CURRICULUM VITAE September 1, 2021 Stephen Wechsler

Home: Office (mailing address): 209 W. 39th Street Department of Austin, Texas 78751 305 E. 23rd Street STOP B5100 ph: (512) 944-6585 Austin, Texas 78712-1196 ph: (512) 471-9026 fax: (512) 471-4340 office: RLP 4.107 e-mail: [email protected] URL: https://sites.google.com/site/wechslerpublications/

Position: Department of Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin Title: Professor

Education: PhD, Linguistics, Stanford University 1991 BA, English, University of California at Berkeley 1979.

Honors: Fellow of the Alma Cowden Madden Centennial Professorship in Linguistics (2013-6)

Research Areas Prof. Wechsler’s main research areas are in syntactic theory, lexical semantics and argument structure, the evolution of syntax and semantic composition, the linguistics of perspective and person indexicality, and grammatical agreement.

Books

1. Wechsler, Stephen 2015. Word Meaning and Syntax: Approaches to the Interface. Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology, General editor: Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 369 pages.

2. , Ash Asudeh, Ida Toivonen, and Stephen Wechsler 2015. Lexical- Functional Syntax, 2nd Edition. Blackwell Publishers. 520 pages.

3. Wechsler, Stephen and Larisa Zlatić 2003. The Many Faces of Agreement. CSLI Publications, Stanford. 239 pages.

4. Wechsler, Stephen 1995. The Semantic Basis of Argument Structure. CSLI Publications, Stanford. 157 pages.

5. Masayo Iida, Draga Zec and Stephen Wechsler (eds.) 1987. Working Papers in Grammatical Theory and Discourse Structure: Interactions of Morphology, Syntax, and Discourse. CSLI Publications, Stanford. 238 pages.

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6. Mary Dalrymple, Jeffrey Goldberg, Kristin Hanson, Michael Inman, Christopher Piñon, and Stephen Wechsler (eds.) 1986. WCCFL 5: The Proceedings of the Fifth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. CSLI Publications, Stanford.

Journal Articles

7. Wechsler, Stephen 2020. ‘The Role of the Lexicon in the Syntax–Semantics Interface.’ Annual Review of Linguistics. Volume 6, pp. 67-87.

8. Stefan Müller and Stephen Wechsler 2014. ‘Lexical Approaches to Argument Structure.’ Target article in Theoretical Linguistics 40(1–2), 1–76.

9. Wechsler, Stephen and Larisa Zlatić 2012. ‘The Wrong Two Faces.’ Language 88.2, pp. 380-387.

10. Coppock, Elizabeth and Stephen Wechsler 2012. ‘The Objective Conjugation in Hungarian: Agreement Without Phi Features.’ Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 30.3, Pages 699-740.

11. Wechsler, Stephen 2011. ‘Mixed Agreement, the Person Feature, and the Index/Concord Distinction.’ Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 29.4, pp. 999- 1031.

12. Wechsler, Stephen and Hyun-Jong Hahm 2011. ‘Polite Plurals and Adjective Agreement’. Morphology 21:247–281.

13. Wechsler, Stephen 2010. ‘What “You” and “I” Mean to Each Other: Person Marking, Self-Ascription, and Theory of Mind.’ Language. 86.2, pp. 332-365.

14. Wechsler, Stephen, 2005. ‘Weighing in on Scales: a Reply to Goldberg and Jackendoff’. Language 81.2, June 2005. (Discussion note.)

15. Wechsler, Stephen and Larisa Zlatić 2001. ‘Case Realization and Identity’. Lingua 111, pp. 539-560.

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

17. Wechsler, Stephen and Larisa Zlatić 2000. ‘A Theory of Agreement and its application to Serbo-Croatian.’ Language 76.4, pp. 799-832.

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

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19. Wechsler, Stephen 1997. ‘Prepositional Phrases from the Twilight Zone.’ Nordic Journal of Linguistics 20 (2):127-154.

20. Wechsler, Stephen and Yae-Sheik Lee 1996. ‘The Domain of Direct Case Assignment.’ Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 14.3, 629-664.

Book Review

• Wechsler, Stephen 2011. Review of Mark C. Baker, ‘The Syntax of Agreement and Concord.’ Language 87.4, pp. 873-878.

Book Chapters

21. Wechsler, Stephen and Ash Asudeh (to appear). ‘HPSG and Lexical Functional Grammar. In Anne Abeillé, Robert D. Borsley, Jean-Pierre Koenig and Stefan Müller (eds.), Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: the Handbook (Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax). Berlin: Language Science Press.

22. Wechsler, Stephen (to appear). ‘Agreement’. In Anne Abeillé, Robert D. Borsley, Jean-Pierre Koenig and Stefan Müller (eds.), Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: the Handbook (Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax). Berlin: Language Science Press.

