Publications of Ray Jackendoff December 2013

Books

Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar, MIT Press, 1972

X-Bar Syntax: A Study of Phrase Structure, MIT Press, 1977
A Generative Theory of Tonal Music (with Fred Lerdahl), MIT Press, 1982 (Spanish translation,
Ediciones Akal, 2003; Romanian translation, Arpeggione, 2011)
Semantics and Cognition, MIT Press, 1983 (Italian translation, Il Mulino, 1989)
Consciousness and the Computational Mind, Bradford/MIT Press, 1987 (Italian translation, Il
Mulino, 1990; Spanish translation, Visor, 1998)
Semantic Structures, MIT Press, 1990 (Korean translation, Hanshin Publishing Co., 2000)
Languages of the Mind, Bradford/MIT Press, 1992
Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993 (Europe); Basic
Books, 1994 (USA) (Natural Science Book Club selection, May 1994) (Dutch translation,
Het Spectrum, 1996; Italian translation, Il Mulino, 1998; Korean translation, Thaehaksa,
2000; Japanese translation, Iwanami Shoten, 2004)
The Architecture of the Language Faculty, MIT Press, 1997
Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution, Oxford University Press, 2002
(Japanese translation, Iwanami Shoten, 2006; Spanish translation, Fondo de Cultura
Econmica, 2010)
Simpler Syntax (with Peter Culicover), Oxford University Press, 2005
Language, Consciousness, Culture: Essays on Mental Structure, MIT Press, 2007
Meaning and the Lexicon: The Parallel Architecture 1975-2010, Oxford University Press, 2010
(includes revised and/or annotated versions of 1975b, 1984a, 1987d, 1991f, 1996c,
1996d, 1997b, 2002b, 2004a, 2004c, 2008a, 2009b)
A Users Guide to Thought and Meaning, Oxford University Press, 2012

Edited volumes

Language, Logic, and Concepts: Essays in Memory of John Macnamara (co-edited with Paul Bloom
and Karen Wynn), Bradford/MIT Press, 1999
Verb-Particle Explorations (co-edited with Nicole Deh, Andrew McIntyre, and Silke Urban),
Mouton de Gruyter, 2002

Recordings

Romanian Music for Clarinet and Piano (with Valentina Sandu-Dediu, piano): works by Marian
Negrea, Stefan Niculescu, Constantin Silvestri, and Dan Dediu. Bucharest: Editura
Muzicala, 2002; Albany, NY: Albany Records, 2003
American Music for Clarinet and Piano (with John McDonald, piano): works by Aaron Copland,
Elliott Carter, Arthur Berger, Yehudi Wyner, and John McDonald. In preparation.

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Articles

1968 a. An Interpretive Theory of Pronouns and Reflexives, Indiana University Linguistics

Club
b. Quantifiers in English, Foundations of Language 4.4, 422-442.

1969 a. Some Rules of Semantic Interpretation for English, MIT doctoral dissertation
b. An Interpretive Theory of Negation, Foundations of Language 5.2, 218-241. German
translation: Eine interpretive Theorie der Negation, in F. Kiefer and D. Perlmutter,
eds., Syntax und Generative Grammatik I, Frankfurt am Main, Athenaion, pp. 137-174,
1975
c. Les constructions possessives en anglais, Langages 14, 7-27

1970 a. Coreference and Stress (with Adrian Akmajian), Linguistic Inquiry 1.1, 124-126

1971 a. Review of Beverly Robbins, The Definite Article in English Transformations, Foundations
of Language 7.1, 138-142
b. Gapping and Related Rules, Linguistic Inquiry 2.1, 21-36
c. On some Questionable Arguments about Quantifiers and Negation, Language 47.2,
282-297
d. Modal Structure in Semantic Interpretation, Linguistic Inquiry 2.4, 470-514
e. A Reconsideration of Dative Movements (with Peter Culicover), Foundations of
Language 7.3, 397-412

1972 a. Any vs. Every, Linguistic Inquiry 3.1, 119-120

b. Speculations on Presentences and Determiners, International Journal of Dravidian
Linguistics 1.1, 112-136

1973 a. The Base Rules for Prepositional Phrases, in S. Anderson and P. Kiparsky, eds.,
Festschrift for Morris Halle, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 345-356

