Zapotec Language Project

Publications

Pronouns and pronominal cliticization

• Extending the Person–Case Constraint to gender: Agreement, locality, and the syntax of pronouns.
  Steven Foley 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Temporality

• Encoding time in tenseless languages: The view from Zapotec.
  Maziar Toosarvandani. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), to appear, 38.

Word order

• 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.