23. Davis, Anthony, Jean-Pierre Koenig, and Stephen Wechsler (to appear). ‘Argument Structure’. In Anne Abeillé, Robert D. Borsley, Jean-Pierre Koenig and Stefan Müller (eds.), Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: the Handbook (Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax). Berlin: Language Science Press.

24. Coppock, Elizabeth and Stephen Wechsler 2018. The proper treatment of egophoricity in Kathmandu Newari. In Kasia M. Jaszczolt and Minyao Huang (eds.) Expressing the Self: Cultural Diversity and Cognitive Universals, Oxford University Press.

25. Wechsler, Stephen 2018. ‘Self-Ascription in Conjunct-Disjunct Systems.’ Simeon Floyd, Elisabeth Norcliffe, and Lila San Roque (eds.), Egophoricity, John Benjamins, Amsterdam.

26. Jerro, Kyle and Stephen Wechsler 2015. ‘Person-marked quantifiers in Kinyarwanda.’ In Agreement from a Diachronic Perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

27. Wechsler, Stephen 2015. ‘The syntactic role of agreement.’ In Tibor Kiss and Artemis Alexiadou (eds.): Syntax—Theory and Analysis. An International Handbook.

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Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science. 42.1-3, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

28. Wechsler, Stephen 2013. The structure of Swedish Pancakes. In Philip Hofmeister and Elisabeth Norcliffe (eds.) The Core and the Periphery: Data-Driven Perspectives on Syntax Inspired by Ivan A. Sag. Stanford: CSLI Publications. pp. 71-98.

29. Wechsler, Stephen 2012. ‘Resultatives and the Problem of Exceptions.’ In Ik-Hwan Lee et al (eds.) Issues in English Linguistics. (Papers from the 1st World Congress of Scholars of English Linguistics, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, June 30, 2012) Hankookmunhwasa, Seoul.

30. Wechsler, Stephen, 2009. ‘Elsewhere in Gender Resolution’. In Kristin Hanson and Sharon Inkelas (eds.) The Nature of the Word— Essays in Honor of Paul Kiparsky. MIT Press.

31. Wechsler, Stephen 2008. ‘Agreement Features.’ Language and Linguistics Compass. On-line publication, Blackwell Publications, pp. 384-405. [RJ]

32. Wechsler, Stephen 2006. ‘Why are the lazy so agreeable?’ In Hans-Martin Gärtner, Sigrid Beck, Regine Eckardt, Renate Musan & Barbara Stiebels (eds.) Between 40 and 60 Puzzles for Krifka. Centre for General Linguistics, Typology and Universals Research (ZAS), Berlin. http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/index.html

33. Wechsler, Stephen 2005. ‘Thematic Structure.’ In The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition. Elsevier. (by invitation)

34. Wechsler, Stephen 2005. ‘What is right and wrong about little v.’ In Mila Vulchanova & Tor A. Åfarli (eds.) Grammar and Beyond— Essays in honour of Lars Hellan. Oslo: Novus Press. pp. 179-195

35. Wechsler, Stephen 2005. ‘Resultatives Under the Event-Argument Homomorphism Model of Telicity’. The Syntax of Aspect—Deriving Thematic and Aspectual Interpretation, ed. Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport, Oxford University Press.

36. Wechsler, Stephen 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.

37. Kearsy Cormier, Richard P. Meier and Stephen Wechsler 1999. ‘Locus Agreement in American Sign Language.’ In Lexical And Constructional Aspects of Linguistic Explanation, edited by A. Kathol, J.-P. Koenig and G.Webelhuth. Stanford: CSLI. 215-229.

38. Wechsler, Stephen and Larisa Zlatić 1999. ‘Syntax and Morphological Realization in Serbo-Croatian’. In Slavic in HPSG, edited by R. Borsley and A. Przepiorkowski, CSLI Publications, 283-309. 4

39. Wechsler, Stephen 1991. ‘Verb Second and Illocutionary Force.’ In Views on Phrase Structure, ed. by Denis Bouchard and Katherine Leffel, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 177-191.

40. Wechsler, Stephen 1990. ‘Verb Second and Illocutionary Force in Swedish.’ Edinburgh Working Papers in Cognitive Science, vol. 6: Parametric Variation in Germanic and Romance, eds. Elisabet Engdahl, Mike Reape, Martin Mellor, and Richard Cooper, pp. 229-244.

Conference proceedings

41. Wechsler, Stephen and David Hargreaves 2019. Egophoric attitudes and questions in Kathmandu Newar. Proceedings of the 4th conference on the Semantics of African, Asian and (TripleA 4), held at the University of Gothenburg, June 9-12, 2017.

42. Coppock, Elizabeth, Hyun Jong Hahm, and Stephen Wechsler 2012. Turkic plurals and feature bundling. Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics, May 18-20, 2012, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart Germany.

