Carson Schütze

(with Jon Sprouse and Diogo Almeida) “Assessing the reliability of journal data in syntax: Linguistic Inquiry 2001-2010” (under review).

“Linguistic evidence and grammatical theory” (2011). Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science 2(2), 206-221.

“Grammaticality judgments” (2011). In Patrick Colm Hogan (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, 349-350. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

“Methodology” (2011). In Patrick Colm Hogan (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, 497-501. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

“Web searches should supplement judgements, not supplant them” (2009). Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 28(1), 151-156.

“Status of linguistic evidence” (2006). In Lynn Nadel (editor-in-chief), Encyclopedia of cognitive science, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 2, 910-917.

“Data and evidence” (2006). In Keith Brown (editor-in-chief), Encyclopedia of language and linguistics, 2nd edition, Oxford: Elsevier, vol. 3, 356-363.

“Thinking about what we are asking speakers to do” (2005). In Stephan Kepser & Marga Reis (eds.), Linguistic evidence: Empirical, theoretical, and computational perspectives, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 457-485.
(Based on an invited talk presented at a workshop in Tübingen, 2004)

The empirical base of linguistics: Grammaticality judgments and linguistic methodology (1996). University of Chicago Press.
NOTE: The book has recently gone out of print, but I hope to reprint it with another press in the near future. Please email me if you are interested.

“Superfluous do and Comparison of Spell-Outs” (under review).

“The status of nonagreeing don’t and theories of root infinitives” (2010). Language Acquisition 17(4), 235-271.

“What it means (not) to know (number) agreement” (2009). In José M. Brucart, Anna Gavarró & Jaume Solà (eds.), Merging features: Computation, interpretation, and acquisition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 80-103.
(Based on an invited talk at GLOW in Barcelona in April, 2006)

“Why nonfinite be is not omitted while finite be is” (2004). In Proceedings of the 28th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 506-521.

“The non-omission of nonfinite be” (2003). Nordlyd 31(3), 606-622.
(Based on a talk presented in Tromsø in January, 2002)

“Productive inventory and case/agreement contingencies: A methodological note on Rispoli (1999)” (2001). Journal of Child Language 28(2), 507-515.

(with Kenneth Wexler) “An elicitation study of young English children’s knowledge of tense: Semantic and syntactic properties of optional infinitives” (2000). In Proceedings of the 24th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 669-683.

(with Kenneth Wexler and Mabel Rice) “Subject case in children with SLI and unaffected controls: Evidence for the Agr/Tense omission model” (1997). Language Acquisition 7, 317-344.

(with Kenneth Wexler) “Subject case licensing and English root infinitives” (1996). In Proceedings of the 20th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 670-681.
Note: Everything in this paper is superseded by the discussion in my dissertation (see below).

Review of Aspects of argument structure acquisition in Inuktitut by Shanley E.M. Allen (1997). Canadian Journal of Linguistics 42(4), 492-495.

“Morphosyntax and syntax” (2004). In Raymond D. Kent (ed.), The MIT encyclopedia of communication disorders, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 354-358.

(with Inés Antón-Méndez, Mary K. Champion and Tamar H. Gollan) “What the tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) says about homophone frequency inheritance” (2012). Memory & Cognition.

(with Victor S. Ferreira) (eds.) (2007). The state of the art in speech error research: Proceedings of the 2005 LSA Institute Workshop. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 53.
[Vic and I wrote the following contributions to this volume: “Introduction” and “What should we do with our speech error corpora? Notes from the panel discussion.”]

(with Christina Kim and Davis Anderson) “A novel approach for studying speech errors” (2006). Poster presented at the Third International Workshop on Language Production, Northwestern University, Chicago.

(with Edward Gibson) “Disambiguation preferences in noun phrase conjunction do not mirror corpus frequency” (1999). Journal of Memory and Language 40, 263-279.
(Based on a poster presented at the CUNY Conference in March, 1996)

(with Edward Gibson) “Argumenthood and English prepositional phrase attachment” (1999). Journal of Memory and Language 40, 409-431.
(Based on a talk presented at the AMLaP Conference in September, 1997)

“Subject gaps, A-bar traces, and parallel parsing” (2005). In Reiko Okabe & Kuniko Nielsen (eds.), Papers in Psycholinguistics 2, UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics 13, 158-179.

