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Curriculum Vitae (updated December 2016)

Name Den Dikken

First name Marcel

Date of birth 13 December 1965

Marital status married to Éva Katalin Dékány

Nationality Dutch

Languages Dutch (native)English (fluent)German (good passive knowledge; moderate active proficiency)French (good passive knowledge; moderate active proficiency)Hungarian (moderate)

Education MA in English Language and Literature (with specialisation in linguis-tics), University of Leiden (The Netherlands), 1984–1988; cum laude

Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Leiden, 1989–1992; dissertation:Particles (defended 9 December 1992); cum laude

Current positions Research Professor at the Department of English Linguistics, School ofEnglish and American Studies (SEAS), at Eötvös Loránd University(Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, ELTE), Budapest (October 2015 –)

Senior Researcher at the Theoretical Linguistics Department (ElméletiNyelvészeti Osztály) of the Research Institute for Linguistics (Nyelv-tudományi Intézet) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MagyarTudományos Akadémia), Budapest (1 July 2015 –)

Previous positions Professor (tenured) at the PhD/MA Program in Linguistics at TheGraduate School and University Center of The City University of NewYork (1 September 2000 – 31 August 2015) [on special leave in2014/2015]

Associate Professor at the PhD/MA Program in Linguistics at TheGraduate School and University Center of The City University of NewYork (1 September 1998 – 31 August 2000)

Executive Researcher, A Modern Grammar of Dutch; KatholiekeUniversiteit Brabant/Tilburg University (1 April – 31 August 1998)

post-doctoral fellow at the Holland Institute of generative Linguistics(HIL), Department of Linguistics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1January 1993 – 30 April 1997)

Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) at the Department of GeneralLinguistics of the University of Groningen (1 August 1992 – 1September 1993)

salaried research assistant (Assistent-in-Opleiding) at the EnglishDepartment of the University of Leiden (1 March 1989 – 31 July 1992)

Visiting positions Distinguished Guest Scientist at the Research Institute for Linguistics(Nyelvtudományi Intézet) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences(Magyar Tudományos Akadémia), Budapest (1 September 2014 – 30June 2015)

Marcel den Dikken — Curriculum Vitae 2

Visiting Professor, Seoul National University, Seoul (4–22 March2010)

Visiting Professor, Meertens Instituut, Koninklijke Akademie voorWetenschappen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences),Amsterdam (1 October – 31 December 2009)

Visiting Professor, Université de Paris VII, Paris (29 May – 15 June2006)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles (1 October – 31 December 1997)

Honorary affiliations Corresponding Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts andSciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen), asper May 2008

Teaching experience(i) undergraduate

a. introductory – Leiden • Introduction to Government–Binding Theory (second-year course),English Department, University of Leiden; weekly tutorials and twolectures; September – December 1990

• first-year generative syntax course, Dutch Department, University ofLeiden; fortnightly tutorials; March – June 1991

• Generative Phonology (second-year course), English Department,University of Leiden; weekly tutorials; February – June 1992

– Groningen • Introduction to the theory of syntax, Department of GeneralLinguistics, University of Groningen; full introductory course forsecond-year students in three trimesters; September – June 1992/93

• Introduction to phonology and morphology, Department of GeneralLinguistics, University of Groningen; one-trimester course for second-year students; September – November 1992

– VU Amsterdam • ‘Linguistic Structure: Syntax’, Department of Linguistics, VrijeUniversiteit Amsterdam; full introductory course for second-yearstudents; September – December 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996

– ELTE • segments of ‘Linguistic Theory’, Department of English Linguistics,Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest; September – December 2016

• ‘Introduction to Linguistics’, Department of English Linguistics,Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest; September – December 2016

• ‘Syntax’ lecture, Department of English Linguistics, Eötvös LorándUniversity, Budapest; September – December 2016

• ‘Syntax’ seminar, Department of English Linguistics, Eötvös LorándUniversity, Budapest; September – December 2016

b. advanced – Leiden • Comparative Syntax, joint venture of Departments of Dutch,Departments of English and General Linguistics, University of Leiden;seminar on recent developments in Government–Binding theory; fort-nightly classes; September – December 1990 & February – June 1991

• Syntax seminar for advanced students, on verb movement in thehistory of English (co-taught with Frits Beukema), Department, ofEnglish, University of Leiden; September – December 1995


– Groningen • Syntax seminar for advanced students (co-taught with Jan Koster),Department of General Linguistics, University of Groningen;September – May 1992/93

– VU Amsterdam • Syntax seminars for advanced students, Department of Linguistics,Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; January – June 1993, 1994; March –June 1997

• Recent theoretical developments in syntax, Department ofLinguistics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; from Barriers tominimalism and antisymmetry; January – May 1995; January – March1996; January – March 1997

– ELTE • ‘VPs, IPs, CPs’ seminar, Department of English Linguistics, EötvösLoránd University, Budapest; September – December 2016

(ii) graduate – HIL • advanced seminar on the syntax of serial verb constructions, aspect,and uniformity of è-assignment (co-taught with Rint Sybesma), HIL;September – November 1993

• advanced seminar on the minimalist syntax of verbal periphrasis,HIL; March – May 1995

• introduction seminar on the principles-and-parameters theory ofgenerative syntax, HIL; September – November 1996

– UCLA • graduate course ‘Survey of current syntactic theories’ (Linguistics214), on the development and state-of-the-art of minimalist syntactictheory; UCLA Linguistics Department, October – December 1997

• graduate proseminar ‘Syntax and semantics’ (Linguistics 252), oncurrent research (possessive constructions), co-taught with JamalOuhalla and Timothy Stowell; UCLA Linguistics Department, October– December 1997

– CUNY GC • graduate course ‘Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics’ (Linguistics70100); CUNY GC, September – December 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 (occasionally co-taught with Ricardo Otheguy)• graduate course ‘Syntax I’ (Linguistics 72100; introduction to

principles-and-parameters theory); CUNY GC, September – December1998–2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

• graduate course ‘Syntax II’ (Linguistics 72200; from GB tominimalism and antisymmetry); CUNY GC, February – May 1999–2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

• graduate seminar ‘Advanced Syntax’ (Linguistics 81500), on thesyntax of serial verb constructions and middles; CUNY GC, September– December 1998

• graduate seminar ‘Advanced Syntax’ (Linguistics 81500), on thesyntax of features (wh-, phi- and Case-features); CUNY GC, September– December 1999

• graduate seminar ‘Advanced Syntax’ (Linguistics 81500), on syntaxof non-verbal predication; CUNY GC, September – December 2001

• graduate seminar ‘Advanced Syntax’ (Linguistics 81500), on thesyntax of prepositions; CUNY GC, February – May 2003


• graduate seminar ‘Advanced Syntax’ (Linguistics 81500), on localityin syntactic theory; CUNY GC, September – December 2005

• graduate seminar ‘Advanced Syntax’ (Linguistics 81500), on thesyntax of predication; CUNY GC, February – May 2007

• graduate seminar ‘Advanced Syntax’ (Linguistics 81500), on thesyntax of cleft constructions; CUNY GC, February – May 2009

• graduate seminar ‘Advanced Syntax’ (Linguistics 81500), on thesyntax of information structure and the noun phrase; CUNY GC,September – December 2010• graduate seminar ‘Advanced Syntax’ (Linguistics 81500), on thesyntax of adpositions and adpositional phrases; CUNY GC, September– December 2012

• graduate seminar in syntactic theory ‘The State of the Art inGenerative Syntax: Current Minimalist and Optimalist Developments’(Linguistics 84100); CUNY GC, February – May 2000

• graduate seminar ‘Morphology’ (Linguistics 71500); CUNY GC,September – December 2000 (co-taught with Charles Cairns);September – December 2002, February – May 2005, September –December 2006, February – May 2011, September – December 2013

• graduate seminar ‘Historical syntax’ (Linguistics 84100); CUNYGC, February – May 2001

• graduate seminar ‘The Structure of Hungarian’ (Linguistics 73100);CUNY GC, September – December 1999 (co-taught with Robert Vago)• graduate seminar ‘The Structure of Rotuman’ (Linguistics 73100);

CUNY GC, February – May 2002 (co-taught with Charles Cairns)

• graduate seminar ‘The Syntax of Amharic’ (Linguistics 73100);CUNY GC, February – May 2004

• graduate seminar ‘The Syntax of the Languages of the Balkans’(Linguistics 73100); CUNY GC, February – May 2006

• graduate seminar ‘The Structure of the Austronesian Languages’(Linguistics 73100); CUNY GC, February – May 2008

• graduate seminar ‘Universal Grammar and explanatory power’(Linguistics 83100); CUNY GC, February – May 2003 (co-taught withJanet Dean Fodor)

• graduate seminar ‘Modern Linguistic Theories’ (Linguistics 82200);CUNY GC, September – December 2011 (co-taught with RicardoOtheguy)

• graduate seminar ‘The psycholinguistics of minimalism’ (Linguistics83200); CUNY GC, February – May 2012 (co-taught with Janet DeanFodor)

– ELTE • graduate course ‘Syntactic structure building and filler–gapdependencies’/‘A szintaktikai szerkezet és a filler–gap függõség’;Department of English Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University, February– May 2016 (co-taught with Krisztina Szécsényi)


(iii) intensive/special courses • advanced two-week seminar on the syntax of verbal periphrasis, mi-nimalism and antisymmetry; second Central European Summer Schoolin Generative Grammar, Olomouc (Czech Republic); August 1995• advanced two-week seminar on issues in predication; third Central

European Summer School in Generative Grammar, Olomouc (CzechRepublic); August 1996

• advanced one-week seminar on predicates and their movements;LOT Summer School (summer school of the Netherlands GraduateSchool in Linguistics), University of Amsterdam, June 1997

• introduction seminar on the principles-and-parameters theory ofgenerative syntax; fourth Central European Summer School inGenerative Grammar, Olomouc (Czech Republic); August 1997

• introduction seminar on the principles-and-parameters theory ofgenerative syntax; fifth Central European Summer School in GenerativeGrammar, Debrecen (Hungary); August 1998

• seminar on the syntax of pronouns; UPV/EHU Summer Courses,Donostia-San Sebastian (Spain); July 2000

• two seminars on research methods in second language acquisitionresearch (with Virginia Valian, Hunter College/CUNY GraduateCenter); Suranaree University of Technology (Nakhon Ratchasima) &Thammasat University (Bangkok), Thailand; January 2004

• advanced one-week seminar on the syntax of adpositional phrases;LOT Winter School (winter school of the Netherlands Graduate Schoolin Linguistics), University of Amsterdam; January 2004

• advanced one-week ‘szuperkurzus’ on agreement; Institute for Ling-uistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest; January 2006

• advanced three-week graduate seminar on locality; Université deParis VII, Paris; 29 May – 15 June 2006

• advanced three-week graduate seminar on the syntax of cross-clausalAN–dependencies; Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic ofKorea; 4 – 19 March 2010

• advanced mini-seminar at the Franco-Swiss Doctoral School onLinguistics on the syntax of AN–dependencies; Champéry, Switzerland,March 2011

• advanced intensive 12-hour mini-course on predication; PázmányPéter Katolikus Egyetem (Péter Pázmány Catholic University), Pilis-csaba, Hungary; January 2013

• advanced intensive 12-hour mini-course on the syntax of adpositions;ABRALIN VIII; Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal,Brazil; January 2013

• advanced seminar on specificational copular sentences, clefts andpseudoclefts; SCILLS summer school, Pázmány Péter KatolikusEgyetem (Péter Pázmány Catholic University), Piliscsaba, Hungary;24–28 August 2013

