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Authored Books

Kim, Jong-Bok and Sells, Peter (2008) English Syntax: An Introduction. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

Sells, Peter (2001) Structure, Alignment and Optimality in Swedish. Stanford: Stanford Monographs in Linguistics.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Jeon, Hae-Sung, Sells, Peter, You, Zixi, Sotaro, Kita and Yeon, Jaehoon, eds. (2022) Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol. 28. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

Iwasaki, Noriko, Sells, Peter and Akita, Kimi, eds. (2016) The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation. Abingdon; New York: Routledge. (Routledge Studies in East Asian Linguistics)

Austin, Peter, Bond, Oliver, Charette, Monik, Nathan, David and Sells, Peter, eds. (2009) Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 2. London: Department of Linguistics, SOAS.

Matsumoto, Yoshiko, Oshima, David, Orrin, Robinson and Sells, Peter, eds. (2007) Diversity in Language: Perspectives and Implications. Stanford: CSLI Publications. (CSLI lecture notes, no. 176)

Book Chapters

Nikolaeva, Irina (2017) 'The general noun-modifying clause construction in Tundra Nenets and its possible origin.' In: Matsumoto, Yoshiko, Comrie, Bernard and Sells, Peter, (eds.), Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Reshaping theoretical and geographical boundaries. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 147-178. (Typological Studies in Language)

Iwasaki, Noriko (2016) 'Use of mimetics in motion event descriptions by English and Korean learners of L2 Japanese: Does typology make a difference?' In: Iwasaki, Noriko, Sells, Peter and Akita, Kimi, (eds.), The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp. 193-218. (Routledge Studies in East Asian Linguistics)

Iwasaki, Noriko (2016) 'Grammar of Japanese mimetics used by English and Korean learners of L2 Japanese in KY Corpus interviews: Does L1-L2 similarity help?' In: Iwasaki, Noriko, Sells, Peter and Akita, Kimi, (eds.), The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp. 148-171. (Routledge Studies in East Asian Linguistics)

Kizu, Mika, Sells, Peter and Tanaka, Hidekazu (2015) 'Multiple Accusative Constructions: the case of V+tate in Japanese.' In: Giriko, Mikio, Kanzaki, Kyoko, Nagaya, Naonori and Takemura, Akiko, (eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics 22. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

Iwasaki, Noriko, Brown, Lucien, Kita, Sotaro and David, Vinson (2013) 'Japanese and Korean Speakers' Production of Mimetic Words.' In: Frellesvig, Bjarke and Sells, Peter, (eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 20. Stanford, California: CSLI, pp. 199-213.

Tanaka, Hidekazu, Sells, Peter and Kizu, Mika (2013) 'Raising out of V+tate phrases.' In: Yatsushiro, Kazuko and Sauerland, Uli, (eds.), Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 6. Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, pp. 227-238.

Bond, Oliver (2009) 'Mapping negation in conceptual space.' In: Austin, Peter, Bond, Oliver, Charette, Monik, Nathan, David and Sells, Peter, (eds.), Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 2. London: Department of Linguistics, SOAS, pp. 51-60.

Kavari, Jekura and Marten, Lutz (2009) 'Multiple noun class prefixes in Otjiherero.' In: Austin, Peter, Bond, Oliver, Charette, Monik, Nathan, David and Sells, Peter, (eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Language Description and Theory. London: SOAS, pp. 165-173.

Sells, Peter (2009) 'Pragmatics in Advertising.' In: Cummings, Louise, (ed.), The Routledge Pragmatics Encyclopedia. London: Routledge.

Kim, Jong-Bok, Sells, Peter and Wescoat, Michael T. (2008) 'Korean Copular Constructions: A Lexical Sharing Approach.' In: Clancy, P., Hudson, M. E., Jun, S.-A. and Sells, Peter, (eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics. Vol.13. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

Gerassimova, Veronica and Sells, Peter (2008) 'Long-Distance Dependencies in Tagalog: The Case for Raising.' In: Chang, C. B. and Haynie, Hannah J., (eds.), Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference. Somerville, Mass.: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, pp. 190-198.

Levin, Beth and Sells, Peter (2008) 'Unpredicated Particles.' In: Uyechi, Linda and Wee, Lian-Hee, (eds.), Reality Exploration and Discovery: Pattern Interaction in Language and Life. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

Chang, C. B. (2008) 'The acoustics of Korean fricatives revisited.' In: Kuno, S., Lee, I.-H., Whitman, J., Maling, J., Kang, Y.-S., Sells, Peter, Sohn, ‪Hyang-Sook and Jang, Y., (eds.), Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics XII. Seoul, Korea: Hanshin Publishing Company, pp. 137-150.

Sells, Peter (2007) 'Finiteness in Non-Transformational Syntactic Frameworks.' In: Nikolaeva, Irina, (ed.), Finiteness. Theoretical and Empirical Foundations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 59-88.

Chung, Chan, Kim, Jong-Bok and Sells, Peter (2007) 'On the Role of Argument Structure in Focus Projections.' In: Cihlar, John, (ed.), Papers from the 39th Regional Meeting. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, pp. 386-404.

Sells, Peter (2006) 'Direct vs. Oblique Expression of Core Arguments in Korean.' In: Proceedings of the 2006 LSK International Conference. Seoul: Linguistic Society of Korea, Seoul National University, pp. 239-248.

Sells, Peter (2006) 'Interactions of Negative Polarity Items in Korean.' In: Kuno, S., (ed.), Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics. Vol.11. Cambridge, Mass.: Dept. of Linguistics, Harvard University, pp. 724-737.

Sells, Peter (2001) 'Form and Function in the Typology of Grammatical Voice Systems.' In: Legendre, G., Grimshaw, J. and Vikner, S., (eds.), Optimality-Theoretic Syntax. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, pp. 355-91.

Journal Article

Iida, Masayo and Sells, Peter (2008) 'Mismatches between Morphology and Syntax in Japanese Complex Predicates.' Lingua, 118 (7). pp. 947-968.

Sells, Peter and Kim, Jong-Bok (2007) 'Korean Honorification: A Kind of Expressive Meaning.' Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 16 (4). pp. 303-336.

Kim, Jong-Bok and Sells, Peter (2007) 'Some Remarks on Korean Nominalizer 'kes' and Information Structure.' Studies in Generative Grammar, 17. pp. 479-494.

Sells, Peter and Kim, Shin-Sook (2006) 'Korean NPIs Scope Over Negation.' Language Research, 42. pp. 275-297.

Sells, Peter (2003) 'Stylistic Fronting in Icelandic: A Base-Generated Construction.' Gengo Kenkyu, 123. pp. 257-297.

Conference or Workshop Items

Sells, Peter (2011) How Negation Scopes in Japanese and Korean. In: 18th Japanese-Korean Linguistics Conference.

Fang, Ji and Sells, Peter (2007) A Formal Analysis Of The Verb Copy Construction In Chinese. In: Proceedings of the LFG-07 Conference.

Kim, Jong-Bok and Sells, Peter (2007) Two Types of Multiple Nominative Construction: A Constructional Approach. In: Proceedings of the HPSG-07 Conference.

Peck, Jeeyoung and Sells, Peter (2006) Preposition Incorporation in Mandarin: Economy within VP. In: Proceedings of the LFG-06 Conference.

Sells, Peter (2006) Using Subsumption Rather Than Equality in Functional Control. In: Proceedings of the LFG-06 Conference.