Ian Roberts - List of publications#

• (2010) Agreement and Head Movement: Clitics, Incorporation, and Defective Goals. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• (2010) Syntactic Variation: The Dialects of Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (joint editor with R D'Alessandro and A Ledgeway).
• (2010) Parametric Variation: Null Subjects in Minimalist Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (joint editor with T Biberauer, A Holmberg and M Sheehan).
• (2007) Diachronic Syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• (2007) Comparative Grammar: Critical Concepts (editor, 6 volumes). London: Routledge.
• (2005) Principles and Parameters in a VSO Language: a Case Study in Welsh. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press
• (2003) Syntactic Change: A Minimalist Approach to Grammaticalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (with Anna Roussou).
• (1999) Beyond Principles and Parameters: Essays in Memory of Osvaldo Jaeggli. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Holland (joint editor with Kyle Johnson).
• (1996) The Syntax of the Celtic Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (joint editor with Bob Borsley).
• (1996) Comparative Syntax. London: Edward Arnold.
• (1994) Clause Structure and Language Change. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press (joint editor with Adrian Battye).
• (1993) Verbs and Diachronic Syntax: A Comparative History of English and French. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Holland.
• (1987) The Representation of Implicit and Dethematized Subjects, Linguistic Models Series, Foris Publications, Dordrecht, Holland.

• 1994-2000 Joint Editor of Journal of Linguistics (with Bob Borsley). (Since 1996, Assistant Editor, with Nigel Fabb, to Bob Borsley).
• 1994 Research Papers in Welsh Syntax, Bangor Research Papers in Linguistics 5.
• 1993 Viagem Diacrônica pelas Fases do Português Brasileiro: Homagem a Fernando Tarallo. Editora da Unicamp (joint editor with Mary Kato).
• 1985 Papers in Syntax: Southern California Occasional Papers in Linguistics, Volume 10 (joint editor with Gary Gilligan and Mohammad Mohammad).

• To appear "Universals, diversity and change in the science of language," Lingua (with G Longobardi)
• To appear "Taraldsen's Generalisation and Diachronic Syntax: Two Ways to Lose Null Subjects," in P. Svenonius (ed) Festschrift for Tarald Taraldsen. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• To appear "Reconsidering markedness in terms of the Subset Principle: A diachronic perspective," in K. Murasugi (ed) Nanzan Working Papers in Linguistics.
• To appear "Comments on Jäger "Anything is Nothing is Something": On the diachrony of polarity types of indefinites." In H Zeijlstra (ed) Special Issue of Natural Language and Linguistic Theory on Negation.
• To appear "Head Movement and the Minimalist Program," in C Boeckx (ed) The Oxford Handbook of Minimalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• To appear "Diachrony and Cartography: Paths of Grammaticalisation and the Clausal Hierarchy" in A. Cardinaletti, G. Giusti & A. Munaro (eds.) Festschrift for Gugliemo Cinque, Oxford University Press.
• To appear "Grammaticalisation, the Clausal Hierarchy and Semantic Bleaching," in G. Trousdale & E. Traugott Proceedings of NRG4.
• To appear "Comments and a conjecture inspired by Fabb & Halle" in P. Rebuschat et al (eds) Language and Music as Cognitive Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 2009 "The Return of the Subset Principle," in P Crisma & G Longobardi (eds) Historical Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press (with T Biberauer)
• 2008 "Movement and Agreement in Italian Past Participles and Defective Phases," Linguistic Inquiry 38: 477-491 (with Roberta D'Alessandro, University of Leiden).
• 2008 "Cascading Parameter Changes: Internally-driven Change in Middle and Early Modern English," in T. Eythórsson (ed) Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal Papers. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 79-114 (with Theresa Biberauer, University of Cambridge).
• 2008 "Disharmonic Word Orders and the Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC)", in A Bisetto & F Barbieri (eds) Proceedings of the XXXIII Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (available online) (with Theresa Biberauer, University of Cambridge, and Anders Holmberg, Newcastle University).
• 2008 "Structure and Linearisation in Disharmonic Word Orders," in C. Chung and H. Haynie (eds) Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, pp. 96-104 (with Theresa Biberauer, University of Cambridge, and Anders Holmberg, Newcastle University).
