The Year of Smuggling (2024)

There has been a tidal wave of recent work on smuggling, in the sense of Collins 2005. I will refer to 2024 as ‘The Year of Smuggling’ for all the breakthrough work taking place.

Here is a list of smuggling papers that are being published in 2024. These nine new papers include many new and interesting ideas going way beyond Collins 2005. There are many other manuscripts and talks on smuggling that I have omitted (e.g., dissertation work by John David Storment), because they are not yet published. I also omit older papers on smuggling, such as the collection of important papers in Belletti and Collins (2020), and earlier work by Ian Roberts (see Roberts 2010, 2019). The papers below are only for the year 2024.

If you need any of these papers (old or new), please let me know.

Collins, Chris. 2024. Principles of Argument Structure: A Merge-Based Approach. MIT Press, Cambridge.

Gotah, Selikem. 2024. Deriving Ewe (Tongugbe) nya-Constructions. Linguistic Variation.

Newman, Elise. 2024. The Order of Operations and A/A’-Interactions. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 

Roberts, Ian. 2024. Generalised Dynamic Asymmetry and Smuggling Derivations. In Mateo Greco and Davide Mocci (eds.), A Cartesian Dream: A Geometrical Account of Syntax. Lulu.

Sato, Yosuke. 2024. Partial wh-Movement in Indonesian, Criterial Freezing, and Sub-Extraction. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 69, 63-89.

Shlonsky, Ur. 2024. From Bantu subject-object reversal to inverted copular sentences: How ‘low’ focalization and smuggling circumvent Relativized Minimality violations. In Giuliano Bocci, Daniele Botteri, Claudia Manetti and Vincenzo Moscati (eds.), Rich Descriptions and Simple Explanations in Language Structure and Acquisition. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Stegovec, Adrian. 2024. The Third Way: Object Reordering as Ambiguous Labeling Resolution. The Linguistic Review.

Sulemana, Abdul-Razak. 2024. Passive without Morphology: A Case for Implicit Arguments. Linguistic Variation.

Thoms, Gary. 2024. Reassessing Oehrle effects: evidence from Scottish Gaelic. To appear in Andrew Carnie, Michael Hammond, and Diane Ohala (eds.), Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics II, Language Science Press.