About me

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

My primary research interests are typology and theoretical syntax (particularly ellipsis and A-bar operations). I'm currently undertaking a year-long funded research project on the syntax of antipassives, and their structural relationship to passives.

I have also worked on the productivity of tone sandhi in Taiwanese, with Jie Zhang and Yuwen Lai.
 

Papers

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.

Sailor, Craig. 2008. Missing Subjects, Coherence, and the Height of Coordination. Ms., UCLA.

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, available at http://www.cil18.org/new_html/10_publications/publications_01.php.

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, eds. Donald Baumer, David Montero, and Michael Scanlon. Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA. 453-461.