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  1. Explaining microvariation using the Tolerance Principle: plugging the amn’t gap

    Article • Journal of Linguistics, October 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Adger

  2. ‘When intuitions (don't) fail’: combining syntax and sociolinguistics in the analysis of Scots

    Article • English Language and Linguistics, September 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Adger

  3. A Universal Cognitive Bias in Word Order: Evidence From Speakers Whose Language Goes Against It

    Article • Psychological Science, February 2024, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Adger

  4. English contracted negation revisited: Evidence from varieties of Scots

    Article • Language, December 2023, Project Muse

    Professor David Adger

  5. What are linguistic representations?

    Article • Mind & Language, April 2022, Wiley

    Professor David Adger

  6. On doing theoretical linguistics

    Article • Theoretical Linguistics, June 2021, De Gruyter

    Professor David Adger

  7. Comparing prehistoric constructed languages: world-building and its role in understanding prehistoric languages

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2021, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor David Adger

  8. Experimental evidence for the influence of structure and meaning on linear order in the noun phrase

    Article • Glossa a journal of general linguistics, September 2020, Open Library of the Humanities

    Professor David Adger

  9. Syntax and the failure of analogical generalization: A commentary on Ambridge (2020)

    Article • First Language, February 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor David Adger

  10. Straight-washing ecological legacies

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Adger

  11. Cross-linguistic evidence for cognitive universals in the noun phrase

    Article • January 2019, Center for Open Science

    Professor David Adger

  12. Cross-linguistic evidence for cognitive universals in the noun phrase

    Article • Linguistics Vanguard, January 2019, De Gruyter

    Professor David Adger

  13. Syntactic variation and auxiliary contraction: The surprising case of Scots

    Article • Language, January 2019, Project Muse

    Professor David Adger

  14. Structure, use, and syntactic ecology in language obsolescence

    Article • The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique, June 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Adger

  15. Became, Become, Becoming

    Article • Inference International Review of Science, April 2017, Inference: International Review of Science

    Professor David Adger

  16. Restrictiveness matters

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Adger

  17. The limitations of structural priming are not the limits of linguistic theory

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Adger

  18. Linguistic explanation and domain specialization: a case study in bound variable anaphora

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, September 2015, Frontiers

    Professor David Adger

  19. More misrepresentation: A response to Behme and Evans 2015

    Article • Lingua, July 2015, Elsevier

    Professor David Adger

  20. Mythical myths: Comments on Vyvyan Evans’ “The Language Myth”

    Article • Lingua, April 2015, Elsevier

    Professor David Adger

  21. Syntax

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science, December 2014, Wiley

    Professor David Adger

  22. Variability and grammatical architecture

    Article • July 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor David Adger

  23. Language learners privilege structured meaning over surface frequency

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor David Adger

  24. Constructions and Grammatical Explanation: Comments on Goldberg

    Article • Mind & Language, September 2013, Wiley

    Professor David Adger

  25. Relative who and the actuation problem

    Article • Lingua, March 2013, Elsevier

    Professor David Adger

  26. Labels and Structures

    Article • December 2012, The MIT Press

    Professor David Adger

  27. Syntactic Interpretation

    Article • December 2012, The MIT Press

    Professor David Adger

  28. Puzzles in the Syntax of Relational Nominals

    Article • December 2012, The MIT Press

    Professor David Adger

  29. Conclusion

    Article • December 2012, The MIT Press

    Professor David Adger

  30. Introduction

    Article • December 2012, The MIT Press

    Professor David Adger

  31. The PP Peripherality Generalization

    Article • December 2012, The MIT Press

    Professor David Adger

  32. The Etiology of the PP Argument

    Article • December 2012, The MIT Press

    Professor David Adger

  33. A Syntax of Substance

    Article • January 2012, The MIT Press

    Professor David Adger

  34. Information Structure, Discourse Structure, and Noun Phrase Position in Kiowa 1

    Article • International Journal of American Linguistics, January 2012, University of Chicago Press