• advanced intensive mini-course on specificational copular sentences,clefts, pseudoclefts and semi-clefts; Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil;7, 9 & 12 May 2014


• advanced one-week seminar on structure building and the syntax offiller–gap dependencies; LOT Winter School (winter school of theNetherlands Graduate School in Linguistics), Tilburg University; 19–22January 2016

• advanced intensive mini-course ‘On the subject of the subject’;Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,Budapest, Hungary; 15–18 February 2016

• advanced one-week seminar ‘From GB to Minimalism’; The EGG(Eastern summer school in Generative Grammar), Lagodekhi, Georgia,1–5 August 2016

• advanced one-week seminar on structure building and the syntax offiller–gap dependencies; The EGG (Eastern summer school inGenerative Grammar), Lagodekhi, Georgia, 1–5 August 2016

• advanced intensive crash course on Agree(ment) at the University ofBucharest, Romania, 16–18 December 2016

Research supervision (i) BAELTE – member • referee for Krisztián Ónodi (English ‘diary drop’ of subjects), DELG

ELTE; December 2015

• referee for Mátyás Bence Lagos Cortes (complementisers and thedistribution of IP and CP in English), ELTE DELG; April 2016

(ii) MA/MPhilELTE – member • referee for Jiayou Xi (quantifier scope and the syntax of quantified

expressions), ELTE DELG; April 2016

CUNY – chair • committee chair for Atsuko Miyajima (ga and wa in Japanese — therole of predicate type and information structure), CUNY GraduateCenter; deposited April 2008

elsewhere – member • committee member for Jess Hoi-Ki Law (the syntax of parasitic gapsin Mandarin Chinese), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China;defended September 2013

• committee member for Raiane Salles (recursion in Pirahã), PontifíciaUniversidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; defended 28 August2015

(iii) PhDELTE – member • committee member for Katalin Horváth (syntax of possessed noun

phrases, information structure, and DP/CP parallelism), ELTE;defended 18 February 2016

CUNY – chair • committee chair for Ivy Sichel (syntax of pronouns, with specialreference to Hebrew), CUNY Graduate Center; defended fall 1999

• committee chair for Antonino Gullì (syntactic reduplication inItalian and elsewhere), CUNY Graduate Center; defended fall 2002

• committee chair for Tomoyuki Yabe (Amharic morphosyntax),CUNY Graduate Center; defended 11 September 2007

• committee chair for Eric Stenshoel (Utterance Grammar), CUNYGraduate Center; defended 13 December 2007


• committee chair for Jed Shahar (it-expletive constructions), CUNYGraduate Center; defended 17 April 2008

• committee chair for Kaori Furuya (predication in Japanese complexnoun phrases), CUNY Graduate Center; defended 17 November 2008

• committee chair for Alexandra Ioannidou (prepositional causatives),CUNY Graduate Center; defended 30 July 2012

• committee chair for Ji Young Shim (feature inheritance, word orderin code-switching), CUNY Graduate Center; defended 18 October 2012

• committee chair for Miho Nagai (word order and antisymmetry),CUNY Graduate Center; defended 21 February 2013

• committee chair for Alexander Funk (types of adjectival modifica-tion and predication), CUNY Graduate Center; defended 1 April 2015

• committee chair for Teresa O’Neill (copular amalgams), CUNYGraduate Center; defended 2 April 2015

CUNY – member • committee member for Satoshi Stanley Koike (Japanese no: syntax,semantics, pragmatics), CUNY Graduate Center; defended spring 1999

• committee member for Elena Rudnitskaya (syntax of Russian anaph-ora), CUNY Graduate Center; defended spring 2000

• committee member for Mana Kobuchi-Philip (syntax and semanticsof floating numeral quantifiers in Japanese), CUNY Graduate Center;defended fall 2002

• committee member for Keiko Uehara (processing of multiple nomi-natives in Japanese), CUNY Graduate Center; defended summer 2003

• committee member for Maurizio Santoro (acquisition of Italianaccusative/dative clitics by English speakers), CUNY Graduate Center;defended spring 2004

• committee member for Miki Suzuki (Japanese relative clauses),CUNY Graduate Center; defended fall 2004

• committee member for Peter Slomanson (language contact), CUNYGraduate Center; defended spring 2005

• committee member for Alison Gabriele (aspect in second languageacquisition), CUNY Graduate Center; defended spring 2005

• committee member for Naomi Lapidus Shin (acquisition of Spanishsubject pronouns and pro-drop), CUNY Graduate Center; defendedspring 2006

• committee member for Rachel Szekely (existential sentences),CUNY Graduate Center; defended spring 2008

• committee member for Stephanie Solt (semantics of adjectives ofquantity), CUNY Graduate Center; defended summer 2008

• committee member for Yukiko Koizumi (processing of not-becauseambiguity), CUNY Graduate Center; defended summer 2008

• committee member for Shukhan Ng (the processing of Chinese nullsubjects), CUNY Graduate Center; defended spring 2009


• committee member for Amit Shaked (relative clause attachment inHebrew parsing), CUNY Graduate Center; defended spring 2009

• committee member for Didem Koban (variation in subject pronoun usein Turkish spoken in NYC), CUNY Graduate Center; defended fall 2009

• committee member for Lidiya Tornyova (acquisition of inversion inwh- and yes/no-questions by English and Bulgarian 2- and 3-year-olds),CUNY Graduate Center; defended spring 2011

• committee member for Lisa Reisig Ferrazzano (diachronic develop-ment of determiners and demonstratives in Romance), CUNY GraduateCenter; defended 14 June 2013

• committee member for Carolina Barrera Tobón (contact-inducedword order in the Spanish of New York), CUNY Graduate Center;defended 28 August 2013

• committee member for John Stewart (acquisition of PP syntax),CUNY Graduate Center; defended 10 July 2015

• committee member for Elizabeth Pratt (prosody, agreement, andreading comprehension in native and second-language speakers ofEnglish), CUNY Graduate Center; defended August 2015

elsewhere – member • member of the thesis defence committee (‘oppositiecommissie’) ofJanet Dijk (the participial construction in Biblical Hebrew), VrijeUniversiteit Amsterdam; defended 16 June 1994

• member of the thesis defence committee (‘oppositiecommissie’) ofMarian Klamer (grammar of Kambera (Austronesian)), Vrije Universi-teit Amsterdam/HIL; defended 19 December 1994 (cum laude)

• member of the thesis committee (‘promotiecommissie’) of TonjesVeenstra (predication and serial verb constructions in Saramaccancreole), Universiteit van Amsterdam/HIL; defended 12 April 1996

• committee member for Sungeun Cho (Case agreement in Korean),SUNY Stony Brook; defended spring 2000

• committee member for Martin Kappus (topics in German negationand ‘focus shells’), SUNY Stony Brook; defended spring 2000

• committee member for Ildikó Tóth (infinitives in Hungarian), TilburgUniversity/CLS; defended 26 June 2000

• committee member for Barbara Citko (free relatives and multi-dominance), SUNY Stony Brook; defended fall 2000

• committee member for Franc Marušiè (Spell-Out and the interfaces),SUNY Stony Brook; defended spring 2005

• committee member for Maria Vassilieva (associative plurals), SUNYStony Brook; defended spring 2005

• committee member for Carlos de Cuba (factive and non-factivecomplement clauses), SUNY Stony Brook; defended spring 2007

• committee member for Tomoko Kawamura (focus and focus-sensitive elements), SUNY Stony Brook; defended spring 2007

• committee member for Lisa Levinson (verbal decomposition andlexical roots), New York University; defended summer 2007


• committee member for Léna Baunaz (quantification in French),Université de Genève; defended 1 March 2008

• committee member for Rok Žaucer (Slavic verbal prefixes), Uni-versity of Ottawa/Université d’Ottawa; defended 8 December 2008

• committee member for Natalia Kariaeva (discontinuous nominals),Rutgers University, New Jersey; defended 23 January 2009

• committee member for Suwon Yoon (expletive negation), Universityof Chicago; defended May 2010

• committee member for Éva Dékány (cartography and nanosyntax ofthe Hungarian extended nominal projection), University of Tromsø;defended spring 2012

• committee member for Tanya Scott (the left periphery of the clausein Russian), SUNY Stony Brook; defended spring 2012

• committee member for Andrei Antonenko (binding and scramblingin Russian), SUNY Stony Brook; defended fall 2012

• committee member for Eefje Boef (wh-doubling in Dutch dialects),Utrecht University; defended 18 January 2013

• committee member for Inna Livitz (null arguments and the role offocus), New York University; defended summer 2013

• committee member for Veronika Hegedûs (Hungarian spatial PPs),Tilburg University; defended 30 September 2013

• committee member for Amélie Rocquet (the nanosyntax of objectmarking), Universiteit Gent; defended 22 November 2013

• committee member for Heather Anne Bliss (nominal expressions inBlackfoot), University of British Columbia, Vancouver; defended 29November 2013

• committee member for Darrell Larsen (verb-particle constructions inGermanic), University of Delaware; defended 17 January 2014

• committee member for Adrienn Jánosi (split focus fronting inHungarian), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; defended 30 January 2014

• committee member (‘monitor’) for Juan Romeu Fernández (nano-syntactic cartography of the Spanish spatial PP), Universidad Autóno-ma de Madrid; defended March 2014

• committee member for Bryan Koronkiewicz (pronouns in code-switching), University of Illinois at Chicago; defended 21 April 2014

• committee member for Mariana Santos de Resenes (the syntax ofpseudoclefts and semi-clefts in Brazilian Portuguese), Universidade deSão Paulo, Brazil; defended 6 May 2014

• committee member for Lan Kim (benefactive and adversitive applic-atives in Korean and beyond), University of Delaware; defended 16May 2014

• committee member for Aleksandra Vercauteren (cleft constructionsin Portuguese and the syntax of information structure), UniversidadeNova de Lisboa/Universiteit Gent; defended 15 April 2016


• committee member for Naga Selvanathan (specificational copularconstructions and predicate inversion, with special reference to Tamil),Rutgers University, New Jersey; defended 15 June 2016

• committee member for Enikõ Németh Tóth’s akadémiai doktordefence (interaction of grammar and pragmatics in the realm of implicitarguments in Hungarian), Hungarian Academy of Sciences/SzegedUniversity; 2016

• committee member for Vanessa Petroj (Romanian/Serbian code-switching and the structure of the noun phrase), University of Connec-ticut at Storrs; in progress

Administrative activities • member of the committee on Curriculum and Degree Requirements,Graduate Council, CUNY Graduate Center, 2000–2003

• member of the Libary Committee, Graduate Council, CUNYGraduate Center, 2004–2009

• member of the Executive Committee, PhD/MA Program inLinguistics, CUNY Graduate Center, 1999–2007, 2010, 2011, 2013,2014

• member of the Awards and Admissions Committee, PhD/MA Pro-gram in Linguistics, CUNY Graduate Center, 1999–2002, 2008, 2011,2014

• member of the Curriculum and Examinations Committee, PhD/MAProgram in Linguistics, CUNY Graduate Center, since fall 2002

• member of the Faculty Membership Committee, PhD/MA Programin Linguistics, CUNY Graduate Center, since fall 2002

• board member (treasurer) of the Algemene Vereniging voor Taal-wetenschap (Dutch Linguistic Society; AVT), till January 1999

• member (secretary) of the founding board of the Student Or-ganisation of Linguistics in Europe (SOLE), till September 1994

