2013 – Baptista, M., Epstein, S., and M. Obata. Parameters as Third Factor Timing Optionality. Extended LSA abstract in eLanguage.

2012 – Epstein, S., Kitahara, H., and T. Seely. Exploring Phase-Based implications regarding clausal architecture ; A Case Study. In Phases, Studies in Generative Grammar #109. De Gruyter pub. Ed. Gallego

2012 – Epstein, S., Kitahara, H., and T. Seely. Simplest Merge Generates Set Intersection: Implications for Complementizer Trace Explanation.  GLOW in Asia 9 Proceedings.

2012 – Obata M. and S. Epstein. Feature-Splitting Internal Merge : The Case of Tough-Constructions. in Ways of Structure Building. Vidal Valmala And Myriam Etxebarria, eds. In Oxford University Press book series Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, #40, D. Adger and H. Borer, series eds.

2012 – Epstein, S., Kitahara, H. and T. Seely. Structure Building That Can’t Be. In Ways of Structure Building. Vidal Valmala And Myriam Etxebarria, eds. In Oxford University Press book series Studies in Theoretical Linguistics #40, D. Adger and H. Borer, series eds.

2012 – Kitahara, H., Epstein, S., and T. D. Seely. Phase based Derivation: Implications for Theta-Theory. in Phases, Mouton de Gruyter Studies in Generative Grammar volume #109, Angel Gallego, ed.

To appear – Epstein, S., H. Kitahara, M. Obata and T. Seely. Economy of Derivation and Representation, Chapter 14 in The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax, Cambridge University Press, Marcel den Dikken (ed.)

2011 – Kitahara, H., Seely, T.D. and S. Epstein. Uninterpretable features : What are they and what do they do ?. In Exploring Crash Proof Grammars, M. Putnam, ed. In Language Faculty and Beyond, Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, book series, K. Grohmann and P. Pica series eds. John Benjamins.

2011 – Obata M. and S. Epstein. Improper Movement, Intervention and the (Possible) Elimination of A/A’-Position Types: Feature-Splitting Internal Merge. Syntax: A Journal of Theoretical, Experimental and Interdisciplinary Research, Blackwell Publishing Company.

2011 – Kitahara, H., Epstein, S. and T. D. Seely. Derivation(s). Chapter in Oxford University Press Handbook of Linguistic Minimalism (C. Boeckx, ed.).

2010 – Obata, M., Lewis R., Epstein S., Bartek B., and Boland J. Featural analysis and working memory retrieval in on-line parsing: Evidence for syntactic, but not phonological, similarity-based retrieval interference. Proceedings of the Northeast Linguistics Society meeting (NELS 41), UPenn.

2010 – Hiramatsu, K., K. Rulf and S. Epstein. When Knowledge Causes Failure: Early Acquisition of Novel Adjectives and the English Proform one.’ Lingua.

2010 – Epstein. S and Fernandez-Salgueiro, G. C-command. In The Encyclopedia of Language Sciences, P.C. Hogan, ed. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

2009 – Epstein, S., Hisatsugu Kitahara, T. and Daniel Seely. The Necessity, but Invisibility of Counter-Cyclic Outputs: Deducing Extraction Constraints and Transfer-Application from 3rd Factor Conditions on Language Design, 2009 GLOW Newsletter

2008 – Obata M., and S. Epstein. Deducing Improper Movement from Phase Based C-to-T Phi Transfer: Feature-Splitting Internal Merge. Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL27): 353-360. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

2007 – Epstein S. and T.D. Seely. Video ‘The Anatomy and Physiology of Chomsky’s Biolinguistic Minimalism: A Tutorial.’ Inaugural issue of Biolinguistics, an online peer-reviewed journal.

2007 – Epstein, S. ‘Physiological Linguistics, and Some Implications Regarding Disciplinary Autonomy and Unification.’ Mind and Language. Blackwell Publishers.

2007 – Epstein, S. ‘On I(nternalist) Functional Explanation in Minimalism.’ Special edition of Linguistic Analysis, entitled ‘Dynamic Interfaces,’ K. Grohmann, ed.

2005 – Epstein, S. and N. Hornstein. ‘The Future of Language (Science).’ Letter to the Editor, Language: The Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, 81.2.

