Stephen Wechsler

Associate Professor, Linguistics Department, University of Texas at Austin

email
: wechsler at mail dot utexas dot edu
Postal address: 1 University Station B5100 / Austin, TX 78712-1196 / USA
Phone: (512) 471-9026 Fax: (512) 471-4340
Dept. phone: (512) 471-1701
Office: Calhoun Hall 403, University of Texas, Austin

Research Foci:

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Selected Works, By Topic:

Here’s a more complete chronological publications list (with more downloads).

Agreement

  1. Stephen Wechsler 2005. 'The Austronesian WH Disagreement.'  Texas Linguistic Society keynote address, Nov. 4, 2005, Linguistic Department, University of Texas, Austin.

  2. Stephen Wechsler 2005. Markedness and Meaning in Agreement.  LFG 2005, Bergen, Norway.

  3. Stephen Wechsler and Larisa Zlatić 2003, The Many Faces of Agreement. CSLI Publications, Stanford.

  4. Stephen Wechsler 2004. Number as Person. In Olivier Bonami and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (eds.) Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 5  (on-line Proceedings of the Fifth Syntax And Semantics Conference In Paris), pp. 255-274. 

  5. Stephen Wechsler, to appear.  Elsewhere in Gender Resolution. In Kristin Hanson and Sharon Inkelas (eds.) The Nature of the Word— Essays in Honor of Paul Kiparsky.  MIT Press. [revised 4/26/02]

  6. Stephen Wechsler and Larisa Zlatić 2001. A Theory of Agreement and its Application to Serbo-Croatian. Language 76.4, pp. 799-832.

  7. Stephen Wechsler and Larisa Zlatić 1999. Agreement in Discourse. Proceedings of the Conference on the Structure of Non-narrative Texts. University of Texas, Austin.


 Event Structure, etc.
  1. Stephen Wechsler 2006. The Pleasing Wraiths of Former Masteries. Colloquium talk, UT, May 1, 2006.
  2. Stephen Wechsler 2006. Having a Topic, Wanting a Focus.  Discourse Workshop, UT Austin.
  3. Stephen Wechsler 2005. Wanting, Getting, and Enjoying It. Handout, Colloquium talk, UC Berkeley, Oct. 31, 2005.
  4. Stephen Wechsler 2005. More Problems for Little v-- and a lexicalist alternative.  Colloquium talk, Stanford University, Fall 2005.

  5. Stephen Wechsler 2005. Weighing in on Scales: a Reply to Goldberg and Jackendoff. Language 81.2, June 2005.

  6. Stephen Wechsler 2005. Big Problems for Little v?. Handout, Aspect Workshop, Feb. 23, 2005, UT Austin. Comments welcome. 
  7. Stephen Wechsler 2003. Serial Verbs and Serial Motion. In Dorothee Beermann and Lars Hellan (eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Multi-Verb Constructions, Trondheim Summer School 2003.  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim.

  8. Stephen Wechsler to appear. ‘Resultatives Under the Event-Argument Homomorphism Model of Telicity.’ In Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport (eds.) The Syntax of Aspect, Oxford University Press.

  9. Stephen Wechsler and Bokyung Noh 2001. ‘Predication and Anaphora: Parallels Between Korean and English Resultatives.’ Language Sciences 23, pp. 391-423.

Case, etc.
  1. Stephen Wechsler and Larisa Zlatić 2001. Case Realization and Identity. Lingua 111, pp. 539-560. [pdf]

  2. Stephen Wechsler 1995.  Subject Position in Finnish: Evidence from the Possessive Reflexive.  Paper read at the 69th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, January 7, 1995. [ps]

  3. Stephen Wechsler and Yae-Sheik Lee 1995.  Korean ECM: Semantic and Pragmatic Factors, paper read at the 69th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, January 7, 1995. [ps]

  4. Incheol Choi and Stephen Wechsler 2001.  'Mixed Categories and Argument Transfer in the Korean Light Verb Construction.’ Proceedings of HPSG-01, Trondheim, Norway. August 3-5, 2001. [pdf]

Balinese
  1. Stephen Wechsler 1999. ‘HPSG, GB, and the Balinese Bind’. In Lexical And Constructional Aspects of Linguistic Explanation, edited by A. Kathol, J.-P. Koenig and G.Webelhuth. Stanford: CSLI. 179-195. [pdf]

  2. I Wayan Arka and Stephen Wechsler Argument Structure and Linear Order in Balinese Binding. Paper read at the Workshop on Lexical-Functional Grammar, Grenoble, France, August 28, 1996. [ps.gz]

  3. Stephen Wechsler and I Wayan Arka 1998. Syntactic Ergativity in Balinese: an Argument Structure Based Theory. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 16:387-441. [pdf

Prepositions

  1. ‘Preposition Selection Outside the  Lexicon’. Proceedings of the Thirteenth  West Coast Conference on Formal  Linguistics . Raul Aranovich, William Byrne, Susanne Preuss, and Martha  Senturia (eds.). Published for the Stanford Linguistics Association by CSLI  Publications, Stanford, pp. 416-431. (1995) [pdf]

  2. ‘Prepositional Phrases from the Twilight  Zone.’ Nordic Journal of Linguistics 20 (2):127-154. (1997) [pdf]


Teaching and research supervision

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Courses:

I occasionally teach an undergraduate course on innateness entitled The Human Instinct for Language. Feel free to use these materials, but please notify me if you do so.


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Updated January 2005