(For selected works organized by
topic go here.)
Books
Wechsler, Stephen (in progress). The Syntax-Lexicon Interface (working title). Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology, General editor: Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Stephen Wechsler and Larisa
Zlatić 2003, The
Many Faces of Agreement. CSLI
Publications,
Stanford.
Reviewed in Language, June 2007 (83.2), pp. 449-451.
Stephen Wechsler 1995. The Semantic Basis of Argument Structure. CSLI Publications, Stanford.
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.
Coppock, Elizabeth and Stephen Wechsler (draft). ‘The
Objective Conjugation in Hungarian: Agreement Without Phi Features.’
Manuscript, UT Austin.
Wechsler, Stephen (2008). ‘Dualist Syntax.’ Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, CSLI On-line publications.
Wechsler, Stephen (to appear). ‘Agreement’ in The Handbook of Contemporary Syntax, 2nd edition, eds. Artemis Alexiadou, Miriam Butt, and Tibor Kiss. Walter de Gruyter.
John Beavers, Elias Ponvert, and Stephen Wechsler (2008). ‘Possession of a Controlled Substantive: Light have and Verbs of Possession’. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 18, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, March 21-23, 2008.
Wechsler, Stephen 2008. ‘Agreement Features.’ In Language and Linguistics Compass, Blackwell Publishers.
Wechsler, Stephen and Hyun-Jong Hahm (to appear). ‘Number Markedness and Polite Plurals’. Morphology.
Wechsler, Stephen 2008. A diachronic account of English deverbal nominals. Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. Charles B. Chang and Hannah J. Haynie, Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA. pp. 498-506. Abstract.
Wechsler, Stephen 2005. ‘Thematic Structure.’ In The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition. Elsevier.
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. [Also available here: pdf]
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.
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.
Stephen Wechsler 2005. ‘Resultatives
Under the Event-Argument Homomorphism Model of Telicity.’ In Nomi
Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport (eds.) The Syntax of
Aspect—Deriving
thematic and aspectual interpretation.
Oxford University Press. pp. 255-273.
Incheol Choi and Stephen Wechsler 2001. ‘Mixed Categories and Argument Transfer in the Korean Light Verb Construction.’ On-line Proceedings of HPSG 2001, Trondheim, Norway. August 3-5, 2001. pp. 103-120.
Stephen Wechsler and Larisa Zlatić 2001. ‘Case Realization and Identity’. Lingua 111, pp. 539-560.
Stephen Wechsler and Bokyung Noh 2001. ‘Predication and Anaphora: Parallels Between Korean and English Resultatives.’ Language Sciences 23, pp. 391-423.
Stephen Wechsler and Larisa Zlatić 2001. ‘A Theory of Agreement and its Application to Serbo-Croatian.’ Language 76.4, pp. 799-832.
‘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. (2001)
‘Gender Resolution in Coordinate Structures.’ Proceedings of the Workshop on the Structure of Spoken and Written Texts, University of Texas at Austin. (1999)
‘A Theory of Agreement and Disagreement.’ (with Larisa Zlatić) Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistic Society annual meeting, Berkeley CA, Feb. 16, 1998. pp. 280-291. (1999)
‘Agreement in Discourse.’ (with Larisa Zlatić) Proceedings of the Conference on the Structure of Non-narrative Texts. University of Texas, Austin. (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. (1999)
‘Locus Agreement in American Sign Language.’ (with Kearsy Cormier and Richard P. Meier) In Lexical And Constructional Aspects of Linguistic Explanation, edited by A. Kathol, J.-P. Koenig and G.Webelhuth. Stanford: CSLI. 215-229. (1999)
‘Syntax and Morphological Realization in Serbo-Croatian’. (with Larisa Zlatić) In Slavic in HPSG, edited by R. Borsley and A. Przepiorkowski, CSLI Publications, 283-309. (1999)
Stephen Wechsler and Larisa Zlatić 1999. ‘Agreement in Discourse.’ Proceedings of the Conference on the Structure of Non-narrative Texts. University of Texas, Austin.