1974 a. Leonard Bernstein's Harvard Lectures, High Fidelity/Musical America, April 1974, 8-
10
b. A Deep Structure Projection Rule, Linguistic Inquiry 5.4, 481-505

1975 a. On Belief-Contexts, Linguistic Inquiry 6.1, 53-93

b. Morphological and Semantic Regularities in the Lexicon, Language 51.3, 639-671.
French translation in M. Ronat, ed., Langue: Theorie generative etendue, Paris, Hermann,
pp. 65-108, 1977. Reprinted in Jackendoff, Meaning and the Lexicon, 2010.
c. Introduction to the X-Bar Convention, Indiana University Linguistics Club
d. Tough and the Trace Theory of Movement Rules, Linguistic Inquiry 6.3, 437-447.
Reprinted in Kaigai Eigogakuronso (Selected Theses in Linguistics), 1977 Edition,
Tokyo, Eichosa, pp. 126-141.
e. A System of Semantic Primitives, In R. Schank and B. Nash-Webber, eds.,
Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing, Association for Computational
Linguistics, pp. 24-29

1976 a. Toward an Explanatory Semantic Representation, Linguistic Inquiry 7.1, 89-150

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1977 a. Toward a Cognitively Viable Semantics, in C. Rameh, ed., Georgetown University Round
Table on Languages and Linguistics 1976, 59-80. Reprinted in Communication and
Cognition 10.3/4, 41-62, 1977
b. Toward a Formal Theory of Tonal Music (with Fred Lerdahl), Journal of Music Theory,
spring 1977, 111-171
c. Constraints on Phrase Structure Rules, in P. Culicover, T. Wasow, and A. Akmajian,
eds., Formal Syntax, New York, Academic Press, 249-283
d. Review article on Bernstein, The Unanswered Question, Language 53.4, 883-894

1978 a. Grammar as Evidence for Conceptual Structure, in M. Halle, J. Bresnan, and

G. Miller, eds., Linguistic Theory and Psychological Reality, MIT Press, 201-228
b. An Argument about the Composition of Conceptual Structure, in D. Waltz, ed.,
TINLAP-2, Association for Computational Linguistics

1979 a. How to Keep Ninety from Rising, Linguistic Inquiry 10.1, 172-177
b. What is a Cognitive Map? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2., 507-509

1980 a. A Deep Parallel between Music and Language (with Fred Lerdahl), Indiana
University Linguistics Club
b. Belief-Contexts Revisited, Linguistic Inquiry 11.2, 395-413
c. Discovery Procedures vs. Rules of Musical Grammar in a Generative Music Theory
(with Fred Lerdahl), Perspectives of New Music 18.2, 503-510

1981 a. On the Constituent Structure of All Three of the Men, Linguistic Inquiry 12.1, 150-151
b. On Katz's Autonomous Semantics, Language 57.2, 425-435
c. Generative Music Theory and its Relation to Psychology (with Fred Lerdahl), Journal
of Music Theory 25.1, 45-90
d. On the Theory of Grouping and Meter (with Fred Lerdahl), The Musical Quarterly
67.4, 479-506
e. Senso e referenza in una semantica basata sulla psicologia, Quaderni di Semantica 3, 3-
24. English version: Sense and Reference in a Psychologically Based Semantics, in
T. Bever, J. Carroll, and L. Miller, eds., Talking Minds: The Study of Language in the
Cognitive Sciences, 49-72. Cambridge, MIT Press, 1984.

1982 a. Commentary on Bowerman, "Evaluating Competing Linguistic Models," Quaderni di

Semantica 5, 67-71
b. A Grammatical Parallel between Music and Language, in M. Clynes, ed., Music,
Mind, and Brain, Plenum (with Fred Lerdahl). Reprinted in C.-P. Otero, ed., Noam
Chomsky: Critical Assessments, 725-760; London, Routledge, 1993.

