Pronouns
- The interpretation and grammatical representation of animacy.
Maziar Toosarvandani. Language, to appear.
- The featural life of nominals.
Ivy Sichel and Maziar Toosarvandani. Linguistic Inquiry, to appear.
- Gender-Case Constraints in Zapotec.
Steven Foley, Nick Kalivoda, and Maziar Toosarvandani. Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA), to appear, 22.
- Extending the Person–Case Constraint to gender: Agreement, locality, and the syntax of pronouns.
Steven Foley and Maziar Toosarvandani. Linguistic Inquiry, 2022, 53(1): 1–40.
- Locating animacy in the grammar.
Maziar Toosarvandani. North East Linguistic Society (NELS), 2022, 52(3): 173–186.
- Pronoun cliticization, wh-movement, and the Principle of Minimal Compliance.
Steven Foley and Maziar Toosarvandani. North East Linguistic Society (NELS), 2019, 49(1):251–264.
- Pronouns and attraction in Sierra Zapotec.
Ivy Sichel and Maziar Toosarvandani. Syntax and Semantics at Santa Cruz (SASC), 2020, 4: 97–116.
- Forbidden clitic clusters in Zapotec.
Steven Foley, Nick Kalivoda, and Maziar Toosarvandani. Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS), 2019, 53:87–102.
- On reaching agreement early (and late).
Maziar Toosarvandani. In Asking the right questions: Essays in honor of Sandra Chung, Jason Ostrove, Ruth Kramer, and Joseph Sabbagh, eds., 2017, 127–141.
Verbal semantics
- The structure of events and arguments in associated motion.
Jack Duff. Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA), to appear, 25.
- A causal decomposition for associated motion events in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec.
Jack Duff. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), to appear, 38.
- Encoding time in tenseless languages: The view from Zapotec.
Maziar Toosarvandani. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), to appear, 38.
- Eliciting associated motion constructions in two Zapotec languages.
Fe Silva-Robles, Felipe H. Lopez, John Duff, and Carolyn Anderson. Semantic Fieldwork Methods, 2022, 4(3).
Clause structure
- Redundancy and restriction in the derivation of relative clauses.
Ivy Sichel, Jack Duff, and Maziar Toosarvandani. Syntax and Semantics at Santa Cruz (SASC), 2022, 5: 35–58..
- The derivation of verb initiality in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec.
Jeff Adler, Steven Foley, Jedd Pizarro-Guevara, Kelsey Sasaki, and Maziar Toosarvandani. In A reasonable way to proceed: Essays in honor of Jim McCloskey, Jason Merchant, Line Mikkelsen, Deniz Rudin, and Kelsey Sasaki, eds., 2018, 31–49.