Books

  1. Smolensky, P. and G. Legendre. In progress. The Harmonic Mind (Anticipated date of completion: Fall 2002)

  2. Legendre, G., J. Grimshaw, & S. Vikner (eds.). 2001. Optimality-theoretic Syntax. MIT Press

  3. Legendre, G. 1994. Topics in French Syntax. Garland Publishing Co., New York. 328 pages.  

    Articles

  4. Hale, J. and G. Legendre. In progress. Minimal Links, Remnant Movement, and (Non)-derivational Grammar.

  5. Legendre, G, A. Vainikka, P. Hagstrom, and M. Todorova. 2002/Under review. Partial Constraint Ordering in Child French Syntax.

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  6. Legendre, G. and A. Sorace. To appear. Split Intransitivity in French: An Optimality-theoretic Perspective. In Danièle Godard (ed.) Les langues romanes: problèmes de la phrase simple. Paris: CNRS éditions.

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  7. Hagstrom, P., J. Chen-Main, G. Legendre, and L. Tao. In press. Default ne in Child Mandarin Chinese. Korean Journal of Cognitive Science, Seoul, Korea.

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  8. Davidson, L. and G. Legendre. In press. Defaults and Competition in the Acquisition of Functional Categories in Catalan and French, in Rafael Nuñez-Cedeño, Luis López & Richard Cameron, (eds.), Selected Papers from the 2001 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVI).

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  9. Legendre, G. In press. Optimality Theory in Syntax. In W. Frawley (Editor in Chief). International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (Second Edition). Oxford University Press.

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  10. Legendre, G. In press. What are Clitics? Evidence from Balkan Languages. Phonological Studies (Journal of the Phonological Society of Japan).

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  11. Legendre, G, P. Hagstrom, L. Tao, J. Chen, and L. Davidson. 2001. A Preliminary Look at the Acquisition of Aspect in Mandarin Chinese in OT. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cognitive Science. L. Chen and Y. Zhuo, (eds.), Press of University of Science and Technology of China. 398-405.

  12. Legendre, G. 2001. Introduction to OT syntax. In G. Legendre, S. Vikner, and J. Grimshaw, (eds.), OT Syntax. MIT Press. 1-27.

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  13. Legendre, G. 2001. Masked V2 Effects and the Linearization of Functional Features. In G. Legendre, S. Vikner, and J. Grimshaw, (eds.), OT Syntax. MIT Press. 241-277.

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  14. Legendre, G, P. Hagstrom, A. Vainikka, and M. Todorova. 2000. Evidence for syntactic competition in the acquisition if tense and agreement in child French. In A. Okrent and J. P. Boyle (eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Chicago Linguistics Society Meeting, 431-443.

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  15. Legendre, G, P. Hagstrom, A. Vainikka, and M. Todorova. 2000. An OT model of Acquisition of Tense and Agreement in French. In L. Gleitman and A. Joshi (eds.) Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Pages?

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  16. Legendre, G. 2000. For an OT Conception of a Parallel Interface: Evidence from Basque V2. In M. Hirotani, A. Coetzee, N. Hall, and J.-Y. Kim (eds.). Proceedings of the 30th Conference of the North East Linguistic Society. GLSA Publications. Pages?

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  17. Legendre, G. 2000. Positioning Romanian Verbal Clitics at PF: An Optimality-Theoretic Analysis. In B. Gerlach and J. Grijzenhout, (eds.). Clitics from Different Perspectives. Johns Benjamins. 219-254.

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  18. Legendre, G. 2000. Morphological and Prosodic Alignment of Bulgarian Clitics. In J. Dekkers, F. van der Leeuw, and J. van de Weijer, (eds.). Optimality Theory: Syntax, Phonology, and Acquisition. Oxford University Press. 423-462.

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  19. Legendre,G. 2000. Optimal Romanian Clitics: A Cross-linguistic Perspective. In V. Motapanyane, (ed.), Comparative Studies in Romanian Syntax. Oxford: Elsevier, North Holland Linguistic Series 58. 227-264.