1983 a. An Overview of Hierarchical Structure in Music (with Fred Lerdahl), Music Perception
1.2, 229-252
b. March, Waltz, and Polka for clarinet and piano (Arrangement of Stravinsky, Three
Easy Pieces for piano four-hands), Chester Music, London

1984 a. On the Phrase The Phrase 'The Phrase', Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 2.1, 25-
37. Reprinted in Jackendoff, Meaning and the Lexicon, 2010.
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1985 a. Information is in the Mind of the Beholder, Linguistics and Philosophy 8, 23-33
b. Believing and Intending: Two Sides of the Same Coin, Linguistic Inquiry 16.3, 445-
459
c. A Reply to Peel and Slawson's Review of A Generative Theory of Tonal Music (with
Fred Lerdahl), Journal of Music Theory 29.1, 145-160
d. Multiple Subcategorization and the -Criterion: The Case of Climb, Natural Language
and Linguistic Theory 3.3, 271-295

1986 a. Distributive Location, Sophia Linguistica 20/21, 15-24

b. Conceptual Semantics, VS 44/45, 81-98. Reprinted in U. Eco, M. Santambroglio,
and P. Violi, eds., Meaning and Mental Representations, Bloomington, Indiana
University Press.

1987 a. X-Bar Semantics, in J. Aske, N. Beery, L. Michaelis, and H. Filip, Proceedings of the
13th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley, 355-365. Revised
version in J. Pustejovsky, ed., Semantics and the Lexicon, 15-26, Dordrecht, Kluwer.
b. The Status of Thematic Relations in Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Inquiry 18.3, 369-
411.
c. Case in Tiers (with Moira Yip and Joan Maling), Language 63.2, 217-250.
d. On Beyond Zebra: The Relation of Linguistic and Visual Information, Cognition 26,
89-114. Reprinted in C.-P. Otero, ed., Noam Chomsky: Critical Assessments, 417-442.
London, Routledge, 1993. Reprinted in Jackendoff, Meaning and the Lexicon, 2010.

1988 a. Exploring the Form of Information in the Dynamic Unconscious, in Mardi J.

Horowitz, ed., Psychodynamics and Cognition, Chicago, University of Chicago Press,
203-220. (Revised version in Jackendoff, Languages of the Mind)
b. Why Are They Saying These Things About Us? (Topic-Comment column) Natural
Language and Linguistic Theory 6.3, 435-442.
c. Some Thoughts on the Role of Linguistics in a Liberal Arts Curriculum, pamphlet
in series Linguistics in the Undergraduate Curriculum, Washington, Linguistic Society of
America (3 pages).

1989 a. What is a Concept, that a Person can Grasp It? Mind and Language 4.1/2, 68-102.
Reprinted in Jackendoff, Languages of the Mind. Reprinted in E. Margolis and S.
Laurence, eds., Concepts: Core Readings, 305-334. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
Reprinted in S. Davis and B. S. Gillon, eds., Semantics: A Reader, 322-345. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2004. Abridged version: What is a Concept? In E. Kittay
and A. Lehrer, eds., Frames, Fields, and Contrasts, 191-208. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum,
1992. Polish translation in Z. Chlewiski, Modele Umysu, 100-143. Warsawa:
Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1999.
b. A Comparison of Rhythmic Structures in Music and Language, in P. Kiparsky and
G. Youmans, eds., Phonetics and Phonology, Volume 1, Academic Press, New York,
15-44.
c. Languages of the Computational Mind, in J. Brink, and C. Haden, eds., The Computer
and the Brain: Perspectives on Human and Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier, New York, 171-
190. (Revised version in Jackendoff, Languages of the Mind)

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1990 a. On Larson's Treatment of the Double Object Construction, Linguistic Inquiry 21.3,
427-456.
b. What Would a Theory of Language Evolution Have to Look Like? (commentary
on Pinker and Bloom), Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13.4, 737-738.

1991 a. Review article on G. Lakoff and M. Turner, More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to
Poetic Metaphor (with David Aaron), Language 67.2, 320-338.
b. The Problem of Reality, Nos 25.4, 411-433. (Also in Jackendoff, Languages of the
Mind)
c. Spatial Language and Spatial Cognition (with Barbara Landau), in D. J. Napoli and
J. Kegl, eds., Bridges Between Psychology and Language: A Swarthmore Festschrift for Lila
Gleitman, 144-169. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. (Revised version in Jackendoff,
Languages of the Mind)
d. Musical Parsing and Musical Affect, Music Perception 9.2, 199-230. Abridged version:
Musical Processing and Musical Affect, in M. R. Jones and S. Holleran, eds.,
Cognitive Bases of Musical Communication, 51-68. Washington: American Psychological
Association. (Revised version in Jackendoff, Languages of the Mind)
e. The Paradox of Language Acquisition, Teaching Thinking and Problem Solving 13.5, 1-6.
Reprinted in C.-P. Otero, ed., Noam Chomsky: Critical Assessments, 445-451. London,
Routledge, 1993.
f. Parts and Boundaries, Cognition 41, 9-45. Reprinted in B. Levin and S. Pinker, eds.,
Lexical and Conceptual Semantics, Cambridge, MA, Blackwell, 1992, 9-45. Reprinted in
Jackendoff, Meaning and the Lexicon, 2010.