43. Coppock, Elizabeth and Stephen Wechsler 2010. ‘Less-travelled paths from pronoun to agreement: The case of the Uralic objective conjugations.’ Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference.

44. Wechsler, Stephen 2008. ‘Dualist Syntax’. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, CSLI On-line Publications.

45. Beavers, John, Elias Ponvert, and Stephen Wechsler 2008. ‘Possession of a controlled substantive.’ T. Friedman and S. Ito (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) XVIII, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University.

46. Wechsler, Stephen 2008. ‘Punctual Paths in Three Languages.’ Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics XII, ed. Susumu Kuno, John Whitman, Young-Se Kang, Yuang- Sook Sohn, Ik-Hwan Lee, Joan Maling, Peter Sells, and Youngjun Jang. Harvard University Department of Linguistics, Cambridge. pp. 3-19. (keynote address)

47. Wechsler, Stephen 2007. ‘A diachronic account of English deverbal nominals.’ Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, UC Berkeley, April 27, 2007.

48. Hahm, Hyun-Jong and Stephen Wechsler (2007). ‘Untangling the Russian Predicate Agreement Knot.’ Proceedings of the 2007 annual meeting on Lexical-Functional Grammar. CSLI On-line publications.

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49. Wechsler, Stephen 2006. ‘Having a topic, wanting a focus.’ Proceedings of 4th Workshop on Discourse Structure. University of Texas, Austin. March 3-5, 2006.

50. Wechsler, Stephen 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.

51. Pascal Denis, Jonas Kuhn, and Stephen Wechsler 2003. ‘V-PP Goal Motion Complexes in English: an HPSG Account.’ In Proceedings of the ACL-SIGSEM workshop: The Linguistic Dimensions of Prepositions and their Use in Computational Linguistics Formalisms and Applications, Toulouse, France, 121- 132.

52. Wechsler, Stephen 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.

53. Incheol Choi and Stephen Wechsler 2001. ‘Mixed Categories and Argument Transfer in the Korean Light Verb Construction. On-line proceedings of HPSG 2001.

54. Wechsler, Stephen 2001. ‘An Analysis of English Resultatives Under the Event- Argument Homomorphism Model of Telicity.’ Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Text Structure, University of Texas, Austin, Oct. 13-15, 2000.

55. Wechsler, Stephen 1999. ‘Gender Resolution in Coordinate Structures.’ Proceedings of the Workshop on the Structure of Spoken and Written Texts, University of Texas at Austin.

56. Wechsler, Stephen and Larisa Zlatić 1999. ‘A Theory of Agreement and Disagreement.’ Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistic Society annual meeting, Berkeley CA, Feb. 16, 1998. pp. 280-291.

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

58. Wechsler, Stephen and Larisa Zlatić 1998. ‘Agreement in Discourse.’ Proceedings of the Texas Linguistic Forum Conference on Non-narrative Discourse, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas, Austin, Feb. 13-14, 1998.

59. I Wayan Arka and Stephen Wechsler 1996. ‘Argument Structure and Linear Order in Balinese Binding.’ On-line Proceedings of the Workshop on Lexical-Functional Grammar, held in Grenoble, France, August 28, 1996, http://www-csli.stanford.edu/ publications/LFG/toc-lfg1.html

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60. Wechsler, Stephen 1997. ‘Resultative Predicates and Control.’ In Texas Linguistic Forum 38: The Syntax and Semantics of Predication, edited by R. Blight and M. Moosally, 307-321. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Department of Linguistics.

61. Larisa Zlatić and Stephen Wechsler 1997. ‘Mixed Agreement in Serbian: A Constraint-Based Approach.’ Proceedings of the 15th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. by Brian Agbayani and Sze-Wing Tang. Published for the Stanford Linguistics Association by CSLI Publications, Stanford, pp. 521-535.

62. Wechsler, Stephen 1995. ‘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.

63. Wechsler, Stephen 1990. ‘Accomplishments and the Prefix re-.’ Proceedings of the North Eastern Linguistic Society XIX , Juli Carter and Rose-Marie Dechaine (eds.), Graduate Linguistic Student Association, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, pp. 419-434.

64. Wechsler, Stephen 1987. ‘Against Verb Movement: Evidence from Swedish.’ Proceedings of Chicago Linguistic Society 23.

Presentations

• Stephen Wechsler 2021. Language Evolution and LFG: the Emergence of Grammatical Relations. Keynote address, LFG Annual Meeting (virtual).

• Stephen Wechsler and James W. Shearer 2020. ‘Argument mapping generalizations are emergent and mostly agrammatical’. Conference on Events and Event Structure at the Limits of Grammar. Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics.

• Stephen Wechsler 2019. Distributed (Hyper-)lexicalism. Invited talk, HPSG Annual conference, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, July 26, 2019.

• Stephen Wechsler 2019. What verbs mean, and (a realist’s view of) why. Invited talk, LingLunch, Paris 7 Diderot, Thursday, January 31, 2019.

