Journal articles

Foley, Steven and Byron Ahn. To Appear. Processing cataphoric they amidst pronominal innovation. Journal of Cognitive Cultural Studies.
  [pdf | OSF page]

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

Manuscripts in preparation

Foley, Steven. 2024. Case, word order, and the incremental disambiguation of grammatical roles in Georgian. Manuscript, University of Georgia Athens.
  [draft]

Foley, Steven and Nino Amiridze 2024. Where does that fit in? Morphological variation and reanalysis in Georgian placeholder verbs. Manuscript, University of Georgia Athens and Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.
  [draft]

Foley, Steven and Matt Wagers 2024. Case cues and word order in relative clause processing: Reading time evidence from Georgian. Manuscript, University of Georgia Athens and University of California Santa Cruz.
  [draft]

Sasaki, Kelsey, Steven Foley, Jed Pizarro-Guevara, Fe Silva-Robles, Maziar Toosarvandani, and Matt Wagers 2024. Evidence for a universal parsing principle in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec. Manuscript, University of Oxford, University of Georgia Athens, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and University of California Santa Cruz.
  [draft]

Other output

Steven Foley. 2024. Comprehending Philippine and Reverse Philippine case alignment. Paper presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 31). University of Massachusetts Amherst. Amherst, MA, June 12–14.
  [slides; preceedings paper forthcoming]

Steven Foley, Byron Ahn, and Lauren Ackerman. 2024. Number, animacy, and individual variation in the processing of cataphora. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP 2024). University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI, May 16–18.
  [poster]

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]

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.
  [pdf]

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

Foley, Steven and 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.
  [pdf]

Foley, Steven, Nick Kalivoda, and 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).
  [pdf]

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

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.
  [pdf]

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, and Orest Xherija. 217–232.
  [pdf]