Sandra Chung

Selected Publications

Books

2020. Chamorro grammar. eScholarship. xxii + 728 pages. Downloadable here.
2006. Estreyas Marianas: Chamorro. Tinige': Joaquin Flores Borja, Manuel Flores Borja, yan Sandra Chung. Saipan, CNMI: Estreyas Marianas Publications. 145 pages. Reprinted in the new orthography, 2012.
2004. [co-authored with William A. Ladusaw] Restriction and saturation. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 42. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. xiv + 173 pages.
1998. The design of agreement: Evidence from Chamorro. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. xii + 423 pages. [paperback edition, 2000]
1978. Case marking and grammatical relations in Polynesian. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 401 pages. [Now strangely available again, here.]

Edited Volumes

2009. Comparative Syntax of Austronesian Languages, ed. Sandra Chung and Maria Polinsky. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory [special issue] 27.4.
2009. [co-edited with Daniel Finer, Ileana Paul, and Eric Potsdam] Proceedings of the 16th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 16). Published on-line here.

Commentary, Etc.

2012. [co-authored with Manuel F. Borja and Matt Wagers] 'Bridging methodologies: Experimental syntax in the Pacific.' Presidential address, 2012 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Text and selected slides on-line [here].
2010. [co-authored with Pranav Anand and Matt Wagers] 'Widening the net: challenges for gathering linguistic data in the digital age.' Response to NSF SBE 2020: Future Research in the Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences. On-line [here] or [here].
2008. 'How much can understudied languages really tell us about how language works?' Invited plenary lecture, 2008 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. [.pdf]

Articles and Book Chapters Since 2000

2023. [co-authored with Matthew Wagers] 'Language-processing experiments in the field.' In The Oxford handbook of experimental syntax, ed. Jon Sprouse, 491-511. Oxford.
2022. [co-authored with Matthew Wagers and Manuel F. Borja] 'Processing reflexive pronouns when they don't announce themselves.' Glossa Psycholinguistics, 1(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/G601174
2021. 'Reaffirming Maori negatives as verbs.' In Polynesian syntax and its interfaces, ed. Lauren Clemens and Diane Massam, 147-167. Oxford.
2021. [co-authored with Matthew Wagers] 'On the universality of intrusive resumption: Evidence from Chamorro and Palauan.' Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 39: 759-801. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-020-09493-9 . Read it here.
2020. [co-authored with William A. Ladusaw] 'Noun incorporation.' In The Wiley Blackwell companion to semantics, Vol. B: Meaning and structure, ed. Lisa Matthewson, Cécile Meier, Hotze Rullmann, Thomas Ede Zimmermann, and Daniel Gutzmann. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118788516.sem022 .
2018. [co-authored with Matthew Wagers and Manuel F. Borja] 'Grammatical licensing and relative clause processing in a flexible word-order language.' Cognition 178: 207-221.
2018 'Maximize Presupposition and types of indefinites in Chamorro.' In A reasonable way to proceed: Essays in honor of Jim McCloskey, ed. Jason Merchant, Line Mikkelsen, Deniz Rudin, and Kelsey Sasaki, 59-86. UC eScholarship Repository. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7z29n70x#main . [pre-publication version here].
2018. [co-authored with Elizabeth D. Rechebei] 'Chamorro language revitalization in the CNMI and Guam.' In Cultural heritage care and management: Theory and practice, ed. Cecilia L. Salvatore, 83-93. Rowman & Littlefield.
2017. 'Another way around causatives in Chamorro.' In On looking into words (and beyond), ed. Claire Bowern, Laurence Horn, and Raffaella Zanuttini, 263-288. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.495450 .
2017. 'VOS languages: Some of their properties.' In The Wiley Blackwell companion to syntax, 2d edition, ed. Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk. [slightly revised from the 2006 version] https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118358733.wbsyncom069
2015. [co-authored with Matthew Wagers and Manuel F. Borja] 'Constituent order and parser control processes in Chamorro.' In Proceedings of AFLA 21, ed. Amber Camp, Yuko Otsuka, Claire Stabile, and Nozomi Tanaka, 15-32. Asia-Pacific Linguistics 25. [here].
2015. [co-authored with Matthew Wagers and Manuel F. Borja] 'The real-time comprehension of WH-dependencies in a WH-agreement language.' Language 91: 109-144. [here].
2014. [co-authored with Elizabeth D. Rechebei] 'Community engagement in the Revised Chamorro-English Dictionary.' Dictionaries 35: 308-317. [prepublication version here].
2014. 'On reaching agreement late.' In CLS 48, vol. 1, ed. Andrea Beltrama, Tasos Chatzikonstantinou, Jackson L. Lee, Mike Pham, and Diane Rak, 169-190. [here]
2013. 'The syntactic relations behind agreement.' In Diagnosing syntax, ed. Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng and Norbert Corver, 251-270. Oxford University Press.
2013. 'Syntactic identity in sluicing: How much and why.' Linguistic Inquiry 44: 1-44. [here]
2012. 'Are lexical categories universal? The view from Chamorro.' Theoretical Linguistics 38: 1-56. [.pdf]
2012. 'Reply to the commentaries.' Theoretical Linguistics 38: 137-143. [.pdf]
2009. 'Six arguments for wh-movement in Chamorro.' [.pdf]. In Hypothesis A/Hypothesis B: Linguistic explorations in honor of David M. Perlmutter, ed. Donna B. Gerdts, John C. Moore, and Maria Polinsky, 91-110. Current Studies in Linguistics 49. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
2008. 'Indonesian clause structure from an Austronesian perspective.' Lingua 118: 1554-1582. [.pdf]
2008. 'Possessors and definiteness effects in two Austronesian languages.' In Quantification: A cross-linguistic perspective, ed. Lisa Matthewson. North-Holland Linguistic Series 64, 179-224. Bingley, UK: Emerald. [.pdf]
2006. [co-authored with William A. Ladusaw] 'Chamorro evidence for compositional asymmetry.' Natural Language Semantics 14: 325-357. [.pdf]
2006. 'Sluicing and the lexicon: The point of no return.' In BLS 31: General Session and Parasession on Prosodic Variation and Change, ed. Rebecca T. Cover and Yuni Kim, 73-91. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society. [.pdf]
2006. [co-authored with Chris Reintges and Philip LeSourd] 'Movement, wh-agreement, and apparent wh-in-situ.' In WH-movement: Moving on, ed. Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng and Norbert Corver, 165-194. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2006. 'Properties of VOS languages.' In The Blackwell companion to syntax (Syncom), ed. Martin Everaert, Henk van Riemsdijk, Rob Goedemans, and Bart Hollebrandse, 685-720. Blackwell. [.pdf]
2005. 'What fronts? On the VP raising account of verb-initial order' In Verb-first: Papers from the Tucson workshop, ed. Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley, and Sheila Ann Dooley, 9-29. Benjamins. [.pdf]
2004. 'Restructuring and verb-initial order in Chamorro.' Syntax 7: 199-233. [.pdf]
2003. 'The syntax and prosody of weak pronouns in Chamorro.' Linguistic Inquiry 34: 547-599. [.pdf]
2000. 'On reference to kinds in Indonesian,' Natural Language Semantics 8: 157-171. [.pdf]