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Clem, Emily, and Amy Rose Deal. 2026. Dependent case by Agree: ergative in Shawi. Linguistic Inquiry 57(2): 267–313. DOI
Deal, Amy Rose. 2026. Constraints on agreement. Annual Review of Linguistics 12: 227–247.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2026. Clausal complementation as relativization, revisited. Syntactic Theory and Research 2.1.1. DOI
Deal, Amy Rose, and Justin Royer. 2025. Mayan animacy hierarchy effects and the dynamics of Agree. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 43: 1607–1663. DOI
Deal, Amy Rose. 2025. Uncentered attitude reports. Journal of Semantics 42(4): 399–445. DOI
Deal, Amy Rose, and Zachary O’Hagan. 2025. Person and aspect in Taushiro split ergativity. In Duygu Demiray, Roger Cheng-yen Liu, and Nir Segal (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 55, vol. 1, 159–172. Amherst, MA: GLSA.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2024. Interaction, satisfaction, and the PCC. Linguistic Inquiry 55(1): 39–94. DOI
Deal, Amy Rose. 2025. Current models of Agree. Berkeley Papers in Formal Linguistics 4(1): 1–35. DOI
Deal, Amy Rose. 2022. Negative concord as downward Agree. In Breanna Pratley, Ozge Bakay, Eva Neu, and Peyton Deal (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 52, vol. 1, 235–244. Amherst: GLSA.
Deal, Amy Rose. To appear. Person features and shiftiness. In Daniel Harbour, Hazel Pearson, Luisa Martí, and Coppe van Urk (eds.), The Alphabet of Universal Grammar. British Academy/Oxford University Press.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2020. 3-on-3 restrictions and PCC typology: a reply to Pancheva and Zubizaretta (2018). Manuscript, UC Berkeley.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2020. A theory of indexical shift: meaning, grammar, and crosslinguistic variation. (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs no. 82.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Dawson, Virginia, and Amy Rose Deal. 2019. Third readings by semantic scope lowering: prolepsis in Tiwa. In M. Teresa Espinal, E. Castroviejo, M. Leonetti, L. McNally, and C. Real-Puigdollers (eds.), Proceedings from Sinn und Bedeutung 23, 329–346. Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès): Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Deal, Amy Rose, and Vera Hohaus. 2019. Vague predicates, crisp judgments. In M. Teresa Espinal, E. Castroviejo, M. Leonetti, L. McNally, and C. Real-Puigdollers (eds.), Proceedings from Sinn und Bedeutung 23, 347–364. Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès): Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2018. Compositional paths to de re. In Sireemas Maspong, Brynhildur Stefánsdóttir, Katherine Blake, and Forrest Davis (eds.), Proceedings of SALT 28, 622–648.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2018. Indexiphors: notes on embedded indexicals, shifty agreement, and logophoricity. In Rodica Ivan (ed.), UMOP 40: The Leader of the Pack: A Festschrift in Honor of Peggy Speas, 59–86. Amherst, MA: GLSA.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2019. Raising to ergative: remarks on applicatives of unaccusatives. Linguistic Inquiry 50(2): 388–415. DOI
Deal, Amy Rose. 2017. Shifty asymmetries: universals and variation in shifty indexicality. Manuscript, UC Berkeley.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2017. Covert hyperraising to object. In Andrew Lamont and Katerina Tetzloff (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 47, 257–270. Amherst: GLSA.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2017. Towards an etiology of outer indices. In Nicholas LaCara, Keir Moulton, and Anne-Michelle Tessier (eds.), A Schrift to Fest Kyle Johnson, 107–117. Linguistics Open Access Publications, vol. 1.
