Lectures since 1978:

GLOW Colloquium, Amsterdam, April 1978. "Grammatical formative insertion in minimal post-transformational domains".

University of Washington, Seattle, March 1979. "3 kinds of lexical items".

Linguistic Society of America Summer Meeting, Salzburg, Summer 1979. "The algebra of verbal processes with reference to English, French, and Spanish".

Groningen Round Table on Auxiliaries, Groningen, June 1980. "The Designation Convention and Verb Raising."

University of Washington, Seattle, 1982. "The prepositional copula as."

Colloquium on Spanish Syntax, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 1982. "Gerunds in Spanish and English".

XIII Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Chapel Hill, March 1983. "The necessity of three-cornered comparative syntax".

Linguistic Society of America Summer School, Los Angeles, August 1983. "The extended, revised theta-criterion.''

University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, March 1984. "Motivations for deriving adverbial morphological case from PP structures."

Université de Montréal, Montréal, April 1984. "Indirect theta-role assignment and a general case assignment principle."

University of Ottawa, Ottawa, April 1984. "Motivations for deriving adverbial morphological case from PP structures."

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, May 1984. "Indirect theta-role assignment and a general case assignment principle."

University of Iowa, Iowa City, August 1984. "The source of prepositions in linguistic theory."

Invited Speaker at the Western Conference on Linguistics. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, October 1984. "The source of prepositions in linguistic theory."

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 1985. "The Designation Convention and closed categories.'

Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, November 1985. "The local nature of language-particular rules."

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, December 1985. "The local nature of language-particular rules."

Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Seattle, December 1985. Participant in symposium on thematic roles. "Comments on the paper by L. Talmy."

Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, September 1986. "The fundamental asymmetries among lexical categories."

Catholic University of Tilburg, Tilburg, September 1986. "Only NP's can be subjects."

Northwest Linguistics Club, Seattle, February 1987. "The non-existence of theta -grids and theta-linking in the lexicon."

City University of New York, New York, March 1987.

First International Linguistic Conference of the Linguistic Society of Morocco, Rabat, April 1987. "Instantiations of universally defined grammatical relations in verb-initial languages."

Paris Conference on Linguistics, Paris, May 1987. "The passive-past participle of English."

Conference on the Formation of Culture, Ljubljana, June 1987. "What is materialism in formal semantics?"

University of Ottawa, Ottawa, November 1987. "Adjectives as anaphors."

L'Université de Québec �EMontréal, Montréal, November 1987. "The passive participle and base-generated anaphoric clitics."

McGill University, Montreal, November 1987. "The autonomy of the (syntactic) lexicon and syntax: insertion conditions for derivational and inflectional morphemes."

Northwest Linguistics Club, Vancouver, February 1988. "Timberlake's nominative objects in Finnish and Old Russian."

Cornell University, Ithaca, November 1988. "The strange case of dative movement."

Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, November 1988. "The non­existence of theta-grids and theta-linking in the lexicon."

Princeton University, Princeton, February 1989. "On the interaction of syntax and the lexicon: the unity of -ing forms in English."

Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, April 1989. "Los gerundios en español y los participios en inglés como sintagmas adjetivales."

Université de Louvain, Louvain, May 1989. "The return of the repressed: the strange case of dative movement.

Paris Syntax Workgroup, Paris, May 1989. "The non-existence of -roles."

Séminaire de Lundi, Paris, June 1989. "Passive and perfect participles."

Inter University Centre of Postgraduate Studies, Dubrovnik, June 1989. "Syntax, lexicon, interpretation."

University of Wupertal, Wupertal, July 1989. "The autonomy of syntax and the non-existence of -grids."

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, December 1989. "The operator position in parasitic gaps" and "The syntax of English -ing"

Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington, D.C., December 1989. "Timberlake's nominative objects in Finnish and Old Russian."

Boeing Computer Services, Bellevue, February 1990. "The autonomy of syntax and the non­existence of theta -grids."

Evergreen State College, Olympia, May 1990. "The autonomy of syntax and the non-existence of theta-grids."

University of California at Irvine, Irvine, June 1990. "How many abstract cases are there?"