• Stephen Wechsler 2017. The gavagai solution: how input correlations explain verb alternations. Invited address to Colloque De Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, November 23-25, 2017.

• Stephen Wechsler and David Hargreaves 2017. Egophoric attitudes and questions in Kathmandu Newar. The 4th conference on the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages, University of Gothenburg, June 9-12, 2017. 7

• Stephen Wechsler 2016. Self-Ascriptions in Egophoric Constructions and Infinitives. Colloquium talk, Georgetown University, September 29, 2016, Washington D.C. Incomplete draft of slides.

• Stephen Wechsler 2016. Explaining grammatical agreement. Workshop on Replicative Processes in Language, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, July 9, 2016.

• Stephen Wechsler 2016. Dedicated Self-Ascriptions in Egophoric Constructions. GLOW 2016 Workshop on Perspectivization, April 8th, 2016, Göttingen, Germany.

• Stephen Wechsler and Elizabeth Coppock 2016. Egophoricity: the case of Kathmandu Newari. Workshop on Perspectival Expressions and the de se Cross- linguistically, LSA Annual Meeting, Jan. 8, 2016.

• Coppock, Elizabeth and Stephen Wechsler 2015. The proper treatment of egophoricity in Kathmandu Newari. Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 8, Cambridge, UK, Sept. 17, 2015.

• Stephen Wechsler 2015. The pronouns ‘you’ and ‘I’: is self-ascription special? Colloquium talk, University of Gothenburg, September 15, 2015.

• Coppock, Elizabeth and Stephen Wechsler 2015. The proper treatment of egophoricity in Kathmandu Newari. Poster at Sinn und Bedeutung, Tübingen, Germany. Sept., 2015.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2014/2015. Language and abstraction. Guest lecture to cognitive science class, The University of Texas Dept. of Linguistics.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2014. Self-ascription in conjunct-disjunct languages. Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, Wednesday, November 12, 2014.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2014. Reflexive thoughts, embedded and unembedded. Pronouns in Embedded Contexts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface. University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. Friday, November 7th, 2014.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2014. Communicating reflexive thoughts. Syntax-semantics group, UT Dept. of Linguistics.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2014. Polysemy and valence structure. Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition, and Science (CTF’14), International Interdisciplinary Conference, Düsseldorf, Germany, August 25 - 27, 2014.

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• Wechsler, Stephen 2014. The Agreement Marking Principle. Colloquium, The University of Texas Dept. of Linguistics. Feb. 24, 2014.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2013. Why ‘you’ and ‘I’ are special. Structure and Evidence in Linguistics. Workshop in honor of Ivan Sag, Stanford University, April 28-30, 2013

• Wechsler, Stephen and Kyle Jerro 2012. Bantu DP-internal person agreement: a typological rarity. Workshop on agreement from a diachronic perspective, October 3- 5, 2012, University of Marburg, Germany.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2012. Semitic gender and the theory of agreement--response to ‘Agreement and the Development of Gender in Semitic’ by Rebecca Hasselbach. The 1st UT-Austin International Workshop on Historical and Comparative Semitic Linguistics, 13-14 October 2012, University of Texas, Austin.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2012. Resultatives and the Problem of Exceptions. WCSEL-1, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, June 30, 2012.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2012. Resultatives and the Problem of Exceptions. Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, July 3, 2012.

• McCready, Eric and Stephen Wechsler 2012. Meaning as use: problems and prospects. NASSLLI workshop on Meaning as Use: Indexicality, Expressives, and Self-Reference.

• Coppock, Elizabeth, Hyun Jong Hahm, and Stephen Wechsler 2012. Turkic plurals and feature bundling. 8th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics, May 18-20, 2012, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart Germany.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2012. Why are you and I so special? UNC Chapel Hill, Friday, Jan. 13, 2012.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2011. The structure of Swedish pancakes. CSSP, Paris, Sept. 23, 2011.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2011. Polysemy, Generality, and Mapping to Syntax. Workshop on Syntax-Semantics Interface. Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica International, Taipei, Taiwan, June 17, 2011, 4 p.m.

• Coppock, Elizabeth and Stephen Wechsler 2011. 'The Distribution of Person Agreement: A Historical Approach'. Historical Linguistics Group, Department of Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin, April 13, 2011.

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• Coppock, Elizabeth and Stephen Wechsler 2011. ‘Person restrictions and the dualist hypothesis.’ Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, January 7, 2011.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2010. ‘The de se theory of person indexicals: convergent evidence from philosophy, typology, and developmental psychology.’ Between you and me: local pronouns across modalities, Department of Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, June 7, 2010.

• Coppock, Elizabeth and Stephen Wechsler 2010. ‘Less-travelled paths from pronoun to agreement: The case of the Uralic objective conjugations.’ The Fifteenth International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, June 20, 2010.

