Ivan A. Sag:
French Grammar Research

In the 1990s, I began a collaboration with Anne Abeillé , Danièle Godard, and Philip Miller . We have been working on an integrated approach to the grammar of French, based on HPSG. Within this project, the following papers (incorporating the insights of Miller's dissertation, which argued that French `clitics' are really inflectional affixes) develop a lexical treatment of `cliticized' verbs and explore the interactions with various constructions, including `tough' constructions, infinitival complements, and complex predicates.

• Miller, Philip, and Ivan A. Sag. 1997. French Clitic Movement without Clitics or Movement. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 15: 573--639. ( .ps file ) ( .pdf file )
• Abeillé, Anne, Danièle Godard, Philip Miller and Ivan A. Sag. 1998. French Bounded Dependencies. ( .ps file) ( .pdf file). In Luca Dini and Sergio Balari, eds., Romance in HPSG. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
• Abeillé, Anne, Danièle Godard, and Ivan A. Sag. 1998. Two Kinds of Composition in French Complex Predicates. In Erhard Hinrichs, Andreas Kathol, and Tsuneko Nakazawa, eds., Complex Predicates in Nonderivational Syntax. New York: Academic Press. ( .ps file) ( .pdf file)

Some other publications are available at Anne Abeillé's and Philip Miller's webpages.

I've also collaborated with Jongbok Kim on the relation between the systems of negation in French and English. Our most recent paper on this is available here:

• Kim, Jong-Bok, and Ivan A. Sag. 2002. Negation without Head Movement. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20.2: 339-412. ( .ps file) ( .pdf file)

Finally, I've also collaborated with Henriette de Swart on the treatment of negative concord phenomena in French and other Romance languages:

• De Swart, Henriette, and Ivan A. Sag. 2002. Negation and Negative Concord in French. Linguistics and Philosophy 25: 373-417. ( .ps file) ( .pdf file)