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E.P. Stabler (2025) Realizational morphology in a modular minimalist grammar. Mathematics of Language 2025: 1-15. https://aclanthology.org/2025.mol-1.1/
E.P. Stabler (2025) Rejecting a pessimistic assessment and instrumentalist prescription for linguistic theory. Italian Journal of Linguistics 37: 153-164. https://www.italian-journal-linguistics.com/app/uploads/2025/09/10-Stabler.pdf
T. Hunter, M. Stanojević and E.P. Stabler (2025) Generalizing active gap-filling (poster abstract). https://hsp2025.github.io/abstracts/314.pdf
E.P. Stabler and K.M. Yu (2023) Unbounded recursion in two dimensions, where syntax and prosody meet. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.7275/d12p-8590
W. Jarrold, A. Rofes, P. Pressman, S. Wilson, E.P. Stabler, M.L.G. Tempini (2020) A “verbal thermometer” for the assessment of neurodegenerative disease: Automated measurement of pronoun and verb ratio from speech. Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology https://doi.org/10.1109/embc44109.2020.9176185
E.P. Stabler (2019) Three mathematical foundations for syntax. Annual Review of Linguistics 5: 243-260. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011415-040658
T. Hunter, M. Stanojević and E.P. Stabler (2019) The active-filler strategy in a move-eager left-corner minimalist grammar parser. Proceedings of CMCL/ACL. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-2901.pdf
R.C. Berwick and E.P. Stabler (eds) (2019) Minimalist Parsing. Oxford University Press, link.
M. Stanojević and E.P. Stabler (2018) A sound and complete left-corner parsing for minimalist grammars Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning and Processing, ACL, pp. 65-74. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W18-2809/
E.P. Stabler (2017) Reforming AMR. International Conference on Formal Grammar, FG/ESSLLI’17. Springer, pp. 72-87. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-56343-4_5
K.M. Yu and E.P. Stabler (2017) (In)variability in the Samoan syntax/prosody interface and consequences for syntactic parsing. Laboratory Phonology 8(1), 25. http://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.113
J. Torr and E.P. Stabler (2016) Coordination in minimalist grammars. Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks, TAG+12: 1-17. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W16-3301
J.R. Brennan, E.P. Stabler, S.E. Van Wagenen, W.-M. Luh, J.T. Hale (2016) Abstract linguistic structure correlates with anterior temporal activity during naturalistic comprehension. Brain and Language 157: 81-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2016.04.008
M.L. Cody and E.P. Stabler and H.M. Sánchez Castellanos and C.E. Taylor (2015) Structure, syntax and ‘small-world’ organization in the complex songs of California Thrashers (Toxostoma redivivum). Bioacoustics 25(1):1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/09524622.2015.1089418
C. Collins and E.P. Stabler (2015) A formalization of minimalist syntax. Syntax 19(1): 43-78. https://doi.org/10.1111/synt.12117
E.P. Stabler (2014) Recursion in grammar and performance. In T. Roeper and M. Speas (eds.) Recursion: Complexity in Cognition. Springer, pp. 159-178. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05086-7_8
E.P. Stabler (2014) Towards a rationalist theory of language acquisition. In A. Clark, M. Kanazawa, and R. Yoshinaka (eds.) Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Grammatical Inference. Journal of Machine Learning Research 34: 21-32. http://proceedings.mlr.press/v34/stabler14a.pdf
E.P. Stabler (2014) Memoization and reanalysis in top-down parsing. In Connectedness: Papers by and for Sarah VanWagenen, edited by C.T. Schütze and L. Stockall. UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics 18, http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/faciliti/wpl/issues/wpl18/wpl18.html
E.P. Stabler and J. MacSwan (2014) A minimalist parsing model for codeswitching. In J. MacSwan (ed.) Grammatical Theory and Bilingual Codeswitching. MIT Press, pp. 257-282. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262027892.003.0011
S. VanWagenen, J. Brennan, and E.P. Stabler (2014) Quantifying parsing complexity as a function of grammar, in Connectedness: Papers by and for Sarah VanWagenen, edited by C.T. Schütze and L. Stockall. UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics 18, link
H. Koopman, D. Sportiche, E.P. Stabler (2013) An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory. link
E.P. Stabler (2013) The epicenter of linguistic behavior. In M. Sanz, I. Laka, and M. Tannenhaus, eds. Language Down the Garden Path. Oxford University Press, pp. 316-323 https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199677139.003.0018
