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K arlos A rregi
Department of Linguistics
The University of Chicago
Office: Rosenwald 205A
E-mail: karlos [at] uchicago [dot] edu
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.
Publications and downloadable papers
Some of the following papers are available for download. This is
all work in progress, so comments are welcome.
NEW:
2022. (with Emily A. Hanink ) Reverse weak PCC in Washo . To appear in NELS 52: Proceedings of
the Fifty-Second Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society . [lingbuzz/006608 ]
2021. (with Asia Pietraszko ) The imperfect correlation between head movement and periphrasis . Submitted. [lingbuzz/006369 ]
2021. (with Andrew Murphy ) Parasitic gaps in ditransitives and Antilocality . To appear in WCCFL 39: Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics . Sommerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2021. (with Emily A. Hanink ) Switch reference as index agreement . Published Online First in Natural Language and Lingusitic Theory .
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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