• member (treasurer) of the founding board of the ‘Stichting’Generative Linguistics in Eastern Europe (GLEE), 1996

Organisational activities • organisation of the Third Leiden Conference for Junior Linguists,Leiden, December 1991 (with Sjef Barbiers & Claartje Levelt)

• organisation of the Workshop on the Syntax of Possession and theVerb ‘Have’ at the 28th Conference of the Societas LinguisticaEuropaea (SLE), Leiden, September 1995

• co-organiser of the third Central European Summer School in Gene-rative Grammar, Olomouc (Czech Republic), 1996 (with Damir Æavar,Tracy Hall, Peter Ludlow, Maaike Schoorlemmer & Lida Veselovska)

• executive organiser of the 12th Comparative Germanic SyntaxWorkshop, held at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/HIL, 9–10 January1997

• co-convener of the seminar on clitic phenomena in English and otherEuropean languages at the ESSE/4 meeting in Debrecen, Hungary,September 1997


• co-organiser of The First CUNY/SUNY Linguistics Mini-Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, 11 March 2000 (with BarbaraCitko – SUNY Stony Brook)

• co-organiser of The CUNY/SUNY/NYU Linguistics Mini-Conference, SUNY Stony Brook, 10 March 2001 (with Barbara Citko– SUNY Stony Brook)

• co-organiser of The CUNY/SUNY/NYU Linguistics Mini-Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, 8 March 2003 (with AlisonGabriele & Erika Troseth – CUNY Graduate Center)

• organiser of the Linguistics Colloquium, CUNY Graduate Center,1998–2007

• organiser of the Syntax Lunch (1998/1999) and Syntax Supper(1999/2000/2001/2002/2003/2004/2005/2006) series, CUNY GraduateCenter

• conference co-chair of the 32nd annual conference of the North EastLinguistic Society (NELS 32), CUNY Graduate Center & NYU, 19–21October 2001 (with Mark Baltin – NYU)

• conference co-chair of the 19th annual Comparative Germanic SyntaxWorkshop (CGSW19), CUNY Graduate Center, 3–5 June 2004 (withChristina Tortora – CUNY Graduate Center/College of Staten Island)

• conference co-chair of the 8th International Conference on the Struc-ture of Hungarian (ICSH8), CUNY Graduate Center & NYU, 24–26May 2007 (with Anna Szabolcsi – NYU; Robert Vago – CUNY/Queens)

• executive organiser of the Symposium on Phi-Feature Inflection atthe LSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, 4 January 2008 (co-organisers:Judy Bernstein – William Paterson University; Christina Tortora –CUNY/GC&CSI; Raffaella Zanuttini – Georgetown University)

• conference co-chair of the 18th Japanese/Korean LinguisticsConference (JK18), CUNY Graduate Center, Fall 2008 (with WilliamMcClure – CUNY/GC&Queens)

• faculty advisor for the 43rd annual conference of the North EastLinguistic Society (NELS 43), CUNY, 19–21 October 2012

• co-organiser of the 43rd annual Linguistic Symposium on RomanceLanguages (LSRL 43), CUNY Graduate Center, 17–19 April 2013

• co-organiser of the Budapest Conference on Projection andRepresentation in Syntactic Theory, in Honour of Michael Brody,Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,13–14 April 2015 (with István Kenesei)

• co-organiser of the round-table conference Generative Syntax in theTwenty-First Century: The Road Ahead, University of Athens, Greece,28–30 May 2015 (with Artemis Alexiadou, Winfried Lechner, TerjeLohndal, and Peter Svenonius)

• organiser of the Syntax Reading Group at the Research Institute forLinguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (as per September2014)


• co-founder and co-director of the Budapest Research Centre forLinguistic Theory (BRCLT)/Nyelvelméleti Kutatóközpont (NYEKK),ELTE Budapest (founded October 2015; with Mark Newson and PéterSzigetvári)

• co-organiser of the conference on the occasion of the 130th anniver-sary of the ELTE Department of English (‘SEAS130’), School ofEnglish and American Studies, ELTE Budapest, 11 November 2016

Editorial activities • from 1 January 2008 until 1 January 2015: Editor in Chief ofNatural Language and Linguistic Theory (published by Springer)

• from 1 June 1996 until 1 January 2008: Associate Editor of NaturalLanguage and Linguistic Theory

• as per October 2002: Series Editor of the Springer book seriesStudies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (with LilianeHaegeman and Joan Maling)

• Editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Grammar (2012)

• member of the Editorial Board of English Linguistics, the journal ofthe English Linguistic Society of Japan, as per 1 April 2015

• member of the Editorial Board of Natural Language & LinguisticTheory (published by Springer), as per 1 January 2015

• member of the Editorial Board of Linguistic Inquiry (published byThe MIT Press), as per fall 2007

• member of the Editorial Board of Linguistic Variation Yearbook andits successor Linguistic Variation (published by John BenjaminsPublishing Co.), as per fall 2007

• member of the Editorial Board of Lingua (published by Elsevier),from fall 2013 until the resignation of the editors and full editorialboard of the journal (fall 2015)

• member of the founding editorial board of Glossa (the Open Accesssuccessor to Lingua), as per January 2016

• member of the Editorial Board of Syntax (published by BlackwellPublishers), as per fall 2001

• member of the Editorial Board of The Linguistic Review (publishedby Mouton de Gruyter), as per 2000

• member of the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Language Sciences

• member of the Editorial Board of Studies in Generative Grammar(journal of the Korean Generative Grammar Circle), as per fall 2007

• member of the Editorial Board of the journal of the ModernLinguistic Society of Korea (MLSK), as per 2011

• member of the Editorial Board of the on-line journal Questions andAnswers in Linguistics (QAL), as per 2013

• member of the Editorial Board of Natural Language & LinguisticTheory (published by Kluwer Academic Publishers), until 1 June 1996


• member of the Advisory Board of e-Uralic (an on-line journal underdevelopment, aiming to promote research on the Uralic languagesemploying modern linguistic approaches), as per 2007

• co-editor of the Proceedings of the Third Leiden Conference forJunior Linguists (w/ Sjef Barbiers & Claartje Levelt)

• guest co-editor of The Linguistic Review 8:2–4 (w/ Frits Beukema)

• co-editor of Linguistics in the Netherlands 1995 (w/ Kees Henge-veld)

• co-editor of Linguistics in the Netherlands 1996 (w/ Crit Cremers)

• guest editor of special issue of Lingua on the syntax of possessionand the verb ‘have’ (containing papers from the SLE Workshop on theSyntax of Possession and the Verb ‘Have’); published April 1997

• co-editor of Clitic phenomena in European languages (2000),Amsterdam: John Benjamins (w/ Frits Beukema)

• co-editor of The function of function words and functional categories(2005), Amsterdam: John Benjamins (w/ Christina Tortora)

• co-editor of Approaches to Hungarian 11. Papers from the 2007 NewYork conference (2009), Amsterdam: John Benjamins (w/ Robert Vago)

• co-editor of Proceedings of the 18th Japanese/Korean LinguisticsConference (2009), Stanford: CSLI (w/ William McClure)

• co-editor of Romance Linguistics 2013: Selected Papers from the43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) (2016),Amsterdam: John Benjamins (w/ Christina Tortora, Teresa O’Neill andIgnacio Montoya)

• co-editor of Boundaries crossed, at the crossroads of morphosyntax,phonology, pragmatics and semantics (2017), Dordrecht: Springer (w/Zoltán Bánréti, Huba Bartos and Tamás Váradi)

• guest editor of NLLT Topic/Comment Special on phi-feature inflec-tion and agreement

• member of the board of regular contributors of GLOT International(until 2000)

• managing editor of CUNY Forum vol. 20 (working papers series ofCUNY Linguistics); spring 2000

• managing editor of Linguistics in the Big Apple (working papersseries of CUNY Linguistics and NYU Linguistics; successor of CUNYForum); as per fall 2000

Other activities, services • affiliate member of the International Advisory Board to the Bilin-gualism Research Laboratory (directed by Professors Kay-Eduardo Gon-zález-Vilbazo and Luis López) at the University of Illinois at Chicago

• member of the Advisory Board (‘curatorium’) of the Professoriate forVariation Linguistics, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciencesand Utrecht University, the Netherlands (1 June 2011 – 1 June 2016)

• member of the International Advisory Board of Linguistics in theNetherlands (the annual publication of the Dutch Linguistic Society;AVT)


Research grants • PSC-CUNY Research Award (#35-6055), 2004–2005, for research(by Dr Peter Slomanson) on Sri Lankan Malay morphosyntax ($3,578)

• NSF Award (#0414145), 2004, for the 19th Comparative GermanicSyntax Workshop (CGSW19); co-PI: Christina Tortora (CUNY–College of Staten Island/Graduate Center) ($10,272)

• NSF Collaborative Research Award (#0616573), 2006–2008, ‘TheComparative Morpho-Syntax of Appalachian English’; co-PIs: JudyBernstein (William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey), ChristinaTortora (CUNY–College of Staten Island/Graduate Center), RaffaellaZanuttini (Georgetown University) (total amount of grant: $208,037, ofwhich $89,652 awarded to Den Dikken)

• NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (#1023709),2010–2011, ‘Deriving Word Order in Code-switching’, for Ji YoungShim (co-PI, CUNY Graduate Center) ($5,940)

• PSC-CUNY Research Award (#64405-00 42), 2011–2012) oncorrective focus ($3,500)

Bibliography(as per December 2016)

1. BooksDikken, M. den (1995). Particles: On the syntax of verb–particle, triadic and causative constructions.

Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax (R.S. Kayne, series editor). Oxford/New York: OxfordUniversity Press. [288pp.]

Dikken, M. den (2003). The structure of the noun phrase in Rotuman. München: LINCOM EuropaAcademic Publishers. [81pp.]

Dikken, M. den (2006). Relators and linkers: The syntax of predication, Predicate Inversion, andcopulas. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [351pp.]

Broekhuis, H. & M. den Dikken (2012). Syntax of Dutch. Nouns and noun phrases, Vol. 2. Amsterdam:Amsterdam University Press. [1,163pp.]

Dikken, M. den (2017). Dependency and directionality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [inproduction; publication expected in 2017]

2. Edited volumesBeukema, F. & M. den Dikken (1991) (guest eds). Heads. Special edition of The Linguistic Review,

containing papers from the 14th GLOW Colloquium, Leiden.Barbiers, S., M. den Dikken & C. Levelt (eds) (1992). Proceedings of the Third Leiden Conference for

Junior Linguists. The Hague: Holland Academic Graphics.Dikken, M. den & K. Hengeveld (eds) (1995). Linguistics in the Netherlands 1995. Amsterdam: John

Benjamins.Cremers, C. & M. den Dikken (eds) (1996). Linguistics in the Netherlands 1996. Amsterdam: John

Benjamins.Dikken, M. den (guest ed.) (1997). The syntax of possession and the verb ‘have’. Special double-issue

of Lingua (#101:3/4).Beukema, F. & M. den Dikken (eds) (2000). Clitic phenomena in European languages. Amsterdam: John

Benjamins.Dikken, M. den & C. Tortora (eds) (2005). The function of function words and functional categories.

