Carson T. Schütze

Carson T. Schütze & Victor S. Ferreira (eds.) (2007). The state of the art in speech error research: Proceedings of the 2005 LSA Institute Workshop. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 53.

Carson T. Schütze & David Schueler (2007). Review of Nonfinite structures in theory and change by D. Gary Miller. Language 83(2), 443-445.

“Thinking about what we are asking speakers to do” (2005). In Stephan Kepser & Marga Reis (eds.), Linguistic evidence: Empirical, theoretical, and computational perspectives, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 457-485.
(Based on a talk presented at a workshop in Tübingen, 2004.)

“Why nonfinite be is not omitted while finite be is” (2004). In Proceedings of the 28th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 506-521.
(Available for download as PDF file.)

“Synchronic and diachronic microvariation in English do” (2004). Lingua 114(4), 495-516.
(Based on a talk presented in Leuven in August, 2001.)

Ivano Caponigro and Carson T. Schütze: “Parameterizing passive participle movement.” (2003) Linguistic Inquiry 34(2), 293-323.
(Based on a talk presented at the LSA, 2002.)

“Syncretism and double agreement with Icelandic nominative objects” (2003). In Grammar in focus: Festschrift for Christer Platzack.
(Available for download as PDF file.)

“The non-omission of nonfinite be”. In Anne Dahl, Peter Svenonius & Marit Richardsen Westergaard (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics: Acquisition. Nordlyd 31(3), 606-622. (2003)

“On Korean ‘Case stacking’: The varied functions of the particles ka and lul.” (2001). The Linguistic Review 18(3), 193-232.
(Based on a talk presented at NELS many, many years ago.)

“On the nature of default case” (2001). Syntax 4(3), 205-238.
(Based on a talk presented in Utrecht in August, 1998.)

“Productive inventory and case/agreement contingencies: A methodological note on Rispoli (1999).” (2001) Journal of Child Language 28(2), 507-515.

“Semantically empty lexical heads as last resorts” (2001). In Norbert Corver & Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), Semi-lexical categories: On the content of function words and the function of content words. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
(Expanded written version of a talk presented in Tilburg in May, 1999.)

(with Kenneth Wexler) “An elicitation study of young English children’s knowledge of tense: Semantic and syntactic properties of optional infinitives” (2000). In Proceedings of the 24th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 669-683.
(Available for download as PDF file.)

(with Edward Gibson) “Disambiguation preferences in noun phrase conjunction do not mirror corpus frequency” (1999). Journal of Memory and Language 40, 263-279.

(with Edward Gibson) “Argumenthood and English prepositional phrase attachment” (1999). Journal of Memory and Language 40, 409-431.

The empirical base of linguistics: Grammaticality judgments and linguistic methodology (1996). University of Chicago Press.

(with Kenneth Wexler) “Subject case licensing and English root infinitives” (1996). In Proceedings of the 20th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 670-681.
(Available for download as PDF file.)

“Serbo-Croatian second position clitic placement and the phonology-syntax interface” (1994). In Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley & Tony Bures (eds.), Papers on phonology and morphology. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 21, 373-473.
(Available for download as PDF file.)

“Towards a Minimalist account of quirky case and licensing in Icelandic” (1993). In Papers on Case & Agreement II, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 19, 321-375.
(Available for download as PDF file.)
NOTE: This paper was written in 1993 and has not been updated. It does not reflect my current views on Icelandic, which can be found in my dissertation (see below), especially chapter 4. It is posted here because I have continued to be asked for it, and because some of the arrows in the tree diagrams came out wrong in the published version--they are corrected here. Aside from that, plus some small shifts in the page breaks and typography, this is how the paper originally appeared.

Manuscripts

Please check with me before citing or quoting from the following. Comments are always appreciated.

“Some DOs and DON’Ts in child and adult grammars” (Handout from a colloquium at UMass.)
(Available for download as PDF file.)

“The status of He/She don’t and theories of root infinitives”
(Available for download as PDF file.)
(Expanded version of a paper read in absentia at GALA 2001.)

“PP attachment and argumenthood” (1995). In Carson T. Schütze, Jennifer B. Ganger & Kevin Broihier (eds.), Papers on language processing and acquisition: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 26, 95-152.
(Available for download as PDF file.)
[Some of this is superseded by material in the JML paper cited above; some of it isn’t completely right. Please consult with me before using it.]

Dissertation

My 1997 MIT Ph.D. dissertation, “INFL in child and adult language: Agreement, case and licensing,” is distributed in hardcopy by MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. Alternatively, you can download it as a PDF file (1.4 MB). (This electronic version fixes several typos and has more complete versions of a couple of references, while preserving the original pagination.)

Please note that several sections of the dissertation have been further developed and/or superseded by subsequent work. In particular,

• much of sections 2.6 and 3.2.2 became the Syntax paper listed above;
• section 3.2.1 was incorporated into the 2001 JCL paper listed above;
• an analysis of some of the unexplained facts in section 4.1.1 is proposed in the “Syncretism and double agreement” paper listed above;
• section 4.1.6 was refined and extended into “English expletive constructions are not infected,” Linguistic Inquiry 30, 467-484 (1999);
• appendix 4.A evolved into the Linguistic Review article listed above;
• section 5.2.1 was partly pursued in an SCL talk “When is a verb not a verb?,” published in Nordlyd 31(2), 400-415 (2003), and in the Corver and van Riemsdijk volume cited above;
• section 5.3.1.2 was superseded by Language Acquisition 7, 317-344 (1997).
[Please do not use data from section 5.3.1.2.2 of the dissertation.]
• sections 5.3.1.3 and 5.5.2 were pursued and reported on in Schütze and Wexler 2000 (see above).

Tales of Tinseltown
Read the LA Times and LA Weekly reviews.
Songs for a New World
Runway 69 (at Dixon Place in New York)
Jesus, Booze and Kwanzaa
Children of Eden
(Here’s a backstage photo from just before curtain.)


South Pacific (Click here, here, and here for different views of me and the pit orchestra, and read the review.)
Jesus Christ Superstar
Chess
Little Shop of Horrors
Company (read the review)
On The Town
Godspell
Oliver!

Anthony in Sweeney Todd (production photo below, review here)

Click here for another picture of me from the show.

Kodaly in She Loves Me (read the review)
(production photo below)

Click here for another picture of me and Sara Jo Elice from the show.

The Snake in The Apple Tree (rehearsal photo of me and Cathy Conley below). Read the review.


Nick in Baby (read the review)
The Proprietor/Ford/Reagan in Assassins
Alfred/Lenny in Romance/Romance

Jesus Christ Superstar
The Wild Party
Click to read the Variety and Daily Bruin reviews. I played this show again a few years later.
Triumph of Love
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Read the Daily Bruin review.
Company
Little Shop of Horrors (read the review)
No Doi! A musical tribute to generation whY?
(read the Daily Bruin feature article)
Lemonade, an original musical by my friend Karlan Judd
The Sound of Music
Into the Woods
A Chorus Line
Songs for a New World

Wicked


Ragtime


Aida
Hairspray
Urinetown
Beauty and the Beast


Phantom of the Opera
Les Misérables
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Jekyll & Hyde (OK, the show has some problems, but the second concept recording with Anthony Warlow is fabulous.)

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