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PUBLICATIONS

An, Duk-Ho. 2007. Clauses in non-canonical positions at the syntax-phonology interface. In Syntax, 10: 38-79.

An, Duk-Ho. To appear. 2007. On the distribution of NPIs in Korean. In Natural Language Semantics.

An, Duk-Ho & Pei-Jung Kuo. On the nature of suo in Mandarin Chinese. In Proceedings of the 18th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL), 11-23.

Bastos, Ana. 2006. Discontinuous wh-constituents in Brazilian Portuguese. In Herdan, S., & M. Rodríguez-Mondoñedo(eds.), UConn Working Papers in Linguistics, 14. Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Chung, Inkie. 2007. Suppletive negation in Korean and distributed morphology. In Lingua, 117: 95-148.

Herdan, Simona & Yael Sharvit. 2006. Definite and nondefinite superlatives and NPI licensing. In Syntax, 9: 1-31.

Rodríguez-Mondoñedo, Miguel, William Snyder, & Koji Sugisaki. 2006. The parameter of clitic-climbing: The view from child Spanish. In Deen, K.U., J. Nomura, B. Schulz, & B.D. Schwartz (eds.), Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition–North America, 241-248. Honolulu, HI.

Rodríguez-Mondoñedo, Miguel. 2006. Spanish existentials and other accusative constructions. In Boeckx, C. (ed.), Minimalist Essays, 326-394. Amsterdam: Johns Benjamins.

Sener, Serkan. 2006. Multiple WH-questions in Turkish: An investigation of In-Situness. In University of Connecticut Working Papers in Linguistics, 14. University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Takuro, Tanaka. Differential comparative construction in Japanese. In Proceedings of The 4th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference (FAJL). MIT Working  Papers in Linguistics (MITWPL), Cambridge, MA.

Takuro, Tanaka. Lexical decomposition and comparative structures for Japanese determiners. In Gibson, M., & J. Howell (eds.), Proceedings of the 16th Semantics and Linguistics Theory (SALT). Cornell University, Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications.

 
PUBLICATIONS TO APPEAR

Aihara, Masahiko. To appear. Double universal quantifiers as negative polarity items in Japanese. In Proceedings of the 4th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Working Paper in Linguistics.

Aihara, Masahiko. To appear. Japanese superlative constructions: Evidence for “est” – movement. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society. GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Bastos, Ana. In press. Discontinuous wh-constituents in Brazilian Portuguese. In Cabrera, M.J., J. Camacho, V. Déprez, N. Flores & L. Sánche (eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. Amsterdam: Johns Benjamins.

Buesa-Garcia, Carlos. To appear. 2006. Root infinitives & modality in a null-subject language. In Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America (GALANA) 2006.

Herdan, Simona. To appear. Comparative ellipsis – How to be negative without negation. In Festschrift for Alexandra Cornilescu. Bucharest: TUB.

Niinuma, Fumikazu & Shigeki Taguchi. To appear. 2006. The licensing of nominative case in Japanese: Evidence from Ga/No conversion. In Proceeding of the 8th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, 197-212. The Korean Generative Grammar Circle, Seoul, South Korea.

Rakhlin, Natalia. To appear. A pragmatic account of quantificational errors in children. In Proceedings of the Nanzan University International Symposium on Acquisition and Syntax. Nagoya, Japan.

Rakhlin, Natalia. To appear. Negative determiners as a window into Q-spreading. In Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition in North America 2. McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.

Rodríguez-Mondoñedo, Miguel. In press. A restriction on the definiteness effect in Spanish. In Proceedings of the 37th North-Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS).

Sener, Nilufer. To appear. 2007. Domain vagueness and the epistemic background. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Sener, Nilufer. To appear. Epistemic restrictions on free choice Herhangi bir. In Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 2006). California State University.

Sener, Serkan. To appear. Initial stress in morphologically complex words in Turkish: The interface of prosody and phrase structure. Mouton de Gruyter.

Sener, Serkan. To appear. Right adjunction in the right peripheries. In Proceedings of the 32nd BLS Conference. University of California, Berkeley.

Taguchi, Shigeki. To appear. 2007. Japanese middles and nonmovement. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Taguchi, Shigeki. To appear. 2007. On the nature of Japanese complementizers. In Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Linguistics in Korea. The Linguistics Society of Korea, Seoul, South Korea.

