Presentations
Note: Most of the links to slides are currently broken. Until I fix them, please email me (wechsler at austin dot utexas dot edu) to request slides.
Stephen Wechsler 2023. ‘A Usage-Based Program to Replace Generative Grammar.’ Colloquium talk, the University of Texas Department of Linguistics. Oct. 9, 2023.
Kristie Denlinger and Stephen Wechsler 2022. ‘A frequency-based account of kind-denoting participle modifiers in English’. Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adjectives/Adverbs and Participles/Prepositions (WAASAP 5), University of Greenwich, London, June 16-17.
Stephen Wechsler 2021. ‘Language Evolution and LFG: the Emergence of Grammatical Relations’. Invited talk, Lexical Functional Grammar Annual Meeting, July 13-15, 2021 (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. University of Oxford 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 Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages, University of Gothenburg, June 9-12, 2017.
Stephen Wechsler 2017. Clause embedding sound emission verbs. Workshop on Polysemy and Coercion of Clause-Embedding Predicates. DGfS. March 8-10, 2017. Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
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. https://pronouns2014.wordpress.com/
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.
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.
Stephen Wechsler 2016. Self-Ascriptions in Egophoric Constructions and Infinitives. Colloquium talk, Georgetown University, September 29, 2016, Washington D.C. Incomplete draft of slides.
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.
Jerro, Kyle and Stephen Wechsler 2012. ‘DP-Internal Person Agreement?’ Talk presented at the Workshop on Agreement from a Diachronic Perspective. October 3th-5th, 2012, Philipps Universität, Marburg, Germany.
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.
Eric McCready 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.
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, Texas.
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. (invited talk)
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. (invited talk)
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. (invited talk)
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. (invited talk)
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.
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. (keynote address)
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.
Wechsler, Stephen 2005. ‘Markedness and Meaning in Agreement.’ LFG 2005, Bergen, Norway (invited talk)
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.
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.’ 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, Bali, Indonesia. Sept.-Oct. 1998.
Wechsler, Stephen and Larisa Zlatić 1998. ‘Sentential and Discourse Agreement in Serbo-Croatian’. Workshop on Comparative Slavic Morphosyntax, Spencer, Indiana, June 6, 1998.
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.
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.
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, University of Edinburgh, 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.