1992 a. Mme. Tussaud Meets the Binding Theory, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 10.1,
1-31.
b. The Combinatorial Structure of Thought: The Family of Causative Concepts. In
E. Reuland and W. Abraham, eds., Knowledge of Language, Volume II: Lexical and
Conceptual Structure, 31-49. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
c. What Does Conceptual Structure Have to Do With Syntactic Theory? In G.
Westphal, B. Ao, and H.-R. Chae, eds., Proceedings of ESCOL 1991, 142-159.
Columbus, Ohio: Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University.
d. What is Semantic Structures About? Computational Linguistics 18.2, 240-242.
e. Babe Ruth Homered his Way into the Hearts of America. In T. Stowell and E.
Wehrli, eds., Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 26, Academic Press, 155-178.

1993 a. Home is Subject to Principle A (with Joan Maling and Annie Zaenen), Linguistic
Inquiry 24.1, 173-177.
b. "What" and "Where" in Spatial Language and Spatial Cognition (with Barbara
Landau) Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16.2, 217-238.
c. Whither and Whence in Spatial Language and Spatial Cognition? (with Barbara
Landau), Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16.2, 255-262 (reply to peer commentaries on
1993b).
d. The Role of Conceptual Structure in Argument Selection: A Reply to Emonds,
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 11, 279-312.

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 e. Some Elements of Conceptual Structure (excerpt from Consciousness and the
Computational Mind). In Alvin Goldman, ed., Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive
Science, 481-492. Cambridge, MIT Press.

1994 a. Is There a Faculty of Social Cognition? in C.-P. Otero, ed., Noam Chomsky: Critical
Assessments, 626-640. London: Routledge. (Also in Jackendoff, Languages of the
Mind)
b. Word Meanings and What it Takes to Learn Them: Reflections on the Piaget-
Chomsky Debate, in W. Overton and D. Palermo, eds., The Nature and Ontogenesis of
Meaning, 129-144. Erlbaum. (Also in Jackendoff, Languages of the Mind)
c. What is Coded in Parietal Representations? (commentary on Jeannerod) (with
Barbara Landau), Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17, 211-212.

1995 a. Something Else for the Binding Theory (with Peter Culicover), Linguistic Inquiry 26,
249-275.
b. The Boundaries of the Lexicon, in M. Everaert, E.-J. van der Linden, A. Schenk,
and R. Schreuder, eds., Idioms: Structural and Psychological Perspectives, 133-165.
Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
c. The Conceptual Structure of Intending and Volitional Action, in H. Campos and P.
Kempchinsky, eds., Evolution and Revolution in Linguistic Theory: Studies in Honor of
Carlos P. Otero, 198-227. Washington: Georgetown University Press.

1996 a. Semantics and Cognition, in Shalom Lappin, The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic
Theory, 539-559. Oxford, Blackwell. Basque translation (Semantika eta kognizioa)
in Gogoa IV-2, 229-251.
b. Conceptual Semantics and Cognitive Semantics, Cognitive Linguistics 7, 93-129.
c. The Proper Treatment of Measuring Out, Telicity, and Perhaps Even
Quantification in English, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 14, 305-354.
Reprinted in Jackendoff, Meaning and the Lexicon, 2010.
d. The Architecture of the Linguistic-Spatial Interface, in P. Bloom, M. Peterson, L.
Nadel, and M. Garrett, eds., Language and Space, 1-30. Cambridge, MIT Press.
Reprinted in Jackendoff, Meaning and the Lexicon, 2010.
e. How Language Helps Us Think, Pragmatics and Cognition 4, 1-34. Revised version in
Jackendoff, The Architecture of the Language Faculty (1997).
f. Preliminaries to Discussing How Language Helps Us Think (reply to commentaries
on 1996e), Pragmatics and Cognition 4, 197-213.

1997 a. Syntactic Coordination Despite Semantic Subordination (with Peter Culicover),

Linguistic Inquiry 28, 195-217.
b. Twistin' the Night Away, Language 73, 534-559. Reprinted in Jackendoff, Meaning
and the Lexicon, 2010.

