- Butt, Miriam. 2022. Complex Predicates: Insights from South Asia. ComPLETE Conference, Mainz, November.
- Butt, Miriam. 2013. Control vs. complex predication: Identifying non-finite complements. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory DOI 10.1007/s11049-013-9217-5. A prepublication version is available here (pdf).
- Butt, Miriam. 2013. Complex Predicate Puzzles (pdf). Talk given at a Workshop on Mysteries of Verb-Verb Complexes in Asia, Tokyo, December 14-15.
- Butt, Miriam. 2013. Complex Predicate Puzzles (pdf). Talk given at a Workshop on Approaches to Complex Predicates, Paris, May 28-31.
- Butt, Miriam and Aditi Lahiri. 2013. Diachronic Pertinacity of Light Verbs. Lingua. DOI. A prepublication version is available here (pdf).
- Ahmed, Tafseer, Miriam Butt, Annette Hautli and Sebastian Sulger. 2012. A Reference Dependency Bank for Analyzing Complex Predicates (pdf). In Proceedings of LREC12, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Ahmed, Tafseer and Miriam Butt. 2011. Discovering Semantic Classes for Urdu N-V Complex Predicates (pdf). Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2011), Oxford.
- Butt, Miriam. 2010. The Light Verb Jungle: Still Hacking Away (pdf). In M. Amberber, M. Harvey and B. Baker (eds.) Complex Predicates in Cross-Linguistic Perspective, 48-78. Cambridge University Press.
- Briem, Daniela, Britta Balliel, Brigitte Rockstroh, Miriam Butt, Sabine Schulte im Walde and Ramin Assadollahi. 2010. Distinct processing of function verb categories in the human brain (pdf). Brain Research 1249:173-180.
- Butt, Miriam, Tracy King and Gillian Ramchand. 2009. Complex Predication: Who made the child pinch the elephant? (pdf) In Linda Uyechi and Lian Hee Wee (eds.) Reality Exploration and Discovery: Pattern Interaction in Language and Life, 231-256. CSLI Publications.
- Çetinoğlu, Özlem, Miriam Butt and Kemal Oflazer. 2008. Mono/Bi-clausality of Turkish Causatives (pdf). In S. Ay et al. (eds.Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics, August 6-8, 2008, 43-52. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
- Butt, Miriam and Tracy King. 2006. Restriction for Morphological Valency Alternations: The Urdu Causative (pdf). In M. Butt, M. Dalrymple and T.H. King (eds.) Intelligent Linguistic Architectures: Variations on Themes by Ronald M. Kaplan. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, 235-258.
- Butt, Miriam and Gillian Ramchand. 2005. Complex Aspectual Structure in Hindi/Urdu (pdf). In N. Ertischik-Shir and T. Rapoport (eds.) The Syntax of Aspect. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 117-153.
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(2002. Talk on Urdu causatives, held at the Workshop on Pertinacity, Schloss Freudental, updated handout from March 2003.) - The Light Verb Jungle (pdf). 2003. Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 9. pp. 1-49.
- Historical Stability vs. Historical Change. 2002. With Aditi Lahiri. Manuscript.
- On the (Semi)Lexical Status of Light Verbs. With Wilhelm Geuder.
2001. In N. Corver and H. van Riemsdijk Semi-lexical Categories: On the content of function words and the function of content words. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. - Verbal Semantics via Petri Nets. 2004. With Alexandros Tantos. In On-Line Proceedings of the LFG04 Conference, University of Canterbury, Christchurch. CSLI Publications.
- Complex Predication via Restriction with Tracy Holloway King and John Maxwell III (Proceedings of the LFG04 Conference, Saratoga Springs).
- Constraining Argument Merger through Aspect (pdf) 1998. In E. Hinrichs, A. Kathol and T. Nakazawa Complex Predicates in Nonderivational Syntax, Syntax and Semantics, Volume 30. San Diego: Academic Press, p. 73-113.
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Stanford: CSLI Publications. - Clause Union -- then and now (.ps), 1995. Formal Grammar Conference, Barcelona.
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