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Scott DeLancey
Department of Linguistics
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1290, USA
541-346-3901
delancey@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Education:
1975-80 Indiana University. Ph.D. in Linguistics
Minor in Tibetan
1970-72 Cornell University. B.A. in Linguistics
Dissertation: Deictic Categories in the Tibeto-Burman
Verb.
Academic employment:
1992-present Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, University
of Oregon.
1995 Faculty member, 1995 LSA Linguistics
Institute, University of New Mexico.
1985-1992 Associate Professor, Dept. of Linguistics,
University of Oregon. (Chair, 1985-90)
1987 (Spring) Visiting Associate Professor, Dept. of
Linguistics, University of California at San
Diego.
l982-1985 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Linguistics,
University of Oregon.
1980-82 Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of
Linguistics, University of Colorado.
Research Support:
1999-00 NSF: dissertation grant for Tim Thornes, for fieldwork on
Northern Paiute ($23,840)
1997-8 NSF: dissertation grant for Connie Dickinson, for fieldwork
on Tsafiki ($22,800)
1993-4 NSF/NEH: Comparative Penutian Workshop ($36,293)
1989-91 NSF: Comparative Bodic Syntax ($75,054)
1989-91 NSF: Sahaptin Grammar and Texts--Renewal (Noel Rude,
co-P.I.) ($80,150)
1988-89 NSF: dissertation grant for Carol Genetti, for
fieldwork on Dolakha Newari ($16,810)
1987-89 NSF: Comparative Tibeto-Burman Verb Morphology
($68,459)
1987-89 NSF: Sahaptin Grammar and Texts (Noel Rude, co-P.I.)
($72,167)
1986-87 NEH: Klamath Text Studies ($55,328)
l985-87 NSF: Descriptive and Comparative Syntax of Tibetan and
Newari. ($65,403)
1984-85 NSF: Transitivity in Tibetan and Newari. ($27,054)
1984 Social Science Research Council Grant-in-aid: Syntax of
Newari. ($810)
1983 University of Oregon Summer Faculty Research Award for
research on Newari and Tibetan.
1982 American Philosophical Society, Grant-in-aid, for
preparation of Hare texts. ($400)
1982 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research,
for fieldwork on Hare. ($2,000)
1982 NEH Summer Stipend, for research on transitivity in
Hare.
Service
Professional service:
Associate Editor of Language, 1985-88.
Editorial Board, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area.
Consulting Editor, Cognitive Linguistics, 1990-present.
Consulting Editor, Studies in Language, 1992-present
Proposal review for the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Guggenheim
Foundation, the NEH, the NSF Linguistics, Anthropology,
Information Science, and Robotics & Machine Intelligence
panels, and the Australian Research Council.
Manuscript review for University of Chicago Press, University of
California Press, Oxford University Press.
Organized: 17th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan
Languages and Linguistics, Sept. 7-9, 1984.
1988 Hokan-Penutian Conference, University of Oregon, June
1988.
1994 Hokan-Penutian Conference, University of Oregon, July
1994.
1997 Second Association for Linguistic Typology conference,
University of Oregon, September 1997
Co-organizer (with Russell Tomlin):
13th Annual Western Conference on Linguistics, October 15-6,
1983.
First (October 1985), Second (November 1986), and Third
(November 1987) Pacific Linguistics Conference.
Panelist for the Research Tools program of the NEH, 1986, 1987,
1989.
LSA Nominating Committee, 1989, 1991-4.
LSA Committee on Endangered Languages and Their Preservation,
1994-6 (Chair, 1995-6)
Co-organizer (with Victor Golla): Comparative Penutian Workshop
(University of Oregon, June 27-July 8, 1994).
Chair, Program Committee, ALT 3 (Association for Linguistic Typology),
1999.
Executive Committee, Association for Linguistic Typology, 1999-2003.
