Research Interests
I am a generative linguist and my work spans phonetics, phonology, syntax, and semantics, but I have mostly been concerned with syntax. Here’s a list of my books. Links to papers on various topics are listed below. There is ample overlap between the topics.
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Selected Publications
2026. Toivonen, Ida. The tripartite distinction between grammar, cognition, and the world. In: Mary Dalrymple, Tina B枚gel, Annette Hautli-Janisz, Ronald M. Kaplan, Annie Zaenen (eds.), Parallelism, Interconnection, and Complementary Distribution: Papers in Honor of Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King,381-403. Konstanz: PubliKon.
(The volume can be found .)2025. With Akshaya Kirithy Baskar. In: Miriam Butt, Jamie Findlay and Ida Toivonen (eds.), Proceedings of the LFG25 Conference, 19–40. University of Konstanz: PubliKon.
2024. With Katie Van Luven. Language and Linguistics Compass, e12511.
2023. In: Mary Dalrymple (ed.), Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar. Berlin: Language Science Press.
2023. With Mary Dalrymple. In: Eva van Lier (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes. Oxford University Press.
2021. In: Miriam Butt, Jamie Findlay, and Ida Toivonen (eds.), Proceedings of the LFG21 Conference, 306–331. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
2021. In: I Wayan Arka, Ash Asudeh and Tracy Holloway King (eds.). Modular Design of Grammar. Oxford university Press.
2020. Verbal particles, results, and directed motion. In: Richard Page and Michael Travis Putnam (eds.). Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics. Cambridge University Press. Chapter 22, 516–536. Pre-final version available .
2019. With Marly Mageau, Can Mekik, and Ashley Sokalski. Phonetica 76 (6): 429–447. Pre-final version available .
2019. With Shiva Bayanati. Open Linguistics 5(1): 156–170.
2019. With Lauren MacAulay and Daniel Siddiqi. Names: A Journal of Onomastics 67(3):160-174.
2019. With Kasia Muldner, Leah Hoiting, Leyna Sanger and Lev Blumenfeld. International Journal of Bilingualism 23(1): 37-52.
2019. With Helge L酶drup and Raj Singh. In: Miriam Butt, Tracy Holloway King and Ida Toivonen (eds.), {\it Proceedings of the LFG19 Conference}, 170–190. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
2018. With Roxana-Maria Barbu. In: Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King (eds.), Proceedings of the LFG18 Conference, 67–87. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
2018. With Paul Melchin. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 3.
2018. Theoretical Linguistics 44(1鈥�2): 93鈥�98.
2017. With Ash Asudeh. Proceedings of the LFG17 Conference.
2017. With Eva Sundberg. In Östman, Sandström, Gustavsson and Södergård (eds.), Ideologi, identitet, intervention. Nordisk dialektologi 10, 341–349
2017. In Östman, Sandström, Gustavsson and Södergård (eds.), Ideologi, identitet, intervention. Nordisk dialektologi 10, 293–302.
2016. Event participants and linguistic arguments. With Roxana-Maria Barbu. Proceedings of CogSci 2016
2016. A featural paradox in Votic harmony. With Lev Blumenfeld. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 34(4).
2015. East Cree Ghost participants. With Marie-Odile Junker. Proceedings of the LFG15 Conference
2015. With Claire Lesage, Nalini Ramlakhan, and Chris Wildman. Proceedings of CogSci 2015
2015. On the morphosyntactic representation of dependent quantification: distance distributivity, dependent indefinites, and Skolemization. With Dejan Milacic and Raj Singh. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19
2014. Vowel height and duration. With Lev Blumenfeld, Andrea Gormley, Leah Hoiting, John Logan, Nalini Ramlakhan and Adam Stone. Proceedings of WCCFL 32
2014. Meaning and valency. With Ash Asudeh and Gianluca Giorgolo.Proceedings of the LFG14 Conference, 68–88.
2014. With Lexical Integrity. With Ash Asudeh. Theoretical Linguistics. 40(12): 175–186.
2013. Constructions with Lexical Integrity. With Ash Asudeh and Mary Dalrymple. Journal of Language Modelling. 1(1): 1–54.