• Coppock, Elizabeth and Stephen Wechsler 2010. ‘The Definite Conjugation in Hungarian: What is it and what triggers it?’ Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, January 7, 2010.

• Coppock, Elizabeth and Stephen Wechsler 2009. ‘Clitic vs. Agreement in Hungarian.’ Texas Linguistics Society Meeting 2009, University of Texas, Austin, TX.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2009. ‘The De Se Theory of Indexicals: Self-ascription, Person Paradigms, and Theory of Mind.’ 5th Workshop on Discourse Structure, University of Texas at Austin. Saturday, Nov. 14, 1:30 p.m., Calhoun 100.*

• Wechsler, Stephen 2009. ‘Arguments for Relational Nouns.’ Symposium on Relational and Role-Governed Categories: Views from Psychology, Computational Modeling, and Linguistics. CogSci 2009, The Annual Meeting Of The Cognitive Science Society, VU University, Amsterdam, August 1, 2009, 10 a.m.*

• Wechsler, Stephen 2009. ‘Person marking and point of view in speech and sign.’ Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting; Symposium: Verb Agreement in Spoken and Signed Languages. San Francisco, Friday, January 9, 2009, 10 a.m.*

• Wechsler, Stephen 2008. ‘What “You” and “I” Mean to Each Other.’ Cognitive Science Program Lecture Series and Linguistic Department Colloquium, University of Texas, Austin.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2008. ‘Dualist Syntax’. Keynote address, 15th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, July 28, 2008, Keihanna, Japan.*

• John Beavers, Elias Ponvert, and Stephen Wechsler 2008. ‘Possession of a Controlled Substantive: Light have and Verbs of Possession’. Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 18, UMass, Amherst, MA, March 21-23, 2008. 10

• Hyun-Jong Hahm and Stephen Wechsler 2008. ‘Target Number Markedness and Polite Plurals.’ Markedness and Underspecification in the Morphology and Semantics of Agreement (MUMSA), Harvard University, Barker Center Rm. 133, February 29-March 2, 2008. Abstract.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2008. Idioms, Light Verbs, and Lexical Decomposition. NORMS Workshop on Argument Structure. Lund University. February 6, 2008

• Wechsler, Stephen 2007. Form and meaning: punctual paths in three languages. 12th International Symposium on Korean Linguistics (ISOKL), Harvard, August 4, 2007.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2007. A diachronic account of English deverbal nominals. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), UC Berkeley, April 27, 2007.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2007. Long live the lexicon. Colloquium talk, SUNY Buffalo, April 6, 2007.

• Hyun-Jong Hahm and Stephen Wechsler 2007. ‘Untangling the Russian Predicate Agreement Knot.’ Annual meeting on Lexical-Functional Grammar. Stanford University.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2006. ‘The Pleasing Wraiths of Former Masteries.’ Colloquium talk, UT, May 1, 2006.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2006. Comments on Yoad Winter ‘Scale Closure and Telicity’ and Jean Mark Gawron ‘Paths and Scalar Change.’ Workshop on Scalar Meaning, University of Chicago, May 18-21. (invited commentary)

• Wechsler, Stephen 2006. Having a topic, wanting a focus. 4th Workshop on Discourse Structure. University of Texas, Austin. March 3-5, 2006.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2005. Wanting, Getting, and Enjoying It. Colloquium talk, UC Berkeley, Oct. 31, 2005.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2005. More Problems for Little v— and a lexicalist alternative. Colloquium talk, Stanford University, Fall 2005.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2005. ‘Wanting and Having.’ Presentation to Lexical Semantics Group, Stanford University Department of Linguistics, Nov. 16, 2005.

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

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• Wechsler, Stephen 2005. Markedness and Meaning in Agreement. LFG 2005, Bergen, Norway (by invitation)

• Wechsler, Stephen 2005. A Skeptical Look at the Abstract Syntax Approach to Word Meaning. South Korea, Summer 2005.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2005. Formal Syntax, Word Meaning, and Second Language Teaching. South Korea, Summer 2005.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2005. Agreement, Markedness, and Meaning. South Korea, Summer 2005.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2005. ‘Big Problems for Little v?’. Aspect Workshop, Feb. 23, 2005, UT Austin. (Organized by Carlota Smith and Jacqueline Gueron.) *

• Wechsler, Stephen. ‘The Pragmatics of Political Deception.’ Paper presented at the UT Linguistic Circle, Austin, October 15, 2004.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2004. ‘Agreement and Grammatical Theory’. Invited talk for Cognitive Science of Language: Integrative Approaches (NSF IGERT program). Johns Hopkins University Department of Cognitive Science, January 22, 2004. *

• Wechsler, Stephen 2003. ‘Number as Person,’ Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique , Paris, France, Oct. 2-4, 2003.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2003. ‘French Number as Person,’ UT Linguistics Dept. Colloquium, Fall 2003.