University service:
1984-- Asian Studies Committe
1986-- Southeast Asian Studies Committe
1989-90 Research Committee
1989-91 Advisory Board, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies
1989-90 Search committee for CAPS director
1990-91 Review committee for International Studies director
1993-96 Graduate Council (Co-chair, 1995-6)
1994 Internal Program Review Committee for Anthropology
(Chair)
1994-5 Chair, Southeast Asian Studies Program
1996 Internal Program Review Committee for Comparative
Literature (Chair)
Departmental service:
Graduate advisor 1983-85, 1993-4, 1996-present
Department head 1985-90, 1999-2000
Graduate admissions officer 1990-present
Community service:
1988-present Unpaid consultant to the Klamath Tribe for their
language preservation and teaching project.
1989 Taught a U of O course, Introduction to Klamath, in
Chiloquin, OR, for the Klamath Tribe. (September 5-15,
1989)
1998-present Director, Northwest Indian Language Institute.
Teaching
Undergraduate: Introduction to Linguistics, Languages
of the World, Analytical Methods in Morphology and Syntax, Phonetics,
Phonology, Syntax and Semantics I, II, Historical and Comparative
Linguistics, English Grammar, Structure of Thai, Structure of Klamath
Graduate: Linguistic Theory--Semantics, Linguistic
Theory--Phonology, Historical Syntax, Field Methods (Panjabi, Tibetan,
Sunwar, Burmese), Classical Tibetan, Reading Klamath, Old
Irish; Seminars: Categorization and Lexical Semantics; Grammaticalization;
North American Languages; Penutian Languages; Tibeto-Burman Linguistics;
Case Theory; Cognitive Grammar.
Graduate students:
PhD dissertations chaired:
Carol Genetti(1990), David Hargreaves (1991), Anju Saxena (1992),
Lalnungthangi Chhangte (1993), Sherri Brainard (1994), Insun Park
(1994), David Watters (1998), Erik Andvik (1999), Myint Soe (1999),
Unchalee Singnoi (2000), Roberto Zavala (2000), Janne Underriner
(2002), Connie Dickinson (2002), Timothy Thornes (2003)
MA theses: Joseph Clifford (1986), Carol Genetti (1986), Audra
Phillips (1988), Myunghee Kim (1989), Leslie Opp-Beckman (1989),
Kyounghee Ko (1989), Insun Park (1990), Sherri Brainard (1991),
Peter Jacobs (1992), Patricia Whereat (1996), Janne Underriner
(1996), David Watters (1996)
Dissertation committees: Noel Rude, Linguistics (1985), Oliver
John, Psychology (1986), David Novick, CIS (1988), Chad Thompson,
Linguistics (1989), Yasuko Watanabe, Linguistics (1989), James
Tanaka, Psychology (1989), Robert Carlson, Linguistics (1990),
Spike Gildea, Linguistics (1992), Myung Hee Kim, Linguistics
(1993), Kweku Osam, Linguistics (1994), Terry McQuilken, Music
(1995), William Staley, Linguistics (1995), Marleen Haboud,
Linguistics (1996), Thomas Ball, Special Education and Community
Resources (1998), Pilar Valenzuela, Linguistics (2003), Boniface Kawasha,
Linguistics (2003).
Publications
Refereed articles and book chapters:
to appear.
Grammaticalization. in G. Booij, C. Lehmann, J. Mugdan,
eds., Morphology: A Handbook on Inflection and Word
Formation. New York: De Gruyter.
Klamath. in A. Peyraube, ed., Dictionnaire des langues du monde.
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
Penutia. in A. Peyraube, ed., Dictionnaire des langues du monde.
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
2005. Adpositions as a non-universal category. pp. 185-202 in Zygmunt
Frajzyngier, et. al., eds., Linguistic diversity and language
theories. Benjamins.
2003. Location and direction in Klamath. pp. 59-90 in E. Shay and U.
Seibert, eds., Motion, direction, and location in languages:
In honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier. Benjamins.
Classical Tibetan. pp. 255-269 in G. Thurgood and R. LaPolla,
The Sino-Tibetan Languages. London: Routledge.
Lhasa Tibetan. pp. 270-288 in G. Thurgood and R. LaPolla,
The Sino-Tibetan Languages. London: Routledge.
2002. The mirative and evidentiality. Journal of Pragmatics
33.3:369-382.
The universal basis of case. Logos and Language 1.2:1-15.
