Sato – Nominative case without Tense in the Niigata dialect of Japanese
   7. Christos Vlachos – Merchant says that Max Elide works for instances of wh-movement followed by VP deletion but it’s not clear how or how it does

Issue 20 - October 2009
Special issue in honor of Manfred Krifka

Guest editors:
Sigrid Beck (University of Tübingen), Hans-Martin Gärtner (ZAS Berlin)

This special issue presents a series of puzzles originally offered as birthday presents to Manfred Krifka. The guidelines for this issue were different from those of the standard Snippets issues, and the notes it contains are often longer than standard snippets. The notes were selected from a pool of invited submissions and reviewed by a special board constituted for this issue only.

0. Sigrid Beck and Hans-Martin Gärtner. A message from the editors of the special issue
1. Sigrid Beck. Positively comparative
2. Ariel Cohen. Why ambiguity?
3. Michael Cysouw. The asymmetry of affixation
4. Laura Downing. The puzzle of misleading focus clitic position and prosody
5. Gisbert Fanselow. Unrealised possibilities
6. Caroline Féry. Postponed auch:Where does its accent come from?
7. Alexander Grosu. Andrew amalgams, their properties, and a suggested analysis
8. Beth Levin and Malka Rappaport Hovav. Constraints on the complexity of verb meaning and VP structure
9. Barbara Partee. Do we need two basic types?
10. Chris Piñón. The thing about modal adverbs
11. Marga Reis. Are there interrogative VPs? Some observations on a pied-piping puzzle in German
12. Susan Rothstein. Telicity at the dinner table: Do I have to eat it all?
13. Joachim Sabel. A relative clause puzzle
14. Douglas Saddy. Quantification therapy?
15. Uli Sauerland. Decomposing question acts
16. Wolfgang Sternefeld. Do free relative clauses have quantificational force?
17. Stephen Wechsler. Why are the lazy so agreeable?

Issue 19 – July 2009

   1. Bridget Copley and Heidi Harley – Futurates, directors and have-causatives
   2. Xuan Di – Predicate types in relative clauses and complementizer deletion
   3. Aviad Eilam – Evidence for covert syntax in complement coercion
    4. Nancy Hedberg and Richard C. DeArmond – On complements and adjuncts
   5. Ken Hiraiwa – Kakarimusubi in Okinawan and its microparametric implications
   6. Karine Megerdoomian – Telicity inPersian complex predicates
    7. Andrea Moro – Rethinking symmetry: a note on labeling and the EPP
   8. Lucia Pozzan and Giuliano Bocci – Here there is an ambiguity: two readings for the sequence here/there-P in Italian
    9. Emilio Servidio – A puzzle on auxiliary omission and focalization in English: evidence for cartograph d

Issue 18 – November 2008

   1. Maximiliano Guimarães – A note on the strong generative capacity of standard Antisymmetry
   2. Justin Kelly – Yet as a negative perfect marker in English
   3. Marlies Kluck & Mark de Vries – The interaction of Right Node Raising and extraposition
    4. Eric McCready – Expressive content and logophoricity
   5. Nagarajan Selvanathan and Chonghyuck Kim – The anaphor agreement effect in Tamil
   6. Guillaume Thomas – Proxy counterfactuals
    7. Ed Zoerner – A partial antecedent

Issue 17 – May 2008

   1. Marco Nicolis – On the case marking of PRO in Italian
   2. Dorian Roehrs – High floating quantifiers: syntactic or ‘delayed V2?
   3. Yosuke Sato – Case-stranding nominal ellipsis in Japanese: a preliminary sketch
    4. Michael Wagner – And, or and Ø

Issue 16 – December 2007

   1. Elissa Flagg – Questioning innovative quotatives
   2. Thomas Graf – Agreement with hybrid nouns in Icelandic
   3. Heidi Harley and Jason D. Haugen – Are there really two different classes of instrumental denominal verbs in English?
    4. Mikko Kupula – A visible trace of movement?
   5. Go Mizumoto – On the relationship between children's working memory capacity and their use of contextual information in sentence comprehension
   6. Eva Monrós – A neglected foundation for the distinction between inherent and structural case: ergative as an inherent case
   7. Yosuke Sato – P-stranding generalization and Bahasa Indonesia: a myth?
    8. Michael Wagner – A note on stress in intransitives in English
   9. Hedde Zeijlstra – Zero licensers

Issue 15 – March 2007

   1. Emmanuel Chemla – French both: a gap in the theory of antipresupposition
   2. Uli Sauerland – German plural negatives with Plural-Individual-Level Predicates
   3. Stephanie Solt – Few and fewer
    4. Rachel Szekely – On the non-unified interpretation of bare plurals in existential sentences
   5. Michiko Todokoro Buchanan – Two types of NPIs in Japanese

Issue 14 – March 2007

   1. Naomi Harada – Case marker drop beyond structure
   2. Marie Labelle – Biolinguistics, the Minimalist Program, and psycholinguistic reality
   3. Go Mizumoto – Can Japanese children postulate clause boundary by prosody?
   4. Janneke ter Beek – Particle verbs trigger cluster formation
   5. Susi Wurmbrand – Back to the future, Part 2

Issue 13 – June 2006

   1. Valentina Bianchi – An asymmetry between personal pronouns and other DPs
   2. Amy Rose Deal – Does English have a genitive case?
   3. Bernhard Schwarz – Covert reciprocity and Strawson-symmetry
   4. Kazuko Yatsushiro and Uli Sauerland – [Feminine] in a high position

