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Potsdam, Eric. 1998. \u00a0Syntactic issues in the English imperative<\/i><\/a>. New York: Garland Publishing Co. [republished in 2017 by Routledge]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Luan\u00e9 Lennox, Victoria Chen, and Eric Potsdam. To appear. The Javanese free exceptive and its implications for ellipsis constraints in Austronesian<\/a>. In The Proceedings of the 30th Meeting of Austronesian Formal Linguistic Association<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Potsdam, Eric. 2024. The Malagasy phrasal comparative<\/a>. Syntax\u00a0<\/em>1-36.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Paul, Ileana, and Eric Potsdam. 2024. Malagasy framing demonstratives and the syntax of doubling<\/a>.\u00a0Glossa: A journal of general linguistics<\/em> 9, 1-37.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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

Paul, Ileana, and Eric Potsdam. 2023.\u00a0Malagasy framing demonstratives<\/a>. In Vera\u00a0Hohaus, Jens Hopperdietzel, and Siena Weingartz (eds.). Proceedings of TripleAFLA: 9th TripleA workshop for semantic fieldworkers, 29th annual meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association<\/em>, 75-88. London, Ontario: University of Western Ontario, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Potsdam, Eric. 2022. What sluices in Malagasy sluicing?<\/a>\u00a0Oceanic Linguistics\u00a0<\/em>61, 757-790.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Potsdam, Eric. 2022. Malagasy extraposition: Evidence for PF movement<\/a>. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory <\/i>40,\u00a0<\/i>195-237.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Polinsky, Maria, and Eric Potsdam. 2021. Deriving VOS from VSO in Tongan<\/a>. In Lauren Clemens and Diane Massam (eds.).\u00a0Polynesian syntax and its interfaces<\/em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Polinsky, Maria, and Eric Potsdam. 2021. Tongan VOS: Coordination plus ellipsis?<\/a> In Hsieh, Henrison and Keely New (eds.).\u00a0The Proceedings of the 27th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal\u00a0Linguistics Association<\/i><\/a>, London, Ont.: University of Western Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Potsdam, Eric, and Daniel Edmiston, 2015. Imperatives. In Mark Aronoff (ed.). Oxford bibliographies in linguistics<\/em>. New York: Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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

Potsdam, Eric and Maria Polinsky. 2015. Information questions in Malagasy dialects: Official Malagasy and Antakarana<\/a>. Western Papers in Linguistics\/Cahier linguistiques de Wester<\/em>n 1, 1-13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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

Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 2014. Left edge topics in Russian and the processing of anaphoric dependencies<\/a>. Journal of Linguistics <\/em>50, 627-669.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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

Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 2013. Diagnosing covert A-movement<\/a>. In Lisa Cheng and Norbert Corver (eds.). Diagnosing syntax<\/i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 210-234.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Haddad, Youssef A. and Eric Potsdam. 2013. Linearizing the control relation: A typology<\/a>. In Theresa Biberauer and Ian Roberts (eds.). Principles of Linearization<\/i>. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Potsdam, Eric. 2013. CP negation and the domain of Quantifier Raising<\/a>. Linguistic Inquiry <\/i>44, 674-684.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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

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

Potsdam, Eric, and Maria Polinsky. 2012. Backward raising<\/a>. Syntax <\/i>15, 75-108.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Potsdam, Eric. 2012. Which <\/i>questions in Malagasy<\/a>. UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics, Theories of everything: In honor of Ed Keenan <\/i>17, 360-366.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Potsdam, Eric and Maria Polinsky. 2012. \u00a0The syntax of the Tahitian Actor Emphatic construction<\/a>. Oceanic Linguistics<\/i> 51, 58-85<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Potsdam, Eric and Maria Polinsky. 2011. \u00a0Questions and word order in Polynesian<\/a>. In Claire Moyse-Faurie and Joachim Sabel (eds.). Topics in Oceanic morphosyntax. <\/i>Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, <\/i>83-109.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Potsdam, Eric. 2011. A direct analysis of Malagasy comparatives<\/a>. Tampa Papers in Linguistics 2, 1-24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Potsdam, Eric. 2011. Expressing exclamatives in Malagasy<\/a>. In Yap Foong Ha, Karen Grunow-H\u00e5rsta, and Janick Wrona (eds.). Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and Typological Perspectives. <\/em>[Typological Studies in Language 96]. Amsterdam\/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 659-683.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Potsdam, Eric and Maria Polinsky. 2011. Against covert A-movement in Russian unaccusatives<\/a>. Linguistic Inquiry <\/i>42, 345-355.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Potsdam, Eric. 2010. VSO word order in Malagasy imperatives<\/a>. In Raphael Mercado, Eric Potsdam, and Lisa Travis (eds.). Austronesian and Linguistic Theory<\/em>. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 231-248.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Potsdam, Eric. 2009. \u00a0Malagasy backward object control<\/a>.\u00a0Language<\/i> 85, 754-784.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Potsdam, Eric. 2009. \u00a0Austronesian verb-initial languages and wh<\/em>-question strategies<\/a>. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory<\/i> 27, 737-771.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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

Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 2008. \u00a0The Syntax and semantics of wanting in Indonesian<\/a>.\u00a0Lingua <\/i>118, 1617-1639.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Potsdam, Eric and Maria Polinsky. 2007. \u00a0Missing complement clause subjects in Malagasy<\/a>. Oceanic Linguistics <\/i>46, 277-308.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Potsdam, Eric. 2007. \u00a0Malagasy Sluicing and its consequences for the identity requirement on ellipsis<\/a>. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory <\/i>25, 577-613.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Potsdam, Eric. 2007. Analysing word order in the English imperative<\/a>. In Wim van der Wurff (ed.). Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar. <\/i>Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 251-272.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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

Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 2006.\u00a0Expanding the scope of control and raising<\/a>. Syntax <\/em>9, 171-192.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Potsdam, Eric. 2006.\u00a0More concealed pseudoclefts and the Clausal Typing Hypothesis<\/a>. Lingua<\/em> 116, 2154-2182.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Potsdam, Eric. 2006.\u00a0The cleft structure of Malagasy wh<\/em>-questions. In Hans-Martin G\u00e4rtner, Paul Law, and Joachim Sabel (eds.). Clause structure and adjuncts in Austronesian languages<\/i>. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 195-232.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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

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

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

Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 2003. Control in Malagasy<\/a>. 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<\/em>, 173-187.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Potsdam, Eric. 2003. Author\u2019s summary of Syntactic Issues in the English Imperative<\/em><\/a>. GLOT 7<\/em>, issue 1\/2, 2 pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 2002.\u00a0Backward control: Evidence from Malagasy<\/a>.\u00a0MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 44<\/i>, 257-272.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 2002.\u00a0Backward control<\/a>. Linguistic Inquiry<\/em> 33, 24-282.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 2001. Long-distance agreement and topic in Tsez<\/a>. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory <\/em>19, 583-646.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Potsdam, Eric and Jeffrey T. Runner. 2001. Richard returns: Copy raising and its implications<\/a>. 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<\/em>. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, 453-468.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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

Potsdam, Eric. 1999. A syntax for Adverbs<\/a>. In The Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Western Conference on Linguistics<\/em>. Fresno, Ca.: Department of Linguistics, California State University, 397-411.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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

Potsdam, Eric. 1997.\u00a0NegP and subjunctive complements in English<\/a>. Linguistic Inquiry<\/em> 28, 533-541.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Potsdam, Eric. 1997.\u00a0English verbal morphology and VP ellipsis<\/a>. In The Proceedings of the 27th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society.<\/em>Amherst, Ma.: GLSA, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 353-368.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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

Potsdam, Eric. 1995.\u00a0Phrase structure of the English imperative<\/a>. In The Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of Midamerica. <\/em>Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club Publications, 143-154.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Potsdam, Eric. 1995. The long-distance anaphor in Fula<\/a>. In Akinlabi, Akinbiyi (ed.). Theoretical Approaches to African Linguistics<\/em>. Africa World Press,167-182.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Edited volumes<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Haddad, Youssef A., and Eric Potsdam (eds.). 2016. Perspectives on Arabic linguistics XXVIII<\/em>. Amsterdam: John Bengamins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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

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

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

Mercado, Raphael, Eric Potsdam, Lisa Travis (eds.). 2010. Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics<\/em>. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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

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

Pullum, Geoffrey K. and Eric Potsdam (eds.). 1993. Syntax at Santa Cruz 2<\/em>. Santa Cruz, Ca.: University of California, Santa Cruz Linguistics Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-244","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/potsdam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}