Recent Papers

• "Toward a unified model of synchrony and diachrony in Evolutionary OT." [A4 | US]. coming soon.
• "Coding strategies in comparative Bantu and implications for diachronic syntax." Handout of the talk given at the Berkeley Linguistic Colloquium, December 9, 2002.
• "From synchrony to diachrony: Topic salience and cross-linguistic patterns of agreement." 2002e. [A4 | US]. (December 2002)
• "Prominence mismatches and differential object marking in Bantu." 2002d. In Butt, Miriam and Tracy Holloway King (eds.), the Proceedings of LFG-02. CSLI.
• "Antisymmetry and optimality: positional variation in negation." 2002c. [A4 | US] A longer version of the paper presented at Societas Linguistica Europea, Universität Potsdam, July 22-25. (August 2002)
• "Markedness hierarchies and Optimality in Bantu." 2002b. In Okamoto, Shigeko, Ritva Laury, and Vida Samiian, eds., Perspectives in Linguistics. In Honor of Dr. PJ Mistry. Department of Linguistics, California State University Fresno.
• "Differential object marking in Bantu." 2002a. A longer version of the paper presented at LFG-02, Athens, July 2-5. (see the revised version, 2003a)
• "Deriving the directionality parameter in OT-LFG." 2001d. In Butt, Miriam and Tracy Holloway King (eds.), the Proceedings of LFG-01 Conference. CSLI.
• "Functional categories and structural economy in Bantu." 2001c. In Samiian, Vida (ed.), the Proceedings of Western Conference on Linguistics, California State University Fresno.
• "Verb raising and phrase structure variation in OT." 2001b. In Sells, Peter (ed.) Formal and Empirical Issues in Optimality-Theoretic Syntax.
• Morphology competes with syntax: Verb raising in Bantu." 2001a. Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, UC Berkeley.
• Discourse Configurationality in Bantu Morphosyntax. 2000c. Doctoral dissertation, Stanford University.
• "The role of animacy and associational harmony in Bantu". 2000b. Paper presented at the 31st Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
• "`Crash vs. yield': On the conflict asymmetry in syntax and phonology".* 2000a. ms., February 2000 version. Stanford University.

Work in Progress:

• Argument Linking and Optimality: A View from Bantu.
• "An OT approach to object (a)symmetry"
• "Branching uniformity and word order typology."
• "A representational approach to VP-topicalization."