The VP-Copy Construction in Chinese. With Ji Fang. To be presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Anaheim, January 2007.
Shared Objects in Conjoined Structures. Invited presentation, Graduiertenkolleg, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt, November 2006.
A Formal Account of the Verb Copy Construction in Chinese. With Ji Fang. S-Trend workshop, University of California, Berkeley, November 2006.
On the Role of Animacy and the Participants in the Eventuality in Case Assignment in Korean. With Jong-Bok Kim. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 16, Kyoto University, Kyoto, October 2006.
Backward Control and Raising and The Nature of Case Marking. Invited presentation, Society of Modern Grammar. Daegu Catholic University, Daegu, Korea, July 2006.
Direct vs. Oblique Expression of Core Arguments in Korean. Invited presentation, Workshop on Mismatches between Form and Function, Linguistic Society of Korea, Seoul National University, Seoul, July 2006.
Arguments Real and Imaginary for Korean NPIs as Universals. With Shin-Sook Kim. Linguistic Society of Korea, Seoul National University, Seoul, July 2006.
Using Subsumption Rather Than Equality In Functional Control. LFG-06, Universitaet Konstanz, July 2006.
Preposition Incorporation in Modern Mandarin: Economy within VP. With Jeeyoung Peck. LFG-06, Universitaet Konstanz, July 2006. [Poster]
Backward and Forward Control and Raising in LFG via Subsumption. 80th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, January 2006.
Reassessing Type III and Type IV Noun Incorporation in HPSG. With Doug Ball. 80th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, January 2006.
OT Moderations of MP Derivations. Workshop on Descriptive and Explanatory Adequacy in Linguistics. ZAS, Berlin, December 2005.
Oblique Case Marking on Core Arguments in Korean and Japanese. Invited talk, University of Leipzig, December 2005.
Stylistic Fronting in Icelandic in LFG. Invited talk, Cornell University, October 2005.
Negation in Korean: Implications for the Syntax-Semantics Interface. Invited colloquium, Cornell University, October 2005.
Oblique Core Arguments in Korean. Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Cambridge, September 2005.
Copy Constructions and their Interaction with the Copula in Korean. With Jong-Bok Kim. HPSG-05, Lisbon, August 2005.
Case Assignment in the Clause on Adjuncts. With Jong-Bok Kim. 11th Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Harvard University, August 2005.
Interactions of Negative Polarity Items in Korean. 11th Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Harvard University, August 2005.
The Peripherality of the Icelandic Expletive. LFG-05, University of Bergen, July 2005.
NPI Licensing and the Scope of Negation in Korean. Invited colloquium, Nanzan University, Nagoya, February 2005.
Negation Scope and Negative Polarity Items in Korean. Workshop on Korean and Japanese Syntax, Kyoto University, February 2005.
Non-Dative Oblique Subjects in Japanese. Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, Oakland, January 2005.
Nominative as Subject of Predication in the Philippine Languages. Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Surrey, Roehampton, September 2004.
Words versus Phrases in Syntactic Theory. Invited presentations: Society of Modern Grammar. Catholic University of Daegu, Daegu, Korea, August 2004; and Linguistic Association of Kwangju. Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea, August 2004.
Case as Reflective of Clausal Properties. Invited presentation, Workshop on Case Marking, Linguistic Society of Korea, Yonsei University, Seoul, July 2004.
Implications of Raising for Case Assignment. 9th annual meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, ZAS, Berlin, April 2004.
Iterated Concessives and Related Constructions. Workshop on Conditionals, Modality, and More, Kyoto University, March 2004.
Korean Copular Constructions: A Lexical Sharing Approach. [Jong-Bok Kim, Peter Sells and Michael T. Wescoat]. 13th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, August 2003.
Negatives of Imperatives. HPSG-03, Michigan State University, East Lansing, July 2003.
Contrastive Verb Constructions in Korean. With Sae-Youn Cho and Jong-Bok Kim. 10th Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Harvard University, July 2003.
Negative Imperatives in Korean. 10th Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Harvard University, July 2003.
Deletion Phenomena in Scandinavian Syntax: An OT Account. Invited talk, Philipps-Universitaet, Marburg, May 2003.
