McGill Prof. Lisa Travis

Research: Publications and Presentations

Publications

BOOKS:

2010 Inner Aspect: the articulation of VP. Dordrecht: Springer.

EDITED VOLUMES:

in prep Word Structure. Oxford University Press, Oxford (with Heather Newell, Máire Noonan, and Glyne Piggott).

In press Oxford Handbook on Ergativity.Oxford University Press, Oxford (with Jessica Coon and Diane Massam).

2010 Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (with Raphael Mercado, Eric Potsdam)

2000 Revue québécoise de linguistique: À propos des catégories syntaxiques (with C. Lefebvre) 183pp.

2000 Formal issues in Austronesian Linguistics  Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands (with I. Paul and V. Phillips) 262pp.

1992 Canadian Journal of Linguistics: Special Number - Functional Categories (with C. Lefebvre and J. Lumsden) 186pp.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY:

1999 “Head Movement”,  in R. A. Wilson and Frank C. Weil (eds.)  MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

PAPERS:

Refereed journals
2008 “Bahasa Indonesia as a predicate fronting language” Lingua 118, 1583-1602. (draft)

2000 “Eight possible paper topics on Chamorro and related languages” Oceanic Linguistics 39, 170-198.

1998 “Theta-positions and binding in Balinese and Malagasy” Canadian Journal of Linguistics 43, 435-467.

1998 “Events, Times, and Mohawk Verbal Inflection"  Canadian Journal of Linguistics 43, 149-203 (with M. Baker).

1997 “Mood as Verbal Definiteness in a ‘Tenseless’ Language” Natural Language Semantics 5, 213-269 (with M. Baker).

1992 “The acquisition of question formation by Malagasy learners” Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 341-368 (with L. White and A. Maclachlan).

1992 “The Case Filter and the licensing of empty K” in C. Lefebvre, J. Lumsden, L. Travis (eds.)  Functional Categories:  Canadian Journal of Linguistics 37, 157-174 (with Greg Lamontagne).

1992 “Two quirks of structure:  non-projecting heads and the Mirror Image Principle” Journal of Linguistics 28, 469-484.

1992 “Spec of IP and SPEC of VP: Two Subjects in Austronesian languages” Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 10, 375-414 (with E. Guilfoyle and H. Hung).
 
1987 “UG or not UG, that is the question: a reply to Clahsen and Muysken”  Second Language Research 3., 56-75 (with J. duPlessis, D. Solin, and L. White).

1982 “The Externalization of Arguments in Malayo-Polynesian Languages," in Linguistic Review,  2, 57-78.  (with  E. Williams).

Book chapters

In prep     “Cross-linguistic view of inner aspect” in Robert Truswell (ed.), Handbook of Event Structure, Oxford University Press.

In prep     “Wordhood and word internal domains” In H. Newell, M. Noonan, G. Piggott and L. Travis (eds.), The Structure of Words at the Interfaces, under contract to Oxford University Press (with Glyne Piggott)

In press    “Phase domains at PF: Root Suppletion and its Implications” in Heidi Harley and Daniel Siddiqi (eds.), Morphological Metatheory, John Benjamins, (with Oriana Kilbourn-Ceron, Heather Newell, Máire Noonan).

2014         Parameters of Phrase Structure, 1989 (reprinted).  In Richard Kayne, Thomas Leu, Raffaella Zanuttini (eds.), An Annotated Syntax Reader, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 247-261.

2014    “The integration, proliferation, and expansion of functional categories: an overview” In A. Carnie (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Syntax, Routledge, London, 42-64.

2014 “Malagasy FACT- and CLAIM-type nominals: an exploration” in I. Paul (ed.), Cross-linguistic investigations of nominalization patterns, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 145-166.

2013 “Adjuncts within words and complex heads” In R. Folli and C. Ulbrich (eds.), On Linguistic Interfaces I, Oxford University Press (with Glyne Piggott).

2012 “External Arguments of Roots”, In M. C. Cuervo and Y. Roberge (eds.),The End of Argument Structure?, in Syntax and Semantics series, Academic Press.

