Publications
Papers
Messick, Troy and Sreekar Raghotham. 2024. On Case Copying Reflexives. Accepted at Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.
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. Pseudo-ABA in Dravidian and the containment hypothesis. Short talk at (f)ASAL 13. 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. 2023. 3/4 of a monster: On mixed shifty agreement in Telugu. Linguistic Inquiry Early Access 1-15. 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 Early Access 1-22. 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 David Bobaljik. 2022. Gender asymmetries in ellipsis: An experimental comparison of markedness and frequency accounts 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.