The Distribution of Inflectional Features in Swedish Clauses. Invited talk, Workshop on Inflectional Paradigms, Institut fuer Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, May 2003.
Faithfulness and Overt Realization in OT Syntax. Invited talk, OT Syntax+ Workshop, ZAS, Berlin, May 2003.
The Function and Expression of Finiteness in Grammar: Evidence from Swedish. Invited talk, Ruhr-Universitaet, Bochum, May 2003.
Stylistic Fronting in Icelandic. Invited talk, Graduiertenkolleg, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt, May 2003.
The INPUT and Faithfulness in OT Syntax. Workshop on Variation within Optimality Theory, Stockholm, April 2003.
Finiteness, Tense, and Recoverability in Swedish. Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Sheffield, April 2003.
NPI Licensing and Principles of Interpretation in Korean. Invited workshop presentation, University of York, November 2002.
Base-Generating Stylistic Fronting in Icelandic. Invited talk, University of Newcastle, November 2002.
HA-Deletion and Recoverability in OT. Invited workshop presentation, Gothenburg University, November 2002.
Stylistic Fronting in Icelandic: A Base-Generated Construction. Invited talk, University of Essex, November 2002.
Morpho-Syntax Mismatches in Japanese Nominalizations. Invited talk, University of Durham, November 2002.
Morpho-Syntax Mismatches in Japanese Nominalizations. Invited talk, University of Edinburgh, October 2002.
Verbs and Verbal Features in Swedish. Invited guest lecture, University of York, October 2002.
A Morphology-Syntax Mismatch In Japanese Nominalizations. Invited presentation, Chosun University, Kwangju, Korea, August 2002.
English as a Language for Global Communication and Interaction. Invited keynote speech, Jeju International City Symposium, Jeju Island, Korea, August 2002.
Argument-Structure Properties and Case-Marking in Complex Predicates. Invited presentation, Workshop on Complex Predicates, Linguistic Society of Korea, Kyung-Hee University, Seoul, August 2002.
Complex Predicates As A Window Onto The Organization Of Grammar. SFB Internationales Kolloquium, Universitaet Konstanz, June 2002.
Semantic mismatches
with morphology and syntax in Japanese complex predicates.
24th annual meeting of the DfGS, Mannheim, March 2002.
Expressing Negation in Swedish. Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Reading, September 2001.
Negative Polarity Licensing and Interpretation. Invited keynote speech, 8th Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, Harvard University, July 2001.
The Expression of Finiteness in Swedish: Grammatical and Morphological Features. Konstanz Conference on Finiteness, Universitaet Konstanz, May 2001.
Japanese Postposing: A Base-Generated Construction. Invited seminar, Universitaet Konstanz, May 2001.
The Expression of Grammatical Information and the Nature of the Syntax-Morphology Interface. Invited seminar, Heinrich Heine Universitaet Duesseldorf, May 2001.
Introduction
to Optimality Theory Syntax; Clause Structure in OT Syntax I: Typology of Head
Positioning;
Clause Structure in OT Syntax II: Lexical and Functional Expression of Grammatical
Information. Series of invited lectures, Georgetown University, April 2001.
Alignment Constraints, Clausal Syntax, and Non-Configurational Languages. Invited presentation, WOTS 4, University of Stuttgart, February 2001.
Semantic and Morphological Constraints on Borrowing. Invited seminar, University of Essex, February 2001.
OT Syntax and Clause Structure Variation. Invited seminar, Reading University, February 2001.
The Morphological Expression of Syntactic Information in Optimality Theory. Invited keynote speech, Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Durham, September 2000.
Markedness and Typological Implication in Optimality Theory. Workshop on Optimality Theory, Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Durham, September 2000.
Remarks on Arguments and Adjuncts. Invited commentary, Berkeley Formal Grammar workshop, University of California, Berkeley, July 2000.
Negation in Swedish: Where It's Not At. LFG-00, University of California, Berkeley, July 2000.
Alignment and Hierarchy in the Swedish Clause. Invited presentation, 18th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Lund, May 2000.
Object Shift and Alignment in Swedish. Invited colloquium, Rutgers University, April 2000.
The Morphological Expression of Verbal Features in Swedish. Invited presentation, Theoretical Perspectives on Morphology, Steven Lapointe Memorial Workshop, University of California, Davis, April 2000.