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Karlos Arregi Department of Linguistics The University of Chicago Office: Rosenwald 205A E-mail: karlos [at] uchicago [dot] edu My pronouns are he/him/his.

I'm a professor at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. I got my Ph.D. in linguistics at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. I am from the Basque Country, where I obtained my BA in English at the Universidad de Deusto.

My Curriculum Vitae.

Research Interests

• Syntax.
• Morphology.
• The syntax-semantics and syntax-phonology interfaces.
• Basque and Romance Linguistics.

Some of the following papers are available for download. This is all work in progress, so comments are welcome.

• 2025. (with Matthew Hewett) Singular they and the syntax of townhouses. To appear in NELS 55: Proceedings of the Fifty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. [lingbuzz/009052]
• 2025. (with Asia Pietraszko) The relation between head movement and periphrasis. Journal of Linguistics, FirstView article.
• 2024. (with Andrew Murphy) Parasitic gaps in ditransitives and Antilocality. In WCCFL 39: Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 459-467. Sommerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• 2022. (with Andrew Nevins) Morphotactics: An overview of positional constraints and repairs. To appear in The Cambridge Handbook of Distributed Morphology. [lingbuzz/006953]
• 2022. (with Andrew Murphy) Argument-internal parasitic gaps. [lingbuzz/006856]
• 2022. (with Emily A. Hanink) Reverse weak PCC in Washo. In NELS 52: Proceedings of the Fifty-Second Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Volume 1, 43–56. GLSA, Amherst, MA.
• 2022. (with Emily A. Hanink) Switch reference as index agreement. Natural Language and Lingusitic Theory 40:651–702.
• 2021. (with Itamar Francez and Martina Martinović) Three arguments for an individual concept analysis of specificational sentences. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 39:687–708.
• 2021. (with Asia Pietraszko) Unifying long head movement with phrasal movement: A new argument from spellout. In WCCFL 38: Proceedings of the 38th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 21–31. Sommerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• 2021. (with Asia Pietraszko) The ups and downs of head displacement. Linguistic Inquiry 52:241–289. The article also contains two appendices available here.

• 2019. (with Asia Pietraszko) Do-support as spellout of split head chains. In NELS 49: Proceedings of the Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Volume 1, 63–72. GLSA, Amherst, MA.
• 2018. (with Andrew Nevins) Beware Occam's syntactic razor: Morphotactic analysis and Spanish mesoclisis. Linguistic Inquiry 49:625–683. The article also includes two appendices available here.
• 2018. (with Asia Pietraszko) Generalized Head Movement. In Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 3, 5:1–15.

• 2018. (with Emily A. Hanink) Switch reference in Washo as multiple subject agreement. In NELS 48: Proceedings of the Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society: Volume 1, 39–48. GLSA, Amherst, MA.
• 2017. (with Andrew Nevins) Presyntactic morphology or postsyntactic morphology and explanatoriness in the Basque auxiliary. In Vera Gribanova and Stephanie Shih (eds.) The morphosyntax-phonology connection: Locality and directionality at the interface, 401–418. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 2016. Chapter 10: Focus projection theories. In Caroline Féry and Shinichiro Ishihara (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Information Structure, 185–202. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• 2015. (with Peter Klecha) The morhosemantics of past tense. In NELS 45: Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society: Volume 1, 53–66. GLSA, Amherst, MA.
• 2014. (with Andrew Nevins) A monoradical approach to some cases of disuppletion. Theoretical Linguistics 40:311–330.
• 2013. (with Andrew Nevins) Contextual neutralization and the Elsewhere Principle. In Ora Matushansky and Alec Marantz (eds.) Distributed Morphology today: Morphemes for Morris Halle, 199–221. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• 2013. The syntax of comparative numerals. In NELS 40: Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Volume 1, 45–58. GLSA, Amherst, MA.
• 2012. (with Andrew Nevins) Morphotactics: Basque auxiliaries and the structure of Spellout. Dordrecht: Springer.
  
  
• 2010. Ellipsis in split questions. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 28:539–592.
• 2008. (with Andrew Nevins) A principled order to postsyntactic operations. Ms., University of Illinois at Urbana Champain and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.[lingbuzz/000646]
• 2008. (with Andrew Nevins) Agreement and clitic restrictions in Basque. In Roberta D'Alessandro, Susann Fischer and Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson (eds.) Agreement Restrictions, 49–85. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• 2007. (with Andrew Nevins) Obliteration vs. impoverishment in the Basque g-/z- constraint. In Proceedings of the 26th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 13.1:1–14. Penn Linguistics Club, Philadelphia.
• 2007. Syntax and semantics of split questions. In José Camacho, Nydia Flores-Ferrán, Liliana Sánchez, Viviane Déprez, and María José Cabrera (eds.) Romance Linguistics 2006: Selected Papers from the 36th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), 15–28. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• 2006. (with Andrew Nevins) A Distributed Morphology analysis of present tense auxiliaries in Zamudio. Euskalingua 9:146–156.
• 2006. Reconstruction and Condition C in Spanish: A non-structural account. In Nuria Sagarra and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (eds.) Selected Proceedings of the 9th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, 1–12. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• 2006. Stress and islands in Northern Bizkaian Basque. In José Ignacio Hualde and Joseba A. Lakarra (eds.) Studies in Historical and Basque Linguistics Dedicated to the Memory of R. L. Trask, 81–106. Donostia: Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa.
• 2005. (with Naiara Centeno) Determiner sharing and cyclicity in wh-movement. In Randall Gess and Edward Rubin (eds.), Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics, 1–19. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• 2005. (with Isabel Oltra-Massuet) Stress-by-structure in Spanish. Linguistic Inquiry 36:43–84.
• 2004. The have/be alternation in Basque. Ms., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• 2004. (with Gainko Molina-Azaola) Restructuring in Basque and the theory of agreement. In WCCFL 23: Proceedings of the 23rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 43–56. Sommerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• 2003. Clausal pied-piping. Natural Language Semantics 11:115–143.
• 2003. Clitic Left Dislocation is contrastive topicalization. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 9.1:31–44. Penn Linguistics Club, Philadelphia.
• 2002. Focus on Basque movements. PhD Dissertation, MIT, Cambrdige, MA.
• 2001. Focus and word order in Basque. Ms., MIT, Cambridge, MA.
• 2001. Person and number inflection in Basque. In Pablo Albizu and Beatriz Fernández (eds.), On Case and Agreement. Kasu eta Komunztaduraren gainean, 71–111. Bilbo: Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea.
• 2001. Spanish reciprocals. Handout of a talk given at the Fourth MIT/UConn/UMass Semantics Workshop at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
• 2000. Definite articles as relative operators. Ms., MIT, Cambridge, MA.
• 2000. How the Spanish verb works. Handout of a talk given at LSRL 30, at the University of Florida, Gainesville.
• 2000. Tense in Basque. Ms., MIT, Cambridge, MA.
• 1998. Double genitives in English. Handout of a talk given at MIT, Cambridge, MA.
• 1998. Spanish el que relative clauses and the Doubly Filled COMP Filter. Ms., MIT, Cambridge, MA.

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