Amsterdam: John Benjamins.Dikken, M. den & R. Vago (eds) (2009). Approaches to Hungarian 11. Papers from the 2007 New York

conference. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.McClure, W. & M. den Dikken (eds) (2011). Proceedings of the 18th Japanese/Korean Linguistics

Conference. Stanford: CSLI.Dikken, M. den (guest ed.) (2011). Phi-feature inflection and agreement. Topic/Comment Special issue

of Natural Language & Linguistic Theory (#29:4).Dikken, M. den (ed.) (2013). The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press. [1,153pp.]Tortora, C., T. O’Neill, I. Montoya & M. den Dikken (eds) (2016), Romance Linguistics 2013: Selected

Papers from the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New York, 17–19 April,2013. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Bartos, H., M. den Dikken, Z. Bánréti & T. Váradi (eds) (2017), Boundaries crossed, at the crossroadsof morphosyntax, phonology, pragmatics and semantics. Dordrecht: Springer (to appear).

3. Articles in peer-reviewed journals and volumesDikken, M. den (1987). Secundaire predicatie en de analyse van small clauses. GLOT 10. 1–28.Broekman, H. & M. den Dikken (1988). The analysis of incorporation in Eskimo. In P. Coopmans & A.

Hulk (eds), Linguistics in the Netherlands 1988. Dordrecht: Foris. 29–38.Dikken, M. den & H. van der Hulst (1988). Segmental hierarchitecture. In H. van der Hulst & N. Smith

(eds), Features, segmental structure and harmony processes. Dordrecht: Foris. 1–78.Dikken, M. den (1989). Verb Projection Raising en de analyse van het IPP–effect. Tabu 19. 59–75.


Beukema, F. & M. den Dikken (1989). The position of the infinitival marker in the Germanic languages.In D. Jaspers, W. Klooster, Y. Putseys & P. Seuren (eds), Sentential complementation and the lexicon.Dordrecht: Foris. 57–75.

Dikken, M. den (1990). The structure of English complex particle constructions. In R. Bok-Bennema &P. Coopmans (eds), Linguistics in the Netherlands 1990. Dordrecht: Foris. 23–32.

Dikken, M. den (1991). Serial verbs, ‘object sharing’, and the analysis of Dative Shift. In F. Drijkoningen& A. van Kemenade (eds), Linguistics in the Netherlands 1991. Dordrecht: Foris. 31–40.

Dikken, M. den & F. Beukema (1991). Heads ) an introduction. In F. Beukema & M. den Dikken (eds).107–17.

Dikken, M. den (1992). Empty operator movement in Dutch imperatives. In D. Gilbers & S. Looyenga(eds), Language and Cognition 2. Groningen. 51–64.

Broekhuis, H. & M. den Dikken (1993). Chomsky's minimalistische programma. Tabu 23. 219–52.Dikken, M. den & A. Næss (1993). Case dependencies: The case of predicate inversion. The Linguistic

Review 10. 303–36.Dikken, M. den (1994). Predicate inversion and minimality. In R. Bok-Bennema & C. Cremers (eds),

Linguistics in the Netherlands 1994. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1–12.Dikken, M. den (1995). Binding, expletives and levels. Linguistic Inquiry 26. 347–54.Dikken, M. den (1995). Extrapositie als intrapositie en Engelse tag-vragen. TABU 25:3. 128–32.Dikken, M. den & C.J.W. Zwart (1996). Very Exceptional Case-Marking. In S. Epstein & H. Thráinsson

(eds), Studies in comparative Germanic syntax, volume II. Dordrecht: Kluwer. 85–108.Bennis, H., F. Beukema & M. den Dikken (1996). Getting verb movement. Linguistics 35:6. 1003–1028

(special issue on comparative Germanic syntax, ed. W. de Geest, E. Hoekstra & G. Vanden Wyngaerd).Dikken, M. den & E. Hoekstra (1996). Parasitic participles. Linguistics 35:6. 1057–89 (special issue on

comparative Germanic syntax, ed. W. de Geest, E. Hoekstra & G. Vanden Wyngaerd).Dikken, M. den (1996). Minimalist Verb (Projection) Raising. In W. Abraham, S. Epstein, H. Thráinsson

& C.J.W. Zwart (eds), Minimal ideas: Syntactic studies in the minimalist framework. Amsterdam:John Benjamins. 67–96.

Dikken, M. den, R. Larson & P. Ludlow (1996). Intensional ̀ transitive' verbs and concealed complementclauses. In Rivista di linguistica 8. 29-46.

Dikken, M. den (1997). The syntax of possession and the verb ‘have’. Lingua 101:3/4. 129–50(introduction to special issue on the syntax of possession and the verb ‘have’, ed. M. den Dikken).

Belvin, R. & M. den Dikken (1997). There, happens, to, be, have. Lingua 101:3/4. 151–83.Bennis, H., N. Corver & M. den Dikken (1997). Predication in nominal phrases. Journal of Comparative

Germanic Linguistics 1:2. 85–117.Dikken, M. den & A. Lipták (1997). Csoda egy nyelv ) Nominal–internal predication in Hungarian. In

J. Coerts & H. de Hoop (eds), Linguistics in the Netherlands 1997. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 61–72.Dikken, M. den (1998). Predicate Inversion in DP. In A. Alexiadou & C. Wilder (eds), Possessives,

predicates and movement in the DP. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 177–214.Dikken, M. den (1998). (Anti-)agreement in DP. In R. van Bezooijen & R. Kager (eds), Linguistics in

the Netherlands 1998. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 95–107.Dikken, M. den (1999). Speaker–oriented particles in Dutch imperatives. GLOT International 4:2. 23–24.Dikken, M. den (1999). On the structural representation of possession and agreement. The case of

(anti-)agreement in Hungarian possessed nominal phrases. In I. Kenesei (ed.), Crossing Boundaries:Theoretical Advances in Central and Eastern European Languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.137–78.

Szabolcsi, A. & M. den Dikken (1999). Islands. ‘State of the Article’, GLOT International 4:6. 3–8.Dikken, M. den (2000). The syntax of features. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 29:1. 5–23.Dikken, M. den, A. Meinunger & C. Wilder (2000). Pseudoclefts and ellipsis. Studia Linguistica 54.

41–89.Dikken, M. den (2001). ‘Pluringulars’, pronouns and quirky agreement. The Linguistic Review 18. 19–41.


Dikken, M. den (2002). Direct and parasitic polarity item licensing. The Journal of ComparativeGermanic Linguistics 5. 35–66.

Dikken, M. den & A. Giannakidou (2002). From hell to polarity. Linguistic Inquiry 33:1. 31–61.Dikken, M. den (2003). Lexical integrity, checking and the mirror: A checking approach to syntactic

word formation. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 6. 169–225.Dikken, M. den (2003). On the morphosyntax of wh-movement. In C. Boeckx & K. Grohmann (eds),

Multiple wh-fronting. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 77–98.Dikken, M. den (2003). Comparative correlatives and Verb Second. In J. Koster & H. van Riemsdijk

(eds), Germania et alia. A linguistic webschrift for Hans den Besten. 14pp. Dikken, M. den (2004). Agreement and ‘clause union’. In K. É. Kiss & H. van Riemsdijk (eds), Verb

Clusters: A study of Hungarian, German and Dutch. Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 69.Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 445–498.

Dikken, M. den & P. Singhapreecha (2004). Complex noun phrases and linkers. Syntax 7:1. 1–54.Dikken, M. den (2005). A comment on the topic of topic–comment. Lingua 115:5. 691–710.Dikken, M. den (2005). Comparative correlatives comparatively. Linguistic Inquiry 36:4. 497–532.Dikken, M. den & C. Tortora (2005). The function of function words and functional categories.

Introduction to Den Dikken & Tortora (eds) (2005), above. 1–10.Dikken, M. den (2005). Transparent, free... and polarised: The (poli)tics of polarity in transparent free

relatives. In H. Broekhuis, N. Corver, R. Huybregts, U. Kleinhenz & J. Koster (eds), Organizinggrammar. Linguistic studies in honor of Henk van Riemsdijk. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 97–107.

Dikken, M. den (2006). Either-float and the syntax of co-or-dination. Natural Language and LinguisticTheory 24:3. 689–749.

Dikken, M. den (2006). Parasitism, secondary triggering, and depth of embedding. In R. Zanuttini, H.Campos, E. Herburger & P.H. Portner (eds), Cross-linguistic research in syntax and semantics:Negation, tense, and clausal architecture. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. 151–74.

Craenenbroeck, J. van & M. den Dikken (2006). Ellipsis and EPP repair. Linguistic Inquiry 37. 653–64.Dikken, M. den (2007). Amharic relatives and possessives: Definiteness, agreement and the linker.

Linguistic Inquiry 38. 302–20.Dikken, M. den (2007). Phase Extension: Contours of a theory of the role of head movement in phrasal

extraction. Theoretical Linguistics 33:1. 1–41.Dikken, M. den (2007). Phase Extension: A reply. Reaction to commentaries on ‘Phase Extension:

Contours of a theory of the role of head movement in phrasal extraction’. Theoretical Linguistics33:1. 133–63.

Dikken, M. den, J. Bernstein, C. Tortora & R. Zanuttini (2007). Data and grammar: Means andindividuals. Theoretical Linguistics 33. 335–52.

Dikken, M. den & M. Blasco (2007). Clitic climbing in Spanish imperatives. In W. van der Wurff (ed.),Imperative clauses in generative grammar: Studies offered to Frits Beukema. Amsterdam: JohnBenjamins. 135–152.

Dikken, M. den (2009). Comparative correlatives and successive cyclicity. In A. Lipták (ed.),Correlatives cross-linguistically. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 263–306.

Dikken, M. den (2009). Arguments for successive-cyclic movement through SpecCP: A critical review.Linguistic Variation Yearbook 9. 89–126.

Tortora, C., & M. den Dikken (2010). Subject agreement variation: Support for the configurationalapproach. Lingua. 1089–1108.

Dikken, M. den (2010). On the functional structure of locative and directional PPs. In G. Cinque & L.Rizzi (eds), Mapping spatial PPs. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 74–126.

Dikken, M. den (2010). Directions from the GET-GO: On the syntax of manner-of-motion verbs indirectional constructions. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 9. 25–55.

Dikken, M. den (2010). De linkerperiferie antwoordt — Een reactie op het artikel van Barbiers,Koeneman & Lekakou. Nederlandse Taalkunde 15:3. 308–11.


Dikken, M. den (2010). Embedded inversion and successive cyclicity. In J.W. Zwart & M. de Vries (eds), Structure preserved. Studies in syntax for Jan Koster. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 101–107.

Dikken, M. den (2011). Phi-feature inflection and agreement: An introduction. Natural Language &Linguistic Theory 29:4. 857–74.

Aelbrecht, L. & M. den Dikken (2011). Doubling PPs in Flemish dialects. In R. Nouwen & M. Elenbaas(eds), Linguistics in the Netherlands 2011. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1–13.

Dikken, M. den (2012). Ditransitieven en het nut van hiërarchische structuur en derivatie. NederlandseTaalkunde 17. 362–79.

Colleman, T. & M. den Dikken (2012). Constructie- en generatieve grammatica in discussie. NederlandseTaalkunde 17. 380–402.

Dikken, M. den (2013). Prepare and Repair: On pre-emptive strikes and post-hoc patches. In P. Brandt& E. Fuß (eds), Repairs. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 131–53.

Dikken, M. den (2013). Predication and specification in the syntax of cleft sentences. In K. Hartmann& T. Veenstra (eds), Cleft structures. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 35–70.

Aelbrecht, L. & M. den Dikken ( 2013). Preposition doubling in Flemish dialects and its implications forthe syntax of Dutch PPs. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 16. 33–68.