In press “Narrow Syntactic Movement after Spell-Out” In Balazs Suranyi , eds., Minimalist Approaches to Syntactic Locality, Cambridge University Press. (with Eva Dobler, Heather Newell, Glyne Piggott, Tobin Skinner, and Mina Sugimura)

2011 “Syntactic Phases and Late-Adjunction:  Evidence from Navajo morpho-phonology” in R. Folli and C. Ulbrich (eds.)  Interfaces in Linguistics: New Research Perspectives, Oxford University Press, 187-204.

2008 “The role of features in syntactic theory and language variation” in J. Liceras, H. Zobl,  and H. Goodluck,  (eds.)  The role of formal features in second language acquisition, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 22-47.

2006 “Voice morphology in Malagasy as Clitic Left Dislocation or through the looking glass: Malagasy in Wonderland:” in Hans-Martin Gärtner, Paul Law, Joachim Sabel (eds.) Clause Structure and Adjuncts in Austronesian Languages, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 281-318.

2006 “VP, D0 movement languages” in R.  Zanuttini, H. Campos, E. Herburger and P. Portner (eds.) Negation, Tense and Clausal Architecture: Cross-linguistic Investigations. Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C., 127-147.

2006 “Syntactic categories: lexical, functional, cross-over, and multifunctional” in H. Cohen and C. Lefebvre (eds.) Handbook of Categorisation in Cognitive Science, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 319-346.

2005 “Case as feature checking and the status of predicate initial languages” in M. Amberber and H. de Hoop (eds.)  Case Marking:  Competition and variation, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 147-178.

2005 “A  recipe for ergativity – Ergativity in Austronesian languages” in Alana Johns, Diane Massam, and Juvenal Ndayiragije (eds.) Ergativity, Springer Publishers, New York,  315-335. (with I. Paul)

2005 “VP-internal structure in a VOS language” in Andrew Carnie, Sheila Dooley Collberg, and Heidi Harley (eds.) Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages  John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 203-224.

2005 “Agents and Causers” in N. Erteschik-Shir and T. Rapoport (eds.) The Syntax of Aspect: Deriving Thematic and Aspectual Interpretation, Oxford University Press, New York, 174-189.

2005 “Articulated vPs and the Computation of Aktionsart” in P. Kempchinsky and R. Slabakova (eds.) Aspectual Inquiries, Springer Publishers, New York, 69-94.

2003 “Lexical Items and Zero Morphology” in H. Goodluck, J. Liceras and H. Zobl (eds.) L2 Links: Proceedings of the 2002 Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA  6) Conference, Cascadilla Press, 315-330.

2001 “Derived Objects in Malagasy” in W. Davies and S. Dubinsky (eds.) Subjects and other Objects:  Grammatical Functions, Functional Categories and Configurationality, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 123-155.

2000 “V-initial languages: X or XP movement and adverbial placement” in A. Carnie and E. Guilfoyle (eds.) The Syntax of Verb-initial languages, Oxford University Press, NewYork, 117-142 (with A. Rackowski).

2000 "Event Structure in Syntax” in C. Tenny and J. Pustejovsky (eds.) Events as Grammatical Objects: the converging perspectives of lexical semantics and syntax, CSLI, Palo Alto, 145-185.

2000 “The l-syntax/s-syntax boundary:  evidence from Austronesian” In I. Paul, V. Phillips, L. Travis (eds.) Formal Issues in Austronesian Linguistics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 167-194.

1996 “Notes on Case and expletives: a discussion of Lasnik's Paper” in R. Freidin (ed.)  Current Issues in Comparative Grammar  Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 190-203.

1991 “Parameters of Phrase Structure and V2 Phenomena” In R. Freidin (ed.) Principles and Parameters in Comparative Grammar, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.  339-364.

1989 “Parameters of Phrase Structure” in M. Baltin (ed.) Alternative Conceptions of  Phrase Structure, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 263-279.

1988 “Linguistic Theory, Neurolinguistics, and Second Language Acquisition,” In S.Flynn and W.O'Neil (eds), Linguistic Theory in Second Language Acquisition, 144-172.  Reidel, Dordrecht.

1985 “The Role of INFL in Word Order Change,”  in R. Eaton et al.  (eds.)  Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, Vol 41:  Papers from the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam, 331-341.

1981 “Néologismes et Anosognosie,” in Grammatica VII: Etudes neurolinguistiques.  Service de Publications de l'Université de Toulouse, 101-114 (with A.-R. Lecours and J.-L. Nespoulous).