1999. Lexical prefixes and the bipartite stem construction in
Klamath. International Journal of American
Linguistics 65.1.56-83.
Relativization in Tibetan. in Yogendra Yadava and Warren
Glover, eds., Studies in Nepalese Linguistics,
pp. 231-49. Kathmandu: Royal Nepal Academy.
1998. Semantic categorization in Tibetan honorific nouns.
Anthropological Linguistics 40:109-23.
1997. The Penutian hypothesis: Retrospect and prospect. (with
Victor Golla). International Journal of American
Linguistics 63:171-202.
Grammaticalization and the gradience of categories: Relator
nouns and postpositions in Tibetan and Burmese. pp. 51-69
in Joan Bybee et. al., eds., Essays on Language Function and
Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givón. Benjamins.
Mirativity: The grammatical marking of unexpected
information. Linguistic Typology 1.1:33-52.
What an innatist argument should look like. in T. Haukioja,
M-L Helasvuo, and M. Miestamo, eds., SKY 1997 (1997
Yearbook of the Linguistic Association of Finland), pp. 7-24.
1996. Penutian in the bipartite stem belt: Disentangling
areal and genetic correspondences. Proceedings of
the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley
Linguistics Society: Special Session on Historical
Topics in Native American Languages, pp. 37-54
(invited paper).
1994. Grammaticalization and linguistic theory.
Proceedings of the 1993 Mid-America Linguistics
Conference and Conference on Siouan/Caddoan
Languages, pp. 1-22. Boulder: Dept. of
Linguistics, University of Colorado (invited keynote address).
1992. The Sino-Tibetan languages. W. Bright, ed.,
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, vol
3, pp. 445-7. NY: Oxford University Press.
Sunwar copulas. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman
Area 15:1.31-38.
The historical status of the conjunct/disjunct pattern in
Tibeto-Burman. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 25:39-62.
1991. The origins of verb serialization in Modern Tibetan.
Studies in Language 15:1.1-23.
Event construal and case role assignment. Proceedings of
the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics
Society, pp. 338-353. (Invited paper).
Chronological strata of suffix classes in the Klamath verb.
International Journal of American Linguistics 57:426-
445.
1990. Ergativity and the cognitive model of event structure
in Lhasa Tibetan. Cognitive Linguistics
1.3:289-321.
1989. Verb agreement in Proto-Tibeto-Burman. Bulletin of
the School of Oriental and African Studies 52:315-
33. (Chinese tr. appeared as "Yuanshi Zang-Mianyu
dungcide rencheng fanchou", Minzu Yicong 1993.2:34-45,
1993.3:38-42).
1988. (with C. Genetti and N. Rude). Some Sahaptian-Klamath-
Tsimshianic lexical sets. William Shipley, eds, In
Honor of Mary Haas: From the Haas Festival Conference
on Native American Linguistics, pp. 195-224.
On the evolution of the Kham agreement paradigm.
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 11.2:51-61.
1987. The Sino-Tibetan languages. B. Comrie, ed., The
World's Major Languages, pp. 797-810. Croom Helm.
Transitivity in grammar and cognition. R. Tomlin, ed.,
Discourse Relations and Cognitive Units, pp. 53-68.
Benjamins.
1986. Invited comment on Wierzbicka, 'Semantics of the
"internal dative" in English. Quaderni di
Semantica VII, no. 1:140-2.
Notes on the history of Tai classifier systems. C. Craig,
ed., Noun Classes and Categorization, pp. 437-52.
Benjamins.
Evidentiality and volitionality in Tibetan. W. Chafe and J.
Nichols, eds., Evidentiality: The Linguistic Coding of
Epistemology, pp. 203-13. Ablex.
1985. The analysis-synthesis-lexis cycle in Tibeto-Burman: A
case study in motivated change. J. Haiman, ed.,
Iconicity in Syntax, pp. 367-89. Benjamins.
On active typology and the nature of agentivity. F. Plank,
ed., Relational Typology, pp. 47-60. Mouton.
1984. Notes on agentivity and causation. Studies in
Language 8.2:181-213.
Etymological notes on Tibeto-Burman case particles.
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 8.l.59-77.
