Publications

Books

Potsdam, Eric. 1998.  Syntactic issues in the English imperative. New York: Garland Publishing Co. [republished in 2017 by Routledge]

 

Journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings

Potsdam, Eric. 2024. The Malagasy phrasal comparative. Syntax 1-36.

Paul, Ileana, and Eric Potsdam. 2024. Malagasy framing demonstratives and the syntax of doublingGlossa: A journal of general linguistics 9, 1-37.

Polinsky, Maria, Hisao Kurokami, and Eric Potsdam. 2024. Exceptive constructions in Japanese. In Masatoshi Koizumi (ed.). Issues in Japanese psycholinguistics from comparative perspectives, Vol. 2: Interaction between linguistic and nonlinguistic factors, 275-310. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

Paul, Ileana, and Eric Potsdam. 2023. Malagasy framing demonstratives. In Vera Hohaus, Jens Hopperdietzel, and Siena Weingartz (eds.). Proceedings of TripleAFLA: 9th TripleA workshop for semantic fieldworkers, 29th annual meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, 75-88. London, Ontario: University of Western Ontario, 2023.

Potsdam, Eric. 2022. What sluices in Malagasy sluicing? Oceanic Linguistics 61, 757-790.

Potsdam, Eric. 2022. Malagasy extraposition: Evidence for PF movement. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 40195-237.

Polinsky, Maria, and Eric Potsdam. 2021. Deriving VOS from VSO in Tongan. In Lauren Clemens and Diane Massam (eds.). Polynesian syntax and its interfaces. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Polinsky, Maria, and Eric Potsdam. 2021. Tongan VOS: Coordination plus ellipsis? In Hsieh, Henrison and Keely New (eds.). The Proceedings of the 27th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, London, Ont.: University of Western Ontario.

Potsdam, Eric. 2019. Exceptives: An under-appreciated ellipsis construction. In Eszter Ronai, Laura Stigliano and Yenan Sun (eds.). Proceedings of the 54th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. 435-450. Chicago: CLS.

Potsdam, Eric. 2018. Extraposition patterns in Malagasy. In Laura Kalin, Ileana Paul, and Jozina Vander Klok (eds.). McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 25, Heading in the right direction: Linguistic treats for Lisa Travis. 355-364.

Potsdam, Eric. 2018. Exceptives and ellipsis. In Sherry Hucklebridge and Max Nelson (eds.). Proceedings of the 48th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, volume 1, 259-268. Amherst, Ma.: GLSA.

Edmiston, Daniel and Eric Potsdam. 2017. Linearization at PF: Evidence from Malagasy extraposition. In Andrew Lamont and Katerina Tetzloff (eds.). Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, volume 1, 295-308. Amherst, Ma.: GLSA.

Potsdam, Eric and Youssef A. Haddad. 2017. Control phenomena. In Martin Everaert and Henk C. van Riemsdijk (eds.). The Wiley Blackwell companion to syntax. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Potsdam, Eric and Maria Polinsky. 2017. A preliminary look at exceptives in Tahitian. In Ruth Jason Ostrove, Kramer, and Joseph Sabbagh (eds.). Asking the right questions: Essays in honor of Sandra Chung. University of California eScholarship Repository.

Potsdam, Eric, and Daniel Edmiston. 2016. Extraposition in Malagasy. In Henrison Hsieh (ed.). The Proceedings of the 22nd Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, Canberra, Australia: Asia-Pacific Linguistics, 121-138. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/101155.

Potsdam, Eric, and Daniel Edmiston, 2015. Imperatives. In Mark Aronoff (ed.). Oxford bibliographies in linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press.

Potsdam, Eric and Maria Polinsky. 2015. Control into nominalized complements in Malagasy. In Amber Camp, Yuko Otsuka, Claire Stabile, and Nozomi Tanaka (eds.). Proceedings of the 21st Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, 261-278.

Potsdam, Eric and Maria Polinsky. 2015. Information questions in Malagasy dialects: Official Malagasy and Antakarana. Western Papers in Linguistics/Cahier linguistiques de Western 1, 1-13.

Potsdam, Eric and Mohammad Alanazi. 2014. Fi in Gulf Pidgin Arabic. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 35, 9-29. http://hdl.handle.net/1808/15946.

Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 2014. Left edge topics in Russian and the processing of anaphoric dependencies. Journal of Linguistics 50, 627-669.

Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 2014. Topics at the left periphery in Russian. In Stacey Katz Bourns and Lindsy Myers (eds.). Perspectives on linguistic structure and context: Studies in honor of Knud Lambrecht, 109-130. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 2013. Diagnosing covert A-movement. In Lisa Cheng and Norbert Corver (eds.). Diagnosing syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 210-234.

Haddad, Youssef A. and Eric Potsdam. 2013. Linearizing the control relation: A typology. In Theresa Biberauer and Ian Roberts (eds.). Principles of Linearization. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Potsdam, Eric. 2013. CP negation and the domain of Quantifier Raising. Linguistic Inquiry 44, 674-684.

Potsdam, Eric. 2012. A direct analysis of Malagasy phrasal comparatives. In Lauren Eby Clemens, Gregory Scontras, and Maria Polinsky (eds.). Proceedings of the 18th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, 140-155.

Paul, Ileana and Eric Potsdam. 2012. Sluicing without wh-movement in Malagasy. In Jason Merchant and Andrew Simpson (eds.). Sluicing: Cross-linguistic perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 164-182.

Potsdam, Eric, and Maria Polinsky. 2012. Backward raising. Syntax 15, 75-108.

Potsdam, Eric. 2012. Which questions in Malagasy. UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics, Theories of everything: In honor of Ed Keenan 17, 360-366.

Potsdam, Eric and Maria Polinsky. 2012.  The syntax of the Tahitian Actor Emphatic construction. Oceanic Linguistics 51, 58-85

Potsdam, Eric and Maria Polinsky. 2011.  Questions and word order in Polynesian. In Claire Moyse-Faurie and Joachim Sabel (eds.). Topics in Oceanic morphosyntax. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 83-109.

Potsdam, Eric. 2011. A direct analysis of Malagasy comparatives. Tampa Papers in Linguistics 2, 1-24.

Potsdam, Eric. 2011. Expressing exclamatives in Malagasy. In Yap Foong Ha, Karen Grunow-Hårsta, and Janick Wrona (eds.). Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and Typological Perspectives. [Typological Studies in Language 96]. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 659-683.

Potsdam, Eric and Maria Polinsky. 2011. Against covert A-movement in Russian unaccusatives. Linguistic Inquiry 42, 345-355.

Potsdam, Eric. 2010. VSO word order in Malagasy imperatives. In Raphael Mercado, Eric Potsdam, and Lisa Travis (eds.). Austronesian and Linguistic Theory. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 231-248.

Potsdam, Eric. 2009.  Malagasy backward object controlLanguage 85, 754-784.

Potsdam, Eric. 2009.  Austronesian verb-initial languages and wh-question strategies. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 27, 737-771.

Paul, Ileana and Eric Potsdam. 2008. How to sluice in the wh-in-situ language Malagasy. In Nikki Adams, Adam Cooper, Fey Parrill, and Thomas Weir (eds.). CLS 40, Vol. 1. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, 305-319.

Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 2008.  The Syntax and semantics of wanting in IndonesianLingua 118, 1617-1639.

Potsdam, Eric and Maria Polinsky. 2007.  Missing complement clause subjects in Malagasy. Oceanic Linguistics 46, 277-308.

Potsdam, Eric. 2007.  Malagasy Sluicing and its consequences for the identity requirement on ellipsis. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 25, 577-613.

Potsdam, Eric. 2007. Analysing word order in the English imperative. In Wim van der Wurff (ed.). Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 251-272.

Potsdam, Eric. 2006. Backward Object Control in Malagasy: Against an empty category analysis. In Donald Baumer, David Montero, and Michael Scanlon (Eds.). The Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, Ma.: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 328-336.

Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 2006. Expanding the scope of control and raising. Syntax 9, 171-192.

Potsdam, Eric. 2006. More concealed pseudoclefts and the Clausal Typing Hypothesis. Lingua 116, 2154-2182.

Potsdam, Eric. 2006. The cleft structure of Malagasy wh-questions. In Hans-Martin Gärtner, Paul Law, and Joachim Sabel (eds.). Clause structure and adjuncts in Austronesian languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 195-232.

Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 2005. Malagasy control and its theoretical implications. In Marc Ettlinger, Nicholas Fleisher, and Mischa Park-Doob (eds.). The Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, Ca.: Berkeley Linguistics Society, 365-376.

Potsdam, Eric. 2004. Wh-questions in Malagasy. In Paul Law (ed.). ZAS Working Papers in Linguistics 34: The Proceedings of the 11th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association. Berlin: ZAS, 244-258.

Potsdam, Eric. 2003. Evidence for semantic identity under ellipsis from Malagasy sluicing. In Makoto Kadowaki and Shigeto Kawahara (eds.). The Proceedings of the 33rd Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. Amherst, Mass.: GLSA, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 285-302.

Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 2003. Control in Malagasy. In Anastasia Riehl and Thess Savella (eds.). Cornell Working Papers in Linguistics 19: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, 173-187.

Potsdam, Eric. 2003. Author’s summary of Syntactic Issues in the English Imperative. GLOT 7, issue 1/2, 2 pages.

Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 2002. Backward control: Evidence from MalagasyMIT Working Papers in Linguistics 44, 257-272.

Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 2002. Backward control. Linguistic Inquiry 33, 24-282.

Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 2001. Long-distance agreement and topic in Tsez. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 19, 583-646.

Potsdam, Eric and Jeffrey T. Runner. 2001. Richard returns: Copy raising and its implications. In Mary Andronis, Christopher Ball, Heidi Elston, and Sylvain Neuvel (eds.). CLS 37: The Main Session. Papers from the 37th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, 453-468.

Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 2000. Backward control in Tsez. In Roger Billerey and Brook Danielle Lillehaugen (eds.). The Proceedings of the Nineteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, Ma.: Cascadilla Press, 357-370.

Potsdam, Eric. 1999. A syntax for Adverbs. In The Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Western Conference on Linguistics. Fresno, Ca.: Department of Linguistics, California State University, 397-411.

Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 1999. Long-distance agreement in Tsez. In Sonja Bird, Andrew Carnie, Jason D. Haugen, and Peter Norquest (eds.). The Proceedings of the Eighteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, Ma.: Cascadilla Press, 1999, 434-447.

Potsdam, Eric. 1997. NegP and subjunctive complements in English. Linguistic Inquiry 28, 533-541.

Potsdam, Eric. 1997. English verbal morphology and VP ellipsis. In The Proceedings of the 27th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society.Amherst, Ma.: GLSA, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 353-368.

Potsdam, Eric. 1997. The parallel structure of English questions and imperatives. In Brian Agbayani, and Sze-Wing Tang (eds). The Proceedings of the Fifteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Stanford: Stanford Linguistics Association, 397-412.

Potsdam, Eric. 1995. Phrase structure of the English imperative. In The Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of Midamerica. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club Publications, 143-154.

Potsdam, Eric. 1995. The long-distance anaphor in Fula. In Akinlabi, Akinbiyi (ed.). Theoretical Approaches to African Linguistics. Africa World Press,167-182.

 

Edited volumes

Haddad, Youssef A., and Eric Potsdam (eds.). 2016. Perspectives on Arabic linguistics XXVIII. Amsterdam: John Bengamins.

Potsdam, Eric, and Daniel Edmiston (eds.). 2015. Proceedings of the Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting 2. http://journals.fcla.edu/floridalinguisticspapers/index

Potsdam, Eric, and Daniel Edmiston (eds.). 2014. Proceedings of the Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting 1. http://journals.fcla.edu/floridalinguisticspapers/index

Gutierrez-Bravo, Rodrigo, Line Mikkelsen, and Eric Potsdam (eds.). 2011. Representing Language: Essays in Honor of Judith Aissen. University of California eScholarship Repository.

Mercado, Raphael, Eric Potsdam, Lisa Travis (eds.). 2010. Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Chung, Sandy, Daniel Finer, Ileana Paul, and Eric Potsdam (eds.). 2009. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguisics Association (AFLA). Published on-line at http://westernlinguistics.ca/afla/meetings/afla16/proceedings.htm.

Masangu, Matondo, Fiona McLaughlin, and Eric Potsdam (eds.). 2009. Selected Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of African Linguistics. Somerville, Ma.: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Pullum, Geoffrey K. and Eric Potsdam (eds.). 1993. Syntax at Santa Cruz 2. Santa Cruz, Ca.: University of California, Santa Cruz Linguistics Board.