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Imperfectivity: Capturing variation across languages. (Coauthors: A. Arregui and A. Salanova). Moscow Syntax and Semantics 2, Institute of Russian Languages, Russian Academy of Science, April 2011. June 2011 draft for MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.

Cualquiera Posnominal: un desconocido Cualquiera XVI Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de la América Latina. Proyecto 12. Universidad de Alcalá, 6-9 de junio de 2011.

Unintentional Agents vs. Unintentional Causers in Polish (Coauthor: Ewelina Frackowiak). Generative Investigations: Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 6th Meeting of Generative Linguistics in Poland: GLiP-6. U. of Warsaw. 2008. (see also Frąckowiak, Ewelina, and María-Luisa Rivero. Distinguishing between unintentional agents and unintentional causers. Proceedings of the 2008 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~cla-acl/actes2008/CLA2008_Frackowiak_Rivero.pdf)

Building Involuntary States in Slavic. (Coauthor: A. Arregui). in Telicity, change, and state: A cross-categorial view of event structure. Oxford University Press Volume, ed. by V. Demonte and L. McNally.

2010 Los verbos psicológicos con experimentante dativo en español y el cambio histórico. (Spanish Psychological Verbs with Dative Experiencers and Diachronic Change). Cuestiones gramaticales del español, últimos avances, Marta Luján y Mirta Groppi (eds.).Cuadernos de la ALFAL (Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de la América Latina), Nueva Serie 1, 2010: pp. 167-193.

Aspectual Microvariation: The Case of Slavic Imperfectives. (Coauthor: A. Arregui). Proceedings of the 2010 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.

Variation in circumstantial modality: Polish vs. St’át’imcets. (Coauthors: A. Arregui and E. Frąckowiak). in Linguistic Inquiry 41.4, 704-714 (2010). (see also María Luisa Rivero, Ana Arregui & Ewelina Frąckowiak. Circumstantial modals in Polish and St’at’imcets. Proceedings of the 2009 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~cla acl/actes2009/CLA2009_Rivero_Arregui_Frackowiak.pdf )

2009 A Look at High Applicatives in Romanian: Dative Experiencers. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics XI (1), 2009, 21-34.

Intensionality, High Applicatives and Aspect: Involuntary state constructions in Bulgarian and Slovenian. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Vol 27.1 (2009), 151-196.

Anatomy of a Polish Circumstantial Modal. (Coauthors: A. Arregui and E. Frąckowiak). Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 18, 2009: The Second Cornell Meeting. Michigan Slavic Publications, Ann Arbor, MI., 456-470.

A Diachronic View of Psychological Verbs with Dative Experiencers in Spanish and Romanian (Coauthor C.R. Diaconescu). Historical Linguistics 2007, Dufresne, M., et al., Eds. Benjamins,Amsterdam, 2009, 149-160.
2008

Oblique subjects and person restrictions in Spanish: A morphological approach In Agreement Restrictions, 2008. R. D. Alessandro, S. Fischer, and G. Hrafnbjargarson (eds.) Berlin: De Gruyter.215-250.

Revisiting Involuntary State Constructions in Slovenian. (Coauthor Milena Milojevic Sheppard) In the Proceedings of FDSL 6.5. Nova Gorica, Slovenia (2006). 2008. Peter Lang, Frankfurt. 273-290.

2007

An Applicative analysis of Double Object Constructions in Romanian (Coauthor C.R. Diaconescu).Probus, 19(2):209-33

2005 Topics in Bulgarian morphology and syntax: a minimalist perspective Lingua 115:1083-1128.
2004 Spanish Quirky Subjects, Person Restrictions, and the PCC Linguistic Inquiry 35.3:494-502.

Datives and the Non-active Voice/Reflexive Clitic in Balkan Languages Appears in Balkan Syntax and Semantics, ed. by O.Miseska-Tomic. Series Linguistik Aktuell. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 2004. Pp.237-267.

Russian Anticausatives with Oblique Subjects. (Coathor: U. Savchenko), In Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 13, 2004: The Columbia Meeting. Michigan Slavic Publications, Ann Arbor, MI., 2005, 276-288.
2000-2004 Reflexive clitic constructions with datives: syntax and semantics In Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics: The Amherst Meeting 2002, Michigan Slavic Publications, Ann Arbor, MI, 469-494. 2003.

Indefinite Reflexive clitics in Slavic: Polish and Slovenian.(Coauthor M. Sheppard), Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 21:89-155,2003.