2005 – Epstein, S., T. Seely, and A. Pires. ‘EPP in T: More Controversial Subjects.’ Syntax: A Journal of Theoretical, Experimental and Interdisciplinary Research. Blackwell Publishers.

2002 – Epstein, S. and T. Seely. ‘Rule Applications as Cycles in a Level-Free Syntax.’ In Derivation and Explanation in the Minimalist Program, S. Epstein and T. Seely, eds. p. 65-89. Blackwell Publishers: Oxford.

1999 – Epstein, S. ‘Un-Principled Syntax and the Derivation of Syntactic Relations.’ In Working Minimalism, S. Epstein, and N. Hornstein, eds. p. 317-345. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.

1998 – Martohardjono, G., S.Epstein, and S. Flynn. ‘Universal Grammar: Hypothesis Space or Grammar Selection Procedures? Is UG Affected by Critical Periods?’ Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21: 612-614. [Authors’ continuing response to J. Herschensohn’s ‘Universal Grammar and the Critical Age: A Continuing Commentary on Epstein, Flynn, and Martohardjono’s “Second Language Acquisition: Theoretical and Experimental Issues in Contemporary Research.”’ 1996. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19: 611-614.]

1998 – Epstein, S. ‘Overt Scope Marking and Covert Verb-Second.’ Linguistic Inquiry 29 (2): 181-227. [An expanded version of ‘Superiority’; see below.] pp. 181-227.

1998 – Epstein, S., S. Flynn, and G. Martohardjono. ‘The Strong Continuity Hypothesis: Some Evidence Concerning Functional Categories in Adult L2 Acquisition.’ In The Generative Study of Second Language Acquisition, S. Flynn, G. Martohardjono and O’Neil, W., eds. pp. 61-77. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers: Mahwah, NJ.

1996/97 – Epstein, S., S. Flynn, and G. Martohardjono. 1996/1997. ‘Second Language Acquisition: Theoretical and Experimental Issues in Contemporary Research.’ Target article, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19 (4): 677-714.

1996 – Epstein, S., S. Flynn and G. Martohardjono. ‘UG and L2 Acquisition: The Null Hypothesis.’ Authors’ reply to Open Peer Commentary in Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4): 746-752.

1996 – Epstein, S., H. Thráinsson and J.W. Zwart. Introduction to Minimal Ideas: Syntactic Studies in the Minimalist Framework, Epstein, S., H. Thráinsson, W. Abraham, and J. W. Zwart, eds. pp. 1-66. John Benjamins: Amsterdam.

1996 – Thrainsson, H., S. Epstein and S. Peter, Introduction to Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax, Volume 2. Kluwer: Dordrecht.

1995 – Berwick, R., and S. Epstein. 1995. ‘On the Convergence of ‘Minimalist’ Syntax and Categorial Grammar.’ In Algebraic Methods in Language Processing 1995: Proceedings of the Twente Workshop on Language Technology 10, jointly held with the First Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology (AMAST) Workshop on Language Processing, A. Nijholt, G. Scollo, and R. Steetkamp, eds. pp. 143-148. Universiteit Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.

1993 – Epstein, S. ‘Superiority.’ In Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics 3. S. Epstein, S. Kuno and H. Thráinsson, eds. pp. 14-64. Department of Linguistics, Harvard University.

1992 – Epstein, S. 1992. ‘Derivational Constraints on A-bar Chain Formation.’ Linguistic Inquiry 23(2): 235-259.

1990 – Epstein, S. ‘Differentiation and Reduction in Syntactic Theory: A Case Study.’ Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 8(3): 313-323.

1989 – Epstein, S. 1989. ‘Adjunction and Pronominal Variable Binding.’ Linguistic Inquiry 20(2): 307-319.

1989 – Epstein, S. ‘Quantification in Null Operator Constructions.’ Linguistic Inquiry 20(4): 647-658.

1986 – Epstein, S. ‘The Local Binding Condition and LF Chains.’ Linguistic Inquiry 17(2): 187-205.

1984 – Epstein, S. ‘Quantifier-pro and the LF Representation of PRO_arb.’ Linguistic Inquiry 15(3): 499-505.

1984 – Epstein, S. ‘A Note on Functional Determination and Strong Crossover.’ The Linguistic Review 3(3): 299-305.