1982. Modern Tibetan: A case study in ergative typology.
J. of Linguistic Research 2.1:21-31.
Aspect, transitivity, and viewpoint. P. Hopper, ed.,
Tense-Aspect: Between Semantics and Pragmatics.
pp. 167-83. Benjamins.
Tangut and Tibeto-Burman morphology. Linguistics of the
Tibeto-Burman Area 7.2:100-8.
1981. The category of direction in Tibeto-Burman.
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area
6.1:83-102.
Parameters of empathy. J. of Linguistic Research
1.3:40-49.
An interpretation of split ergativity and related patterns.
Language 57.3:626-57.
Edited volume:
Special issue of the International Journal of American
Linguistics on Penutian languages, co-edited with Victor
Golla.
Notes, reviews, and papers in conference proceedings:
to appear. Argument structure of Klamath bipartite stems. Proc. of
the 26th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society:
Special Session on Syntax and Semantics in Indigenous Languages
of the Americas.
1996. rev. of R.M.W. Dixon, Ergativity. Journal of
Linguistics 32:173-177.
1992. Klamath and Sahaptian numerals. International Journal
of American Linguistics 58:235-39.
1990. Diachronic notes on the Klamath verb suffixes. S.
DeLancey, ed., Papers from the 1989 Hokan-Penutian
Workshop, pp. 18-27.
1990. Notes on evidentiality in Hare. International Journal
of American Linguistics 56.152-8.
1990. Tibetan evidence for Nungish metathesis. Linguistics of
the Tibeto-Burman Area 12.2:25-31.
1990. Contour tones from lost syllables in Central Tibetan.
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 12.2:33-34.
1990. Cross-linguistic evidence for the structure of the Agent
prototype. Papers and reports on child language
development, no. 29:141-147. Dept. of Linguistics,
Stanford.
1989. rev. of B. Michailovksy, La langue hayu.
Language 65:828-32.
1988. Klamath stem structure in genetic and areal perspective.
S. DeLancey, ed., Papers from the 1988 Hokan-Penutian
Workshop, pp. 31-9.
1987. Klamath and Wintu pronouns. International Journal of
American Linguistics 53.461-4.
1987. Morphological parallels between Klamath and Wintu. J.
Redden, ed., Proc. of the 1987 Hokan-Penutian
Conference, pp. 50-60. Carbondale, IL: Dept. of
Linguistics, Southern Illinois University.
1985. Lhasa Tibetan evidentials and the semantics of causation.
Proc. of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley
Linguistics Society, 65-72.
1984. Transitivity and ergative case in Lhasa Tibetan.
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley
Linguistics Society, 131-40.
1984. Categories of non-volitional actor in Lhasa Tibetan.
A. Zide et. al., eds., Proc. of the Conference on
Participant Roles: South Asia and Adjacent Areas,
pp. 58-70. IULC.
1984. Agentivity in syntax. Chicago Linguistic Society
Parasession on Agentivity and Causation.
1983. rev. of B. Comrie, Language Universals and Linguistic
Typology. Language 59.2:406-11.
1982. Agentivity and causation: Data from Newari.
Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley
Linguistics Society, pp. 54-63.
1978. (with Lon Diehl and LaRaw Maran). A localistic account of
aspect in Jinghpaw. and The Tibeto-Burman tense-aspect
mechanisms. University of Michigan Papers in
Linguistics 2.4:49-88.
Book notices and translations:
1991. V. Golla, ed., The Collected Works of Edward Sapir,
Vol. VIII: Takelma Texts and Grammar. Journal of
Linguistic Anthropology.
1990. Andronov and Bhakti, Linguistics: A Soviet
Approach. American Anthropologist 92:250.
1989. T. Lyman. A Grammar of Mong Njua (Green Miao).
Language 65:668-9.
G. D‚csy, A Select Catalog of Language Universals.
Language 65:423-4.
1988. J.A. Matisoff, The Grammar of Lahu. Language
64.1:213-4.
1985. S-Y. Killingsley, The Grammatical Hierarchy of Malayan
Cantonese. Language 62:223.
1984. S. Koshal, Conversational Ladakhi.
Language 60:678.
