Categorical and Probabilistic Explanation in Historical Syntax. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. In progress.

Social networks and intraspeaker variation during periods of language change. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium (Penn Working Papers in Linguistics). In press. [PDF]. (with Celina Troutman and Matthew Goldrick)

Language Change as a Source of Word Order Generalizations. In Variation, Selection, Development: Probing the evolutionary model of language change. Edited by Regine Eckardt, Gerhard Jäger, and Tonjes Veenstra. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. In press. [PDF]. (with Matthew Goldrick and Kenneth Konopka)

Subjects in early English: Syntactic change as gradual constraint reranking. In Proceedings of the Eighth Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference. Edited by Stephen Anderson and Dianne Jonas. Forthcoming.

A Stochastic Optimality Theory Approach to Syntactic Change. Dissertation. Department of Linguistics. Stanford University. 2004. [1up PDF version, 2up PDF version; Front Matter, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Bibliography, Index]

Early English clause structure in a stochastic optimality theory setting. In Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations. Edited by Anne Curzan and Kim Emmons. 343-369. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2004. [PDF]. (NOTE: This paper is superseded by Chapter 3 of my dissertation.)

Some things are not susceptible to thinking about: The Historical Development of tough-complementation. 1999. [PDF]. (NOTE: Draft! Please do not cite without permission.)

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