“PP attachment and argumenthood” (1995). In Carson T. Schütze, Jennifer B. Ganger & Kevin Broihier (eds.), Papers on language processing and acquisition, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 26, 95-152.
[Some of this is superseded by material in the JML paper cited above; some of it isn’t completely right. Please consult with me before using it.]

“There does not undergo predicate inversion” (in press, Snippets).

(with David Schueler) Review of Nonfinite structures in theory and change by D. Gary Miller (2007). Language 83(2), 443-445.

“Synchronic and diachronic microvariation in English do” (2004). Lingua 114(4), 495-516.
(Based on a talk presented in Leuven in August, 2001)

“When is a verb not a verb?” (2003). Nordlyd 31(2), 400-415.
(Based on a talk presented in Tromsø in January, 2002)

(with Ivano Caponigro) “Parameterizing passive participle movement” (2003). Linguistic Inquiry 34(2), 293-323.
(Based on a talk presented at the LSA, 2002)

“Syncretism and double agreement with Icelandic nominative objects” (2003). In Lars-Olof Delsing, Cecilia Falk, Gunlög Josefsson & Halldór Á. Sigurðsson (eds.), Grammar in focus: Festschrift for Christer Platzack, Lund: Department of Scandinavian Languages, vol. 2, 295-303.

“On Korean ‘Case stacking’: The varied functions of the particles ka and lul.” (2001). The Linguistic Review 18(3), 193-232.
(Based on a talk presented at NELS in 1995(!))

“On the nature of default case” (2001). Syntax 4(3), 205-238.
(Based on a talk presented in Utrecht in August, 1998)

“Semantically empty lexical heads as last resorts” (2001). In Norbert Corver & Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), Semi-lexical categories: On the content of function words and the function of content words, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 127-187.
(Expanded version of a talk presented in Tilburg in May, 1999)

“English expletive constructions are not infected” (1999). Linguistic Inquiry 30, 467-484.

“Serbo-Croatian second position clitic placement and the phonology-syntax interface” (1994). In Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley & Tony Bures (eds.), Papers on phonology and morphology, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 21, 373-473.
(My phonology generals paper)

“Towards a Minimalist account of quirky case and licensing in Icelandic” (1993). In Colin Phillips (ed.), Papers on Case & Agreement II, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 19, 321-375.
NOTE: This paper was written in 1993 and has not been updated. It does not reflect my current views on Icelandic, which can be found in my dissertation (see below), especially chapter 4. It is posted here because I have continued to be asked for it, and because some of the arrows in the tree diagrams came out wrong in the published version—they are corrected here. Aside from that, plus some small shifts in the page breaks and typography, this is how the paper originally appeared.

My 1997 MIT Ph.D. dissertation, “INFL in child and adult language: Agreement, case and licensing,” is distributed in hardcopy by MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. Alternatively, you can download it as a PDF file (1.4 MB). (This electronic version fixes several typos and has more complete versions of a couple of references, while preserving the original pagination.)

Please note that several sections of the dissertation have been further developed and/or superseded by subsequent work. In particular,

• much of sections 2.6 and 3.2.2 became the Syntax paper listed above;
• section 3.2.1 was incorporated into the 2001 JCL paper listed above;
• an analysis of some of the unexplained facts in section 4.1.1 is proposed in the Festscrift paper listed above;
• section 4.1.6 was refined and extended into the LI paper listed above;
• appendix 4.A evolved into the Linguistic Review article listed above;
• section 5.2.1 was partly pursued in the Nordlyd paper listed above, and in the Corver and van Riemsdijk volume cited above;
• section 5.3.1.2 was superseded by the co-authored Language Acquisition article listed above;
[Please do not use data from section 5.3.1.2.2 of the dissertation.]
• sections 5.3.1.3 and 5.5.2 were pursued and reported on in Schütze and Wexler 2000 (see above).