Brandeis University, Waltham, October 1990. "Indirect object alternations and a syntax-­subservient Projection Principle."

Harvard University, Cambridge, October 1990. "A unified syntax of passive adjectives, passive verbs, and perfect participles in English and Romance."

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, November 1990. "What is specifier-head agreement?"

University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, November 1990. "The empty S-structure P nodes in indirect object alternations and a syntax-subservient Projection Principle."

University of Durham, Durham, February 1991. "A unified syntax and lexical entry for (English) passives."

University of Washington, Seattle, May 1991. "Rereading Syntactic Structures."

Invited Speaker at the Western Conference of Linguistics. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, November 1991. "Economy of representation: the proper projection of a , +____ b."

Invited Speaker at the Utrecht Conference on Lexical Specification and Lexical Insertion. Utrecht, December 1991. "Principles of lexical projection."

Utrecht University, Utrecht, February 1992. "The insertion of bound derivational morphemes."

Philosophy Faculty, Ljubljana, April 1992. "Recent advances in generative grammar."

Philosophy Faculty, Ljubljana, April 1992. "The functional category hypothesis."

Faculty of Letters, Fes, April 1992. "The functional category hypothesis."

Faculty of Letters, Fes Morocco, April 1992. "Recent advances in generative grammar."

University of Umea, Umea, May 1992. "Economy of representation: the realizations of X,+____YP."

Eurotyp Group 9 Meeting, University of Lund, Lund, May 1992. "How clitics and inflection license null arguments."

Catholic University of Tilburg, Tilburg, May 1992. "A theory-internal problem and its solution."

European Science Foundation (Eurotyp) Conference. San Sebastian, September 1992. "The functional category hypothesis."

Groningen University, Groningen, September 1992. "Parasitic operators."

Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, November 1992. "Rereading Syntactic Structures."

University of York, York, November 1992. "Grammatically deviant prestige dialect constructions".

University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, January 1993. "Two principles of economy."

University of Pavia, Pavia, February 1993. "The structure of Romance clitics and the distance to their gaps in a generative model" and "Parasitic operators."

University of Venice, Venice, February 1993. "Two principles of economy."

University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, March 1993. "Parasitic operators."

Keynote address at the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Birmingham, March 1993. "The nature of syntactic indices."

Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Birmingham, March 1993. "Some Issues concerning Principle C."

Inaugural lecture, University of Durham, Durham, March 1993. "The nature of syntactic indices and disjoint reference."

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, April 1993. "Two principles of economy."

Eurotyp Group 9 Meeting. University of Trondheim, Trondheim, June 1993. "Clitics and derivational morphology."

University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, September 1993. "The distance of Romance clitics to their gaps."

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, September 1993. "The structure of Romance clitics and the distance to their gaps," and two presentations of the Jackendoff-Emonds controversy on theta-role assignment in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

Catholic University of Tilburg, Tilburg, September 1993. "The distance of Romance clitics to their gaps."

Groningen Workshop on Logical Form. University of Groningen, Groningen, December 1993. "Deep and phonological lexicalization."

University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, January 1994. "Deep free and surface bound pronouns."

School for Oriental and African Studies, London, February 1994. "Deep free and surface bound pronouns."

Cambridge University, Cambridge, February 1994. "Deep and phonological lexicalization."

Tokyo Area Circle of Linguistics, Tokyo, July 1994. "The space of complements and a Two-Sided Case Filter."

Kanda University for International Studies, Chiba, July 1994. "A new vista for Lexicography."

Hokkaido University, Sapporo, July 1994. "Morphology as the key to Syntax."

Sofia University, Tokyo, July 1994. "Economy of Representation and the selection of non-finite clause types."

Sofia University, Tokyo, July 1994. "Structure-preserving derivations and the Projection Principle."

European Science Foundation Eurotyp Project, Group 9 Workshop, Venice, November 1994. "How clitics reveal the flat structure of complex verbs in Romance."

European Science Foundation Eurotyp Project, Group 2 Workshop, Durham, November 1994. "Romance Clitics and Alternative Realization."

Philological Society, Cambridge University, March 1995. "The new Grammatical Lexicon."

