Research

Links to already-published articles are to proofs or prepublication versions; for the final, fully edited product, please see the referenced publication.

Jump directly to Presentation Handouts, Current Projects

Papers: To appear
Harley, H. (To appear). "External arguments and the Mirror Principle: On the distinctness of Voice and v." Lingua.
Harley, H. (To appear). "On the identity of roots". Theoretical Linguistics.
Folli, R. and Harley, H. (To appear). "The syntax of argument structure: Evidence from Italian complex predicates". Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 49.
Haugen, J, M. Leyva, Mercedes Tubino and Heidi Harley. (To appear). "Wo'i Wakila / Skinny Coyote—A Hiaki (Yaqui) Narrative," In Inside Dazzling Mountains: Contemporary. Translations of Southwest Native Verbal Arts, edited by David Kozak, published by the University of Nebraska Press
Harley, H. (To appear). "Semantics in Distributed Morphology." To appear in volume 3 of Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning. C. Maienborn, K. von Heusinger and P. Portner, eds. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
B. Copley and H. Harley. (To appear). An ontology for a force-dynamic treatment of events. In Forces in Grammatical Structures, Bridget Copley and Fabienne Martin (eds), Oxford: OUP.
Harley, H. (forthcoming). "Getting morphemes in order: Merger, Affixation and Head-movement." In Diagnosing Syntax, Lisa Cheng and Norbert Corver (eds), Oxford: OUP.
Haugen, J. and H. Harley. (To appear) "On the implications of head-marking inflection for the architecture of grammatical theory: Evidence from reduplication and compounding in Hiaki (Yaqui)." In A. Fountain, M. Miyashita, D. Cole and S. Bischoff, (eds), The persistence of language: Constructing and confronting the past and present in the voices of Jane H. Hill. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Harley, H. (to appear). "The syntax/morphology interface." In Alexiadou and Kiss (ed), Handbook of Syntax, Mouton

2012
Harley, H. (2012). "Lexical decomposition in modern generative grammar." In Handbook of Compositionality, edited by Wolfram Hinzen, Markus Werning and Edouard Machery, 328-350. Oxford: OUP.

2011
Lomashvili, L. and H. Harley. (2011) "Phases and templates in Georgian agreement." Studia Linguistica 65.3: 233-267.
Tubino-Blanco, M. and H. Harley. (2011). "Sobre la opcionalidad del Causado en las causativas indirectas en yaqui." Proceedings of X Encuentro de Lingüística en el Noroeste; Editorial Unison, Hermosillo, Son., Mexico.
Harley, H. and A. Trueman. (2012). "Hiaki pronominals and the typology of deficiency." In Proceedings of WAIL 13, University of California Santa Barbara, 40-54. Available at http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/research/papers_vol21.html.

2010
Harley, H. (2010) "Thematic Roles" In The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, Patrick Hogan, ed. pp. 861-862. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Harley, H. (2010). "A Minimalist Approach to Argument Structure." In C. Boeckx, (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Minimalism, 426-447. Oxford: OUP Press.
Harley, H. (2010). "Affixation and the Mirror Principle." In Interfaces in Linguistics, ed. by Raffaella Folli and Christiane Ullbricht, 166-186. Oxford: OUP
Tubino-Blanco, Mercedes and H. Harley. (2010) "Dos tipos de base verbal en Hiaki (yaqui)". In Análisi lingüístico: enfoques sincrónico, diacrónico e interdisciplinario, ed. by Rosa María Ortiz Ciscomani, p. 97-128. Editorial Unison, Hermosillo, Son., Mexico