On Impersonal Reflexives in Romance and Slavic and Semantic Variation In Romance Syntax, Semantics and L2 Acquisition. J. Camps and C. R. Wiltshire, eds. 2002. Benjamins, Amsterdam. 169-195.

The Acquisition of Constructions with Reflexive Clitics in Polish (Coauthor Magdalena Goledzinowska) In Asymmetry in Grammar: Vol 2, Ed. by Anna Maria Di Sciullo. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2002. 265-289.

On Impersonal se / sie in Slavic (Coauthor Milena Milojevic Sheppard) In Current Issues in Formal Slavic Linguistics. G. Zybatow, et al., Eds. 137-147. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main. 2002.

Impersonal SIE in Polish: A Simplex Expression Anaphor In Journal of Slavic Linguistics Vol. 8, numbers 1-2, 2000, pp.199-237.
1990-1999 Stylistic Verb Movement in Yes-No Questions in Bulgarian and Breton. In Crossing Boundaries, I. Kenesei, ed. 67-90. Benjamins, Amsterdam. 1999.

On two locations for complement clitic pronouns: Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, and Old Spanisha In Parameters of Morphosyntactic Change, A. van Kemenade and N. Vincent, Eds. 170-206. Cambridge U Press, London. 1997.

Imperatives, V-movement, and logical mood. (Coauthor Arhonto Terzi) Journal of Linguistics 31:301-332, 1995.

Clause Structure and V-Movement in the Languages of the Balkans. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 12: 63-120, 1994.

Negation, Imperatives, and Wackernagel effects. Rivista di Linguistica 6:91-118, 1994.

On indirect questions, commands, and Spanish quotative que. Linguistic Inquiry 25:547-54, 1994.

Clitic Auxiliaries and Incorporation in Polish. (Coauthor Robert D. Borsley). Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 12(3):373-422, 1994.

Long Head Movement vs V2 and Null Subjects in Old Romance. Lingua, 89:217-245, 1993.

Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian Yes-no questions: Vo-raising to -li vs. Li-hopping. Linguistic Inquiry 24:567-75, 1993.

Adverb Incorporation and the Syntax of Adverbs in Modern Greek. Linguistics and Philosophy 15: 289-331, 1992.

Long Head Movement and Negation: Serbo-Croatian versus Slovak and Czech. The Linguistic Review 8: 319-351, 1991.

Types of Verbal Movement in Old Spanish: Modals, Futures and Perfects. [Published Online via De Gruyter]. (with Josè Lema). Probus, 3(3):237-278.

The location of Non-Active Voice in Albanian and Modern Greek. Linguistic Inquiry 21: 145-46, 1990.
1980-1989

Parameters in the Typology of Clitics in Romance and Old Spanish Language, 62(4):774-807, 1986.

Dialects and Diachronic Syntax: Free Relatives in Old Spanish. Journal of Linguistics,22(2):443-454, 1986.

Diachronic Syntax and Learnability: Free Relatives in Thirteenth-Century. Journal of Linguistics 20(1):81-129, 1984.

Remarks on free relatives and matching phenomena. (with Paul Hirschbüler), Linguistic Inquiry 14:505-20, 1983.

Non-matching Concealed Questions in Catalan and Spanish. [Online via De Gruyter.](with Paul Hirschbüler), The Linguistic Review 2(4): 331-364. 1983

Catalan Restrictive Relatives: Core and Periphery (with Paul Hirschbüler). Language 57(3): 591-625, 1980.

On left-dislocation and topicalization in Spanish. Linguistic Inquiry 11:363-94, 1980.

1970-1979 Topicalization and Wh-movement in Spanish. Linguistic Inquiry 9:513-7, 1978.

Specificity and Existence: A Reply Language 53(1):70-85, 1977.

Surface Structure and the Centrality of Syntax [Online via Reference Global.] (with Douglas C. Walker) Theoretical Linguistics. 3(1-3):99-124

Referential Properties of Spanish Noun Phrases Language 51(1): p. 32-48, 1975.

La ambigüedad de los verbos modales: una visión histórica Revista Española de Lingüística 5:401-22, 1975.

Antecedents of contemporary logical and linguistic analyses in Scholastic logic. Foundations of Language 10:55-64, 1973.

Remarks on operators and modalities. Foundations of Language 9:209-41, 1972.

Mood and presupposition in Spanish. Foundations of Language 7:305-36, 1971.

A Surface Structure Constraint on Negation in Spanish Language 46(3): 640-666, 1970.