Syntactic Ergativity in Balinese: an Argument Structure Based Theory. (with I Wayan Arka) Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 16:387-441. (1998)
‘Prepositional Phrases from the Twilight Zone.’ Nordic
Journal of
Linguistics 20 (2):127-154. (1997)
‘Argument Structure and Linear Order in Balinese Binding.’ (with
I
Wayan Arka) On-line
Proceedings of the Workshop on Lexical-Functional Grammar,
held in Grenoble, France, August 28, 1996,
‘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. (1997)
‘Mixed Agreement in Serbian: A Constraint-Based Approach.’ (with Larisa Zlatić) 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. (1997)
‘The Domain of Direct Case Assignment.’ (with Yae-Sheik Lee) Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 14.3, 629-664. (1996)
‘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)
‘Verb Second and Illocutionary Force.’ In Views on Phrase Structure, ed. by Denis Bouchard and Katherine Leffel, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 177-191. (1991).
‘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 (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 (1990).
‘Against Verb Movement: Evidence from Swedish.’ Proceedings of Chicago Linguistic Society 23 (1987).
Presentations
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. ‘Dualist Syntax.’ Keynote address, The 15th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Keihanna, Japan, July 28-30, 2008.
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, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, March 21-23, 2008.
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.
‘French Number as Person,’ UT Linguistics Dept. Colloquium, Fall 2003.
‘Number as Person,’ Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique, Paris, France, Oct. 2-4, 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.
<>‘Mixed Categories and Argument Transfer in the Korean Light Verb Construction.’ (with Incheol Choi) Annual Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Trondheim, Norway. August 3-5, 2001
‘Resultative secondary predicates and subordinate clauses in Korean and English.’ Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, Germany. July 13, 2001.
‘Paths to Results: Explaining Constraints on Resultative Secondary Predicates.’ Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, Germany. July 5, 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.
‘A Fresh Aspect on Resultatives.’ Linguistics Department Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley, California. Feb. 1, 2001.
‘An aspectual/pragmatic account of English resultative predicates.’ Third Workshop on Text Structure, University of Texas at Austin, Oct. 13-15, 2000.
‘Mixed agreement with second person formal pronouns.’ (with Larisa Zlatiœ) Paper presented to the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, January 2000, Chicago.
‘The Fertility of Theory: Generative Grammar and Language Politics.’ Presentation to the UT Linguistic Circle, Germanic Studies Dept., Jan. 28, 2000.
‘Four Agreement Puzzles’. Invited keynote address read at the Sixth International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 1999.
‘Predication and anaphora: parallels between Korean and English resultatives’. (with Bokyung Noh) Paper read at the Conference on Properties of the Korean Language, March 27, 1999.
‘Irresolution in Coordinate Structures’. Paper read at Workshop on the Structure of Spoken and Written Texts, January 29, 1999, at UT Austin.
‘English Resultatives and Argument Structure’. City University, Hong Kong. Oct. 26, 1998.
Lectures on Indonesian Syntax and HPSG. Udayana University, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. Sept.-Oct. 1998.
‘Sentential and Discourse Agreement in Serbo-Croatian’. (with Larisa Zlatiœ) Workshop on Comparative Slavic Morphosyntax, Spencer, Indiana, June 6, 1998.
‘Intersentential Agreement.’ Invited talk at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 21, 1998.
‘Agreement in Discourse.’ (with Larisa Zlatiœ) Texas Linguistic Forum Conference on Non-narrative Discourse, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas, Austin, Feb. 13-14, 1998.
‘A Theory of Agreement and Disagreement’. (with Larisa Zlatiœ) Paper read at the Berkeley Linguistic Society annual meeting, Feb. 16, 1998, Berkeley CA.
‘Le Cas et l’Accord de Nominaux Quantifiés en Serbe.’ (with Larisa Zlatiœ) Paper read at the 16th International Congress of Linguists, Paris, July 20-25, 1997.
‘The Morphosyntax of Serbian Quantified NP’s.’ (with Larisa Zlatiœ) Paper read at the Fourth International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Cornell University, Ithaca N.Y., July 18, 1997.
‘Balinese Binding and Raising’. (with I Wayan Arka) Paper read at t