• Incheol Choi and Stephen Wechsler 2003. ‘The Korean dative’ . The 10th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar , Michigan State University, July 18-20, 2003.

• Pascal Denis, Jonas Kuhn, and Stephen Wechsler 2003. ‘V-PP Goal Motion Complexes in English: An HPSG Account.’ ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on The Linguistic Dimensions of Prepositions and their Use in Computational Linguistics Formalisms and Applications. Toulouse, France, Sept. 4-6, 2003.

• Wechsler, Stephen and Incheol Choi 2001. ‘Mixed Categories and Argument Transfer in the Korean Light Verb Construction.’ Annual Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Trondheim, Norway. August 3-5, 2001.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2001. ‘Resultative secondary predicates and subordinate clauses in Korean and English.’ Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, Germany. July 13, 2001. *

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• Wechsler, Stephen 2001. ‘Paths to Results: Explaining Constraints on Resultative Secondary Predicates.’ Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, Germany. July 5, 2001. *

• Wechsler, Stephen 2001. ‘Resultatives Under the Event-Argument Homomorphism Model of Telicity.’ The Syntax of Aspect Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheba, Israel. June 20, 2001.*

• Wechsler, Stephen 2001. ‘A Fresh Aspect on Resultatives.’ Linguistics Department Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley, California. Feb. 1, 2001.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2000. ‘An aspectual/pragmatic account of English resultative predicates.’ Third Workshop on Text Structure, University of Texas at Austin, Oct. 13-15, 2000. *

• Wechsler, Stephen and Larisa Zlatić 2000. ‘Mixed agreement with second person formal pronouns.’ Paper presented to the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, January 2000, Chicago.

• Wechsler, Stephen 2000. ‘The Fertility of Theory: Generative Grammar and Language Politics.’ Presentation to the UT Linguistic Circle, Germanic Studies Dept., Jan. 28, 2000.

• Wechsler, Stephen 1999. ‘Four Agreement Puzzles’. Invited keynote address read at the Sixth International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 1999. *

• Wechsler, Stephen 1999. ‘Predication and anaphora: parallels between Korean and English resultatives’. (with Bokyung Noh) Paper read at the Conference on Properties of the Korean Language, UT, March 27, 1999.

• Wechsler, Stephen 1999. ‘Irresolution in Coordinate Structures’. Paper read at Workshop on the Structure of Spoken and Written Texts, January 29, 1999, at UT Austin. *

• Wechsler, Stephen 1998. ‘English Resultatives and Argument Structure’. City University, Hong Kong. Oct. 26, 1998.

• Wechsler, Stephen 1998. Lectures on Indonesian Syntax and HPSG. Udayana University, Denpasar, , . Sept.-Oct. 1998.

• Wechsler, Stephen 1998. ‘Sentential and Discourse Agreement in Serbo-Croatian’. (with Larisa Zlatić ) Workshop on Comparative Slavic Morphosyntax, Spencer, Indiana, June 6, 1998.

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• Wechsler, Stephen 1998. ‘Intersentential Agreement.’ Invited talk at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 21, 1998. *

• Wechsler, Stephen and Larisa Zlatić 1998. ‘Agreement in Discourse.’ Texas Linguistic Forum Conference on Non-narrative Discourse, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas, Austin, Feb. 13-14, 1998. *

• Wechsler, Stephen and Larisa Zlatić 1998. ‘A Theory of Agreement and Disagreement’. Paper read at the Berkeley Linguistic Society annual meeting, Feb. 16, 1998, Berkeley CA.

• Wechsler, Stephen and Larisa Zlatić 1997. ‘Le Cas et l’Accord de Nominaux Quantifiés en Serbe.’ Paper read at the 16th International Congress of Linguists, Paris, July 20-25, 1997.

• Wechsler, Stephen and Larisa Zlatić 1997. ‘The Morphosyntax of Serbian Quantified NP’s.’ Paper read at the Fourth International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Cornell University, Ithaca N.Y., July 18, 1997.

• Wechsler, Stephen and I Wayan Arka 1997. ‘Balinese Binding and Raising’. Paper read at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, UCLA, April 26, 1997.

• Wechsler, Stephen 1997. ‘Resultative Predicates and Control.’ Paper read at the 1997 Texas Linguistics Society Conference on the Syntax and Semantics of Predication, held at the University of Texas at Austin, March 8, 1997.

• Wechsler, Stephen 1997. ‘Case and Agreement with Serbian Quantified NP’s.’ (with Larisa Zlatić) Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, January 3, 1997.

• Wechsler, Stephen and I Wayan Arka 1996. ‘Argument Structure and Linear Order in Balinese Binding.’ Paper read at the Workshop on Lexical-Functional Grammar, Grenoble, France, August 28, 1996.