1998 a. The Architecture of the Language Faculty: A Neominimalist Perspective. In P.

Culicover and L. McNally, eds., Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 29: The Limits of Syntax,
19-46. New York, Academic Press.
b. Why a Conceptualist View of Reference? A Reply to Abbott. Linguistics and
Philosophy 21, 211-219.

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 c. Pragmatic Anaphors and Categories of Concepts (excerpt from Semantics and
Cognition), in Asa Kasher, ed., Pragmatics: Critical Concepts, Vol. 3, 140-144. London:
Routledge.

1999 a. Why Can't Computers Use English? (pamphlet in Frequently Asked Questions
series, edited by Betty Birner) Washington: Linguistic Society of America.
b. The Natural Logic of Rights and Obligations, in R. Jackendoff, P. Bloom, and K.
Wynn, eds., Language, Logic, and Concepts: Essays in Memory of John Macnamara, 67-95.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford. Abridged version: The Conceptual
Structure of Rights and Obligations, in Bernard Caron, ed., Actes du 16e Congrs
International des Linguistes. Oxford (Elsevier Sciences).
c. Possible Stages in the Evolution of the Language Capacity, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
3, 272-279.
d. Real-Time Processing Implications of Enriched Composition at the Syntax-
Semantics Interface (with Maria Piango and Edgar Zurif), Journal of Psycholinguistic
Research, 28, 395-414.
e. The Representational Structures of the Language Faculty and their Interactions, in
C. Brown and P. Hagoort, eds., The Neurocognition of Language, Oxford University
Press, 37-79.
f. Parallel Constraint-Based Generative Theories of Language, Trends in Cognitive
Sciences 3, 393-400.
g. The View from the Periphery: The English Comparative Correlative (with Peter
Culicover), Linguistic Inquiry 30, 543-571.

2000 a. Fodorian Modularity and Representational Modularity. In Y. Grodzinsky, L.

Shapiro, and D. Swinney, eds., Language and the Brain: Representation and Processing, 3-
30. San Diego: Academic Press.
b. Curiouser and Curiouser, Snippets 1, p. 4.
c. Bringing Patterns into Focus: A Response to Bunn, Minds and Machines 10, 129-135.
d. Paradox Regained, Cognitive Linguistics 10, 271-277.
e. Review of N. Wallin, B. Merker, and S. Brown, eds., The Origins of Music. Times
Literary Supplement, August 4 2000, 20.
f. Unconscious, Yes; Homunculus, ??? (commentary on Crick and Koch, The
Unconscious Homunculus) Neuro-Psychoanalysis 2, 17-20.

2001 a. Reading Time Evidence for Enriched Composition (with Brian McElree, Mathew J.
Traxler, Martin J. Pickering, Rachel E. Seely). Cognition 78, B17-B25.
b. Language in the Ecology of the Mind, in P. Cobley, ed., Routledge Companion to
Semiotics and Linguistics, 52-65. London: Routledge.
c. Control is Not Movement (with Peter Culicover), Linguistic Inquiry 32, 493-511.
d. The Proper Ending of the Slow Movement of the Mozart Concerto, The Clarinet
28:4, 56-57.
e. Review of W. Calvin and D. Bickerton, Lingua ex Machina, Language 77, 569-573.

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2002 a. Whats in the Lexicon? In S. Nooteboom, F. Weerman, and F. Wijnen, eds., Storage
and Computation in the Language Faculty, 23-58. Dordrecht: Kluwer. Reprinted in
Patrick Hanks (ed.), Lexicology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, vol. 1, 427-477. London:
Routledge, 2007.
b. English Particle Constructions, the Lexicon, and the Autonomy of Syntax. In N.
Deh, R. Jackendoff, A. McIntyre, and S. Urban (eds.), Verb-Particle Explorations, 67-
94. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Reprinted in Jackendoff, Meaning and the Lexicon,
2010.
c. Review of Jerry Fodor, The Mind Doesnt Work That Way. Language 78, 164-170.