B. Trnka, Selected Papers in Structural Linguistics.
Language 60:662.
1983. C. Harbsmeier, Aspects of Classical Chinese.
Language 59:938-9.
1983. C. Tanz, Studies in the Acquisition of Deictic
Terms. Language 59:938-9.
1982. trans. of K. B. Kepping, 'Glagoly napravlennogo dvizhenija
v Tangutskom jazyke', appeared as 'Deictic motion verbs in
Tangut', Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area
6.2:77-82.
1981. S. Koshal, Ladakhi Grammar. Language 57:972.
K.B. Kepping, Sun' Tszy v Tangutskom
perevodje. Language 57:972-3.
Ng. D. Liem, South-East Asian Linguistic Studies.
Language 57:974.
Invited lectures and conference papers
(starred items also occur in the list of publications):
2003. The semantic transparency of Klamath bipartite stems.
Plenary address to the XIVth International Conference on Historical
Linguistics, Copenhagen, August 12, 2003.
2003. Complex verb stems in Klamath. Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique, Paris, February 26, 2003.
2002. Relativization in Bodic. Berkeley Linguistics Society, Special
Session on Southeast Asian Languages.
1999. Bipartite verb stems in western North America. University
of Turku, Finland, October 22, 1999.
1998. The mirative and evidentiality. Panel on Evidentiality,
International Pragmatics Association, Reims, July 23, 1998.
1997. Deixis, topicality, and the inverse. Workshop on Inverse
Constructions, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences, Feb. 13, 1997.
1997. An introduction to Localist Grammar. Linguistics Program,
Reed College, Feb. 6, 1997.
1996. Minicourse (4 lectures) on Tibeto-Burman linguistics.
University of Stockholm, Sept. 16-19, 1996.
1996. Minicourse (5 lectures) on Functional/Cognitive Grammar.
University of Uppsala (Sweden), Sept. 9-13, 1996.
1996. Diachronic explanation and synchronic structure.
What MIGHT be innate: Perceptual structure in linguistic
structure.
Invited keynote talks for the Finnish Linguistic Association
Symposium on Tacit Assumptions in the Study of
Language. Helsinki, Sept. 2-4, 1996.
1996. The bipartite stem belt: Disentangling areal and genetic
correspondences. Invited paper for the Special Session of
the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society.
1995. Argument structure and verb lexicalization patterns in
English, Tibetan, and Klamath. Dept. of Linguistics, Rice
University, Nov. 1995.
1993. *Grammaticalization and linguistic theory. Keynote
address to the 28th Mid-America Linguistics Conference,
Boulder, CO, October 15, 1993.
1991. *Event construal and case role assignment. Invited paper
for the 17th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics
Society.
1990. Proto-Kiranti verb agreement in Tibeto-Burman perspective.
Dept. of Linguistics, UC Berkeley.
*What is grammatical evidence, and how do we interpret it?
Language and Prehistory in the Americas Conference,
University of Colorado, March 22-25, 1990.
The conjunct/disjunct system in Tibeto-Burman. Dept. of
Linguistics, Stanford University.
*Cross-linguistic evidence for the structure of the Agent
prototype. Stanford Child Language Research Forum, April 7,
1990.
1987. Toward a typology of inverse constructions. Dept. of
Linguistics, UCSD.
Lhasa Tibetan clause organization and the semantic analysis
of event structure. Workshop on Cognitive Semantics, UCSD.
1986. The right way to do case grammar. Staff workshop for the
Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas.
Inverse in structural and functional typology. Dept. of
Linguistics, Stanford University.
1984. *Transitivity in cognitive grammar. Symposium on
Discourse Relations and Cognitive Units, University of
Oregon.
1983. *A semantically-driven lexis-analysis-synthesis cycle in
Tibeto-Burman. Symposium on Iconicity in Language, Stanford.
*Toward a history of Tai classifier systems. Symposium on
Categorization and Noun Classification, University of
Oregon.
1981. Case marking and verb agreement in localist case grammar.
Linguistic Circle, University of Georgia.
*Evidentiality and volitionality in Tibetan. Symposium on
Evidentiality, U.C. Berkeley.
