About me

I am a fifth-year graduate student in the UCLA Department of Linguistics.

My primary research interest is theoretical syntax — particularly ellipsis and polarity — from a crosslinguistic perspective. I also work on Taiwanese tonology (with Jie Zhang and Yuwen Lai) and syntax.

Papers (see my CV for a complete list)

Sailor, Craig. In progress. "Inflection at the Interface." Ms., UCLA.

Sailor, Craig and Anoop Mahajan. To appear. "Toward a Derivational Typology." To appear in Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 42).

Zhang, Jie, Yuwen Lai, and Craig Sailor. 2011. "Modeling Taiwanese Speakers' Knowledge of Tone Sandhi in Reduplication." Lingua 121, pp. 181-206.

Sailor, Craig. Forthcoming. "VP Ellipsis in Tag Questions: A Typological Approach." In Proceedings of The 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 46).

Ahn, Byron and Craig Sailor. Forthcoming. "The Emerging Middle Class." In Proceedings of The 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 46).

Sailor, Craig. 2009. Tagged for Deletion: A Typological Approach to VP Ellipsis in Tag Questions. Master's thesis, UCLA.

Zhang, Jie, Yuwen Lai, and Craig Sailor. 2009. "Effects of phonetics and frequency on the productivity of Taiwanese tone sandhi." In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 43).

Zhang, Jie, Yuwen Lai, and Craig Sailor. 2008. "Opacity, phonetics, and frequency in Taiwanese tone sandhi." In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Linguists.

Turnbull-Sailor, Craig. 2007. Syntactic Patterns of Embedded wh- Clauses. Master's thesis, University of Kansas.

Zhang, Jie, Yuwen Lai, and Craig Turnbull-Sailor. 2006. "Wug-testing the 'tone circle' in Taiwanese." In Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 25), eds. Donald Baumer, David Montero, and Michael Scanlon. Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA. 453-461.

Presentations & Handouts (see my CV for a complete list)

Sailor, Craig. Forthcoming. "On Embedded Polar Replies." To be presented at the Workshop on the Syntax of Answers to Polar Questions, 9 June 2012, Newcastle University.

Sailor, Craig. 2012. "You Can't Regret So (Even If You Think So)." Presented at the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society 4 (ILLS 4), 15 April 2012, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Sailor, Craig. 2012. "Remarks on Replies: on Emphatic Polarity in English." Presented at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2012 Annual Meeting, 5 January 2012.

Sailor, Craig and Anoop Mahajan. 2011. "Toward a Derivational Typology." Presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 42), 11 November 2011, University of Toronto.

Sailor, Craig. 2011. "Remarks on Retorts." Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 42), November 11 2011, University of Toronto.

Sailor, Craig and Byron Ahn. 2010. "The Voices in our Heads: The VoiceP in English." Ms., UCLA. Presented at the Workshop on Morphological Voice and its Grammatical Interfaces, June 25-27 2010, University of Vienna.

Sailor, Craig. 2010. "Taiwanese VP Ellipsis and the Progressive Prohibition." Ms., UCLA. Presented (with Grace Kuo) at the joint meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics 18 (IACL-18) and the North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics 22 (NACCL-22), Harvard University.

Sailor, Craig. 2010. "VP Ellipsis in Tag Questions: A Typological Approach." Presented at The 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 46), University of Chicago.

Ahn, Byron and Craig Sailor. 2010. "The Emerging Middle Class." Presented at The 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 46), University of Chicago.