    Professor David Adger

  35. Introduction; Integrating Genetic and Cultural Evolutionary Approaches to Language

    Article • Human Biology, April 2011, Human Biology (The International Journal of Population Biology and Genetics)

    Professor David Adger

  36. Features in Minimalist Syntax

    Article • March 2011

    Professor David Adger

  37. Bare resumptives

    Article • January 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor David Adger

  38. A Minimalist theory of feature structure

    Article • August 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor David Adger

  39. Variation in agreement: A lexical feature-based approach

    Article • Lingua, May 2010, Elsevier

    Professor David Adger

  40. Mirrors and Microparameters

    Article • January 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Adger

  41. The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language . By Gregory Radick. Chicago (Illinois): University of Chicago Press. $45.00. xiv + 577 p.; ill.; index. 978‐0‐226‐70224‐7. 2007.

    Article • The Quarterly Review of Biology, December 2008, University of Chicago Press

    Professor David Adger

  42. Phi Theory

    Article • May 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor David Adger

  43. Variability and modularity: A response to Hudson

    Article • Journal of Linguistics, October 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Adger

  44. Special issue on English dialect syntax

    Article • English Language and Linguistics, July 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Adger

  45. Variation in English syntax: theoretical implications

    Article • English Language and Linguistics, July 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Adger

  46. Syntax and Syncretisms of the Person Case Constraint

    Article • Metascience, April 2007, Wiley

    Professor David Adger

  47. Pronouns Postpose at PF

    Article • Linguistic Inquiry, March 2007, The MIT Press

    Professor David Adger

  48. Combinatorial Variability

    Article • Journal of Linguistics, October 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Adger

  49. Remarks on Minimalist feature theory and Move

    Article • Journal of Linguistics, October 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Adger

  50. Post-Syntactic Movement and the Old Irish Verb

    Article • Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, July 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Adger

  51. Commentary on ‘exaption and linguistic explanation’

    Article • Lingua, December 2005, Elsevier

    Professor David Adger

  52. Merge and Move: Wh-Dependencies Revisited

    Article • Linguistic Inquiry, April 2005, The MIT Press

    Professor David Adger

  53. Variation and the minimalist program

    Article • January 2005, John Benjamins

    Professor David Adger

  54. Peripheries

    Article • January 2004

    Professor David Adger

  55. Core Questions about the Edge

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David Adger

  56. Circumstantial adverbs and aspect

    Article • January 2004, John Benjamins

    Professor David Adger

  57. Predication and Equation

    Article • Linguistic Inquiry, July 2003, The MIT Press

    Professor David Adger

  58. Directionality of Allomorphy: A Reply to Carstairs-Mc Carthy

    Article • Transactions of the Philological Society, March 2003, Wiley

    Professor David Adger

  59. The Syntax and Semantics of Unselected Embedded Questions

    Article • Language, January 2001, Project Muse

    Dr Josep Quer, Professor David Adger

  60. Esther Torrego,The dependencies of objects. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. Pp. xii+197.

    Article • Journal of Linguistics, March 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Adger

  61. Eliminating Disjunction in Lexical Specification

    Article • January 2000, John Benjamins

    Professor David Adger

  62. Feature Checking Under Adjacency And Vso Clause Structure

    Article • January 1999, De Gruyter

    Professor David Adger

  63. Deriving the Parametrisation of the Mapping Hypothesis

    Article • January 1997, John Benjamins

    Professor David Adger

  64. Economy and optionality: Interpretations of subjects in Italian

    Article • Probus, January 1996, De Gruyter

    Professor David Adger

  65. Molly Diesing, Indefinites. (Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 20.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992. Pp. xiv + 175.

    Article • Journal of Linguistics, September 1994, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Adger

  66. Introduction

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Adger

  67. Conclusion

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Adger

  68. Appendix

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Adger

  69. Feature checking under adjacency and VSO clause structure

    Article • Emerald

    Professor David Adger

  70. Aspect, agreement and measure phrases in Scottish Gaelic

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor David Adger