 
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Aihara, Masahiko. 2006. The scope of “-est”: Evidence from Japanese. Presented at the International Conference on East Asian Linguistics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., November 10-12.

Aihara, Masahiko. 2006. Japanese superlative constructions: Evidence for “est” – movement. Presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, October 13-15.

Aihara, Masahiko. 2006. Japanese superlative constructions: Evidence for “est” – movement. The South New England Workshop in Semantics, Yale University, CT, September 30.

Aihara, Masahiko. 2006. Double universal quantifiers as negative polarity items in Japanese. Presented at the 14th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference, Osaka University, Japan, August 17-19.

An, Duk-Ho. 2006. New arguments for right node raising as PF deletion. Presented at the 2006 Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) (October).

An, Duk-Ho. 2006. Right node raising as PF coordination reduction. Presented at the 16th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (October).

Bastos, Ana. 2007. Sequences of topics without TopP recursion in Brazilian Portuguese. Paper presented at the 37th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Pittsburg, Pittsburg, PA, March 15-18.

Bastos, Ana. 2007. Ethical pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese. Paper presented at the GURT’07, Georgetown University, Washington DC, March 8-11.

Bastos, Ana. 2007. Split questions in BP. Paper presented at the ECO5 Syntax Workshop, MIT, Cambridge, MA, March 5-6.

Bastos, Ana. 2006. Tópicos múltiplos em português brasileiro. Paper presented at the XX Encontro Nacional da ANPOLL, São Paulo, SP.

Bastos, Ana. 2006. Revisando os fatores de extração de sintagmas preposicionais de sintagmas nominais. Paper presented at the 54 Seminário do Grupo de Estudos Lingüísticos (GEL), Araraquara, SP.

Bernath, Jeffrey. 2007. Examining impoverished input: Cases of nativization. Poster presented at the Connecticut-Nanzan-Siena Joint Workshop on Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition, Nagoya, Japan (February).

Buesa-Garcia, Carlos. 2006. Root infinitives & modality in a null-subject language. Poster presented at Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America (GALANA) 2006.

Chung, Inkie. 2007. Paradox of negative and honorific morphology in Korean. Given at the Korean Generative Grammar Circle Spring 2007 Reading Group, Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea, April 7.

Chung, Inkie. 2006. On the (Non-) existence of “not.exist” in Korean. Given at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Michigan Linguistics Society, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, October 28.

Crawford, Jean. 2007. Acquisition of events, cause, and agency in Japanese: An experiment proposal. Presented at the UConn, UMass, Smith College Language Acquisition Workshop (UUSLAW), May 5.

Crawford, Jean. 2007. Japanese children’s knowledge of causation and event structure. Poster presented at Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan (February).

Fitzgibbons, Natalia. A syntactic account of negative concord in Russian. Presented at the East Coast Workshop in Syntax (ECO5), University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Herdan, Simona. 2007. A superlative theory of amount relatives. Presented at the West Coast Conference in Linguistics 26, University of California, Berkeley, April 27-29.

Herdan, Simona. 2007. How to be negative without negation. Paper presented at the Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages 37, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, March 15-18.

Kuo, Pei-Jung. 2007. Children’s acquisition of English expletive constructions. Poster presented at the 81st Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, Anaheim, January 5.

Kuo, Pei-Jung. 2006. An acquisitional perspective on English expletive construction. Paper presented at the UConn, UMass, Smith College Language Acquisition Workshop (UUSLAW), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, December 9.

Rodríguez-Mondoñedo, Miguel. 2006. An interpretable [person] in T and a phi-incomplete small v for Spanish. Presented at the 2006 Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), California State University, Fresno, October 27-29.

Rodríguez-Mondoñedo, Miguel. 2006. A [person] restriction on the definiteness effect in Spanish. Presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS), Urbana-Champaign, IL, October 13-15.

Rodríguez-Mondoñedo, Miguel. 2006. Object-agreement in Spanish existential constructions. Presented at the GRAPHSY 2006, Georgetown University, Washington DC, September 29-30.

Sawada, Tsuyoshi. Planned. 2007. Adjectival noun in Japanese as noun without case. To be presented at the Seoul International Conference in Generative Grammar 9, Dongkuk University, Seoul, South Korea, August 8-11.

Sawada, Tsuyoshi. Planned. 2007. Da-contraction and typology of clause-final elements in Japanese. To be presented at the 2nd Nanzan-UConn-Siena-Hyderbad-Cambridge-Tsing Hua Collaboration Workshop, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan, June 24.