1981 “Jargons,” in Jargonaphasia, Academic Press, New York,  9-38 (with A.-R. Lecours, E. Osborn, F. Rouillon and G. Lavallée-Huynh).

1980 “Glossolalia as a manifestation of Wernicke's aphasia:  A comparison to glossolalia in schizophasia and in possession,” in Aphasia:  Assessment and Treatment,  Almqvist & Wiksell International, Stockholm, Sweden, 212-230 (with A.-R. Lecours and E. Osborn).

Refereed conference proceedings

In prep   “Determining the position of Out of Control morphemes in Malagasy and Tagalog” Berkeley Linguistics Society.

2015       “No and ny in Official Malagasy and Bezanozano”, Western Papers in Linguistics / Cahiers linguistiques de Western: 1: Iss. 1, Article 6. With Baholisoa Simone Ralalaoherivony and Jeannot Fils Ranaivoson.

2015      “Word order in measure phrases in Malagasy dialects”, Western Papers in Linguistics / Cahiers linguistiques de Western: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 20. 

2014       “A tale of two languages: Micro-variation in two language families” Proceedings of the Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, ed. by Jyoti Iyer and Leland Kusmer, pp 211-230.

2008 “Choose one: head or phrasal movement in the same domain” Proceedings of Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA) 2008. (with M.-L. Ungureanu)

2005 “States, Abilities, and Accidents” Proceedings of Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA) 2005, ed. by Claire Gurski, 12pp.  http://ling.uwo.ca/publications/CLA-ACL/CLA-ACL2005.htm

2005 “Passives, States and Roots and Malagasy” Proceedings of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) 12,  ed. by Jeffrey Heinz and Dimitrios Nthelitheos, 395-409.

2003 “Reduplication feeds syntax” Proceedings of Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA) 2003, ed. by Stanca Somesfalean, Université du Québec à Montréal.

2002 “Agents and Causes in Malagasy and Tagalog” in Proceedings of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) 8, ed. by Andrea Rackowski and Norvin Richard: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, pp. 355-370

2001 “The syntax of reduplication” in Proceedings of Northeast Linguistics Society (NELS) 31, GLSA, 454-469.

1999 “A syntactician's view of reduplication” in Proceedings of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) VI, Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics.

1994 “Event Phrase and a theory of functional categories”  Proceedings of the 1994 Canadian Linguistics Association, Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, 559-570.                                                           

1992 “Inner tense in NPs: the position of Number”  Proceedings of the 1992 Canadian Linguistics Association, Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, 329-345.

1990 “SPEC of IP, SPEC of VP and the Notion of Subject”  Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics VIII Stanford Linguistics Association (with E. Guilfoyle and H. Hung).

1988 “The Syntax of Adjacency” Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics VI, Stanford Linguistics Association.

1983 “An Argument for the Grid”  in Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics II, Stanford Linguistics Association, 287-298.

1982 “Three Ways to get ‘Tough’” in Papers from the Eighteenth Regional Meeting,  Chicago Linguistics Society, Chicago (with M. Montalbetti and M. Saito).

Working papers
1992 “Inner Aspect and the Structure of VP”  Proceedings from the Second Annual Lexical-Synactic Relations Workshop, Cahiers Linguistique de l'UQAM, Mariette Champagne, Sylvie Ratté eds. 1.1, 130-146.

1989 “Spec of IP and SPEC of VP: Two Subjects in Austronesian languages”  McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 5.2. (with E. Guilfoyle and H. Hung).

1988 “Parameters of Phrase Structure” McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 4.2, 121-140.

1987 “The Syntax of Adverbs” in McGill Working Papers in Linguistics: Special Issue on Comparative Germanic Syntax, 280-310.

1986 “The Case Filter and the ECP”  in McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 3.2, 51-75.

1983 “Word Order Change and Parameters,” in Papers in Grammatical Theory,  MIT Working Papers in Linguistics,  5, 277-289.

Presentations

Plenary speaker

03/16      “Zombie Languages: when kill does not mean cause to die” McGill Canadian Conference for Linguistics Undergraduates, McGill University.