2009
Harley, H. and Maria Leyva. (2009). "Form and meaning in Hiaki (Yaqui) verbal reduplication." International Journal of American Linguistics, 75.2, 233-72.
Copley, B. and H. Harley. (2009) Futurates, directors, and have-causatives. Snippets 19, 5-6.
Harley, H. (2009). "The morphology of nominalizations and the syntax of vP". Quantification, Definiteness and Nominalization, edited by Monika Rathert and Anastasia Giannadikou. Oxford: OUP, pp. 320-342.
Harley, H. (2009). "Compounding in Distributed Morphology." Oxford Handbook of Compounding, edited by Rochelle Lieber and Pavel Stekauer. Oxford: OUP, pp. 129-144.
M. Tubino-Blanco, H. Harley and J. Haugen. (2009). "The syntax of hybrid verb/affix lexemes and clause fusion in Hiaki (Yaqui)" In L. Lanz, A Franklin, J Hoecker, E Gentry Brunner, M Morrison, and C Pace, editors, Rice Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 1, pp. 79-91
Harley, H., M. Tubino-Blanco and J. Haugen. (2009). "Applicative constructions and suppletive verbs in Hiaki (Yaqui)." In L. Lanz, A Franklin, J Hoecker, E Gentry Brunner, M Morrison, and C Pace, editors, Rice Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 1, pp. 42-51
Karimi, S., W. Lewis, S. Farrar and H. Harley. (2009). "Introduction". In S. Karimi, W. Lewis, S. Farrar and H. Harley (eds,). The Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Linguistic Formalisms: Papers in honor of Terry Langendoen. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Lewis, W., S. Karimi, H. Harley and S. Farrar, (eds). (2009). Time and Again: Theoretical perspectives on formal linguistics. In honor of D. Terence Langendoen. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2008
Harley, H. (2008). “When is a syncretism more than a syncretism? Impoverishment, metasyncretism, and underspecification,” in Phi Theory: Phi-features across modules and interfaces, edited by David Adger, Susana Bejar and Daniel Harbour. Oxford: OUP. 251-294.
Harley, H. (2008) "The bipartite structure of verbs cross-linguistically, or, Why Mary can't exhibit John her paintings." In Conferências do V Congresso Internacional da Associação Brasileira de Lingüística, ed. by. Thaïs Cristófaro Silva and Heliana Mello. Belo Horizonte, Brazil: ABRALIN and FALE/UFMG, pp 45-84.
Harley, H. (2008) “On the causative construction,” Handbook of Japanese Linguistics, edited by Shigeru Miyagawa and Mamoru Saito. pp. 20-53, Oxford: OUP.
Haugen, J, H. Harley and M Tubino-Blanco. (2008) “¿Es el sufijo –ri un nominalizador pasivo en yaqui?”. Proceedings of IX Encuentro de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Vol. I; Editorial Unison, Hermosillo, Son., Mexico.
Folli, R. and H. Harley. (2008). "Teleology and animacy in external arguments." Lingua 118.2, 190-202.
Folli, R. and H. Harley. (2008) "Introduction: The In(ter)dependence of event structure, aspect and tense," in R. Folli and H. Harley (eds), Special Issue on Perfectivity and Telicity, Lingua 118.11.
Folli, R. and H. Harley (eds). (2008). Special Issue on Perfectivity and Telicity. Lingua 118.11

2007
Folli, R. and H. Harley (2007) “Causation, obligation and argument structure: On the nature of little v,” Linguistic Inquiry 38.2, 197-238
Harley, H. and Jason Haugen. (2007) "Are there really two classes of instrumental denominal verbs in English?" Snippets 16, 6-7.
Harley, H, R. Folli and B. Jensen. (2007) "Introduction: Perfectivity, Telicity and the Nordic Languages," in H. Harley, R. Folli and B. Jensen, (eds), Special Issue on Aspect and Aktionsart, The Nordic Journal of Linguistics 30.2, 149-155

H. Harley, R. Folli and B. Jensen, (eds), (2007), Special Issue on Aspect and Aktionsart, The Nordic Journal of Linguistics 30.2
2006
Folli, R. and H. Harley (2006) “On the licensing of causatives of directed motion: Waltzing Matilda all over” Studia Linguistica 60.2 1-35.
Folli, R. and H. Harley. (2006). “Benefactives aren’t Goals in Italian”. In Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2004, ed. by Jenny Doetjes and Paz Gonzales, pp. 121–142, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Folli, R. and Harley, H. (2006) “What language says about the psychology of events,” in Trends in Cognitive Science, 10.3, 91-92
Harley, H. 2006. English Words: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