E.P. Stabler (2013) Two models of minimalist, incremental syntactic analysis. Topics in Cognitive Science 5(3): 611-633. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12031, (code)
E.P. Stabler (2012) Learnability and the autonomy of syntactic categories. In Theories of Everything. In Honor of Ed Keenan, UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics 17, edited by T. Graf, D. Paperno, A. Szabolcsi, and J. Tellings. http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/faciliti/wpl/issues/wpl17/wpl17.html
E.P. Stabler (2011) Top-down recognizers for MCFGs and MGs. In F. Keller and D. Reitter, eds., Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL), 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 39-48. https://aclanthology.org/W11-0605/ Code: https://github.com/epstabler/mcfgtdb
E.P. Stabler (2011) After government and binding theory. In J. van Benthem and A. ter Meulen, eds. Handbook of Logic and Language. Elsevier, pp. 395-414. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-444-53726-3.00007-4
E.P. Stabler (2011) Meta-meta-linguistics. Theoretical Linguistics 37(1): 69-78. (pdf) https://doi.org/10.1515/thli.2011.007
E.P. Stabler (2011) Computational perspectives on minimalism. In C. Boeckx, ed. Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Minimalism. Oxford University Press, pp. 617-642. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199549368.013.0027
E.L. Keenan and E.P. Stabler (2011) On language variation and linguistic invariants. UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics, no.15, Papers in Mathematical Linguistics 1, edited by T. Graf. http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/faciliti/wpl/issues/wpl15/wpl15.html
E.L. Keenan and E.P. Stabler (2010) Language variation and linguistic invariants. Lingua 120(12): 2680-2685. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2010.04.011
E.P. Stabler (2009) Mathematics of language learning. Histoire Épistémologie Langage 31(1): 127-145. https://doi.org/10.3406/hel.2009.3109
E.P. Stabler (2009) Computational models of language universals. Language Universals, edited by M. Christiansen, C. Collins, and S. Edelman. Oxford University Press, pp. 200-223. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195305432.003.0010
E.P. Stabler (2008) Tupled pregroup grammars. Computational Algebraic Approaches to Natural Language, edited by C. Casadio and J. Lambek. Polimetrica, pp. 23-52. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Edward-Stabler-2/publication/228638203_Tupled_pregroup_grammars/links/00b7d52ba378558191000000/Tupled-pregroup-grammars.pdf
Y. Lee, T. Collier, C. Taylor, and E.P. Stabler (2007) Cohesion of languages in grammar networks. Cooperative Control of Distributed Multiagent Systems, edited by J. Shamma. Wiley, pp. 359-375. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470724200.ch15
E.P. Stabler and E.L. Keenan (2007) Universals across languages. Proceedings of the Workshop on Model Theoretic Syntax (MTS@10), 2007 European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI’07), edited by S. Kepser and J. Rogers. https://www.academia.edu/24306685/Universals_across_languages?sm=b&rhid=42918947077
E.P. Stabler (2006) Sidewards without copying. Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Formal Grammar, edited by P. Monachesi, G. Penn, G. Satta, and S. Wintner. CSLI, 2006, pp. 133-146. https://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/FG/2006/stabler.pdf
Y. Lee, T. Collier, E.P. Stabler and C. Taylor (2005) Grammar structure and the dynamics of language evolution. Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL’05. https://doi.org/10.1007/11553090_63
E.L. Keenan and E.P. Stabler (2005) Linguistic invariants and language variation. In P. Hajek, D. Westerståhl, and L.M. Valdés-Villanueva, eds, Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Kings College Publications, pp. 395-411. https://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/mM4MDc2N/keenan.stabler.pdf
Y. Lee, T. Collier, C. Taylor, and E.P. Stabler (2005) The role of population structure in language evolution. Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, AROB’05. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228665881_The_role_of_population_structure_in_language_evolution
J. Hale and E.P. Stabler (2005) Strict deterministic aspects of minimalist grammars. In P. Blache, E. Stabler, J. Bousquets and R. Moot, eds., Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics. Springer, pp. 162-176. https://doi.org/10.1007/11422532_11
E.P. Stabler (2004) Varieties of crossing dependencies. Cognitive Science 93(5): 699-720. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog2805_4
G.M. Kobele, J. Riggle, R. Brooks, D. Friedlander, C. Taylor, and E.P. Stabler (2004) Induction of prototypes in a robotic setting using local search MDL. Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, AROB’04. https://home.uni-leipzig.de/gkobele/files/papers/KobeleEtAl04.pdf
