Academic Writing — Linguistcs and NLP

Publications

• Da Ju, Hagen Blix, Adina Williams. (2025). Domain Regeneration: How well do LLMs match syntactic properties of text domains?. ACL 2025.
• Hagen Blix. (2022). Interface Legibility and Nominal Classification: A Nanosyntactic Account of Kipisigis Singulatives. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1)
• {Zeerak Talat, Hagen Blix}, Josef Valvoda, Maya Indira Ganesh, Ryan Cotterell, and Adina Williams. (2022). On the Machine Learning of Ethical Judgments from Natural Language. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
• Hagen Blix. (2021). Phrasal Spellout and Partial Overwrite: On an alternative to backtracking. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. 6(1), 62.
• Hagen Blix and Adina Williams. (2021). Pitch and Causal Inference in English Temporal Adverbial Answers. Snippets.
• Hagen Blix. (2020). Spans in South Caucasian Agreement: Revisiting the Pieces of Inflection. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 39(1). Preprint (lingbuzz)
• Adina Williams, Tiago Pimentel, Arya McCarthy, Hagen Blix, Eleanor Chodroff, Ryan Cotterell. (2020). Predicting Declension Class from Form and Meaning. Proceedings of the 2020 Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020)
• Alex Warstadt, Yu Cao, Ioana Grosu, Wei Peng, Hagen Blix, Yining Nie, Anna Alsop, Shikha Bordia, Haokun Liu, Alicia Parrish, Sheng-Fu Wang, Jason Phang, Anhad Mohananey, Phu Mon Htut, Paloma Jeretič, Samuel R. Bowman. (2019). Investigating BERT’s Knowledge of Language: Five Analysis Methods with NPIs. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2019)

Dissertation

Interpreting Syntactic Structures (at PF). (2023).

Manuscripts

(available upon request)

• The Size of Complex Prefields: The Case Against Structure Removal.
• The Nanosyntax of Arabic Agreement: Rethinking Noyer’s Hierarchy as Functional Sequence (2018). Manuscript (lingbuzz)
• Scope & Gender in Khoekhoe: On Mass Nouns and Low Scope Existentials. In Prep.