10/13      “A Tale of Two Languages: microvariation study across language families” North East Linguistic Society (NELS 44), University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

06/12 “Austronesian: a view from the outside” Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA-19), Academia Sinica, Taiwan. (handout)

05/10 “Of Micro- and Macro-parameters: ergativity, Austronesian, and Bahasa Indonesia” International Symposium of Malay and Indonesian Linguistics, University of Minnesota, April 2010. (handout)

03/10 “Of micro- and macro-parameters:  small steps in language change vs. great leaps in acquisition” McGill Canadian Conference for Linguistic Undergraduates (McCCLU)

03/08 “The Middle Way:  a (Re-)Look at Features and Movement Crosslinguistically”  McGill Canadian Conference for Linguistic Undergraduates, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.

11/07 “Extraction from left branches and categorial distinctions”  Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. 

06/04 “Features, Movement Asymmetries, and a Typology of Movement” Theoretical East Asian Linguistics 2 (TEAL 2), National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-chu Taiwan.

04/04 “VP-, Do- movement languages: Malagasy in wonderland” Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA XI), Berlin, Germany.

04/02 “Lexical Items and Zero Morphology” Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA 6), Ottawa, Ontario.

04/99 “A syntactician’s view of Reduplication” Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA VI), University of Toronto.

05/97 “Theta-positions and Binding in Balinese and Malagasy” Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA IV), UCLA.

Refereed conference/workshop

01/16     “The Phonology of Possession” OCP, Budapest, Hungary.

06/14     “Measure phrases in the dialects of Madagascar” Dialectal Variation in Madagascar, Université d’Antsiranana (presented by Ileana Paul)

06/14     “Clefting particles in Official Malagasy and Bezanozano” Dialectal Variation in Madagascar, Université d’Antsiranana (with Baholisoa Ralalaoherivony and Jeannot Fils Ranaivoson: presented by these two co-authors)

06/13     “Micro- and macro-parameters in Mayan syntactic ergativity” Towards a Theory of Syntactic Variation – EHU, Bilbao.  (with Robert Henderson and Jessica Coon)

06/12     “Microvariation within the ergative parameter” International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia.

05/12     “Malagasy and Q’anjob’al extraction restrictions” Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA), University of Waterloo.

12/10 “Adjuncts within words and complex heads” On Linguistic Interfaces II, University of Ulster, Belfast (with Glyne Piggott)

04/10 “Domain mismatches: PF vs. LF, X vs. XP” Generative Linguistics of the Old World (GLOW), Wroclaw, Poland (with Eva Dobler and Mina Sugimura; presented by Mina Sugimura).

08/09 “Narrow syntactic movement after Spell-out” Minimalist Approaches to Syntactic Locality, Budapest, Hungary (with Eva Dobler, Heather Newell, Glyne Piggott, Tobin Skinner, and Mina Sugimura: presented by Eva Dobler)
 
07/08 “Malagasy no constructions and new observations” Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 15), University of Sydney, Sydney Australia.

06/08 “Romanian DPs:  XP vs. X movement” Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA 2008), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. (poster with Mona-Luiza Ungureanu)

11/07 “Multifunctional elements in Bare Phrase Structure and Distributed Morphology and Categoriless roots” Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. 

06/06 “Les préjugés linguistiques et ‘la modernité’: c’est-tu compatible? ” Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS74), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.

04/06 “Bahasa Indonesia in Predicate Initial Land”  International Symposium on Malay and Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL), University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.

12/05 “What makes a good variable”  Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics (BWiTL) 9, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.

05/05 “States, Abilities, and Accidents” The Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA), University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.

04/05 “Passives. States, and Roots” Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 12), UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

05/04 “VP, D0 movement languages” Georgetown University Roundtable (GURT), Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

06/03 “Reduplication feeding syntactic movement” Canadian Linguistics Association, (CLA) Dalhousie University, Halifax.

03/03 “Ergativity in Austronesian Languages” Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA X), University of Hawai’i, Manoa, Hawai’i.  (w/I. Paul, given by I. Paul).

10/02 “Why Malagasy is(n’t) ergative”  Workshop on Ergativity, University of Toronto (with I. Paul).

04/01 “Agents and Causers in Malagasy and Tagalog” Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA VIII), MIT.

10/00 “The Syntax of Reduplication”  Northeastern Linguistics Society (NELS 30), Georgetown University.