Hanky Panky
Dreamstuff
(a staged reading with Vicki Lewis, Fred Willard, David Blue, and lots of other wonderful performers, directed by Michael Urie; here’s a photo of me rehearsing with Eden Espinosa and Luke Macfarlane)
Blood Brothers
(Here’s a clip from a promo concert, with me at the keyboard in back. The actual show sounded much better. Eduardo Enrikez won the ADA Award for Lead Actor in a Musical. Here’s a cast photo featuring him with Ryan Nealy; I’m at my perch way up in the top left corner of the picture.)
Tales of Tinseltown
(Read the LA Times and LA Weekly reviews—scroll down to find the latter. Here’s a video of I Can Sing, with Ovation nominee Gina D’Acciaro channeling Ethel Merman.)
Songs for a New World
(Watch videos of the The New World and The Steam Train. That’s me at the piano, upstage right.)
Runway 69 (at Dixon Place in New York)
(here are pictures from a reading in LA where I was conducting, but you can’t see me)
Jesus, Booze and Kwanzaa
(Here’s the finale, Turkey Lurkey Time, with me at the piano. This show works best when you’ve had several drinks.)
Children of Eden
(Here’s a backstage photo from just before curtain.)


South Pacific (Click here, here, and here for different views of me and the pit orchestra, and read the review.)
Jesus Christ Superstar
Chess
Little Shop of Horrors (read the review)
Company (read the review)
On The Town (read the review)
Godspell
Oliver!

I also had the privilege of working on the Ovation-winning world premiere of Sleeping Beauty Wakes as Associate Musical Director, assisting songwriters Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda. Brendan also won an Ovation for Musical Direction and Val was nominated for Lead Actress in a Musical; the show got seven other nominations too.

Altar Boyz (LA Weekly Awards for Musical Ensemble and for Choreography—Ameenah Kaplan)
(Read the LA Times review, and check out me in my performance outfit backstage just before curtain, with drummer Adam Halitzka and guitarist Nick Perez.)
Naked Boys Singing (directed by creator Robert Schrock)
(Here’s Marco Infante doing a clothed rendition of Robert Mitchum with me at the keyboard (out of frame) and Tony Melson and Daniel Rivera as backups.)
Bye Bye Birdie
Chicago
(Check out videos of All That Jazz and Cell Block Tango. Ovation nominations went to Jeremy Lucas for Choreography and Katrina Lenk for Leading Actress in a Musical.)
(Here I am practicing before the show.)

Jesus Christ Superstar
The Wild Party (West Coast premiere)
(Read the Variety and Daily Bruin reviews. I played this show again a few years later.)
Triumph of Love
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
(Read the Daily Bruin review.)
Company
Little Shop of Horrors
No Doi! A Musical Tribute to Generation whY?
The Sound of Music (including a performance in the stunning Avalon Theatre at the Casino on Catalina)
Into the Woods
(I also worked on the UCLA Music Department's production years earlier)
A Chorus Line
Lemonade (staged readings; I played on a couple of those demo tracks)
Persephone’s Cowboy (a reading featuring Anthony Rapp)

Anthony in Sweeney Todd (production photo below, review here)

Click here for another picture of me from the show.

Kodaly in She Loves Me (read the review)
(production photo below)

Click here for another picture of me and Sara Jo Elice from the show.

The Snake in The Apple Tree (read the review; photo with Cathy Conley as Eve).


Nick in Baby (read the review)
The Proprietor/Ford/Reagan in Assassins (read the review)
Alfred/Lenny in Romance/Romance

Wicked


Ragtime


Aida
Hairspray
Urinetown
Beauty and the Beast
Phantom of the Opera
Les Misérables
Show Boat, Gypsy, Guys & Dolls, Promises, Promises
Dreamgirls, Billy Elliot, City of Angels, Shrek, Side Show, Jekyll & Hyde
tick, tick . . . BOOM, Bat Boy, Fame (yeah, I know), Violet, [title of show], Weird Romance, john and jen, Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)
King David, Abyssinia, Masada

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