Papers and manuscripts

Foley, Steven. Submitted. Case, word order, and the incremental disambiguation of grammatical roles in Georgian. Manuscript, University of Southern California.
  [draft]

Foley, Steven and Byron Ahn. Submitted. Processing cataphoric they amidst pronominal innovation. Manuscript, University of Southern California and Princeton University.
  [draft]

Foley, Steven and Nino Amiridze In prep. Morphological variation in Georgian placeholder verbs: Where does that fit in? Manuscript, University of Southern California and Tbilisi State University.
  [draft]

Foley, Steven & Maziar Toosarvandani. 2022. Extending the Person–Case Constraint to gender: Agreement, locality, and the syntax of pronouns. Linguistic Inquiry, 53(1):1–40.
  [preprint]

Foley, Steven. In prep. Inverted actors, demoted goals, and abstract inherent case in Georgian. Manuscript, University of Southern California.
  [draft]

Resent work

Foley, Steven, and Léa Nash. 2023. Tutorial in Experimental Syntax. The Third South Caucasian Chalk Circle (SCCC-3). Ilia State University. Tbilisi, Georgia, October 2–4.
  [slides]

Foley, Steven, Lizi Baramidze, Tamar Kalkhitashvili, Natia Poniava, and Irakli Salia. 2023. Comprehending verb finality and case ambiguity in real time. The Third South Caucasian Chalk Circle (SCCC-3). Ilia State University. Tbilisi, Georgia, October 2–4.
  [slides]

Amiridze, Nino and Steven Foley. 2023. How verbs are placeheld/placeholded in Georgian. Poster presented at Locality in Theory, Processing and Acquisition (LTPA Workshop). University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA, March 31 – April 1.
  [poster | supplementary handout]

Steven Foley, Byron Ahn, Kirby Conrod, Ameena Faruki, Xander Guidry, and Ruth Schultz. 2023. Depending on their social group, does the comprehender process cataphora differently? Virtual poster presented at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP 36th). University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA, March 9–11.
  [poster/slides]

Ahn, Byron, Kirby Conrod, Ameena Faruki, Steven Foley, Xander Guidry, and Ruth Schultz. 2022. Acceptability, production, and comprehension of definite singular they. Project launch presented at the Fiftieth Meeting of New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 50). Stanford University. San Jose, CA, October 13–15.
  [slides | osf page]

Foley, Steven. 2022. Quantifying performance constraints on case-alignment typology with information theory. Poster presented at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP2022). UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA. March 24–24.
  [poster | video presentation]

Other writing & presentations

Foley, Steven. 2021. Agreement in the languages of the Caucasus. In The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus, ed. Maria Polinsky. Oxford University Press. 845–872.
  [preprint]

Foley, Steven. 2020. Case, agreement, and sentence processing in Georgian. PhD dissertation, UC Santa Cruz.
  [pdf]

Foley, Steven & Matt Wagers. 2020. Prominence scales guide incremental sentence comprehension in Georgian. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 33). University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA. March 19–21.
  [poster]

Foley, Steven & Maziar Toosarvandani. 2019. Pronoun cliticization, wh-movement, and the Principle of Minimal Compliance. In Proceedings of the 49th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 49), eds. Maggie Baird and Jonathan Pesetsky.
  [paper]

Foley, Steven, Jed Pizarro-Guevara, Kelsey Sasaki, Maziar Toosarvandani, & Matt Wagers. 2019. Pronouns over gaps in parsing? The Subject Relative Clause Advantage in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec. Paper presented at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA 2019). New York City, NY. January 3–6.
  [contact for slides]

Foley, Steven, Nick Kalivoda, & Maziar Toosarvandani. To appear. Gender–Case Constraints in Zapotec. In Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 22).
  [paper]

Foley, Steven, Nick Kalivoda, & Maziar Toosarvandani. 2019. Forbidden clitic clusters in Zapotec. In Proceedings of the 53rd Chicago Linguistics Society, eds. Daniel Edmiston et al. 87–102.
  [paper]

Adler, Jeff, Steven Foley, Jed Pizarro-Guevara, Kelsey Sasaki, Maziar Toosarvandani. 2018. The derivation of verb initiality in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec. In A reasonable way to proceed: Essays in honor of Jim McCloskey, eds. Jason Merchant, Line Mikkelsen, Deniz Rudin, and Kelsey Sasaki. 31–49.
  [paper]

Foley, Steven. 2017. Morphological conspiracies in Georgian and Optimal Vocabulary Insertion. In the Proceedings of the 52nd Chicago Linguistics Society, eds. Jessica Kantarovich, Tran Truong, & Orest Xherija. 217–232.
  [paper]

Foley, Steven & Matt Wagers. 2017. Subject gaps are still easiest: Relative clause processing and Georgian split ergativity. Poster presented at the 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 30). MIT, Cambridge, MA. March 30 – April 1.
  [poster]