• (under construction: August 4, 2016)

• Slides from plenary talk, Linguistic Society of America, January 4, 2013: "Что дѣлать? What is to be done?"
• Phrasal Movement and its Discontents: Diseases and Diagnostics (January 2012), in Lisa Cheng & Norbert Corver (eds.), Diagnostics in Syntax, Oxford University Press
• Russian case morphology and the syntactic categories (October 2010)
• The Identity Thesis for Language and Music 
  (October 2009, with Jonah Katz)
  [clickable sound included in the PDF; sound files also available here]
• Against Taking Diversity at "Face Value"
  Invited commentary (May 2009) on "The Myth of Language Universals" by Evans & Levinson, 
• a target article to appear in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
• pedagogical chapter on Case theory (with Esther Torrego) Draft of a chapter for the Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Minimalism, February 2009
• Pirahã Exceptionality: a Reassessment 
  (with Andrew Nevins and Cilene Rodrigues)
  Language 85.2, 355-404 (June 2009) [An earlier draft is available here.] (Responds to this paper, among others.)
• Evidence and Argumentation: a Reply to Everett (2009) (with Andrew Nevins and Cilene Rodrigues)  Language 85.3, 671-681 (September 2009) (A reply to this response to the paper listed above.)
• Property Delay: Remarks on "Phase Extension" by Marcel den Dikken
  Solicited "peer commentary", Theoretical Linguistics., 33.1, pp. 105-120. (2007) 
  Read the paper this is commenting on here.
• Probes, Goals and Syntactic Categories (with Esther Torrego, UMass/Boston; June 2006). 
  In Proceedings of the Seventh Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (Y. Otsu, ed; 2006) 
• The Syntax of Valuation and the Interpretability of Features. (with Esther Torrego, UMass/Boston; October 2004). 
  In Phrasal and Clausal Architecture: Syntactic Derivation and Interpretation. 
  Amsterdam: Benjamins. (S. Karimi, V. Samiian and W.Wilkins, eds; 2007)

Manuscript versions of recently published work

• Cyclic Linearization of Syntactic Structure (with Danny Fox, MIT; May 2004)
  [Theoretical Linguistics 31.1-2, 1-46. special issue on Object Shift in Scandinavian; Katalin É. Kiss, ed.]
• Responses to Fox & Pesetsky (2004) from Theoretical Linguistics 31.1-2: 
  by Elena Anagnostopoulou; Jonathan Bobaljik; Molly Diesing; Anders Holmberg; Gereon Mueller; Øystein Nilsen; 
  Peter Sells; Balázs Surányi; Peter Svenonius; and Edwin Williams. [links are to those drafts available on the web].
• Reply to the responses by Fox and Pesetsky.
  [Theoretical Linguistics 31.1-2, 235-262. special issue on Object Shift in Scandinavian; Katalin É. Kiss, ed.]
• Note: The Theoretical Linguistics paper contains about 1/3 of the material that will form part of a monograph, in prep. 
  For some of the remaining material, the best current source is the following lengthy handout: 
  "Cyclic Linearization and the Typology of Movement" (with Danny Fox, MIT)

Related work:

• "Cyclic Linearization and Asymmetry in Scrambling" by Heejeong Ko
  "Pseudo-gapping and Cyclic Linearization" by Shoichi Takahashi
• "Tense, case, and the nature of syntactic categories" (with Esther Torrego, UMass/Boston; 2002) 
  [Final version in The Syntax of Time, J. Guéron and J. Lecarme (eds.), MIT Press 2004] 
• "T-to-C Movement: Causes and Consequences (with Esther Torrego, UMass/Boston)" 
  [Final version in Michael Kenstowicz (ed.), Ken Hale: A Life on Language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (2001)]
• "The Maturation of Grammatical Principles: Evidence from Russian Unaccusatives" 
  (with Maria Babyonyshev, Ronald Fein, Jennifer Ganger and Kenneth Wexler)
  [Significantly revised version appeared in Linguistic Inquiry 32.1 (2001)]
• Phrasal Movement and Its Kin
  [Final version appeared as an MIT Press Monograph (2000)]
• "Principles of Sentence Pronunciation"
  [Final version appeared In P. Barbosa, D. Fox, P. Hagstrom, M. McGinnis and D. Pesetsky (eds.) 
  Is the Best Good Enough?, MIT Press (1998)]

Encyclopedia articles

• "Linguistic Universals and Universal Grammar", MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. (2000)
• "Principles & Parameters Theory" Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd edition. Ed. W. Frawley. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2003)

Older Unpublished work

• These PDF files are made from older manuscripts, and were not prepared for publication. They contain formatting and other errors. 
• "Russian Morphology and Lexical Theory" (1977)
  [Generals paper in phonology from my graduate student days. Of interest as the birthplace of (what later became known as) Lexical Phonology.]
• "The Earliness Principle" (1989)
  [Paper presented at GLOW in 1989, but never written up. 
  Interesting data and observations about counterfactual inversion and about short verb movement in English.]
• "Zero Syntax: vol. 2: Infinitives "(1991)
  [Material intended for Zero Syntax but not included in the final publication.] 

Education-related

• "How Psychological Science Informs the Teaching of Reading", 
  by Keith Rayner, Barbara R. Foorman, Charles A. Perfetti, David Pesetsky, and Mark S. Seidenberg. 
  Psychological Science in the Public Interest 2:2 (November 2001) 
• "How Reading Should be Taught" 
  by Keith Rayner, Barbara R. Foorman, Charles A. Perfetti, David Pesetsky, and Mark S. Seidenberg. Scientific American, March 2002.
• "The Battle for Language: from Syntax to Phonics"
  [a handout for a talk in a USC series on Language and Mind. (2000)]
• "If Language Is Instinctual, How Should We Write and Teach?"
  [a talk delivered to a 1997 seminar organized by the American Society of Newspaper Editors]
• "Linguistics and Learning to Read"
  [ an essay prepared for a 1996 workshop of the National Council of Teachers of English]