C. Retoré and E.P. Stabler (2004) Generative grammars in resource logics. Research on Language and Computation 2(1): 3-25. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025455403876
C. Retoré and E.P. Stabler (2004) Guest editors, special issue on resource logics and minimalist grammars. Research on Language and Computation 2(1). https://link.springer.com/journal/11168/volumes-and-issues/2-1
E.L. Keenan and E.P. Stabler (2003) Bare Grammar. CSLI. link
E.P. Stabler (2003) Comparing three perspectives on head movement. In A. Mahajan, ed., Head Movement and Syntactic Theory. UCLA Working Papers In Linguistics #10 https://ucla.app.box.com/s/spj71byvuna47dzq4t85346nnw0ggjwm
E.P. Stabler, T.C. Collier, G.M. Kobele, Y. Lee, Y. Lin, J. Riggle, Y. Yao, and C. E. Taylor. (2003) The learning and emergence of mildly context sensitive languages. In W. Banzhaf, T. Christaller, P. Dittrich, J.T. Kim and J. Ziegler, eds., Advances in Artificial Life, Springer, pp. 525-534. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39432-7_56
G.M. Kobele, J. Riggle, T. Collier, Y. Lin, Y.Yao and E.P. Stabler (2003) Grounding as learning. Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Evolution, 15th ESSLLI, 2003. https://home.uni-leipzig.de/gkobele/files/papers/KobeleEtAl03.pdf
E.P. Stabler and E.L. Keenan (2003) Structural similarity within and among languages. Theoretical Computer Science 293, pp. 345-363. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-3975(01)00351-6
Y. Lee, J. Riggle, T.C. Collier, E.P. Stabler and Charles E. Taylor (2003) Adaptive communication among collaborative agents. Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, edited by M. Sugisaka and H. Tanaka, pp. 149-155. [Revised version published in Artificial Life and Robotics 8: 127-132.] https://doi.org/10.1/107/s10015-004-0299-3
G.M. Kobele, T. Collier, C. Taylor and E.P. Stabler (2002) Learning mirror theory. Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks, TAG+6, pp.101-108. https://aclanthology.org/W02-2209/
E.L. Keenan and E.P. Stabler (2002) Syntactic invariants. In A. Copestake and K. Vermeulen, eds., Algebras, Diagrams and Decisions in Language, Logic and Information CSLI. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2793306_Syntactic_Invariants
E.P. Stabler (2001) Minimalist grammars and recognition. In C. Rohrer, A. Rossdeutscher and H. Kamp, eds., Linguistic Form and its Computation. CSLI, , pp. 93-120. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/L/bo3618198.html
E.P. Stabler (2001) Recognizing head movement. In P. de Groote, G. Morrill, and C. Retoré, eds, Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics. Springer, LNAI 2099, pp. 245-260. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48199-0_15
E.P. Stabler (2001) Formal Grammars. In MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, edited by F.C. Keil and R.A. Wilson. MIT Press, 1999, pp.320-322, 2001. http://cognet.mit.edu/erefschapter/formal-grammars
S. Curtiss, V.A. Fromkin, B. Hayes, N. Hyams, P. Keating, H. Koopman, P. Munro, E.P. Stabler, D. Sportiche, D. Steriade, T. Stowell, A. Szabolcsi (2000) Introduction to Linguistics. Blackwell. link
T. Teal, D. Albro, E.P. Stabler, and C.E. Taylor (1999) Compression and adaptation. Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL’99. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48304-7_93
C. Retoré and E.P. Stabler (1999) Resource logics and minimalist grammars. INRIA Technical Report RR-3780. Rennes, France. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226072149_Resource_Logics_and_Minimalist_Grammars
E.P. Stabler (1999) Remnant movement and structural complexity. In Bouma, Hinrichs, Kruijff, and Oehrle, eds, Constraints and Resources in Natural Language Syntax and Semantics. CSLI, pp. 299-326. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2574257_Remnant_Movement_and_Complexity
E.P. Stabler (1998) Acquiring languages with movement. Syntax 1: 72-97. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9612.00004
E.P. Stabler (1997) Derivational minimalism. In C. Retoré, ed., Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics. Springer-Verlag, pp. 68-95. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0052152,
E.P. Stabler (1997) Computing quantifier scope. In A. Szabolcsi, ed., Ways of Scope Taking. Kluwer, pp. 155-182. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5814-5_5
E.L. Keenan and E.P. Stabler (1996) There is more than one language. In L. Nash and G. Tsoulas, eds., Langues et Grammaire-1, Université Paris-8, pp. 217-235.
E.L. Keenan and E.P. Stabler (1996) Abstract syntax. In A.-M. Di Sciullo, ed., Configurations: Essays on Structure and Interpretation. Somerville MA: Cascadilla Press, pp. 329-344.
