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: * Syntactic theory: lexicalism, HPSG, LFG * Agreement * Event structure * Case * Balinese * Prepositions Publications Teaching CV Personal ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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 Zlatic 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 Zlatic 2001. A Theory of Agreement and its Application to Serbo-Croatian. Language 76.4, pp. 799-832. 7. Stephen Wechsler and Larisa Zlatic 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 Zlatic 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 PhD Dissertations Supervised: * Hyun-Jong Hahm (in progress) * Cholthica Sudmuk 2005, `The Syntax and Semantics of Serial Verb Constructions in Thai' * Hitoshi Horiuchi (defended 2005), `Mixed Categories in Japanese' * Incheol Choi, 2003, `Case and Argument Structure in Korean and English' * Jeong-Hoon Lee, 2003, `The English Perfect Tense' (co-advisor) * Kearsy Cormier 2002, `Grammaticization of Indexic Signs: How ASL Expresses Numerosity' (co-advisor) * Roberto Herrerra, 1999, `On Spanish Prepositions: a Syntactic and Semantic Analysis' * Michelle Moosally, 1998, `The Syntax and Semantics of Coordinate Structures'. * Larisa Zlatic, 1997, `The Structure of the Serbian Noun Phrase'. (co-advisor) MA Theses supervised: * Sadia Rahman, 2004, `Verb movement and negation in Bengali' * Tracy Smart, 2000. * Michelle Moosally, 1994, `Resumptive Pronouns in Modern Standard Arabic: A Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar Account' * Kusavedee Yenbumrung, 1994, `Thai Personal Pronouns in an HPSG Lexicon' * Hsiao-Li Chou, 1992, `An Alternative Approach to Chinese Reflexives' Courses: * Graduate: syntax, HPSG, LFG, advanced syntax seminars, Introduction to English Grammar. * Undergraduate: syntax/semantics, English syntax, Introduction to Linguistics, The Human Instinct for Language, Introduction to Cognitive Science. * Categories and Gradience in Syntax, Fall 2006 Seminar 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. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Personal * Marie, Steve, and Jonas in winter 2005-6 * When a Manga character comes to life * Palindromes * Postmodern dance. * Cycling in Austin * Jazz guitar * Media analysis Updated January 2005 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________