2005
Harley, H. (2005) “How do verbs get their names? Denominal verbs, Manner Incorporation and the ontology of verb roots in English,” in Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport, eds., The Syntax of Aspect, 42-64. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Folli, R., H. Harley and S. Karimi, (2005) “Determinants of event structure in Persian complex predicates,” Lingua 115.10, 1365-1401
Carnie, A. and Harley, H. (2005) “Existential Impersonals,” Studia Linguistica, 59.1, 46–65.
Folli, R. and H. Harley. (2005) “Event-Path Homomorphism and the Accompanied-Motion Reading in Motion Causatives,” In Proceedings of WECOL 2004
Harley, H. 2005. "Bare Phrase Structure, Acategorial roots, one-replacement and unaccusativity," Harvard Working Papers on Linguistics Vol. 9, ed. by Slava Gorbachov and Andrew Nevins

2004
Folli, Raffaella. and Harley, H. (2004) “Flavors of v: Consuming results in Italian and English,” in Roumyana Slabakova and Paula Kempchinsky, eds., Aspectual Inquiries, 95-120. Dordrecht: Kluwer
Harley, H. (2004) “Why is it the CIA but not *the NASA? Acronyms, abbreviations and definite descriptions,” American Speech, 79.4, 368-399.
Harley, H. (2004). “Wanting, having and getting: A note on Fodor and Lepore 1998,” Linguistic Inquiry 35.2, 255-267
Harley, H. (2004) “Merge, Conflation and Head Movement: The First Sister Principle revisited,” in Proceedings of NELS 34, U. Mass Amherst: GSLA
Folli, R. and H. Harley (2004) “The composition of Italian causatives,” In Vineeta Chand, Ann Kelleher, Angelo J. Rodriguez, Benjamin Schmeiser, eds, Proceedings of WCCFL 23, Cambridge, MA: Cascadilla Press. 195-208.
Carnie, A., H. Harley and S. Dooley-Colberg, (eds) (2004) The Syntax of V-initial Languages, Amsterdam: John Benjamins

2003
Harley, H. and Rolf Noyer (2003), “Distributed Morphology,” in L. Cheng and R. Sybesma, eds., The Second Glot International State-of-the-Article Book, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (Harley 50%), pp. 463-496.
Harley, H. (2003) “Review of Brandt, Cipient Predication” Glot International 7.9/10, 247-253.
Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo and H. Harley, (2003) “Arguments in the syntactic straightjacket: Commentary on Hurford,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26.3., 297-298
Carnie, A. and Harley, H. (2003) “Introduction: Formalizing Functionalism,” in Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley and Mary Ann Willie, eds., Formal Approaches to Function in Grammar, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 1-8
Carnie, A., H. Harley and M. Willie, (eds) (2003) Formal Approaches to Functional Phenomena: Papers in honor of Eloise Jelinek, Amsterdam: John Benjamins

2002
Harley, H and Elizabeth Ritter (2002) "Structuring the bundle: A universal morphosyntactic feature geometry," in H. Weise and H. Simon, eds. Pronouns: Grammar and Representation, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 23-39.
Harley, H. (2002) "ACD, WCO and QR of DPs," Linguistic Inquiry 33.4, pp. 659-664.
Harley, H. (2002) "Possession and the double object construction," Yearbook of Linguistic Variation 2, pp. 29-68.
Harley, H. and Elizabeth Ritter (2002) "A feature-geometric analysis of person and number," Language 78.3, pp. 482-526.
Bird, S., M. Hammond, M. Amarillas, M. Jeffcoat, H. Harley, O. Zepada, M. Miyashita, R. Geronimo, M. A. Willie, and L. Moll (2002) "Web-based dictionaries for languages of the southwest US," Literary and Linguistic Computing 17.4, 427-438
Jelinek, E. and H. Harley. (2002) "Recollections of Kenneth L. Hale," Linguistic Typology 6.2, 140-142.
Harley, H., E Ritter and R. Hanson (2002), "Underspecification and Universal Defaults for Person and Number Features," in Proceedings of the 2000 Canadian Linguistics Association meeting, University of Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics

2001
Harley, H. and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, (2001) "Innateness, abstract names, and syntactic cues in How Children Learn the Meanings of Words," Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24, 1107-8

2000
Harley, H. (2000) "Tough-movement is even tougher than we thought," Snippets 2
Harley, H. (2000) Review of Cormack, "Definitions: Implications for Semantics, Syntax and the Language of Thought," The Linguist List
Harley, H. (2000) "Never Again Schlomsbordus (19XX): Endnote 3.0," Glot International 4.6, 1-3.

