Articles

Published

Bohnemeyer, Jürgen & Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. 2017. The macro-event property and the layered structure of the clause. Studies in Language 41 (1): 142-197.
Centineo, Giulia. 1986. A lexical theory of auxiliary selection in Italian. Davis Working Papers in Linguistics 1: 1-35.
Latrouite, Anja & Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. 2014. Event existentials in Tagalog: A Role and Reference Grammar account. In I. Wayan Arka and N. L. K Mas Indrawati (eds.). Argument Realizations and Related Constructions in Austronesian Languages, Papers from 12-ICAL, Vol. 2, 161–174. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics.
Matić, Dejan, Eric van Gijn & Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. 2014. Information structure and reference tracking in complex sentences: An overview. In Eric van Gijn, Jeremy Hammond, Dejan Matić, Saskia van Putten and Ana Vilacy Galucio (eds.). Information structure and reference tracking in complex sentences, 1-41. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. 1980. Meaning and Interpretation. Journal of Pragmatics 4: 213-231.
Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. 1981. Grammatical relations in ergative languages. Studies in Language 5 (3): 361-394.
Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. 1990. Functionalism, Anaphora and Syntax. Studies in Language 14 (1): 169-219.
Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. 1994. Extraction Restrictions, Competing Theories and the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus. In Susan D. Lima, Roberta L. Corrigan & Gregory K. Iverson (eds.). The Reality of Linguistic Rules, 243-259. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. 1998. The Acquisition of WH-Questions and the Mechanisms of Language Acquisition. In Michael Tomasello (ed.). The New Psychology of Language, 223-249.Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. 1999. Generalized Semantic Roles and the Syntax-Semantics Interface. In Francis Corblin, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin & Jean-Marie Marandin (eds.). Empirical Issues in Formal Syntax and Semantics 2. Hagsus: The Hague.
Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. 1999. A Typology of the Interaction of Focus Structure and Syntax. In Ekatarina
Raxilina & Yakov G. Testelec (eds.), Typology and Linguistic Theory: From Description to Explanation, 511–524. Moscow: Languages of Russian Culture.
Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. 2001. The acquisition of complex sentences: A case study in the role of theory in the study of language development. Chicago Linguistic Society Proceedings 36(2): 511–531.
Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. 2003. Minimalism and explanation. In John Moore & Maria Polinsky (eds.). The nature of explanation in linguistic theory, 281–297. Stanford: CSLI.
Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. 2004. Semantic macroroles in Role and Reference Grammar. In Rolf Kailuweit and Martin Hummel (eds.). Semantische Rollen, 62–82. Tübingen: Narr.
Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. 2006. Semantic macroroles and language processing. In Ina Bornkessel, Matthias Schlesewsky, Bernard Comrie & Angela Friederici (eds.). Semantic Role Universals and Argument Linkling, 263-301. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. 2007. The Role and Reference Grammar analysis of three-place predicates. Suvremena lingvistika 33 (1): 31-63.
Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. 2009. Linguistics past and present: A view from the Rhine. In Zarina Estrada Fernández, Albert Álvarez González & María Belén Carpio (eds.). Ser lingüista: un oficio diverso y polifacético. Diez años de una Maestría en Lingüística, 155-162. Hermosillo: Editorial Unison.
Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. 2012. Some Issues in the Linking between Syntax and Semantics in Relative Clauses. In Bernard Comrie and Zarina Estrada Fernández (eds.). A Typological Overview of Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas, 47–64. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. 2013. Head-marking languages and linguistic theory. In Balthasar Bickel, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson & Alan Timberlake (eds.). Language Typology and Linguistic Contingency, 91-123. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. 2013. Lexical representation, co-composition, and linking syntax and semantics. In James Pustejovsky, Pierrette Bouillon, Hitoshi Isahara, Kyoko Kanzaki & Chungmin Lee (eds.). Advances in Generative Lexicon Theory, 67–107. Dordrecht: Springer.
Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. 2014. On the place of information structure in a grammar. Comunicación, Cognición, Cibernétic@. Actasdel XXXI Congreso de AESLA: 86–106.
Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. 2016. An overview of information structure in three Amazonian languages. In M. M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest and Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (eds.). Information Structuring of Spoken Language from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective, 77–92. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. 2021. Cosubordination. In Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (ed.). Challenges at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface, 241-254. Cambridge upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Wu, Joy. 2007. An introduction to RRG. Language and Linguistics 8 (1): 5-70. [in Mandarin Chinese]

Manuscripts

Bornkessel, Ina, Matthias Schlesewsky & Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. 2004. Syntactic templates and linking mechanisms: A new approach to grammatical function asymmetries. Leipzig :Max Planck Institute for Human Cognition and Brain Sciences and Buffalo: The New York State University.
Boutin, Michael. 2004. Locative predicates in Bonggi. Malaysia: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Cortés Rodrígues, Francisco & Dolores Torres Medina. 2002. Lexical templates and linking rules for some Old English verbs of motion. San Cristóbal de La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna.
González Orta, Marta. 2002. Linking syntax and semantics in simple and complex sentences within the Old English domain of speech. San Cristóbal de La Laguna: La Laguna University.
Jensen, Anne. 2000. Sentence intertwining in Danish - a challenge to the RRG account? Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen.
Matasović, Ranko. 2001. Adjective phrases. Zagreb. University of Zagreb.
Romero Mendez, Rodrigo. 2007. Spanish Light Verb Constructions: co-predication with syntactically formed complex predicates. Buffalo: The State University of New York.
Salem, Yasser & Brian Nolan. 2009. UNIARAB: A Universal Machine Translator System for Arabic Based on Role and Reference Grammar. Blanchardstown: Institute of Technology.
Van Valin, Robert D. Jr. 1998. Focus Structure or Abstract Syntax? A Role and Reference Grammar Account of some Abstract Syntactic Phenomena. Buffalo: The State University of New York.
Van Valin, Robert D. Jr. 1999. Linguistic Diversity and Theoretical Assumptions. Buffalo: The State University of New York.
Wedekind, Klaus, Charlotte Wedekind & Abuzaynab Musa. 2002. RRG universal verb classes vs. Beja verb classifications based on morphologies and textual functions. Logroño: University of La Rioja.