Sener, Nilufer. 2007. Domain vagueness and the epistemic background. Presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (May).

Sener, Nilufer. 2006. Epistemic restrictions on free choice Herhangi bir. Poster presented at the 2006 Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), California State University, Fresno (November).

Sener, Nilufer. 2006. On the relation between evidentiality and free choice Herhangi bir. Paper presented at the 2006 Southern New England Workshop on Semantics (SNEWS), Yale University, CT (October).

Sener, Serkan with Monik Charette & Asli Goksel. 2007. Initial stress in morphologically complex words in Turkish: The interface of prosody and phrase structure. Presented in the Phonology Workshop: Phonological Domains, Universals and Deviations in the 29th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS), Siegen (February).

Sener, Serkan. 2006. Long distance NPI topicalization. Talk given at the Workshop on Turkish Linguistics, Yale University, New Haven, CT (November).

Sener, Serkan. 2006. Successive cyclic NPI topicalization. Talk given at the 2006 Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), California State University, Fresno.

Sener, Serkan. 2006. Right adjunction in the right peripheries. Talk given at the 32nd BLS Conference, University of California, Berkeley.

Sener, Serkan. 2006. Strandability of P is about its extendability. Talk given at the Workshop on Anti-Locality, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Taguchi, Shigeki. 2007. Against the null complementizer analysis of Japanese relative clauses. Paper presented at Nanzan Workshop, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan.

Taguchi, Shigeki. 2007. Japanese middles and nonmovement. Paper presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Taguchi, Shigeki. 2007. On the nature of Japanese complementizers. Paper presented at 2007 International Conference on Linguistics in Korea, Seoul National University, South Korea.

Takuro, Tanaka. 2007. Delimitedness constraint on floating numeral quantifiers. Presented at the East Coast Workshop in Syntax (ECO5), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, March 3.

Takuro, Tanaka. 2006. Differential comparative construction in Japanese. Presented at the 4th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference (FAJL), Osaka University, Japan, August 18.

 
DEPARTAMENTAL PRESENTATIONS

Aihara, Masahiko. 2006. Japanese superlative constructions: Evidence for “est” – movement. Ling Lunch presentation at the Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, October 10.

Bastos, Ana. 2007. Issues on co-reference in ethical constructions. Ling Lunch talk given at the Department of Linguistics. University of Connecticut, Storrs. February 27.

Sawada, Tsuyoshi. 2007. Da-contraction and da-deletion in Japanese. Ling Lunch presentation at the Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, May 1.

Sener, Serkan. 2007. Right peripheral matters in syntax. Ling Lunch talk given at the Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs (May).

 
AWARDS & GRANTS

Aihara, Masahiko. 2006. The Outstanding Student Abstract Award, The scope of “est”: Evidence from Japanese, The 2006 International Conference on East Asian Linguistics (ICEAL), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.

Aihara, Masahiko. 2006. Travel Grant for the 2006 International Conference on East Asian Linguistics (ICEAL), University of Connecticut Linguistics Club, Storrs.

Aihara, Masahiko. 2006. Travel Grant for the 37th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS), University of Connecticut Linguistics Club, Storrs.

Aihara, Masahiko. 2006. Travel Grant for the 4th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference (FAJL 4), University of Connecticut Linguistics Club, Storrs.

Despic, Miloje. 2006-2007. The Outstanding Scholar Program Award, UConn Graduate School, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Herdan, Simona. Summer 2006. Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Kuo, Pei-Jung. 2007. Travel Grant for the International Conference attendance from the Ministry of Education, Taiwan.

Taguchi, Shigeki. 2006. Recipient of The David Michaels Award for outstanding work as a Teaching Assistant, Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

 
SERVICE: Conference Organization

Takuro, Tanaka. Technical Assistant (Homepage Organizer) for 17th Semantics and Linguistics Theory (SALT), Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

 
SERVICE: Reviewing and Editorial Work

An, Duk-Ho. 2007. Reviewed for University of Connecticut Working Papers in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Chung, Inkie. Reviewed for University of Connecticut Working Papers in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Herdan, Simona. Spring 2007. Reviewed for University of Connecticut Working Papers in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Rakhlin, Natalia. Reviewed for University of Connecticut Working Papers in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Taguchi, Shigeki. Reviewed for Herdan, S., & M. Rodríguez-Mondoñedo(eds.), University of Connecticut Working Papers in Linguistics 14. Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

      
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