2003 a. The Semantic Basis of Control in English (with Peter Culicover). Language 79, 517-
556.
b. Syntax en Semantiek in Balans (an interview with Marieke van Herten). De
Psychonoom 18.2, 3-11.
c. Reintegrating Generative Grammar (precis of Foundations of Language), Behavioral and
Brain Sciences 26, 651-665. Spanish version: Un nuevo armazn para la gramtica
generativa, in Ricardo Mairal and Juana Gil (eds.), En torno a los universales lingsticos,
199-243. Cambridge University Press/Ediciones Akal, 2004.
d. Toward Better Mutual Understanding (response to peer commentaries on 2003c),
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26, 695-702.

2004 a. Contrastive Focus Reduplication in English (The Salad-Salad Paper) (with Jila
Ghomeshi, Nicole Rosen, and Kevin Russell), Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
22, 307-357. Reprinted in Jackendoff, Meaning and the Lexicon, 2010.
b. Categorization, Fuzziness, and Family Resemblances (excerpt from Semantics and
Cognition), in Bas Aarts, David Denison, Evelien Keizer, and Gergana Popova, eds.,
Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader, 109-129. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
c. The English Resultative as a Family of Constructions (with Adele Goldberg),
Language 80, 532-568. Reprinted in Jackendoff, Meaning and the Lexicon, 2010.

2005 a. The Faculty of Language: Whats Special about it? (with Steven Pinker), Cognition
95, 201-236.
b. The End Result(ative) (with Adele Goldberg), Language 81, 474-477.
c. The Nature of the Language Faculty and its Implications for the Evolution of
Language (Reply to Fitch, Hauser, and Chomsky) (with Steven Pinker), Cognition 97,
211-225.
d. Evolution of Syntax (with Billy Clark), Elsevier Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2d edition,
vol. 4, 353-360.

2006 a. Locating Meaning in the Mind (Where it Belongs) (excerpt from Foundations of
Language) In R. Stainton, ed., Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science, 219-236.
Malden, MA: Blackwell.
b. The Capacity for Music: Whats Special about it? (with Fred Lerdahl), Cognition
100, 33-72.
c. The Simpler Syntax Hypothesis (with Peter Culicover), Trends in Cognitive Sciences 10,
413-418.

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 d. How did Language Begin? (Pamphlet for Linguistic Society of America FAQ
series)
e. The Peculiar Logic of Value, Journal of Cognition and Culture 6, 375-407.
f. Turn Over Control to the Semantics! (with Peter Culicover), Syntax 9, 131-152.
g. Forum: On Conceptual Semantics (Q/A with Istvan Kecskes), Intercultural
Pragmatics 3, 353-358.

2007 a. A Parallel Architecture Perspective on Language Processing, Brain Research 1146, 2-

22. Revised version: A Parallel Architecture Model of Language Processing, in
Kevin Ochsner and Stephen Kosslyn (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience,
577-594.
b. A Whole Lot of Challenges for Linguistics, Journal of English Linguistics 35, 253-262.
c. Conceptual Semantics and Natural Semantic Metalanguage Theory Have Different
Goals, Intercultural Pragmatics 4, 411-418.
d. Linguistics in Cognitive Science: The State of the Art, The Linguistic Review 24, 347-
401.

2008 a. Construction after Construction and its theoretical challenges, Language 84, 8-28.
Reprinted in Jackendoff, Meaning and the Lexicon, 2010.
b. Alternative Minimalist Visions of Language. In R. Edwards, P. Midtlying, K.
Stensrud, and C. Sprague, Chicago Linguistic Society 41: The Panels, 189-226. Chicago:
Chicago Linguistic Society. Reprinted in Robert D. Borsley and Kersti Brjars
(eds.), Nontransformational Syntax, 268-296. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
c. The Components of Language: Whats Specific to Language, and Whats Specific
to Humans? (with Steven Pinker) In M. Christiansen, C. Collins, S. Edelman (eds.),
Language Universals, 126-151. New York: Oxford University Press. Russian
translation in A. D. Koshelev and T. V. Chernigovskaya (eds.), Language and
Reasoning, Volume 1: Animal Communication and Human Language; Language Origins, 261-
292. Moscow, Jazyki Slavyanskikh Kultur, 2008.

