Brian Agbayani, Ph.D.

 

 

 

Associate Professor

Department of Linguistics

California State University, Fresno

 

 

5245 N. Backer Ave. M/S PB92

Fresno, CA 93740-8001  USA

 

 

Office Phone:  (559) 278-4892

Fax:  (559) 278-7299

 

Email:  This is a csufresno.edu email address.          
Please add the address to this name: bagbayan

 

 

BIO

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RESEARCH AREAS, HANDOUTS & ARTICLES (DOWNLOADABLE)

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research areas

  • Generative Grammar
  • Syntactic Theory
  • Comparative Syntax

 

academic background

 

  • 1998    Ph.D, Linguistics (University of California, Irvine); Dissertation: Feature Attraction and Category Movement [ABSTRACT]
  • 1997    M.A., Linguistics (University of California, Irvine)
  • 1993    B.A., Linguistics (University of California, Irvine)

 

 

handouts (Most recent)

 

2007                “PP-splitting in Ancient Greek,” (with Chris Golston) Western Conference on Linguistics, San Diego, CA.

December 2, 2007. [HTML]

 

2007                “Feature Splitting Under External Merge: Some Theoretical and Empirical Consequences,” Osaka University.

September 12, 2007. [PDF]

 

2007                “Split Lexical Insertion in Parasitic Gap Constructions,” (with Masao Ochi), Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America,

Anaheim, CA.  January 6, 2007 [PDF]

 

 

In press

 

“Second Position is First Position,” (with Chris Golston) in Festchrift for Raimo Anttila. Edited by Sheila Embleton, Giorgios Giannakis and Konrad Koerner. 

Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [PDF]

 

 

articles & book chapters

 

2007                “Restructuring and Clausal Architecture in Kannada,” (with Chandra Shekar) in Phrasal and Clausal Architecture: Syntactic derivation and interpretation.

                        Edited by Simin Karimi, Vida Samiian and Wendy Wilkins. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 8-24.

 

2006                 “Pied-Piping, Feature Movement, and Wh-Subjects,” in Wh-Movement: Moving on.  Edited by Lisa Cheng and Norbert Corver.

                        Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. 71-93.

 

2006                 “Move F and PF/LF Defectiveness,” (with Masao Ochi) in Minimalist Essays. Edited by Cedric Boeckx. Amsterdam:

                        John Benjamins. 19-34.

 

2005                 “A Parallel Movement Solution to Puzzles of Discontinuous Ellipses,” (with Ed Zoerner) Folia Linguistica. 39.3-4: 299-318.

 

2004                 “Gapping, Pseudogapping and Sideward Movement,” (with Ed Zoerner) Studia Linguistica 58.3: 185-211. [PDF]

 

2002                 “A Pseudogapping Asymmetry,” (with Ed Zoerner), Snippets 5. [PDF]

 

2000                 “Wh-Subjects in English and the Vacuous Movement Hypothesis,” Linguistic Inquiry 31.4: 703-713. [PDF]

 

 

proceedings and working papers (selected list)

 

2004              “A Sideward Movement Approach to Non-Constituent Deletion,” (with Ed Zoerner), Proceedings of

                       the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), Volume 15. CSU Fresno.

 

2002              “Gapping and Pseudogapping: The Same, but Different,” (with Ed Zoerner), Proceedings of

                       the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), Volume 12. CSU Fresno.

 

2001              “A Theory of Category Movement and its Applications,” MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 36.

 

2001              “Unifying Left-Peripheral Deletion, Gapping and Pseudogapping,” (with Ed Zoerner), Proceedings of

                       the 36th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.

 

2001              “Verbal ‘Deletion’ – A Moving Experience,” (with Ed Zoerner), UC Irvine Working Papers in

                      Linguistics 6. Irvine Linguistics Students Association.

 

1999              “The Locality and Optionality of Scrambling,” Proceedings of the North Eastern Linguistics Society

                      (NELS) 29. GLSA, Amherst, Mass.

 

1999              “Optional Movement and Feature Attraction,” Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics

                      (WECOL), Volume 10. CSU Fresno.

 

1999              “A Note on English Subjects,” UC Irvine Working Papers in Linguistics 5. Irvine Linguistics Students

                      Association.

 

1998              “Generalized Pied-Piping and Island Effects,” Proceedings of the North Eastern Linguistics Society

                     (NELS) 28. GLSA, Amherst, Mass.

 

 

 

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