Stephen Wechsler
Fall
2007 - Word Meaning and Syntax
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.
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.