Deal, Amy Rose, and Julia Nee. 2018. Bare nouns, number, and definiteness in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec. In Chris Cummins, Nikolas Gisborne, Caroline Heycock, Brian Rabern, Hannah Rohde, and Robert Truswell (eds.), Proceedings from Sinn und Bedeutung 21, 317–334. Semantics Archive.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2018. Locality in allomorphy and presyntactic bundling: a case of tense and aspect. Snippets 34, 8–9. DOI
Scontras, Gregory, Kathryn Davidson, Amy Rose Deal, and Sarah Murray. 2017. Who has more? The influence of linguistic form on quantity judgments. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 2(41): 1–15.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2016. Do all languages make countability distinctions? Evidence from Nez Perce. In Nadine Bade, Polina Berezovskaya, and Anthea Schöller (eds.), Proceedings from Sinn und Bedeutung 20, 180–197. Semantics Archive.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2017. Syntactic ergativity as case discrimination. In Aaron Kaplan, Abby Kaplan, Miranda K. McCarvel, and Edward J. Rubin (eds.), Proceedings from WCCFL 34, 141–150. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2017. Countability distinctions and semantic variation. Natural Language Semantics 25(2): 125–171. DOI
Deal, Amy Rose. 2017. External possession and possessor raising. In Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, 2nd edn., 1509–1540. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2016. Cyclicity and connectivity in Nez Perce relative clauses. Linguistic Inquiry 47(3): 427–470. DOI
Deal, Amy Rose. 2016. Person-based split ergativity in Nez Perce is syntactic. Journal of Linguistics 52(3): 533–564. DOI
Deal, Amy Rose. 2016. Syntactic ergativity: analysis and identification. Annual Review of Linguistics 2: 165–185. DOI
Deal, Amy Rose, and Matthew Wolf. 2016. Outwards-sensitive phonologically-conditioned allomorphy in Nez Perce. In Vera Gribanova and Stephanie Shih (eds.), The Morphosyntax-Phonology Connection, 29–60. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2016. Plural exponence in the Nez Perce DP: a DM analysis. Morphology 26(3): 313–333. DOI
Deal, Amy Rose. 2015. A note on Nez Perce verb agreement, with sample paradigms. In Natalie Weber, Erin Guntly, Zoe Lam, and Sihwei Chen (eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages 50, 389–413. Vancouver: UBCWPL.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2015. Reasoning about equivalence in semantic fieldwork. In M. Ryan Bochnak and Lisa Matthewson (eds.), Methodologies in semantic fieldwork, 157–174. Oxford University Press.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2015. Ergativity. In Artemis Alexiadou and Tibor Kiss (eds.), Syntax – Theory and Analysis: An International Handbook, vol. 1, ch. 20, 654–707. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2015. Interaction and satisfaction in φ-agreement. In Thuy Bui and Deniz Ozyildiz (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 45, vol. 1, 179–192. Amherst: GLSA.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2014. Nez Perce embedded indexicals. In Hannah Greene (ed.), Proceedings of SULA 7: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas, 23–40. Amherst: GLSA.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2013. Possessor raising. Linguistic Inquiry 44(3): 391–432. DOI
Deal, Amy Rose. 2011. Modals without scales. Language 87(3): 559–585. (Reprinted in Language 95(S1), Special Issue on Indigenous Languages, 2019.) DOI
Deal, Amy Rose, and Catherine O’Connor. 2010. The perspectival basis of fluid-S case-marking in Northern Pomo. In Suzi Lima (ed.), Proceedings of SULA 5: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas, 173–188. Amherst: GLSA.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2010. Ergative case and the transitive subject: a view from Nez Perce. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 28(1): 73–120. DOI
Deal, Amy Rose. 2009. The origin and content of expletives: evidence from “selection”. Syntax 12(4): 285–323. DOI
Deal, Amy Rose. 2009. Events in space. In Tova Friedman and Satoshi Ito (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory XVIII, 230–247. Cornell: CLC Publications.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2008. Case marking and object interpretation in Nez Perce. In Jacqueline Bunting et al. (eds.), CLS 42-2: The Panels, 17–28. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2008. Property-type objects and modal embedding. In Atle Grønn (ed.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 12. Oslo: ILOS.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2007. Antipassive and indefinite objects in Nez Perce. In Amy Rose Deal (ed.), SULA 4: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on the Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas, 35–47. Amherst: GLSA.
Deal, Amy Rose. 2006. Does English have a genitive case? Snippets 13: 7–8.