Issue 12 – June 2006

   1. David Adger – Focused responses
   2. Faye Chalcraft – Right Node Raising as ellipsis: evidence from (what the) British do.
   3. Lawrence Y.-L. Cheung – On certain (non-)violations of Coordinate Structure Constraints
   4. Feng-hsi Liu – Event measures in Chinese
   5. Julia Staffel – Binding of reflexive pronouns in German

Issue 11 – November 2005

   1. Gabi Danon – Quantification over partitions
    2. Elissa Flagg – Not just constituent negation
   3. Sky Sang-Geun Lee – Japanese/Korean possessive verbal nouns as inherently intensional
   4. Linton Wang and Eric McCready – The indefiniteness effect

Issue 10 – March 2005

   1. Boban Arsenijevic – Negative concord in Serbo-Croat APs
   2. Simona Herdan – Who knows the only reading of only ?
   3. Martha McGinnis – Painting the wall red for a few hours: a reply to Glasbey (2003)
   4. Jon Sprouse – What doesn't because select?
   5. Linton Wang, Brian Reese and Eric McCready – The projection problem of nominal appositive

Issue 9 – September 2004

   1. Daniel Altshuler – Relative head surgery
   2. Bridget Copley – So-called epistemic should
   3. Bill Haddican – Affirmation and weak islands
   4. Uli Sauerland – "A team", definitely
   5. Benjamin Spector – Indefinites in subject position are positive polarity items
   6. Hidekazu Tanaka – Not so tough: a response to Harley
   7. Tohru Uchiumi – A peculiar restriction on the long-distance "anaphor" zibun in Japanese
   8. Roberto Zamparelli – Every two days

Issue 8 – February 2004

   1. Daniel Altshuler – A simultaneous perception of things: SOT in Russian
   2. Sarah Felber, Dorian Roehrs – *So weird a baffling construction
   3. Stefan Müller – Complex NPs, subjacency, and extraposition
   4. Mark Volpe – Affected object unergatives
   5. Roberto Zamparelli – On the thickness of plurals
   6. Ed Zoerner – Gapping of copular be and [Spec, CP]

Issue 7 – July 2003

   1. Elissa Flagg – Against heterogeneous origins for n't and not
   2. Danny Fox, Jon Nissenbaum – VP ellipsis and the position of adverbs
   3. Naomi Harada – No head raising in light verb constructions
   4. Shigeto Kawahara, Makoto Kadowaki, Kazuko Yatsushiro – A gap in the interpretation of embedded tense in Japanese
   5. Feng-shi Liu – Definite NPs and telicity in Chinese

Issue 6 – July 2002

   1. Daniel Büring – 2 x Singular ± Plural
   2. Daniel Currie Hall – A subject must scope
   3. Franc Marusic, Tatjana Marvin and Rok Zaucer – Secondary predication in control sentences
   4. Uli Sauerland – The present tense is vacuous
   5. Chung-chieh Shan – Temporal versus non-temporal "when"

Issue 5 – January 2002

   1. R. Amritavalli and Partha Protim Sarma – A case distinction between unaccusative and unergative subjects in Assamese
   2. Paolo Acquaviva and Mark Volpe – Open-class roots in closed-class contexts: a question for lexical insertion
   3. Andrew Kehler – Another problem for syntactic (and semantic) theories of VP-ellipsis
   4. Winfried Lechner – Negative islands in comparatives
   5. Sky Lee – Telicity and VN-LV vs. VN-Acc-LV
   6. Hans-Christian Schmitz and Bernhard Schröder – On focus and VP-deletion
   7. Ed Zoerner and Brian Agbayani – A pseudogapping asymmetry

Issue 4 – July 2001

   1. Yves-Ferdinand Bouvier – Some audible effects of a silent operator
   2. Dirk Bury – German V3 and the origin of adverbs
   3. Uli Sauerland – Intermediate cumulation
   4. Gwangrak Son – Reflexives: a category defective in c-commanding ability
   5. Mark Volpe – The causative alternation and Japanese unaccusative

Issue 3 – January 2001

   1. Tanmoy Bhattacharya – The puzzle of Bangla Comp-internal clauses
   2. Yoon Chung – Against the two types of tough gaps: a response to Jacobson
   3. Felicia Lee – Wh- and Focus are not the same projection
   4. Christopher Potts – (Only) some crossover effects repaired
   5. Susi Wurmbrand – Back to the future

Issue 2 – July 2000

   1. Yves-Ferdinand Bouvier – How to passivize French causatives
   2. Dirk Bury – Effects of self-attachment and the status of functional projections
   3. Heidi Harley – Tough-movement is even tougher than we thought
   4. Kerstin Hoge – On subject-adverbial effects
   5. Yoshi Okamoto – Split antecedents à la movement
   6. Henri Presque – On predicting the future

Issue 1 – January 2000

   1. David Gil – Rau Indonesian: a VO language with internally-headed relative clauses
   2. Ray Jackendoff – Curiouser and curiouser
   3. Pauline Jacobson – Extraction out of tough
   4. Winfried Lechner – Bivalent coordination in German
   5. Jeffrey Lidz – A three-legged chicken
   6. Ian Roberts – Auxiliary reduction and negation reduction – a rough sketch
   7. Uli Sauerland – «How many» questions and pair-list situation

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