• 2008 "Linearising Disharmonic Word Orders: The Final-Over-Final Constraint", in K-A Kim (ed) Perspectives on Linguistics in the 21st Century, pp. 301-318 (with Theresa Biberauer, University of Cambridge, and Anders Holmberg, Newcastle University).
• 2008 "Subjects, Tense and Verb-Agreement in Germanic and Romance," COPiL 3: 24-43.
• 2007 "The Return of the Subset Principle: a diachronic perspective," York Papers in Linguistics 2(8): 34-59.
• 2006 "Loss of 'Head-final' Orders and Remnant Fronting in Late Middle English: Causes and Consequences," in J. Hartmann & L. Molnárfi (eds) Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax: From A(frikaans) to Z(ürich German), pp. 263-297 (with Theresa Biberauer, University of Cambridge).
• 2005 "Changing EPP Parameters in the History of English; Accounting for Variation and Change," in W van der Wurff (ed) Special Issue of Journal of English Language and Linguistics on Word Order Change (with Theresa Biberauer, University of Cambridge).
• 2004 "The C-System in Brythonic Celtic Languages, V2, and the EPP," in L Rizzi (ed) The Structure of IP and CP. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
• 2004 "Results in diachronic linguistics," in S Scalise (ed) Special Issue of Lingue e Linguaggio on Results in Linguistics, pp. 299-320.
• 2004 "Evidence that V2 involves two movements: a reply to Müller," COPiL 1:41-62.
• 2002 "The History of the Future," in D. Lightfoot (ed) Proceedings of the Sixth Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
• 2002 "The EPP as a Condition on Tense Dependencies," in Peter Svenonius (ed) Subjects, Expletives and the EPP (with Anna Roussou). New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 2002 "Clause Structure and X-Second", in Guglielmo Cinque (ed) The Structural Cartography of the Clause, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (with Anna Cardinaletti).
• 2001 "Pou-complements and ACC-ing constructions: a comparative analysis," in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 201-208 (with Anna Roussou).
• 2001 "Language Change and Learnability," in Stefano Bertolo (ed) Parametric Linguistics and Learnability, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• 2000 "Head Movement," in Mark Baltin and Chris Collins (eds) Handbook of Syntactic Theory. Oxford: Blackwells, pp. 113-147.
• 2000 "Auxiliary Reduction and Negation Reduction: A Rough Sketch," Snippets 1.
• 2000 "A Formal Approach to 'Grammaticalisation'" Linguistics (with Anna Roussou).
• 1999 "Verb Movement and Markedness," in Michel DeGraff (ed) Language Creation and Language Change. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 287-328.
• 1998 "The Syntax of Direct Object Mutation in Welsh," in Revue Canadienne de Linguistique, Special Issue on Celtic Linguistics, edited by Eithne Guilfoyle, pp. 141-168
• 1998 "Have/be-raising, Move-F and Procrastinate," Linguistic Inquiry, 29: 113-125.
• 1997 "Restructuring, Head Movement and Locality," Linguistic Inquiry 28:423-460.
• 1997 "Directionality and Word Order Change in the History of English." In A. van Kemenade & N. Vincent (eds) Parameters of Morphosyntactic Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 397-426.
• 1996 "Remarks on the Old English C-system and the Diachrony of V2," Linguistische Berichte, Sonderheft 7: Language Change and Generative Grammar, edited by Ellen Brandner and Gisella Ferraresi, pp. 154-167.
• 1996 "Pronominal Enclisis in VSO Languages," R. Borsley & I. Roberts (eds) The Syntax of the Celtic Languages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.171-199 (with Ur Shlonsky).
• 1995 "Object Movement and Verb Movement in Early Modern English" H. Haider, S. Olsen & S. Vikner (eds) Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax. Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 269-284.
• 1995 "Past Participle Agreement and Object Clitics in Franco-Provençal Valdôtain" G. Cinque et al (eds) Paths Towards Universal Grammar: Essays in Honor of Richard Kayne. Georgetown: Georgetown University Press, pp. 377-395.
• 1994 "Universal Grammar and First Language Acquisition" N. Ellis (ed) Implicit and Explicit Learning, New York: Academic Press, pp. 455-476.