Dikken, M. den (2014). On feature interpretability and inheritance. In P. Kosta, S. Franks, T. Radeva-Bork & L. Schürcks (eds), Minimalism and beyond: Radicalizing the interfaces. Amsterdam: JohnBenjamins. 37–55.

Bandi-Rao, S. & M. den Dikken (2014). Light switches. On v as a pivot in codeswitching, and the natureof the ban on word-internal switches. In J. MacSwan (ed.), Grammatical theory and bilingual codes-witching. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 161–83.

Dikken, M. den (2015). On the morphosyntax of (in)alienably possessed noun phrases. In É. Dékány, K.É. Kiss & B. Surányi (eds), Approaches to Hungarian 14. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Larson, R., M. den Dikken & P. Ludlow (2016). Intensional transitive verbs and abstract clausal com-plementation. In A. Grzankowski & M. Montague (eds), Non-propositional intentionality. Oxford:Oxford University Press.

Wouden, T. van der, J. Audring, H. Bennis, F. Beukema, G. Booij, H. Broekhuis, N. Corver, C. Cremers,R. Dernison, M. den Dikken, S. Dyk, C. Gussenhoven, G. de Haan, V. van Heuven, E. Hoekstra, J.Hoekstra, G. de Jong, E. Keizer, A. Kirstein, B. Köhnlein, F. Landsbergen, K. Linke, M. van Oosten-dorp, M. Ouddeken, C. Tiberius, A. Versloot, W. Visser, T. Vos, T. de Vries, J. Weening (2016). HetTaalportaal: Een nieuwe wetenschappelijke grammatica voor het Nederlands en het Fries. Neder-landse Taalkunde 21. 157–67.

Dikken, M. den (2016). What do I know?! Reflections on a rhetorical question. In P. Szigetvári & M.Törkenczy (eds), Webschrift for Ádám Nádasdy. Budapest: ELTE. http://seas3.elte.hu/nadasdy70/

Dikken, M. den (2017). Stacking up for the long way down. Chapter 13 of L. Cheng, M. Hijzelendoorn,H. Reckman & R. Sybesma (eds), Crossroads semantics: Computation, experiment and grammar.Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 207–25.

Dikken, M. den & B. Surányi (accepted). Contrasting contrastive left dislocation explications. LinguisticInquiry.

Dikken, M. den & É. Dékány (accepted). A restriction on recursion. Syntax.Dikken, M. den (to appear). Quantifier float and predicate inversion. In E. Aboh, E. Haeberli, G. Puskás

& M. Schönenberger (eds), Elements of micro-comparative syntax: Theory and description. Berlin:Mouton de Gruyter.

Dikken, M. den (to appear). Differential object marking and the structure of transitive clauses. In G.Bellucci, L. Franco & P. Lorusso (eds), [title tbd].

Dikken, M. den (to appear). Changes in the distribution of the subjunctive in Spanish. A case againstincomplete acquisition. In D. Erker & N. Lapidus Shin (eds), First names – How theoretical primi-tives shape the search for linguistic structure. Papers in honor of Ricardo Otheguy. Amsterdam: JohnBenjamins.


Dikken, M. den (to appear). An integrated analysis of Hungarian nominal and verbal inflection. In H.Bartos, M. den Dikken, Z. Bánréti & T. Váradi (eds), Boundaries crossed, at the crossroads ofmorphosyntax, phonology, pragmatics and semantics. Dordrecht: Springer.

Dikken, M. den & É. Dékány (to appear). Thoughts on subsective probe–goal relations. In A. Bárány,Th. Biberauer & S. Vikner (eds), [title tbd]. Language Science Press.

Dikken, M. den (to appear). On the strategies for forming long AN–dependencies: Evidence fromHungarian. In B. Surányi (ed.), [title tbd] (volume of papers from the conference on MinimalistApproaches to Syntactic Locality). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (to appear).

4. Encyclopedia and handbook chaptersDikken, M. den (2002). Agreement. In The Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Nature Publishing Group,

Macmillan Publishers.Szabolcsi, A. & M. den Dikken (2002). Islands. In L. Cheng & R. Sybesma (eds), The Second State-of-

the-Article Book. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 213–40.Dikken, M. den (2005). Specificational copular sentences and pseudoclefts. In M. Everaert & H. van

Riemsdijk (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Syntax. Oxford: Blackwell. Vol. IV, Chapter 61.Dikken, M. den (2013). Introduction. In M. den Dikken (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Generative

Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 3–25.Dikken, M. den & A. Lahne (2013). The locality of syntactic dependencies. In M. den Dikken (ed.), The

Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 655–97.Dikken, M. den (2017). Overtly-marked wh-paths. In M. Everaert & H. van Riemsdijk (eds), The

Blackwell Companion to Syntax (second edition). Oxford: Blackwell.Dikken, M. den (2017). Pseudoclefts and other specificational copular sentences. In M. Everaert & H.

van Riemsdijk (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Syntax (second edition). Oxford: Blackwell.Dikken, M. den & T. O’Neill (to appear). Copular constructions. In M. Aronoff (ed. in chief), Oxford

Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

5. Articles in conference proceedings and working papersDikken, M. den (1991). Particles and the dative alternation. In J. van Lit, R. Mulder & R. Sybesma (eds),

Proceedings of the Second Leiden Conference for Junior Linguists. Leiden. 71–86.Dikken, M. den & R. Mulder (1991). Double object scrambling. In J. Bobaljik & A. Bures (eds), MIT

Working Papers in Linguistics 14. 67–82.Mulder, R. & M. den Dikken (1992). Tough parasitic gaps. Proceedings of NELS 22. Amherst: GLSA.Dikken, M. den & H. Broekhuis (1993). Locality in minimalist syntax. HIL Manuscripts 1:3. 1–15.Dikken, M. den & A. Næss (1993). Case and predicate raising. Proceedings of WCCFL 12. Stanford:

CSLI. 14pp.Dikken, M. den (1994). Auxiliaries and participles. In M. González (ed.), Proceedings of NELS 24.

Amherst: GLSA. 65–79.Dikken, M. den (1994). Minimalist Verb (Projection) Raising. In Groninger Arbeiten zur

germanistischen Linguistik 37. 71–88.Dikken, M. den & E. Hoekstra (1994). No cause for a small clause? (Non-)arguments for the structure

of resultatives. In Groninger Arbeiten zur germanistischen Linguistik 37. 89–105.Bennis, H., M. den Dikken, P. Jordens, S. Powers & J. Weissenborn (1995). Picking up particles. In D.

MacLauglin & S. McEwen (eds), Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on LanguageDevelopment. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 70–81.

Dikken, M. den (1995). Verb (Projection) Raising, scope, and uniform phrase structure. In J. Beckman(ed.), Proceedings of NELS 25, Vol. I. Amherst: GLSA. 15 pp.

Dikken, M. den, A. Meinunger & C. Wilder (1998). Pseudoclefts and ellipsis. In A. Alexiadou, N.Fuhrop, P. Law & U. Kleinhenz (eds), ZAS Papers in Linguistics 10. 21–70.

Dikken, M. den & A. Giannakidou (2001). What the hell?! In M.J. Kim & U. Strauss (eds), NELS 31Proceedings. Amherst: GLSA. 162–83.


Dikken, M. den, A. Lipták & Zs. Zvolenszky (2001). On inclusive reference anaphora: New perspectivesfrom Hungarian. In K. Megerdoomian & L.A. Bar-El (eds), WCCFL 20 Proceedings. Somerville,MA: Cascadilla Press. 137–49.

Dikken, M. den & P. Singhapreecha (2001). Thîi for two: The two flavors of Thai thîi. In Proceedingsof The 11th Annual Southeast Asia Linguistics Conference (SEALS 11).

Shim, J.Y. & M. den Dikken (2008). The tense of resultatives: The case of Korean. In Proceedings ofNELS 38. Amherst: GLSA.

Ioannidou, A. & M. den Dikken (2009). P-drop, D-drop, D-spread. In Proceedings of the 2007 Workshopin Greek Syntax and Semantics, MITWPL 57. 393–408.

Dikken, M. & J.Y. Shim (2011). Feature inheritance and EPP. In Andrew Simpson (ed.), Proceedingsfrom the 7th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL7). MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.

Resenes, M. & M. den Dikken (2012). Semi-clefts as a window on the syntax of predication and the‘object of’ relation. In Proceedings of CLS 48. Chicago Linguistics Society.

Dikken, M. den (2014). Raising the subject of the ‘object-of’ relation. To appear in a special edition ofMIT Working Papers in Linguistics commemorating the 50th anniversary of the publication ofAspects of the theory of syntax, ed. Ángel Gallego & Dennis Ott.

6. Reviews, review articles and commentariesDikken, M. den (1995). Aspects of aspect. A review of Aspectual roles and the syntax–semantics

interface by Carol Tenny. GLOT International 1:1. 18–19.Dikken, M. den (1995). Functional heads and their movement. A review of Dutch syntax. A minimalist

approach by Jan-Wouter Zwart. GLOT International 1:3. 11–13.Dikken, M. den (1995). Great expectations. A review of Thematic structure in syntax by Edwin

Williams. GLOT International 1:5. 13–14.Dikken, M. den (1995). The phonology of events. Review of A semantic and pragmatic model of lexical

and grammatical aspect by Mari Broman Olsen. GLOT International 1:6. 9–11.Dikken, M. den (1996). A matter of cause. Review of Verb incorporation and elementary predicates by

Murat Kural. GLOT International 2:6.Dikken, M. den (1998). Appraising The raising of predicates. Review article of The raising of predicates.

Predicative noun phrases and the theory of clause structure by Andrea Moro (Cambridge UniversityPress, 1997). Linguistische Berichte.

Dikken, M. den (1998). Review of Andrew Radford, Syntactic theory and the structure of English: Aminimalist approach. Lingua 104. 261–73.

Dikken, M. den (1998). The infinite economy of complementation, or: The return of the New EnglandLinguistic Society. Review of The syntax of nonfinite complementation. An economy approach, byŽeljko Boškoviæ. GLOT International 3:6. 18–21.

Dikken, M. den (1999). Syntax understood. Review of Understanding Syntax, by Maggie Tallerman.GLOT International 4:4. 23–24.

Dikken, M. den (1999). Review of Comparative Syntax by Ian Roberts. Lingua 109. 301–10.Dikken, M. den (2000). Review of La grammaire de la possession. Lingua 110. 937–47.Dikken, M. den (2002). Review of Particle Verbs and Local Domains by Jochen Zeller. The Journal of

Comparative Germanic Linguistics 4:2. 145–69.Dikken, M. den & A. Lipták (2003). Review of É. Kiss (2002), The syntax of Hungarian. Language 79:4.

