Publications

Papers

Déprez, Viviane, Meg Gotowski and Troy Messick. 2023. P-stranding, evasion, and what they (might) mean for ellipsis identity. Talk given Current Issues in Comparative Syntax 2: Boundaries of Ellipsis Mismatch. Manuscript in prep.

Messick, Troy and Sreekar Raghotham. 2023. The locality of cross-clausal A-operations: A view from Telugu. Submitted to The proceedings of CLS 59.

Messick, Troy and Sreekar Raghotham. 2023. On Case Copying Reflexives. Accepted with revisions at Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.

Messick, Troy. 2023. 3/4 of  a monster: On mixed shifty agreement in Telugu. Linguistic Inquiry Just Accepted. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00512

Messick, Troy and Gísli Rúnar Harðarson. 2023. E-raising reconsidered: Constituency, coordination and case-matching reciprocals. Linguistic Inquiry Just Accepted. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00515

Messick, Troy. 2023. Hybrid agreement with English quantifier partitives. Glossa 8(1). 1-37. https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.10273

Messick, Troy. 2023. On apparent pronominal feature contradictions: Shifty agreement in Telugu. Syntax. 26(2) 137-182. http://doi.org/10.1111/synt.12248

Sprouse, Jon, Troy Messick and Jonathan Bobaljik. 2022.Gender mismatches under ellipsis: An experimental investigation in English. Journal of Linguistics 58(2) 345-379. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226721000323

Messick, Troy and Sreekar Raghotham 2022. Morphosyntax values itself. In Samir Alam, Yash Sinha and Sadhwi Srinivas (eds.) Proceedings of (F)ASAL 11.

Messick, Troy and Deepak Alok. 2021. Stripping in Hindi: Does clause size matter? Sabine Laszakovits and Zheng Shen (eds.) The Size of things I: Structure Building. 247-263. Berlin: Language Science Press.

Vicente, Luis, Matthew Barros, Troy Messick and Andrés Saab. 2021. On a non-argument for cleft sources in sluicing. Linguistic Inquiry 52(4) 867-880. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00390

Messick, Troy. 2020 The derivation of highest subject questions and the nature of the EPP. Glossa 5(1). 1-12. https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1029

Bošković, Željko and Troy Messick. 2017. Derivational economy in syntax and semantics. In Mark Arnoff (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.130

Messick, Troy. 2017. The morphosyntax of self-ascription a cross-linguistics study. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Connecticut.

Messick, Troy and Gary Thoms. 2016. Ellipsis, economy and the (non)uniformity of traces. Linguistic Inquiry 47(2):306-332. https://doi.org/10.1162/LING_a_00212

Messick, Troy and Irina Monich. 2016. Agreement in Nuer speech reports. Handout from ACAL 47 talk.

Sprouse, Jon and Troy Messick. 2015. How gradient are island effects? Poster presented at NELS 46.