• 1994 "Two Types of Head Movement in Romance," N. Hornstein & D. Lightfoot (eds) Verb Movement, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 207 - 242.
• 1994 "Passive," in D. Bolinger and F. McIntosh (eds) The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Pergamon Press, Aberdeen.
• 1994 "Clitics, Case and Agreement in Welsh and Elsewhere," I. Roberts (ed) Research Papers in Welsh Syntax, Bangor Research Papers in Linguistics 5, 92 - 106.
• 1993 "A Formal Account of Grammaticalisation in the History of Romance Futures," Folia Linguistica Historica XIII: 1-2: 219 - 258.
• 1993 "The Mapping from the Lexicon to Syntax: Null Arguments," E. Reuland & W. Abraham (eds) Knowledge and Language, Volume II: Lexical and Conceptual Structure, Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 183 - 220 (with Teun Hoekstra).
• 1993 "The Nature of Subject Clitics in Franco-Provençal Valdôtain," in A. Belletti (ed) Dialects of Italy, Rosenberg & Sellier, Turin, pp. 319 - 353.
• 1993 "A Computational Approach to Language Learnability and Language Change," Linguistic Inquiry 24: 299 - 345 (with Robin Clark).
• 1992 "Remarks on Functional Heads and Complementation," in K. Börjars & N. Vincent (eds) Functional Categories in Complementation, EUROTYP Working Papers III,3: 60-70.
• 1992 "Adjunction in Formal Grammar," W. Bright (ed) Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Oxford University Press, New York/Oxford.
• 1991 "NP-Movement, Crossover and Chain-Formation," in H. Haider & K. Netter (eds) Representation and Derivation in the Theory of Grammar, Kluwer, Dordrecht.
• 1991 "Excorporation and Minimality," Linguistic Inquiry, 22, 209-218.
• 1991 "Subordination and Complementation in Germanic," in K. Börjars & N. Vincent (eds) Complement Structures in the Languages of Europe, EUROTYP Working Papers III, 1: 53-70.
• 1990 "Clitics and Inversion in a Franco-Provençal Dialect," in E. Engdahl et al (eds) Parametric Variation in Germanic and Romance, Edinburgh Working Papers in Cognitive Science, Volume 6, 155-168.
• 1990 "Some Notes on VP-Fronting and Head-Government," in J. Mascarò & M. Nespor (eds), Progress in Grammar: A Festschrift for Henk van Riemsdijk, Foris Publications, Dordrecht, 387-396.
• 1989 "Thematic Minimality," Rivista di Grammatica Generativa 13, 111-137.
• 1989 "Compound Psych-Adjectives and the Ergative Hypothesis," Proceedings of the Nineteenth Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistics Society, Graduate Linguistics Students Association, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 358-374.
• 1989 "Complex Inversion in French," Probus 1, 1-30 (with Luigi Rizzi). (Reprinted in A. Belletti & L. Rizzi (eds) Parameters and Functional Heads. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).
• 1989 "Passive Arguments Raised," Linguistic Inquiry 20: 219-251 (with Mark Baker and Kyle Johnson).
• 1988 "Predicative APs," Linguistic Inquiry 19, 702-710.
• 1987 "On Valency Affecting Rules," in P. Cordin (ed) Ipotesi e Applicazioni di Teoria Linguistica dal XIII Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, pp. 150-195, Dipartimento di Storia della Civiltà Europea, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Trento.
• 1986 "Serial Verbs and Government Binding Theory" R. Schuh (ed) Proceedings of the Fifteenth African Linguistics Conference, University of California Press, Los Angeles and Berkeley, pp. 262 - 268.
• 1985 "Agreement Parameters and the Development of English Modal Auxiliaries" in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 3: 21 - 58.
• 1985 "Oblique Case in the History of English" G. Gilligan, M. Mohammad & I. Roberts (eds) Southern California Occasional Papers in Linguistics, Volume 10, pp. 143 - 160.
• 1984 "Case Theory and Auxiliary Selection with Participles" in Discussion Papers for the Fifth International Phonology Meeting, Wiener Linguistische Gazette, Supplement Nr. 3, pp. 216-220.
• 1983 "The Syntax of English Modals," D. Flickinger et al (eds) Proceedings of the Second West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Stanford, California, U.S.A.