777–80.Dikken, M. den (2005). Review of Anagnostopoulou (2003), The syntax of ditransitives: Evidence from

clitics. Language 81:4 . 980–84.Dikken, M. den (2007). Review of Frascarelli (ed.) (2006), Phases of interpretation. Journal of

Linguistics 43:2. 440–49.Dikken, M. den (2010). Book review: Mirrors and microparameters: Phrase structure beyond free word

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Conference presentations and invited lectures[listed since 1993]

1. Presentations at international conferences with peer-reviewed selection

(i) GLOW (Generative Linguists of the Old World), incl. GLOW Workshops5 April 2014 – 37th GLOW Colloquium, Universities of Brussels and Ghent, Brussels (Belgium),

semantics workshop on possessionOn the morphosyntax of (in)alienably possessed noun phrases

27 March 2008 – 31st GLOW Colloquium, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK), mainsessionSmall clauses, phases, and phase extension

8 April 2006 – 29th GLOW Colloquium, Universitàt Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain), main sessionVacuous movement in focus — On the syntax of highest-subject wh-questions and relative clauses

1April 2005 – 28th GLOW Colloquium, Université de Genève (Switzerland), main sessionEither-float and the syntax of co-or-dination

30 March 2005 – GLOW 2005, Workshop on the Syntax of Semitic Languages, Université de Genève(Switzerland)Definiteness and agreement in the Amharic complex noun phrase

6 January 2002 – GLOW in Asia 2002, National Tsing Hua University, Taipei (Taiwan/Republic ofChina), main sessionComplex noun phrases and linkers (co-author: Pornsiri Singhapreecha, Thammasat University,Bangkok)

15 April 1998 – GLOW, Tilburg (The Netherlands), main session‘Take’ serials light up the middle (co-author: Rint Sybesma, University of Leiden/HIL)

17 April 1996 – GLOW, Athens (Greece), main session(A)symmetries in predication, and the meaning of structure (co-authors: Hans Bennis, University ofLeiden/HIL & Norbert Corver, KU Brabant/CLS), main session

2 June 1995 – GLOW, Tromsø (Norway)Copulas

(ii) NELS (North-East Linguistic Society)13–15 November 2009 – 40th conference of the North-East Linguistic Society (NELS), MIT, Cambridge,

MA (USA)On the nature and distribution of successive cyclicity

26 October 2007 – 38th conference of the North-East Linguistic Society (NELS), University of Ottawa(Canada)The tense of resultatives — The case of Korean (co-author: Ji Young Shim, CUNY Graduate Center)

7 October 2000 – 31st conference of the North-East Linguistic Society (NELS), Georgetown University,Washington, DC (USA)Aggressively non-D–linked wh-phrases as polarity items (co-author: Anastasia Giannakidou,Groningen)

16 October 1994 – 25th conference of the North-East Linguistic Society (NELS), University ofPennsylvania, Philadelphia (USA)Verb (Projection) Raising, scope and uniform phrase structure

20 November 1993 – 24th conference of the North-East Linguistic Society (NELS), University ofMassachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts (USA)Auxiliaries and participles

(iii) WCCFL (West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics)1 November 2002 – West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 2002, University of British Columbia,

Vancouver (Canada)Rotuman relatives and resumptive pronouns


24 & 25 February 2001 – WCCFL XX, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (USA)On inclusive reference anaphora: New perspectives from Hungarian (co-authors: Anikó Lipták,Leiden and Zsófia Zvolenszky, NYU)Restrictions on clitic climbing and the nature of restructuring (co-author: Mariví Blasco, CUNY)

4 April 1993 – West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), University of California, SantaCruz, California (USA)Case dependencies — the case of predicate raising (co-author: Alma Næss, Universitetet i Oslo,Norway)

(iv) WECOL (Western Conference on Linguistics)28 October 2006 – Western Conference on Linguistics, California State University, Fresno (USA)

P-drop, D-drop, D-spread (co-author: Alexandra Ioannidou, CUNY Graduate Center)26 October 1996 – Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), UCSC, Santa Cruz, California (USA)

How external is the external argument?23 October 1994 – Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), U California, Los Angeles (USA)

Minimalist Verb (Projection) Raising23 October 1993 – Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), University of Washington, Seattle,

Washington (USA)Binding, expletives and levels

(v) ESCOL (Eastern States Conference on Linguistics)20 November 1999 – Eastern States Conference on Linguistics (ESCOL), University of Connecticut,

Storrs (USA)‘Pluringulars’, pronouns and quirky agreement

(vi) CGSW (Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop)24 June 2011 – 26th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands

Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)Preposition doubling in Flemish dialects (co-author: Lobke Aelbrecht, Ghent University, Belgium)

20 September 2003 – 18th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, University of Durham, Durham(UK)When particles won’t part

9 August 2002 – 17th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, University of Iceland, Reykjavík(Iceland)Lexical integrity, checking and the mirror — A checking approach to syntactic word formation

5 May 2001 – 16th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, McGill University, Montréal (Canada)A polar whole — Dutch ‘heel’ as a special negative polarity item

26 May 2000 – 15th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, University of Groningen (TheNetherlands)(Null) pronouns and (null) agreement

3 November 1995 – 11th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, Rutgers University, New Jersey(USA)Predicate Inversion in nominal phrases (co-authors: Hans Bennis, RU Leiden/HIL & Norbert Corver,KU Brabant/CLS)

18 January 1995 – 10th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, Brussels (Belgium)Parasitic Participles (co-author: Eric Hoekstra, P.J. Meertens-Instituut, Amsterdam)Getting verb movement (co-authors: Hans Bennis & Frits Beukema, RU Leiden/HIL)

6 January 1994 – 9th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW), Harvard University, Cambridge,Massachusetts (USA)Very Exceptional Case-Marking (co-author: C. Jan-Wouter Zwart, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)


(vii) BUCLD (Boston Conference on Language Development)5 November 1994 – Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, Massachusetts

(USA)Picking up particles (co-authors: Hans Bennis (RUL), Peter Jordens (VUA), Susan Powers (MPINijmegen), Jürgen Weissenborn (MPI Nijmegen/Potsdam))

(viii) other conferences with peer-reviewed selection15–17 September 2016 – 9th Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis Conference (SinFonIJA 9),

University of Brno (Czech Republic)Hungarian nominal and verbal inflection integrated: The role of clitics

24–26 September 2015 – 8th Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis Conference (SinFonIJA 8),University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)Recursion restricted (co-author: Éva Dékány, RIL/HAS)

22 May 2015 – 12th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (ICSH12), Leiden University(the Netherlands)Recursion restricted (co-author: Éva Dékány, RIL/HAS)

31 August 2013 – 11th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (ICSH11), Pázmány PéterKatolikus Egyetem (Péter Pázmány Catholic University), Piliscsaba (Hungary)The morphosyntax of alienable and inalienable possession: The Hungarian contribution

19–21 April 2012 – 48th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS48), University ofChicago, Illinois (USA)Semi-clefts as a window on the syntax of predication, modification, and complementation (co-author:Mariana Santos de Resenes, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)

20–22 October 2011 – 21st Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Seoul National University, Seoul(Republic of Korea)[POSTER] On the distribution of NPIs in clausal comparatives (co-authors: Anastasia Giannakidou& Suwon Yoon, University of Chicago)

20–22 October 2011 – 21st Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Seoul National University, Seoul(Republic of Korea)Raising ‘do’ (co-author: Ji Young Shim, CUNY)

5 June 2011 – Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) XIII, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia(USA)Grammaticalization in the syntax of preposition doubling in Flemish dialects (co-author: LobkeAelbrecht, Ghent University, Belgium)

7–9 April 2011 – 47th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS47), University of Chicago,Illinois (USA)Preposition doubling in Flemish dialects (co-author: Lobke Aelbrecht, Ghent University, Belgium)

18 March 2011 – Workshop on Dutch Linguistics, Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy ofArts and Sciences, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)Dubbel op: Doubling PPs in Flemish dialects (co-author: Lobke Aelbrecht, Ghent University,Belgium)

4–5 January 2011 – 2011 Winter International Conference on Linguistics in Seoul, Korea University,Seoul (Republic of Korea)Feature inheritance, EPP, and the lexical/functional distinction (co-author: Ji Young Shim, CUNY)

4 December 2010 – SYNC12, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook (USA)A demonstrative minimiser and its licensing — A preliminary investigation

30 October 2010 – 7th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL7), University of SouthernCalifornia, Los Angeles (USA)Feature inheritance and the EPP (co-author: Ji Young Shim, CUNY Graduate Center)

21–26 July 2008 – 18th International Congress of Linguists/Congrès International des Linguistes, Seoul(Republic of Korea)The tense of resultatives — The case of Korean (co-author: Ji Young Shim, CUNY Graduate Center)


11 November 2007 – 17th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK17), UCLA, Los Angeles (USA)The tense of resultatives — The case of Korean (co-author: Ji Young Shim, CUNY Graduate Center)

10–12 May 2007 – ‘Formal Approaches to Variation in Syntax’ conference, University of York (UK)Subject agreement variation: Confronting the hypothesis space with novel data (co-authors: ChristinaTortora, Judy Bernstein, Raffaella Zanuttini, Goldie Ann Dooley, Erin Quirk)

1 May 2004 – SUNY/CUNY/NYU Linguistics Mini-Conference, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook(USA)Definiteness and agreement in the Amharic complex noun phrase

2 May 2003 — 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ(USA)Light switches (co-author: Shoba Bandi Rao, New York University)

18 May 2001 – The 11th Annual Southeast Asia Linguistics Conference (SEALS XI), Bangkok (Thailand)‘Thîi’ for two: The two flavors of Thai ‘thîi’ (co-author: Pornsiri Singhapreecha, ThammasatUniversity, Bangkok

11 March 2000 – The First CUNY/SUNY Linguistics Mini-Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, NewYork (USA)Aggressively non-D–linked wh-phrases as polarity items (co-author: Anastasia Giannakidou,Groningen)

3 March 2000 – 22. Jahrestagung der DGfS, Philipps–Universität Marburg (Germany), AG2: PronounsAgreement and the structure of object pronouns: The case of Hungarian

28 October 1999 – A mai magyar nyelv leírásának újabb módszerei IV, JATE University, Szeged(Hungary)A tárgyesetû személyes névmások szerkezete és az egyeztetés

21 April 1998 – CLITE/1, JATE University, Szeged (Hungary)(Anti-)agreement in clauses and nominal phrases

9 September 1997 – ESSE/4 Conference, Debrecen (Hungary); workshop on clitic phenomena in Englishand other European languagesAnti-agreement in possessive constructions

1 September 1995 – Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leiden; Workshop on the Syntax of Possession andthe Verb ‘Have’There, happens, to, be, have (co-author: R. Belvin, University of Southern California, USA)

14 June 1995 – Morphology: Why, how, when, when not, and why not? Towards an integrated theoryof morphology in the mental lexicon; workshop organised at the Max Planck Institut fürPsycholinguistik, NijmegenThe acquisition of separable compound verbs (co-authors: H. Bennis, RU Leiden/HIL, P. Jordens,VU/HIL, S. Powers, MPI Nijmegen & J. Weissenborn, Universität Potsdam)

12 April 1995 – Linguistic Association of Great Britain, Newcastle (UK)Getting verb movement (co-authors: H. Bennis & F. Beukema, RU Leiden/HIL)

28 October 1994 – Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association (APLA), St John, New Brunswick (Canada)Incorporating ‘be’ and ‘have’

2. Invited lectures at international conferences and workshops (‘invited/keynote speaker’)19 September 2016 – Workshop ‘New horizons in ellipsis in English: Its syntax, semantics and language

processing’, at ISLE4, Poznañtitle tba

20 June 2016 – Working Group on Element Theory for Syntax, Anesso Cartesiano of Villa Salmi, Arezzo(Italy)Structure, features, linearisation, and recursion

16 June 2016 – Budapest–Potsdam–Lund Linguistics Colloquium, Budapest (Hungary)Preposing polarity particles

17 March 2016 – Nominals, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife (Brazil)Clitics in the nominal and verbal systems of Hungarian: An integrated analysis


19 June 2015 – Budapest Linguistics Conference (BLINC), Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest(Hungary)Contrastive left dislocation: Why one size does not fit all (co-author: Balázs Surányi, RIL/HAS &Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest)