Workshop on Functional Categories and Word Order, University of Manchester, Manchester, March 1995. "Why Person? Why Number? Why Agreement?"

Seikei University, Tokyo, May 1995. "The small clause error in syntactic theory."

Seventh Annual Meeting on the Frontiers of Telecommunications, Tokyo, December 1995. "A mapping principle for linking language-particular morphology with universal syntax."

Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, December 1995. "Insertion levels for grammatical morphemes."

Universities of Nanterre and Vincennes-St. Denis, Paris, March 1996. "How clitics reveal the flat structure of complex verbs in Romance."

Kanda University, Chiba, July 1996. "Subcategorization and clausal selection."

Nanzan University, Nagoya, December 1996. "The flat structure of complex verbs in Romance Languages."

Tohoku University, Sendai, December 1996. "The passive in generative grammar."

Catholic University of Tilburg, Tilburg, April 1997. "Passive syntactic structures."

Palacky University, Olomouc, April 1997. "The history of generative analyses of the auxiliary" and "Analysis of English –ing."

Syncom Project Workshop of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies, Wassenaar, June 1997. 3 talks: (i) "Double Object Constructions." (ii) "Analytic Causatives in Romance." (iii) Comments on H. Koopman's paper on Imperatives.

University of Washington, Seattle, September 1997. "Productive morphology and levels of Spell-out for the Closed Class Lexicon."

University of Vitoria/ Gasteiz, Vitoria, November 1997. "How clitics reveal the flat structure of complex verbs in Romance."

School of Oriental and African Studies, London, January 1998. "The flat structure of Romance causatives and restructuring."

University of York, York, February 1998. "Split-level lexical insertion."

University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, March 1998. "On the organization of the syntactic lexicon: 3 levels of nominalization."

Les grammaires du français et les "mots-outils", Université François Rabelais, Tours, June 1998. "L'accord en nombre: seule exception �El'agglutination simple."

Nagoya Linguistics Circle, Nagoya, September 1998. "The Source of PP Structure: Generalized Abstract Case."

Center of Excellence in Linguistics at Kanda University, Chiba, October 1998. 3 talks: (i) "Subcategorization and interpretation of complements." (ii) "The source of PP structure: Generalized Abstract Case." (iii) "Null internal arguments: licensed by subcategorization and locally identified."

University of Durham, Durham, February 1999. "A universal principle for Economy of Reference at LF."

Université de Nancy, Nancy, March 1999. "Three levels of lexical insertion on a Cyclic Domain."

Université de Lille, Lille, April 1999. "Closed class verbs and flat structures: Romance causatives."

Invited speaker for the Workshop on Semi-Lexical Categories, Tilburg University, Tilburg, May 1999. "The flat structure expression of Semi-Lexical Heads."

Chukyo University, Nagoya, September 1999. "The flat structure economy of Semi-Lexical Heads."

Center of Excellence in Linguistics at Kanda University, Chiba, September 1999. "Economy Conditions at three interfaces."

University of London (University College), London, November 1999. "Morphology reduced to grammatical compounding: the English and French sub-cases."

University of London (School of Oriental and African Languages), London, February 2000. "Passive Syntactic Structures."

Kobe Area Circle of Linguistics, Kobe, July 2000. "What is the Syntacticon?"

Linguistics Society of Great Britain, Durham, September 2000. "The Lower Operator Position of Parasitic Gaps."

Peripheral Positions Conference, York, September 2000. "English Leftward Movement to Spec CP and Pause Intonation."

Osaka Women's College, Osaka, November 2000. "Implications of English vocabulary borrowing for language history."

York University, York, March 2001. "What is the Syntacticon?"

University of California (Townsend Center Working Group on Grammar and Verbal Art), Berkeley, May 2001. "Parts of Speech and Generative Grammar."

Invited speaker, Kansai Linguistics Society, October 2001. "Merging Subjects: evidence from causative, restructuring, small clauses and parasitic gaps."

Kobe College, December 2001. "Syntax: from a jungle to a garden."