E.P. Stabler (1994) The finite connectivity of linguistic structure. In C. Clifton, L. Frazier, and K. Rayner, eds., Perspectives on Sentence Processing. Lawrence-Erlbaum, pp. 303-336. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2403088_The_Finite_Connectivity_of_Linguistic_Structure
E.P. Stabler (1993) Parsing as non-Horn deduction. Artificial Intelligence 63: 225-264. [Also reprinted in F. Pereira and B. Grosz (eds.), Natural Language Processing. MIT Press, 1994.] https://doi.org/10.1016/0004-3702(93)90018-7
E.P. Stabler (1992) The Logical Approach to Syntax: Foundations, Specifications, and Implementations of Theories of Government and Binding. Cambridge, Massachusetts: link.
E.P. Stabler (1992) Implementing government binding theories. In Formal Grammar: Theory and Implementation, edited by R. Levine. Oxford University Press, pp.243-275.
E.L. Keenan and E.P. Stabler (1992) Language invariants. In P. Dekker and M. Stokhof, eds., Proceedings of the Eighth Amsterdam Colloquium, pp. 309-328.
K. Dahlgren, C. Lord, H. Wada, J. McDowell, and E.P. Stabler (1991) ITP Interpretext System. In Proceedings of the DARPA Third Message Understanding Conference, MUC-3, pp.79-83, 163-170.
E.P. Stabler (1991) Avoid the pedestrian’s paradox. In R.C. Berwick, S.P. Abney and C. Tenny, eds., Principle-based Parsing: Computation and Psycholinguistics, Kluwer, pp.199-237. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3474-3_8
E.P. Stabler (1990) Asher on discourse, discourse processing, and information. Information, Language, and Cognition, edited by P. Hanson, University of British Columbia Press, pp.57-72.
E.P. Stabler (1990) Parsing as logical constraint satisfaction. Logic and Logic Grammars for Language Processing, edited by P. Saint-Dizier and S. Szpakowicz. Ellis Horwood, pp.72-93.
K. Dahlgren, J. McDowell, and E.P. Stabler (1989) Knowledge representation for commonsense reasoning with text. Computational Linguistics, 15(3): 149-170. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/77346.77348
E.P. Stabler (1990) Representing knowledge with theories about theories. Journal of Logic Programming 9: 105-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/0743-1066(90)90035-4
E.P. Stabler (1989) Review of Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin and Use and of Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures, both by Noam Chomsky. Philosophy of Science 56: 533-536. https://www.jstor.org/stable/188001
E.P. Stabler (1989) Review of Information-Based Syntax and Semantics: Volume 1, Fundamentals by Carl Pollard and Ivan A Sag. Computational Linguistics 15(3): 198-200.
E.P. Stabler (1989) Syntactic equality in knowledge representation and reasoning. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, KR’89: 459-466. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221393526_Syntactic_Equality_in_Knowledge_Representation_and_Reasoning
E.P. Stabler (1988) Learning simple things: A connectionist learning problem from various perspectives. Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Volume 2, pp.424-441. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/192903.pdf
E.P. Stabler (1987) Kripke on functionalism and automata. Synthese, 70(1): 1-22. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20116354
E.P. Stabler (1986) An object-oriented approach to prolog programming. AI Expert, 1(2): 46-57. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/16252.16254
E.P. Stabler (1987) Restricting logic grammars with government-binding theory. Computational Linguistics, 13(1-2): 1-10. [Also Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-86: 1048-1052.] https://aclanthology.org/J87-1001/
E.P. Stabler (1985) Review of Mind and Meaning by Brian Loar, Philosophy of Science, 52: 157-159. https://www.jstor.org/stable/187606
E.P. Stabler (1984) Review of Thought and Object: Essays on Intentionality, edited by A. Woodfield, Philosophical Review, 43: 632-635. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2184836
E.P. Stabler (1984) Rationality in naturalized epistemology. Philosophy of Science, 51: 64-78. https://www.jstor.org/stable/187731
E.P. Stabler (1984) Berwick and Weinberg on linguistics and cognitive psychology. Cognition, 17: 155-179. https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0277(84)90017-9
E.P. Stabler (1983) How are grammars represented? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 6: 391-421. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00016678
E.P. Stabler (1983) Deterministic and bottom-up parsing in Prolog. Proceedings of the 1983 Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-83: 383-407. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/2886844.2886925
E.P. Stabler (1982) Naturalized epistemology and metaphysical realism: A response to Rorty and Putnam. Philosophical Topics, 13: 155-170. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43153915