23 May 2015 – 12th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (ICSH12), Leiden University(the Netherlands)Structure building and the syntax of filler–gap dependencies: How Hungarian leads the way

13–14 April 2015 – Budapest Conference on Projection and Representation in Syntactic Theory,Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Hungary)Licensing specifiers

6–7 February 2014 – Agreement: In honor of Maria Denilda Moura, Universidade Federal Rural dePernambuco, Recife (Brazil)The attractions of agreement

7–9 November 2013 – The ‘Hilbert’s List’ of Syntactic Problems, Institute for Advanced Studies, Pavia(Italy)Questions on movement

22–23 August 2013 – CECIL’S 3 student conference, Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem (Péter PázmányCatholic University), Piliscsaba (Hungary)The Phase Impenetrability Condition, successive cyclicity, and the direction of structure building

13–14 July 2012 – Workshop ‘Prefix verbs: The impact of preposition-like elements on the syntax andsemantics of verbs’, Universität Stuttgart (Germany)Preposition doubling in Flemish dialects and its implications for the syntax of Dutch PPs (co-author:L. Aelbrecht, Ghent University)

31 May–2 June 2012 – 27th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, Yale University, New Haven(USA)Further thoughts on negation and polarity

11 May 2012 – Workshop on AN–dependencies, Universitetet i Tromsø (Norway)The Phase Impenetrability Condition and successive cyclicity: A reconsideration

19–21 April 2012 – 48th annual conference of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS), University ofChicago (USA)The Phase Impenetrability Condition and successive cyclicity: A reconsideration

5–7 January 2012 – ConSOLE XX, Universität Leipzig (Germany)On feature interpretability and inheritance

25 November 2011 – Dag van de Nederlandse Zinsbouw (‘Day of Dutch Sentence Structure’), MeertensInstituut, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam (Netherlands)Ditransitieven: Lineaire constructies of hiërarchische derivaties?

3–6 October 2011 – workshop ‘The Minimalist Program: Quo Vadis?’, University of Potsdam (Germany)On feature interpretability and inheritance

8 September 2011 – workshop ‘Doubling in syntax, semantics and morphology’ at the 44th AnnualMeeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), Universidad de la Rioja, Logroño (Spain)Preposition doubling in Flemish dialects (co-author: Lobke Aelbrecht, Ghent University, Belgium)

14 April 2011 – UIC Bilingualism Forum, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA)The Distributed Morphology of code-switching

21 June 2010 – Afscheidssymposium Jan Koster, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands)‘Wh-copying’: The division of labour between concordial scope marking and concealed clefts

25–28 May 2010 – ‘The Tromsø Grill’: four days of four hours of presentation and intensive discussionat CASTL, Universitetet i Tromø (Norway)Relators and Linkers: The syntax of predication, predicate inversion, and copulas

21 August 2010 – invited speaker at the conference of the International Society for Chomskyan Studies,Seoul (Republic of Korea)EPP, verb raising, and feature inheritance in the C–T system (in collaboration with Ji Young Shim,CUNY Graduate Center)


19 August 2010 – invited speaker at the 12th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar(SICOGG), Konkuk University, Seoul (Republic of Korea)Positively comparative (in collaboration with Yang Gu & Jie Guo, The Chinese University of HongKong)

23 November 2009 – invited speaker at the workshop on Morphological Reflexes of Successive-cyclicMovement, Universität Leipzig (Germany)On the nature and distribution of successive cyclicity: Adjunction, resumption, and scope markingas the roads to success in long-distance relation building

3 November 2009 – invited speaker at the ‘DP dag’ (one-day conference on the structure of DP), Hoge-school-Universiteit Brussel, Brussels (Belgium)(In)definitely spurious: On the distribution of definite and indefinite spurious articles

27 August 2009 – invited speaker at the conference on Minimalist Approaches to Syntactic Locality,Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Hungary)On the nature and distribution of successive cyclicity: Adjunction, resumption, and scope markingas the roads to success in long-distance relation building

15–17 May 2009 – invited speaker at the workshop on non-canonical predication, University of WesternOntario, London, ON (Canada)Predication and specification in the syntax of cleft sentences

4–6 March 2009 – invited speaker in Arbeitsgruppe (‘workshop’) on ‘Repairs’ (organised by PatrickBrandt & Eric Fuss), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) annual meeting, Osna-brück (Germany)Prepare and Repair: On pre-emptive strikes and post-hoc patches

28–29 November 2008 – invited speaker at the workshop on clefts, Zentrum für allgemeine Sprach-wissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin (Germany)A cleft palette: On the landscape of cleft constructions and their syntactic derivations

24 October 2008 – invited speaker at the conference ‘Expressions of posture and motion in the Germaniclanguages’, Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis, Brussels (Belgium)Directions from the GET-GO: On the syntax of manner-of-motion verbs in directional constructions

17–20 July 2008 – invited speaker for the workshop on argument structure at the 10th Seoul InternationalConference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG), Seoul (Republic of Korea)Directions from the GET-GO: On the syntax of manner-of-motion verbs in directional constructions

11 April 2008 – invited speaker at the 2nd Georgetown University workshop on English Dialect Syntax,Washington, DC (USA)The Vacuous Movement Hypothesis and Subject Contact Relatives

8–11 August 2007 – invited speaker at 9th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar(SICOGG), Seoul (Republic of Korea)Locality (four 3-hour lectures on the history and state-of-the-art in generative-syntactic localitytheory)

20 January 2007 – invited speaker at International Conference on Linguistics in Korea, organised by theLinguistic Society of Korea, Seoul National University, Seoul (Republic of Korea)Either-float and the syntax of co-or-dination

2–4 June 2006 – invited speaker at ‘Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P’ conference, Utrecht University,Utrecht (Netherlands)On the structure of adpositional phrases and the syntax of the pseudopassive

6 May 2006 – invited speaker at ‘The Hungarian Language: Past and Present’, UCLA, Los Angeles(USA)Long-distance agreement under focus movement in Hungarian, and its implications for locality theory

13 January 2006 – invited speaker at BUM 5 (Budapesti Uráli Mûhely — Budapest Uralic Workshop),Budapest (Hungary)Hungarian finite verb agreement — The role of clitics

4–5 November 2005 ) invited speaker at Workshop on Prepositions, University of Venice (Italy)On the syntax of locative and directional adpositional phrases


29–30 July 2005 – invited speaker at ‘Nuts and Core’ Workshop Forum, LSA Summer Institute,Harvard/MIT (USA)Should ‘non-core’ drive us nuts, or should ‘nuts’ drive us to the core?

29–31 May 2005 – keynote speaker, 7th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian,Veszprém (Hungary)When Hungarians agree (to disagree): The fine art of ‘Phi’ and ‘Art’

13–15 May 2005 – invited speaker, Mayfest 2005 (on wh-constructions), University of Maryland,College Park (USA)Back to hell — Further thoughts on wh-the-hell and its repercussions for the syntax of wh-questions

26 March 2004 – keynote address, Georgetown University Roundtable (GURT), Georgetown University,Washington, DC (USA)Parasitism, secondary triggering, and depth of embedding

18 March 1999 – 12th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, CUNY, New York(USA)The syntax of features

3. Invited presentations as commentator/discussant/moderator21 May 2007 – Workshop on Greek Syntax and Semantics, MIT, Cambridge (USA)

discussant of the paper by Marika Lekakou and Kriszta Szendrõi (with Alexandra Ioannidou, CUNYGraduate Center)

3 March 2006 – ‘Tales of the Missing Link’ conference, New York University, New York (USA)Discussant

26 June 2004 – 8th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (DiGS VIII), Yale University, New Haven(USA)Discussant of John Whitman’s keynote address

1–6 June 2002 – EuroConference on the Syntax of Normal and Impaired Language, Corinth (Greece)Discussant/moderator

18 April 2001 – Third International Symposium on Bilingualism, Bristol (UK)Discussant of a session on code switching and minimalism

16 February 1996 – Leiden/HIL Workshop on Atomism and BindingDiscussant of presentations by S. Berman/A. Hestvik and A. Broadwell

4. Presentations at conferences/workshops without peer-reviewed selection30 March 2012 – 6th Showcasing Quirky and Unusual Ideas in Development (SQUID) conference, CUNY

Graduate Center, New York (USA)Remnant negation topicalisation and the nature of extraposition

18 March 2011 – 5th Showcasing Quirky and Unusual Ideas in Development (SQUID) conference, CUNYGraduate Center, New York (USA)‘Pardon me, would you have any Grey Poupon?’

5 February 2011 – Taalkunde in Nederland (Linguistics in the Netherlands), Utrecht University (TheNetherlands)Doubling PPs in Flemish dialects (co-author: Lobke Aelbrecht, Ghent University, Belgium)

2 May 2008 – 3rd Showcasing Quirky and Unusual Ideas in Development (SQUID) conference, CUNYGraduate Center, New York (USA)So ‘so’

28 February 2008 – French WHorkshop (two-day conference on wh-constructions, with special emphasison French), Université de Genève, Geneva (Switzerland)Agreement in long AN–dependencies, and its implications for locality theory

21 June 2007 – XIII Giornata di Dialettologia, University of Padova, Padova (Italy)Subject agreement variation: Confronting the hypothesis space with novel data (co-authors: ChristinaTortora, Judy Bernstein, Raffaella Zanuttini, Goldie Ann Dooley, Erin Quirk)


22 May 2007 – RISLUS Research Forum, CUNY Graduate Center, New York (USA)Subject agreement variation: Confronting the hypothesis space with novel data (co-authors: ChristinaTortora, Judy Bernstein, Raffaella Zanuttini, Goldie Ann Dooley, Erin Quirk)

20 April 2007 – 2nd Showcasing Quirky and Unusual Ideas in Development (SQUID) conference, CUNYGraduate Center, New York (USA)What do I know?! Reflections on a rhetorical question

26 May 2006 – RISLUS Research Forum, CUNY Graduate Center, New York (USA)Morpho-syntactic variation in Appalachian English (co-author: Christina Tortora, CSI & CUNY GC)

11–13 March 2005 – ‘Polarity from different perspectives’ workshop, NYU, New York (USA)Parasitism, secondary triggering, and depth of embedding

29 June 2001 – Workshop on Basque and Hungarian linguistics, Leiden University (The Netherlands)On the syntax of wh-questions in English and Hungarian

26 June 2001 – ‘Imperatives and functional projections: A workshop for Frits Beukema’, LeidenUniversity (The Netherlands)Restrictions on clitic climbing and the nature of restructuring (co-author: Mariví Blasco, CUNY)

22 June 2001 – Tabu-dag, Groningen (The Netherlands)Direct and parasitic polarity item licensing

16 June 2001 – V–clusters Sprachbund Study Group of the Language Contact Study Center, HungarianAcademy of Sciences, Pécs (Hungary)Verb clusters and phases

November 2000 – V–clusters Sprachbund Study Group of the Language Contact Study Center,Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, Wassenaar (The Netherlands)Verb clusters in Germanic and Hungarian: An overview

14 July 2000 – LEHIA Workshop, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain)Aggressively non-D–linked wh-phrases as polarity items (co-author: Anastasia Giannakidou,Groningen)

8 October 1999 – Workshop on Verb Clusters (Dutch–Hungarian Study Center, NIAS), Öttevény(Hungary)Agreement and ‘clause union’

22 May 1998 – Workshop on Unaccusativity, ZAS/LOT, Berlin (Germany)Verb typology and transitivity alternations

15 November 1997 – Workshop on (Pseudo)cleft Constructions, ZAS, Berlin (Germany)Pseudoclefts and ellipsis (co-authors: A. Meinunger & C. Wilder, ZAS, Berlin)