Tilburg University, Tilburg, and University of Groningen, Groningen, February 2002. "The Lower Operator Position with Parasitic Gaps."

University of Durham, Durham, March 2002. " Merging Semi-Lexical Categories."

Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, May 2002, "What Educated People (should) Know about Language."

Sophia University, Tokyo, June 2002, "Merging Semi-Lexical Heads and Economy" and "The Parasitic Operator and the Computational Specification of Subjects."

Kobe Area Circle of Linguistics, Kobe, June 2002, "A Compressed View of the 2002 Glow Conference and Workshops."

Tshing Hua University, Taipei, July 2002, "The Lower Operator Position with Parasitic Gaps."

Invited speaker for the Workshop on New Tendencies in Comparative Syntax: Null Elements and Parameters of Variation, University of Verona, Verona, March 2003, "Conditions On Empty (Allo) Morphs: Two Types Of Lexical Access."

Northeast England Syntax Seminar, March 2003, "Two Conditions on Empty (Allo) Morphs."

University of Brno, Brno, and University of Durham, Durham, March 2003, "Two Types Of Lexical Access: Why Such Design?"

Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, July 2003, "What Humans have that Animals don't Have."

Invited address for Western Conference of Linguistics, University of Arizona, Tucson, September, 2003, "How do we Construct Convergent Numerations?"

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, October 2003, "English Indirect Passives."

University of Durham, Durham, March, 2004, "English Indirect Passives."

Northeast England Syntax Seminar, Durham, March 2004, "How do we Construct Convergent Numerations?"

Kyoto University, October, 2004, "The Purely Phonological Character of Latin Noun Inflections."

Workshop on the Roles and Formal Properties of the Lexicon in Generative Grammar, English Linguistic Society of Japan, Dokkyo University, November, 2004. "The Grammatical Lexicon: the Fundamental Tool for Convergent Numerations."

Zentrum fuer Algemeine Sprachwissenshaft, January 2005, "The Syntacticon in a Comprehension Model." and "What is the same and what is different in German and English Root Clauses: one little Syntacticon Entry meets Universal Grammar."

Study Group on Evolution and Syntax, International Institute of Advanced Study, Kyoto, January 2005. "From Primate to Human in Two Easy Steps."

University of Hawaii, Honolulu, February 2005, "English Indirect Passives."

University of Brno, Brno, March 2005, "Generative Syntax of Adjective Phrases."

Study Group on Evolution and Syntax, International Institute of Advanced Study, Kyoto, April 2005. "Conditions on Functional Categories in Natural Language."

University of California, Berkeley, September 2005. "From Primate Cognition to Human Syntax: the Evolution of Language in Two Easy Steps."

Workshop in Honor of Henk van Riemsdijk, Tilburg, December 2005. "Quantification: the Unifying Role of Functional Projections and their Specifiers."

University of Washington, Seattle, February 2006; Marsaryk University, Brno, March 2006; Hungarian Institute of Linguistics and the University of Budapest, Budapest, April 2006. "How Much should we Distribute Morphology?"

GLOW Workshop on Adjuncts, Barcelona, April 2006, with Arancha Mateos. "Could Adjuncts be Simpler? Juxtaposition and Syntactic Feature Valuation."

Hungarian Institute of Linguistics and the Un. of Budapest, Budapest, April 2006. "How much should we Distribute Morphology?"

English Literary Society Symposium on Nominalizations, Mie University, Mie, October 2006. "The Three Levels of Insertion on a Phasal Domain: English nominalizing suffixes."

Invited address for Western Conference of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno, October 2006, "Principles of Head Placement in Words and Phrases: Universal Default Right Headedness."

Mie University Forum, Mie, February 2007. "Using Economy to Constrain OT Constraints, with reference to nominals."

Lecture series on Darwin�fs Legacy, University of Durham, Durham, April 2007, "From Primate to Human: Freeing Sound from Meaning and Vision from Reality."

University of Salzburg, January 2008. "Principles of Head Placement in Words and Phrases: Universal Default Right Headedness."

Computational Linguistic Seminar, Vienna, January 2008, "The Grammatical Lexicon: Fundamental Tool for Constructing Convergent Numerations."