05/00 “Reduplication, Iteration, and Causation” Canadian Linguistics Association, (CLA) University of Alberta.

06/98 “F-nominals and unparsing in Malagasy” Canadian Linguistics Association, (CLA), University of Ottawa

03/98 “Unparsing and f-nominals in Malagasy” Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA V),  University of Hawaii

06/97 “Event Structure in Syntax” Events as Grammatical Objects Workshop, Linguistic Summer Institute, Cornell University.

05/96 “Achievements in Malagasy and Tagalog” Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA III), UCLA.

06/94 “Event Phrase and a Theory of Functional Categories”  Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA).

05/92 “Inner tense in NPs: the position of #” Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA).

02/92 “Negation within the VP”  Lexical Syntactic Relations Workshop, McGill University.

11/91 “Inner aspect, derived objects, and the structure of VP” Northeastern Linguistics Society (NELS 22) (unpublished paper)

10/91 “Constraints on Wh-Question Formation in Malagasy Learners of English” (w/ Lydia White and Anna Maclachlan) BU Conference on Language Development.

06/91 “Inner Aspect and the structure of VP” Lexical Syntactic Relations Workshop, UQAM
      
05/90 “Spec of VP as a Theta-consistent position” Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA).

04/89 “Spec of VP as Thematic Subject and Spec of IP as Structural Subject”  Paper presented at the 12th GLOW colloquium, Utrecht, Holland, 8 April 1989 (with E. Guilfoyle, and H. Hung).

02/89 “SPEC of IP, SPEC of VP and the Notion of Subject” West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (UBC) (with E. Guilfoyle, and H. Hung).

11/88 “Syntax of Adverbs” Northeastern Linguistics Society (NELS 17).

06/87 “A Syntactic Account of Adverb Placement”  Fourth Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax, McGill University.

03/87 “The Syntax of Adjacency”  West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL):  Tucson, AZ (with G. Lamontagne).

06/86 “Parameters for Word Order Variation in Germanic Languages” Åbo Academie, Turku, Finland.

04/85 “The Role of INFL in Word Order Change”  Fourth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics:  Amsterdam, Netherlands.

02/83 “An Argument for the Grid,”  West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL)  :  Los Angeles, CA.

04/82 “Three Ways to get 'Tough',” Chicago Linguistics Society:  Chicago, IL (with M. Montalbetti and M. Saito).

03/82 “The Externalization of Arguments in Malayo-Polynesian Languages,”  Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW):  Paris, France (with E. Williams).

Invited speaker (at workshop or conference)

10/15      “Using morphophonological evidence to determine the position of aspectual related heads” Workshop on Aspect, Cornell University.

10/13      “Little v as Phase/Domain Delimiter: using phonological evidence for a syntactic domain” Little v Workshop, University of Leiden.

05/12      “Malagasy fact nominals: an exploration” Nominalizations Workshop, Western University.

05/12      “When a language becomes or ceases to be ergative”  Cambridge Comparative Syntax 1 (CamCoS1), Cambridge University.

05/12      “Wordhood and word internal domains” Exploring the Interfaces Workshop I (ETI1), McGill University (with Glyne Piggott).

09/11 “Ergativity and micro-parameters” Irish Network of Formal Linguistics (INFL) Workshop, Dublin City University.

09/10 “External arguments of roots” The End of Argument Structure?, University of Toronto.

06/07 “Syntactic Phases and Late-Adjunction:  Evidence from Navajo morpho-phonology” On Linguistic Interfaces (OnLI), University of Ulster, Jordanstown Campus

10/06 Discussant for
               Diane Massam “Deriving Inverse Order”
               Matt Pearson “Topic and Focus Markers as Clause Linkers in Malagasy”
               Workshop on Comparative Austronesian Syntax, UC-San Diego.

03/06 “Wh-extraction through an Austronesian lens”  Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) 13, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

11/04 “External arguments of roots” Workshop on Argument Structure, Center for Advanced  Study of Theoretical Linguistics, Tromsø, Norway.

06/03 “Syntactic categories: lexical, functional, cross-over, and multifunctional” Summer Institute in Cognitive Sciences, UQAM.