2009 a. Parallels and Non-Parallels between Language and Music, Music Perception 26, 195-
204. (In special issue celebrating 25th anniversary of Lerdahl and Jackendoffs
Generative Theory of Tonal Music). Reprinted as Music and Language, in Theodore
Gracyk and Andrew Kania (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music.
New York, Routledge, 101-112, 2011.
b. Compounding in the Parallel Architecture and Conceptual Semantics. In R. Lieber
and P. Stekauer, eds., Handbook of Compounding, 105-128. Oxford: Oxford University
Press. Revised and enlarged version in Jackendoff, Meaning and the Lexicon, 2010.
c. The Reality of a Universal Language Faculty (with Steven Pinker), Behavioral and
Brain Science 32, 465-466

2010 a. The Parallel Architecture and its Place in Cognitive Science, in B. Heine and H.
Narrog, eds., Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis, 583-605. Oxford: Oxford
University Press. Also in Andreas Nolda and Oliver Teuber (eds.), Syntax and
Morphology Multi-Dimensional, 17-44. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2011.
b. Foreword: The challenge for education, in Kristin Denham and Anne Lobeck
(eds.), Linguistics at School: Language awareness in primary and secondary education, xiii-xv.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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 c. Your Theory of Language Evolution Depends on Your Theory of Language, in
Richard Larson, Viviane Dprez, and Hiroko Yamakido (eds.), The Evolution of
Human Language: Biolinguistic Perspectives, 63-72. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
d. Quantitative methods alone are not enough: Response to Gibson and Fedorenko
(with Peter Culicover). Trends in Cognitive Sciences 14, 234-235.
e. The Natural Logic of Morals and of Laws, Brooklyn Law Review 75, 383-407
f. Interview with Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff, Musicae Scientiae Discussion Forum
5, 257-267. (In special issue celebrating 25th anniversary of Lerdahl and
Jackendoffs Generative Theory of Tonal Music)
g. Cognition of Society, Culture, and Values (Serbian translation by Mihailo Antoni).
Tema 33, 1127-1140
h. Preference Rules, in Patrick Hogan, ed., Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language Sciences.
Cambridge University Press.
i. Electrophysiological correlates of Complement Coercion (Gina Kuperberg, Arim
Choi, Neil Cohn, Martin Paczynski, and RJ). Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
22(12): 2685-2701.

2011 a. What is the human language faculty? Two views. Language 87, 586-624.
b. Conceptual Semantics, in Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, and Paul
Portner (eds.), Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning, Vol.
1, 688-709. DeGruyter Mouton.

2012 a. (Pea)nuts and bolts of visual narrative: Structure and meaning in sequential image
comprehension (Neil Cohn, Martin Paczynski, RJ, Phillip Holcomb, Gina
Kuperberg), Cognitive Psychology 65.1, 1-38.
b. Response to Seuren, Language 88, 177-178.
c. Same-Except: A domain-general cognitive relation and how language expresses it
(with Peter Culicover) Language 88, 305-340.
d. Language, Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science (ed. Keith Frankish and William R.
Ramsey), Cambridge University Press, 171-192.
e. Language as a source of evidence for theories of spatial representation, Perception 41.9
(special issue commemorating 30th anniversary of David Marrs Vision), 1128-1152.

2013 a. Constructions in the Parallel Architecture, in Thomas Hoffman and Graeme

Trousdale (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar, 70-92. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
b. Lexical Semantics: an interview with Ray Jackendoff. ReVEL, vol. 11, n. 20, 2013.
[www.revel.inf.br/eng].

Work in Press

a. Semantic Combinatorial Processes in Argument Structure: Evidence from Light

Verbs (Maria Piango, Jennifer Mack, and RJ), Proceedings of Berkeley Linguistics Society
b. What You Can Say Without Syntax: A Hierarchy of Grammatical Complexity (with
Eva Wittenberg), to appear in collection edited by Fritz Newmeyer and Lauren
Preston, Oxford

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Work in Progress

a. Light Verbs Don't Make Light Work (Eva Wittenberg, Martin Paczynski, Heike Wiese,
RJ, and Gina Kuperberg)
b. A New Hierarchy of Grammars (with Eva Wittenberg)
c. Wittenberg, Eva, RJ, Gina Kuperberg, Martin Paczynski, Jesse Snedeker & Heike
Wiese. The Processing and Representation of Light Verb Constructions. In: Bachrach,
A., Roy, I. and Stockall, L. (eds.). Structuring the Argument. John Benjamins.
d. Morphology in the Parallel Architecture. In J. Audring and F. Masini (eds.), Oxford
Handbook of Morphology
e. Genesis of a theory of language: From thematic roles (source) to the Parallel
Architecture (goal)

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