1999
Harley, H. (1999) "Denominal verbs and aktionsart," in L. Pylkanen and A. van Hout, eds., Proceedings of the 2nd Penn/MIT Roundtable on Event Structure, MITWPL: Cambridge, 73-85
Harley, H. and Rolf Noyer (1999) "State-of-the-Article: Distributed Morphology", Glot International 4.4, 3-9
Pylkkänen, L., A. van Hout and H. Harley (1999) Papers from the UPenn/MIT Roundtable on the Lexicon, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 35, Cambridge, MA:MITWPL

1998
Harley, H. and R. Noyer (1998) "Mixed nominalizations, object shift and short verb movement in English," in Proceedings of NELS 28, Kiyomi Kusumoto and Pius Tamanji, eds., 143-157. University of Massachusetts at Amherst:GLSA
Harley, H. (1998) "You're having me on: Aspects of have", in J. Guéron and A. Zribi-Hertz, eds., La grammaire de la possession, pp. 195-226. Paris: Université Paris X - Nanterre.
Harley, H and S. Kulick (1998) "TAG and Raising in VSO Languages," in Proceedings of the TAG+ Workshop, IRCS Technical Reports
Harley, H. (1998) Papers from the UPenn/MIT Roundtable on Argument Structure and Aspect, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 32, Cambridge, MA: MITWPL
Harley, H. (1998) Review of Barbiers, "The Syntax of Interpretation," Glot International 3.1, 6-8.
Harley, H. (1998) Papers from the UPenn/MIT Roundtable on Argument Structure and Aspect, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 32, Cambridge, MA: MITWPL

1997
Harley, H. (1997) "Logophors, variable binding and the interpretation of have," Lingua 102, 75-84
Carnie, A. and H. Harley. 1997. "PRO, the EPP and Nominative Case: Evidence from Irish Infinitivals," in University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 4.3 (1997) pp 71-86
Harley, H. (1997) *"Agentivity and the Split VP," Seminarios de Linguistica 1, 103-123

1996
Harley, H. (1996) *"If You Have, You Can Give", in Proceedings of WCCFL XV, Brian Agbayani and Sze-Wing Tang, eds, CSLI, Stanford, CA, pp. 193-207
Harley, H. and A. Carnie (1996), *"Nominally Complex Copular Constructions," In Proceedings of Langue et Grammaire 1, Université de Paris 8
Harley, H. (1996) *"Sase bizarre: the Japanese causative and structural case," In P. Koskinen, (ed.) Proceedings of the 1995 Canadian Linguistics Society meeting, University of Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics
Harley, H. (1996), Book notice, Egli, Pause, Schwarze, von Stechow, and Wienold, eds., "Lexical Knowledge," Language 72.3, 670.

1995
Harley, H. (1995) "Subjects, Events and Licensing." PhD. Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Harley, H. (1995), Book notice, Kitagawa, “Subjects in Japanese and English,” Language 71.4, 849
Harley, H. (1995) *"Abstracting away from abstract case". In Proceedings of NELS 25, J. Beckman, ed., Graduate Linguistics Students' Association, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, p. 207-221 Harley, H. and A. Carnie (1995) *"Nominally Phrasal Copular Constructions," In Proceedings of WECOL 7 (94), pp. 30-43, University of California, Los Angeles

1994
Carnie, Andrew, Elizabeth Pyatt, and Heidi Harley (1994) *"The Resurrection: Raising to Comp, Evidence from Old Irish" Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 24.1/2, 85-100.
Harley, H. 1994. "Hug a tree: Deriving the morphosyntactic feature hierarchy." In MITWPL 21, Papers on Phonology and Morphology, ed. by Colin Phillips and Heidi Harley, pp. 289-320.
Carnie, A. and H. Harley (1994) Papers on Phonology and Morphology, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 21, Cambridge, MA: MITWPL
Harley, H. and C. Phillips (1994) The Morphology-Syntax Connection, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 22, Cambridge, MA: MITWPL

Presentation Handouts and Slides


Current projects