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  20. Legendre, G. 1999. On the Status and Positioning of Verbal Clitics. JHU manuscript.

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  21. Legendre, G. 1999. Why French Stylistic Inversion is Optimal. JHU manuscript.

  22. Legendre, G. 1999. Morphological and Prosodic Alignment at Work: The Case of South-Slavic Clitics. In S.J. Blake, E.-S. Kim, and K.N. Shahin, (eds.). Proceedings of WCCFL XVII. CSLI Publications, Stanford University. 436-450.

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  23. Legendre, G. 1998. Second Position Clitics in a V2 Language: Conflict Resolution in Macedonian. In J. Austin and A. Lawson, (eds.). Proceedings of the 1997 ESCOL Meeting. CLC Publications, Cornell University. 139-149.

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  24. Legendre, G., P. Smolensky, and C. Wilson. 1998. When is Less More? Faithfulness and Minimal Links in Wh-Chains. In Is the Best Good Enough? Optimality and Competition in Syntax (P. Barbosa, D. Fox, P. Hagstrom, M. McGinnis, and D. Pesetsky, eds). MIT Press. 249-289.
  25. Legendre, G. 1997. Secondary Predication and Functional Projections in French. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 15.1.1-45.

  26. Legendre, G, C. Wilson, P. Smolensky, K. Homer, and W. Raymond. 1995. Optimality and Wh-Extraction. In Papers in Optimality Theory (J. Beckman, L. Walsh Dickey, and S. Urbanczyk, eds.) University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers 18. GLSA, UMass, Amherst, 607-636

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  27. Legendre, G. 1995. Causee Prominence Constraints in French and Elsewhere. Grammatical Relations: Theoretical Approaches to Empirical Questions (C.S. Burgess, K. Dziwirek, and D. Gerdts, eds.). CSLI Publications, Stanford University. 291-308.
  28. Legendre, G. 1994. Antipassive with French Psych Verbs. Proceedings of WCCFL XII (E. Duncan, D. Farkas, and P. Spaelti, eds.). CSLI Publications, Stanford University, Stanford University. 373-388.
  29. Legendre, G. and T. Akimova. 1994. Inversion and Antipassive in Russian. Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics: The MIT Meeting, (S. Avrutin, S. Franks, and L. Progovac, eds.). Michigan Slavic Publications, 286-318.
  30. Legendre, G. 1993. Review of Postal (1989): Masked Inversion in French. Romance Philology, Vol. XL VII, No.1, 79-83.

  31. Legendre, G, W. Raymond and P. Smolensky. 1993. Analytic Typology of Case Marking and Grammatical Voice Based on Hierarchies of Universal Constraints. Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 464-478.