• Wechsler, Stephen 1996. ‘Predicative PP’s and Resultatives.’ Invited talk, Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Tübingen, Germany, May 1996. *

• Wechsler, Stephen 1996. ‘Balinese Argument Structure and Valence.’ (with I Wayan Arka) Paper read at the Third International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Marseille, France, May 21, 1996.

• Wechsler, Stephen and Larisa Zlatić 1996. ‘Mixed Agreement in Serbian: A Constraint-Based Approach.’ Paper read at the 15th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, University of California at Irvine, 1996.

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• Wechsler, Stephen 1996. ‘Interfaces and Autonomy.’ Invited talk for the Linguistic Circle, Germanic Languages Department, University of Texas, Austin, April 19, 1996. *

• Wechsler, Stephen 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.

• Wechsler, Stephen 1995. ‘Korean ECM: Semantic and Pragmatic Factors.’ (with Yae-Sheik Lee) Paper read at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, January 6, 1995.

• Wechsler, Stephen 1994. ‘Preposition Selection Outside the Lexicon.’ Paper read at the 13th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, University of California at San Diego, 1994.

• Wechsler, Stephen 1994. ‘Preposition Selection in HPSG.’ University of Texas Department of Linguistics colloquium, Austin, Texas, March 1994.

• Wechsler, Stephen and Yae-Sheik Lee 1994. ‘Accusative Adverbials in Korean.’ Paper read at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusets, January 1994.

• Wechsler, Stephen and Yae-Sheik Lee 1993. ‘Accusative Adverbials in Korean.’ University of Texas Department of Linguistics colloquium, Austin, Texas, November 1993.

• Wechsler, Stephen 1993. ‘Lexical Regularities.’ Invited paper presented at the First International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America 1993 Linguistic Institute), Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday, August 3, 1993.

• Wechsler, Stephen 1992. ‘Argument Structure and Linking.’ Paper presented to the Center for the Study of Language and Information Workshop on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Stanford University, July 1992.

• Wechsler, Stephen 1991. ‘The Semantics of Argument Structure.’ University of Texas Department of Linguistics Colloquium, Austin, Texas, November 18, 1991.

• Wechsler, Stephen 1991. ‘Oblique Subjects and Configurationality.’ University of Texas Department of Linguistics Colloquium, Austin, Texas, March 1991.

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• Wechsler, Stephen 1991. ‘A Non-Derivational Account of the English Benefactive Alternation.’ Paper presented at the 65th meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, January 1991.

• Wechsler, Stephen 1990. ‘The Semantics of Argument Selection.’ Stanford University Linguistics Department colloquium, Fall 1990.

• Wechsler, Stephen 1990. ‘Ditransitives and Linking Theory.’ Stanford University Linguistics Department colloquium, Spring 1990.

• Wechsler, Stephen 1989. ‘The Semantics of Verb Second.’ Paper read at the Workshop on Parametric Variation in Germanic and Romance, , Scotland, September 1989.

• Wechsler, Stephen 1989. ‘V2 in VO Languages.’ Paper read at the Views on Phrase Structure Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, March 1989.

• Wechsler, Stephen 1989. ‘Accomplishments and the Prefix re-.’ Paper read at the 19th meeting of the North Eastern Linguistic Society, Cornell University, November 1989.

• Wechsler, Stephen 1986. ‘Against Verb Movement: Evidence from Swedish.’ Paper read at the 23rd meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 1986.

On-line Series editor, Texas Linguistic Society proceedings, CSLI on-line publications (from 2005 to 2009).

Jong-Bok Kim and Stephen Wechsler (eds.) 2003. The Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. CSLI Publications, http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/3/hpsg02.htm.

Instructional Web Site Undergraduate course on the innateness controversy, entitled ‘The Human Instinct for Language.’ http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~wechsler/f350syllabus.html. Included in the World Lecture Hall, http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/

Teaching and Research Supervision

Courses: Plan II honors TC 357 Junior Seminar course (for Fall 2010). The Meaning of You and I.

Graduate: Syntax I and II, HPSG, LFG, advanced syntax and semantics seminars, Introduction to English Grammar.

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Undergraduate: Syntax and Semantics, English syntax, Intro to Linguistics, The Human Instinct for Language, Intro to Cognitive Science, Intro to Syntactic Theory.

