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Papers

• Sailor, Craig. To appear. Tag questions. For The Oxford Handbook of Non-Canonical Questions, ed. N. Dehé, R. Eckardt, and G. Walkden. Oxford University Press.
• Newell, Heather and Craig Sailor. To appear. Minimalism and the syntax-phonology interface. For The Cambridge Handbook of Minimalism, eds. K. Grohmann and E. Leivada. Cambridge University Press.
• Ahn, Byron, Sunwoo Jeong, and Craig Sailor. 2024. Systematic 'stray' focus stress in English? ApparentLY!. In Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 39).
• Cruschina, Silvio and Craig Sailor. 2022. What is "residual verb second"? And what does Romance have to do with it?. Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 8(3)/2, 1-28.
• Sailor, Craig. 2022. The morphophonology of ellipsis: evidence for Segregated Transfer. In The Derivational Timing of Ellipsis, eds. A. Lipták and G. Güneş. Oxford University Press.
• Sailor, Craig. 2020. Rethinking 'residual' verb second. In Rethinking Verb Second, eds. R. Woods and S. Wolfe. Oxford University Press.
• Sailor, Craig. 2018. The typology of head movement and ellipsis: A reply to Lipták & Saab. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 36:851-875.
• Thoms, Gary and Craig Sailor. 2018. When silence gets in the way: extraction from do-ellipsis in British Dialects. NELS 48: Proceedings of the Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, ed. S. Hucklebridge and M. Nelson, volume 3, 145-154.
• Sailor, Craig. 2017. Negative inversion without negation: on fuck-inversion in British English. In Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics (COPiL) 10, eds. C. Song and J. Baker, 88-110. University of Cambridge.
• Griffiths, James and Craig Sailor. 2015. Prepositional object gaps in British English. Linguistics in the Netherlands 2015, 63-74.
• Sailor, Craig and Gary Thoms. 2014. On the non-existence of non-constituent coordination and non-constituent ellipsis. In Proceedings of the 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 31).
• Sailor, Craig. 2014. VP Ellipsis in tag questions: A typological approach. In Proceedings of The 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 46). [Note: see Tag Questions and the Typology of VP Ellipsis, below, for an expanded version.]
• Ahn, Byron and Craig Sailor. 2014. The emerging middle class. In Proceedings of The 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 46).
• Sailor, Craig and Anoop Mahajan. 2013. Toward a derivational typology. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 42).
• Sailor, Craig. 2012. Tag questions and the typology of VP ellipsis. Ms., UCLA.
• Sailor, Craig. 2012. Inflection at the Interface. Ms., UCLA. [Note: see chapters 1 and 2 of my dissertation for an expanded version of this work.]
• Zhang, Jie, Yuwen Lai, and Craig Sailor. 2011. Modeling Taiwanese speakers' knowledge of tone sandhi in reduplication. Lingua 121, pp. 181-206.
• Zhang, Jie, Yuwen Lai, and Craig Sailor. 2009. Effects of phonetics and frequency on the productivity of Taiwanese tone sandhi. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 43).
• Zhang, Jie, Yuwen Lai, and Craig Sailor. 2008. Opacity, phonetics, and frequency in Taiwanese tone sandhi. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Linguists.
• Zhang, Jie, Yuwen Lai, and Craig Turnbull-Sailor. 2006. Wug-testing the 'tone circle' in Taiwanese. In Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 25), eds. D. Baumer, D. Montero, and M. Scanlon. Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA. 453-461.

Dissertations / theses

• Sailor, Craig. 2014. The Variables of VP Ellipsis. Doctoral dissertation, UCLA.
• Sailor, Craig. 2009. Tagged for Deletion: A Typological Approach to VP Ellipsis in Tag Questions. Master's thesis, UCLA.
• Turnbull-Sailor, Craig. 2007. Syntactic Patterns of Embedded wh- Clauses. Master's thesis, University of Kansas.