• Sag, Ivan A., and Janet D. Fodor. 1994. Extraction Without Traces. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Stanford: CSLI Publications. (Just read sections 1 and 2) (.pdf file)
• Pullum, Geoffrey K. 1997. The Morpholexical Nature of English to-Contraction. Language 73: 79--102. (.pdf file)
• Sag, Ivan A. 2000. Another Argument Against Wh-Trace. Jorge Hankamer Webfest (.html file).

Further Readings:

• Postal, Paul M., and Geoffrey K. Pullum. 197. The Contraction Debate. Linguistic Inquiry 13: 122-138.
• Labov, William. 1996. When Intuitions Fail. Section on wanna contraction. (read only first 7.3 pages) (.pdf file)
• Martin Pickering & Guy Barry. 1991. Sentence processing without empty categories. Language and Cognitive Processes
• Edward Gibson and Gregory Hickok. 1993. Sentence Processing With Empty Categories. Language and Cognitive Processes 8: 147--161.
• Gorrell, Paul. 1993. Evaluating the Direct Association Hypothesis: A Reply to Pickering and Barry. Language and Cognitive Processes 8: 129--146.

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