A contrastive analysis: Hmong and English. In-service
workshop for the Boulder Valley (CO) Public School System.
Also presented to the Colorado TESOL Special Interest Group
on Elementary Education.
1979. *Aspect, transitivity, and viewpoint. Linguistic Circle,
Cornell University, and Symposium on Tense/Aspect: Between
Semantics and Pragmatics, UCLA.
Other conference papers
(starred items also occur in one or another form in the list of
publications):
1996. Argument structure of Klamath bipartite stems. SSILA
Conference, San Diego, Jan. 7, 1996.
1994. Some Klamath-Maiduan comparative data. Hokan-Penutian
Workshop, Eugene, July 9, 1994.
1991. *The development of the classificatory stem category in
Klamath. Hokan-Penutian Workshop, Santa Cruz, July 1,
1991.
1989. *Diachronic notes on the Klamath verb suffixes. Hokan-
Penutian Workshop, Tucson, July 4, 1989.
1989. *The historical status of the conjunct/disjunct
distinction in Tibeto-Burman. 22nd ICSTLL, Honolulu.
1989. *New vs. assimilated knowledge as a semantic and
grammatical category. Winter LSA Meeting.
1988. *Verb stem structure in trans-montane Hokan and
Penutian languages. Hokan-Penutian Workshop,
University of Oregon, June 16, 1988.
1988. On the origins of the Kuki-Chin agreement prefixes.
21st ICSTLL, Lund.
1987. *Klamath-Wintu morphological parallels. Hokan-Penutian
Workshop, University of Utah, June 19, 1987.
1986. *Evidentiality in Hare. Athabaskan Workshop, UC Santa
Cruz.
1986. Relativization as nominalization in Tibetan and Newari.
19th ICSTLL.
1986. *(with C. Genetti and N. Rude). Klamath-Sahaptian-
Tsimshian cognate sets. Haas Festival Conference, UC
Santa Cruz.
1984. *Transitivity and ergative case in Lhasa Tibetan. 10th
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.
1984. Pronominal agreement in Proto-Tibeto-Burman. 194th
Meeting of the American Oriental Society.
1984. Versatile verbs in Tibetan. 17th Int. Conf. on
Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics.
1984. *Lhasa Tibetan evidentials and the semantics of causa-
tion. 14th Annual Meeting of the Western Conference on
Linguistics.
1984. Grammaticalized verbs in Tibetan and Newari. 59th
Annual (Winter) Meeting of the LSA.
l985. *Agentivity in syntax. Chicago Linguistic Society
Parasession on Agentivity and Causation.
1983. *Agentivity and causation: Data from Newari. 9th
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.
1983. Agent in Universal Grammar. 13th Annual Meeting of the
Western Conference on Linguistics.
1983. *Etymological notes on Tibeto-Burman case
particles. 16th Int. Conf. on Sino-Tibetan Languages
and Linguistics.
1982. Agentivity and causation: Data from Hare (Athabaskan).
57th Annual (Winter) Meeting of the LSA.
1981. Ergative case in Modern Tibetan. 14th Int. Conf. on
Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics.
1981. *Lhasa Tibetan: A case study in ergative
typology. 56th Annual (Winter) Meeting of the LSA.
1980. The localist account of transitivity. 55th Annual
(Winter) Meeting of the LSA.
1980. *The category of direction in Tibeto-Burman. 13th Int.
Conf. on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics.
1979. Viewpoint, attention flow, and subject coding proper-
ties. 54th Annual (Winter) Meeting of the LSA.
1978. Mood particles in Sino-Tibetan. 11th Int. Conf. on
Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics.
1978. The Mandarin aspectual particles. Symposium on
Tense/Aspect, Brown University.
1978. *Empathy and Jinghpaw agreement. 53rd Annual (Winter)
Meeting of the LSA.
1977. From ergative to accusative in Tibeto-Burman. 10th
International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and
Linguistics.
1977. *(with Lon Diehl and LaRaw Maran) 'A localistic
account of aspect in Jinghpaw' and 'The Tibeto-Burman
tense/aspect mechanisms'. Symposium on Time, Tense, and
Aspect, University of Michigan.