26 February 1997 – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, workshop on ‘DP–Modifikation:Adjektive, (reduzierte) Relativsatz, Genitiv, Koordination’ (organised by Artemis Alexiadou & ChrisWilder), Düsseldorf (Germany)Predication in DP

28 June 1996 – ‘Inside NP’ Symposium, DIPSCO, Milan (Italy)Predicate inversion inside the nominal phrase

5. Invited lectures at departmental lecture series15 April 2016 – Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon (Portugal)

Intervention islands in a top-down grammar27 January 2016 – Linguistics Colloquium, University of Göttingen (Germany)

Preposing polarity particles26 January 2016 – CRISSP seminar, Brussels (Belgium)

Preposing polarity particles25 January 2016 – Utrecht Institute of Linguistics/OTS, Utrecht University (the Netherlands)

The trouble with subjects9 November 2015 – Department of Czech Language, Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic)

(1) How trees grow in syntax(2) Building filler–gap dependencies


30 September 2015 – Department of Dutch Studies (Néderlandisztika Tanszék), Eötvös LorándTudományegyetem (ELTE), Budapest (Hungary)Waarom niet en wel soms niet en soms wel vooraan kunnen staan [‘Why niet and wel sometimes canand sometimes can’t be in initial position’; talk given in Dutch]

26 March 2015 – Department of English Linguistics, Szeged University (SZTE), Szeged (Hungary)The trouble with subjects

10 March 2015 – Department of English Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem (ELTE),Budapest (Hungary)The trouble with subjects

4 March 2015 – Department of English Linguistics, University of Debrecen (Hungary)The trouble with subjects (I): A historical perspectiveThe trouble with subjects (II): A fresh look from a novel perspective

25 November 2014 – Département de linguistique, Université de Genève (Switzerland)Find the gap: On structure building and the formation of filler–gap dependencies in syntax

18 November 2014 – Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest(Hungary)Find the gap: On structure building and the formation of filler–gap dependencies in syntax

8 May 2014 – Universidade Federal de Paraná, Curitiba (Brazil)Raising the subject of the ‘object-of’ relation

2 May 2014 – Syntax Brown Bag, New York University (USA)The attractions of agreement

25 April 2014 – Linguistics Colloquium, Rutgers University (USA)The attractions of agreement

18 April 2014 – Linguistics Colloquium, University of Texas at Arlington (USA)The attractions of agreement

17 April 2014 – Cognitive Science Brown Bag, Texas Tech University, Lubbock (USA)On structure building

16 April 2014 – linguistics guest lecture, Texas Tech University, Lubbock (USA)On the morphosyntax of (in)alienably possessed noun phrases

14 March 2014 – Linguistics Colloquium, MIT (USA)The attractions of agreement

6 December 2013 – Linguistics Colloquium, Stony Brook University (USA)On the morphosyntax of (in)alienably possessed noun phrases

29 November 2013 – Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada)On the morphosyntax of (in)alienably possessed noun phrases

25 October 2013 – Cognitive Science Symposium, CUNY Graduate Center, New York (USA)How to set up a tree and climb it: On structure building, cyclicity, and movement in minimalist syntax

28 February 2013 – invited lecture at the University of Connecticut, Storrs (USA)The Phase Impenetrability Condition, successive cyclicity, and the direction of structure building

18 January 2013 – invited lecture at UiL/OTS, Utrecht University (Netherlands)On feature interpretability and inheritance

10 January 2013 – invited lecture at the Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,Budapest (Hungary)On feature interpretability and inheritance

17 May 2012 – invited lecture at the Linguistics Department, University of Hong Kong (China)How to set up a tree and climb it: Structure building and movement in current syntactic theory

23 April 2012 – University of Illinois at Chicago Talks in Linguistics (UIC TiL), Chicago, Illinois (USA)Of orphans and twins: Accounting for some peculiar patterns in code-switching

12 April 2012 – Linguistics Colloquium, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (USA)On feature interpretability and inheritance

17 October 2011 – invited lecture at the City University of Hong Kong (China)Raising do (co-author: Ji Young Shim, CUNY Graduate Center)


28 June 2011 – Linguistics Colloquium, Universität Stuttgart (Germany)Feature Inheritance and EPP in the C–T system

13 April 2011 – Linguistics Lunch, University of Chicago, Illinois (USA)Feature Inheritancve and EPP in the C–T system

4 March 2011 – Linguistics Colloquium, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware (USA)The role of null-headed relatives in the formation of complex wh-dependencies

1 November 2010 – Linguistics Colloquium, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (USA)Positively comparative (co-authors: Yang Gu & Jie Guo, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

22 March 2010 – Colloquium, Seoul National University, Seoul (Republic of Korea)Predication and specification in the syntax of cleft sentences

18 March 2010 – special invited lecture, Chungnam National University, Daegu (Republic of Korea)On the strategies for the formation of long-distance dependencies in subject questions

16 March 2010 – Colloquium, Seoul National University, Seoul (Republic of Korea)Long subject questions: Theory, variation, acquisition

9 March 2010 – Colloquium, Seoul National University, Seoul (Republic of Korea)On the typology of long-distance AN–dependencies

3 March 2010 – guest lecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China)On the typology of long-distance AN–dependencies

25 February 2010 – guest lecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China)Predication and specification in the syntax of cleft sentences

29 January 2010 – Linguistics Colloquium, New York University, New York (USA)Predication and specification in the syntax of cleft sentences

14–16 December 2009 – DIUG Lectures, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen (Netherlands)Predication and specification in the syntax of cleft sentencesOn the nature and distribution of successive cyclicityOn the strategies for the formation of long-distance dependencies in subject questions

30 November 2009 – invited talk at the ESRC Bilingualism Centre, Bangor University, Bangor (UK)On the strategies for the formation of long-distance dependencies in subject questions

27 November 2009 – SyntaxLab, University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK)On the strategies for the formation of long-distance dependencies in subject questions

26 November 2009 – Cambridge University Linguistic Society, Cambridge (UK)Predication and specification in the syntax of cleft sentences

10 November 2009 – Colloquium, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz (Germany)On the strategies for the formation of long-distance dependencies in subject questions

15 October 2009 – Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam (Netherlands)‘Wat dacht je wat?’ On the strategies for the formation of long-distance dependencies in constituentquestions (co-author: Hans Bennis, Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts andSciences)

23 February 2009 – Linguistics Colloquium, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (USA)Predication and specification in the syntax of cleft sentences

8 December 2008 – invited talk, University of Ottawa/Université d’Ottawa, Ottawa, ON (Canada)Directions from the GET-GO: On the syntax of manner-of-motion verbs in directional constructions

27 October 2008 – CRISSP Seminar, Brussels (Belgium)Agreement in long AN–dependencies, and its implications for locality theory

10 September 2008 – Syntax Circle, Utrecht University, Utrecht (Netherlands)Directions from the GET-GO: On the syntax of manner-of-motion verbs in directional constructions

12 October 2007 – Syntax Brown Bag talk, New York University, New York (USA)The tense of resultatives — The case of Korean (co-author: Ji Young Shim, CUNY Graduate Center)

8 October 2007 – Linguistics Colloquium, Yale University, New Haven (USA)Phase Extension: Contours of a theory of the role of head movement in phrasal extractionThe tense of resultatives — The case of Korean (co-author: Ji Young Shim, CUNY Graduate Center)


15 August 2007 – invited speaker at Senshu University, Tokyo (Japan)Subject agreement variation in English: The hypothesis space and how to narrow it down (co-authors:Christina Tortora, Judy Bernstein, Raffaella Zanuttini, Goldie Ann Dooley, Erin Quirk)Phase Extension: Contours of a theory of the role of head movement in phrasal extraction

2 July 2007 – Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (Spain)Subject-verb agreement across varieties of English (co-authors: Christina Tortora, Judy Bernstein,Raffaella Zanuttini, Goldie Ann Dooley, Erin Quirk)

8 May 2006 – invited lecture, Department of Linguistics, UCLA, Los Angeles (USA)Vacuous movement in focus — On the syntax of highest-subject wh-questions and relative clauses

28 April 2006 – Linguistics Colloquium, Syracuse University, Syracuse (USA)Vacuous movement in focus — On the syntax of highest-subject wh-questions and relative clausesP-drop, D-drop, D-spread (co-author: Alexandra Ioannidou, CUNY Graduate Center)

27 March 2006 – Linguistics Colloquium, University of Kansas, Lawrence (USA)Vacuous movement in focus — On the syntax of highest-subject wh-questions and relative clauses

18 November 2005 – Linguistics Colloquium, University of Connecticut at Storrs (USA)On the syntax of locative and directional adpositional phrases

14 October 2002 – Linguistics Colloquium, Yale University, New Haven (USA)On the structure of it-clefts and there-existentials: Evidence from Rotuman

26 April 2002 – Linguistics Colloquium, The Pennsylvania State University, State College (USA)Direct and parasitic polarity item licensing

4 October 2001 – Linguistics Colloquium, University of Chicago, Chicago (USA)Direct and parasitic polarity item licensing

30 March 2001 – Linguistics Colloquium, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst (USA)Direct and parasitic polarity item licensing

31 March 2000 – Linguistics Colloquium, NYU, New York (USA)Aggressively non-D–linked wh-phrases as polarity items (co-author: Anastasia Giannakidou,Groningen)

28 February 2000 – Taalkundig Colloquium, University of Groningen (The Netherlands)What Hungarian tells us about the syntax of object pronouns

29 October 1999 – SUNY Stony Brook Linguistics Colloquium, Stony Brook (USA)(Null) pronouns and agreement

30 September 1999 – Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania (USA)Agreement and ‘clause union’

12 February 1999 – Linguistics Colloquium, University of Connecticut at Storrs, CT (USA)Specificational pseudoclefts come in two types (co-authors: A. Meinunger & C. Wilder, ZAS, Berlin)

13 November 1998 – Linguistics Colloquium, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (USA)Pseudoclefts and ellipsis (co-authors: A. Meinunger & C. Wilder, ZAS, Berlin)

3 November 1998 – Syntax Lunch, CUNY Graduate Center, New York (USA)Speaker–oriented verbal particles and locatives in Dutch imperatives

23 October 1998 – Linguistics Colloquium, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (USA)What take serials teach us about transitives, middles and nominalisations

6 March 1998 – SUNY Stony Brook Linguistics Colloquium, Stony Brook (USA)Pseudoclefts and ellipsis (co-authors: A. Meinunger & C. Wilder, ZAS, Berlin)

5 March 1998 – CUNY Graduate Center, New York (USA)(Anti-)agreement and the internal structure of nominal phrases

18 July 1997 – Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Max Planck Gesellschaft, Berlin (Germany)‘Take’ serials light up the middle

10 June 1997 – University College London (UK)Predicates and their movements

7 March 1996 – guest lecture József Attila University (JATE), Szeged (Hungary)Deepy Seepy, or: How external is the external argument?


24/26 July 1995 – guest lectures Max Planck Gesellschaft, Berlin (Germany)The nominal copula / Extraposition as intraposition, and the syntax of English tag questions

20 October 1994 – guest lecture University of California, Los Angeles (USA)Predicate inversion, minimality and the ‘have’/ ‘be’ alternation

16 May 1994 – guest lecture Université de Paris X (France)Auxiliaries and participles

25 February 1994 – guest lecture Edinburgh University (UK)3 June 1993 – guest lecture, Universität Stuttgart (Germany)

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