Undergraduate honors theses directed:

• Pat Reidy (2006). ‘French causatives’. (Winner of Rappaport-King Scholarship.) • Derya Kadipasaoglu (2012). ‘How We Understand You: Children’s Use of Social Cognition to Interpret First- and Second-Person Pronouns’ • Carson Carruth (2016) ‘The Discourse Correlates of Post-verbal Nominals in Hindi’

PhD Dissertations directed:

• Jungsoo Kim (2017), ‘Sluicing and Stripping in Korean: A non-ellipsis, anaphoric analysis’ • Zachary Childers (2016), ‘Cause and Affect: Evaluative and emotive parameters of meaning among the periphrastic causative verbs in English’ • Juwon Lee 2015, ‘An Intention-based Account of Accomplishments in Korean’ • Nyoman Udayana 2013, ‘Voice and Reflexives in Balinese’ • Hyun-Jong Hahm 2010, ‘A Cross-Linguistic Study of Syntactic and Semantic Agreement.’ • Fei Ren 2008. ‘Futurity in Mandarin Chinese.’ • Hitoshi Horiuchi 2006, ‘Mixed Categories in Japanese’ • Cholthica Sudmuk 2005, ‘The Syntax and Semantics of Serial Verb Constructions in Thai’ • 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 Zlatić, 1997, ‘The Structure of the Serbian Noun Phrase’. (co-advisor)

MA Theses directed: • Beverly Anderson, 2008. ‘Focus, Agreement, and Extraction from Hungarian Object Clauses.’ • 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’

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Course development: developed two new undergraduate courses: (i) on the innateness hypothesis (see ‘Instructional Web Site’); and (ii) an advanced course on syntactic theory.

Service

University of Texas: UT College of Liberal Arts Promotion and Tenure Committee: 2013-2014, 2015-2016, 2016-2017. UT College of Liberal Arts Continuing Fellowship Committee: 2001, 2002, 2003. UT Linguistics Department Undergraduate Advisor: 2007-2009 UT Linguistics Department Executive Committee, 1996-7, 1997-8, 2004-5, many years since then up to and including the present (Spring 2021) Other Linguistics Department committee service (various times): Course Committee, Visiting Speakers Committee, Admissions Committee, Fellowship Committee

Field of linguistics: National Science Foundation, Linguistics Senior Panel Linguistic Society of America, C. L. Baker Award Committee Associate Editor, Theoretical Linguistics Program Committee, HPSG annual meetings (most years, from 2002 to present) Program Committee Chair, HPSG 2002 annual meeting Program Committee, Third International Conference on HPSG, Marseille, France. Program Committee, Texas Linguistic Society Conference on the Syntax and Semantics of Predication, University of Texas at Austin. Wrote numerous anonymous reviews of book manuscripts, journal article manuscripts, conference presentation abstracts, and grant proposals.

Outreach: North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad, a contest for high school students; Austin site organizer (2012, 2013)

Community: Faculty Sponsor, Jewish Students for Palestinian Rights, UT Breast Cancer Action volunteer Recording for the Blind volunteer Balinese Language Project oversees member Amnesty International Delegate to 1996 Travis County Democratic Convention

Fieldwork Fall 1998, Bali, Indonesia. (see Special Research Grant below)

Grants

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College Research Fellowship, 2019-2020 (project title: ‘A realist program for research on verb alternations’ ) College Research Fellowship 2014-5: ‘First and Second Person: Why you and I are special’. Faculty Research Assignment, Fall 2005, ‘Book on the Lexicon-Syntax Interface’ Dean’s Fellowship and Special Research Grant, UT, 1998. ‘Linguistics Fieldwork on the Syntax and Morphology of the Balinese Language’. University Research Institute 1992 Summer Research Award to work on The Semantic Basis of Argument Structure.

Invitations

1. Keynote address, International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Bucharest, Romania, 25-26 Juli 2019.

2. Keynote address, Colloque de Syntax et Sémantique à Paris 2017.

3. Panelist, Relational and Role-Governed Categories: Views from Psychology, Computational Modeling, and Linguistics, COGSCI 2009, The Annual Meeting Of The Cognitive Science Society, VU University Amsterdam, July 29 - August 1, 2009.

4. Keynote address, 15th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, July 28, 2008, Keihanna, Japan.

5. Keynote address, 12th International Symposium on Korean Linguistics (ISOKL), Harvard University, August 4, 2007.

6. Discussant, Workshop on Scalar Meaning, University of Chicago, May 19-20, 2006.

7. Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, Fall term 2005.

8. Texas Linguistic Society keynote address, Fall 2005.

9. Workshop on Agreement, Tenth Annual International Conference on Lexical- Functional Grammar, Bergen, Norway, July 18-21, 2005.

10. Series of talks at Kyungpook National University, Daegoo, Korea, and other Korean institutions. June 21-July 5, 2005.

11. Cognitive Science of Language: Integrative Approaches (NSF IGERT program). Johns Hopkins University Department of Cognitive Science, January 22, 2004.

12. Workshop on Multi-Verb Constructions, Trondheim Summer School 2003. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. (Taught a mini-course on HPSG and gave an invited talk)

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13. Visiting Scholar, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung (ZAS), Berlin, Germany. July 1 – July 30, 2001.

14. The Syntax of Aspect Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation, Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheba, Israel. June 20, 2001.

15. Keynote address, Sixth International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 1999.

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