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  32. Miyata, Y., P. Smolensky, and G. Legendre. 1993. Distributed Representation and Parallel Processing of Recursive Structures. Proceedings of the 15th Cognitive Science Meeting, 759-764.
  33. Smolensky, P., Legendre, G., & Miyata, Y. 1993. Integrating connectionist and symbolic computation for the theory of language. Current Science, 64:381-391. Also in V. Honavar & L. Uhr, Symbol Processors and Connectionist Networks in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Modeling: Steps Toward Principled Integration, Academic Press.
  34. Legendre, G. & Rood, D. 1992. On the Interaction of Grammar Components in Lakhóta: Evidence from Split Intransitivity. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, University of California, Berkeley, 380-394.
  35. Legendre, G., Y. Miyata, and P. Smolensky. 1991. Integrating Semantic and Syntactic Accounts of Unaccusativity: A Connectionist Approach. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, University of California, Berkeley, 156-167.
  36. Legendre, G., Y. Miyata, and P. Smolensky. 1991. Distributed Recursive Structure Processing. In Neural Information Processing 3,( D. Touretzky and J. Moody, eds.). Morgan Kaufmann, 591-597. (Longer version in the Proceedings of the 1991 Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (B. Mayoh, ed.). Amsterdam: IOS Press.
  37. Legendre, G., Y. Miyata, and P. Smolensky. 1991. Representation and Processing of Tree Structures by Recursive Tensor Product Network. Proceedings of the Japanese Neural Network Society, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1-3.
  38. Legendre, G., Y. Miyata, and P. Smolensky. 1990. Can Connectionism Contribute to Syntax? Harmonic Grammar, with an Application. Proceedings of the 26th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.
  39. Legendre, G. 1990. French Causatives: Another Look at faire par. In Grammatical Relations: A Cross Theoretical Perspective ( K. Dziwirek, P. Farrell, and E. Mejias-Bikandi, eds.) CSLI Publications, Stanford University, 247-262.
  40. Legendre, G. 1990. French Impersonal Constructions. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 8:1, 81-128.
  41. Legendre, G., Y. Miyata, and P. Smolensky. 1990. Harmonic Grammar C A Formal Multi-Level Connectionist Theory of Linguistic Well-Formedness: An Application. Proceedings of the Twelfth Cognitive Science Meeting. 884-891.
  42. Legendre, G., Y. Miyata, and P. Smolensky. 1990. Harmonic Grammar C A Formal Multi-Level Connectionist Theory of Linguistic Well-Formedness: Theoretical Foundations. Proceedings of the Twelfth Cognitive Science Meeting. 388-395.
  43. Legendre, G. 1989. Inversion with Certain French Experiencer Verbs. Language 65:4, 752-782.
  44. Legendre, G. 1989. Unaccusativity in French. Lingua 79, 95-164.
  45. Legendre, G. 1988. Two Classes of Unergatives in French? Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. 259-274.
  46. Legendre, G. 1988. On the Issue of Multiple Syntactic Levels: Evidence from French Control. Proceedings of the 1988 Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, 301-312.
  47. Legendre, G. 1988. Review of Postal (1986) Studies of Passive Clauses. Le Français Moderne 56, 1/2, 113-119, Brussels. Invited.
  48. Legendre, G. 1986. Object Raising in French: A Unified Account. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 4: 137-184.
  49. Legendre, G. 1985. Object to Subject Raising, Reflexive Passive and 3 to 2 Advancement in French. Linguistics Notes from La Jolla 13: 69-95.

  50. Legendre, G. 1984. Tocharian Vowels: A New Historical Perspective. Linguistics Notes from La Jolla 12: 72-104.

    Technical Reports

  51. Legendre, G, A. Vainikka, P. Hagstrom, and M. Todorova. 2002/Under review. Partial Constraint Ordering in Child French Syntax. Technical Report: JHU-CogSci-99-11. [Abridged and updated 2002 version under review].

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  52. Vainikka, A., G. Legendre, and M. Todorova. 1999. PLU Stages: An Independent Measure of Early Syntactic Development. Technical Report: JHU-CogSci-99-10.

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  53. Legendre, G. 1997. Optimal Romanian Clitics: A Cross-linguistic Perspective. Technical Report JHU-CogSci-97-9. [Revised as publication #19]
  54. Legendre, G. 1997. Optimal Clitics and Verb Movement in Romanian. Technical Report JHU-CogSci-97-7.

  55. Legendre, G. 1996. Clitics, Verb(Non)-Movement, and Optimality in Bulgarian. Technical Report JHU-CogSci-96-5. [Revised as publication #18]

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  56. Legendre, G. 1992. Split Intransitivity: A Reply to Van Valin (1990). Technical Report ICS-TR-92-3/Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado at Boulder.
  57. Smolensky, P., Legendre, G., & Miyata, Y. 1992. Principles for an Integrated Connectionist/Symbolic Theory of Higher Cognition. Technical Report CU-CS-600-92/Department of Computer Science and 92-8/Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado at Boulder. [Integrated to forthcoming book #1]