02/03 “VP-internal structure in a VOS language” V-initial Workshop, University of Arizona

04/02 “Articulated VPs and the computation of Aktionsart” Workshop on the Syntax, Semantics, and Acquisition of Aspect, University of Iowa

07/99 “Derived Objects in Malagasy”  Workshop on Grammatical Functions, LSA Summer Institute, University of Illinois

03/95 “Morphology in Malagasy and Tagalog:  L-syntax vs. S-syntax”  Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA II), McGill University.

10/95 “Binding Categories, Event Structures, and L-syntax vs. S-syntax”  Conference on Clausal Architecture: Temporal, Aspectual and Verbal Projections,  Bergamo, Italy.

05/94 “Event Phrase and Austronesian Morphology”  Austronesian Generative Linguistics Association, Univeristy of Toronto.

04/89 “Notes on notes on Expletives and Case: comments on Lasnik” The Second Workshop on Comparative Syntax, Princeton University.

02/89 “Parameters and UG: a reply to Clahsen” Second Language Research Forum (UCLA).

07/86 “Restricting Phrase Structure Parameters”  Phrase Structure Workshop, New York, NY.

03/86 “Parameters of Word Order and V2 Phenomena”  Comparative Syntax Workshop:  Princeton, NJ.

10/85 “Linguistic Theory, Neurolinguistics, and Second Language Acquisition”  Linguistic Theory and Second Language  Acquisition Workshop:  Cambridge, MA.

Invited colloquium speaker

04/16      “Sublexical modality and morpheme position in Malagasy and Tagalog” University of Ottawa

11/14      “History of Malagasy: past and future” Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University

10/14      “Macro- and micro-parameters: within and across families” McMaster University

01/13 “Investigating the macroparameters and/or microparameters of ergativity” UCLA. (handout)

04/11 “Of macro- and micro-parameters: Ergativity, Austronesian, and Bahasa Indonesia” Yale University.

03/09 “Malagasy clefts:  within typology and theory” MIT.

12/07 “Making sense out of features” Université du Québec.

10/07 “Making sense out of features” University of Ottawa.

10/05 “Through the looking glass” Linguistics Association of Concordia University.

06/04 “Movement typology and language typology” Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

03/04 “VP-, Do- movement languages” University of California, Santa Cruz.

10/03 “VP-ellipsis in Malagasy”, University of Western Ontario.

11/02 “Is ‘cup after cup of coffee’ reduplication reduplication?” Dartmouth College.

11/02 “Agents and causes in phrase structure:  evidence from morphology in Malagasy and Tagalog” Dartmouth College.

04/01 “Agents and Causers in Malagasy and Tagalog”  Rutgers University.

10/00 “The Syntax of Causation”  UQAM.

04/00 “Agents and Causers” Speaker’s Series, University of Southern California.

11/94 “Tagalog Morphology:  phrase structure or lexicon?”  Université de Montréal.

04/94 “Event and Phrase Structure”  Rutgers University.

08/93 University of Toronto Distinguished Lecturers Series (5 lectures)
               -  “Inner Aspect”
               -  “The Mirror Principle and Head Movement”
               -  “The Position of Number within NP”
               -  “Derived Objects within VP”
               -  “Event and Phrase Structure:  UTAH violations”

04/93 “Event and Phrase Structure”  MIT.

10/91 “The structure of VP: a question of Agents and Events” Cornell Linguistics Circle, Cornell University.

10/91 “Inner aspect and the structure of VP” Cornell Linguistics Circle, Cornell University.

04/90 “The Nature of Spec”
               1)  Brandeis University
               2)  University of Massachusetts

10/89 “Two Subjects in Malayo-Polynesian Languages” University of Illinois.

03/89 “Accounting for Head-internal languages” Queen's University.

10/88 “Functors K and C” MIT.

02/88 “Syntax of Adverbs”  Ottawa University.
              
05/87 “The Syntax of Adjacency” 
               1) University of Illinois
               2) Cornell University
               3) Syracuse University

04/87 “Accounting for pro-drop”  UQAM.

04/86 “The Case Filter and the ECP”  MIT.

02/85 “Word Order in Germanic Languages” Queen's University.

12/84 “VP Government”  University of Massachusetts.

03/84 “Verb-second in Germanic Languages”  McGill University.

12/83 “Word Order and Typology,”  Linguistic Society of America (LSA):  Minneapolis, MN.