,2013. English benefactive NPs Proceedings of the LFG13 Conference, 503–523.
2012. Copy raising and perception. With Ash Asudeh. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 30(2): 321–380.
; pre-published version:2011. Derived arguments With Stephanie Needham. Proceedings of the LFG11 Conference, 401–421.
2009. Phonetic duration, phonological quantity and prosodic structure in Inari Saami. With Patrik Bye and Elin Sagulin. Phonetica 66(4): 199–121.
2009. Lexical-Functional Grammar. In Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 425-458. With Ash Asudeh. [Prepublication draft]
2008. Review of William D. Davies and Stanley Dubinsky’s The Grammar of Raising and Control: A Course in Syntactic Argumentation. Language 84(4): 880-882.
2008. Constructions with Lexical Integrity: Templates as the lexicon-syntax interface. In Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King, eds., Proceedings of the LFG08 Conference. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 68-88. With Ash Asudeh and Mary Dalrymple.
2007. Saami Linguistics. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 288. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Diane Nelson.
2007. Verbal agreement in Inari Saami. In: Ida Toivonen and Diane Nelson, eds., Saami Linguistics, CILT 288, 227-258. John Benjamins.
2007. Microvariation in Inari Saami. In: Jussi Ylikoski and Ante Aikio, eds., S谩mit, s谩nit, s谩tneh谩mit. Riepmo膷谩la Pekka Sammallahti miessem谩nu 21. beaivve 2007. M茅moires de la Soci茅t茅 Finno-Ougrienne 253. Helsinki. 363-374.
2007. Copy raising and its consequences for perceptual reports. In Annie Zaenen, Jane Simpson, Tracy Holloway King, Jane Grimshaw, Joan Maling and Chris Manning, eds., Architectures, Rules, and Preferences: Variations on Themes by Joan W. Bresnan. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 49鈥�67. With Ash Asudeh.
[Prepublication draft]2006. On continuative on. Studia Linguistica聽60(2): 181-219.
[Pre-published version]2006. Expletives and the syntax and semantics of copy raising. In Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King, eds., . Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 13-29. With Ash Asudeh.
[Prepublication draft]2006. Symptomatic Imperfections. [Review article of David Adger (2003) Core Syntax and Andrew Radford (2004) Minimalist Syntax] 聽 Journal of Linguistics 42(2): 395-422. With Ash Asudeh.
2003. Non-Projecting Words: A Case Study of Swedish Verbal Particles. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer.
,2003. Counting and the grammar: Numerals in Inari Sami. In: Satu Manninen and Diane Nelson, eds., Generative Approaches to Finnic and Saami Linguistics. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 321鈥�341. With Diane Nelson.
2002. Particles and Results in Swedish and English. 2002. WCCFL 21.
2002. Swedish particles and syntactic projection. In: Nicole Deh茅, Silke Urban, Andrew McIntyre and Ray Jackendoff, eds., Verb-Particle Explorations. Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter. 191鈥�209.
2001. The Directed Motion Construction in Swedish.
[Old version. A newer聽 version聽 appeared聽 in Journal of Linguistics 38(2),]2001. Language Change, Lexical Features and Finnish Possessors. In Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King, eds., Time over Matter: Diachronic Perspectives on Morphosyntax. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 209–225.
2000. The Morphosyntax of Finnish Possession.
[Long, old version; a newer version appeared in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 18(3)]
2001. The Phrase-Structure of Non-Projecting Words.
[Stanford Ph.D. dissertation]1998. Swedish place expressions. NELS 29.
1997. The acquisition of Swedish body-posture words.
[Unpublished manuscript]1995. A study of Finnish infinitives.
[Senior Thesis, Brandeis University]
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