Brian K. Agbayani, Ph.D.

Office:

Department of Linguistics

California State University, Fresno

5245 N. Backer Ave. M/S PB92

Fresno, CA 93740-8001 USA

Office phone: (559) 278-4892

Email: bagbayan AT csufresno.edu

Research Areas

Generative Grammar

Syntactic Theory

Comparative Syntax

Current Research Agenda

Theory of Transformations

Comparative Syntax: Cross-linguistic distribution of non-constituent ellipsis and its relation to language universals

‘Finiteness’ and restructuring in South Asian languages

‘Configurationality’ and ‘free word order’ in East Asian and Ancient Indo-European languages

Education

1998 University of California, Irvine

Ph.D. in Linguistics

Dissertation: “Feature Attraction and Category Movement”

Dissertation Committee: Professor Naoki Fukui, Chair

Professor Lisa L.-S. Cheng

Professor C.-T. James Huang

1997 University of California, Irvine

M.A. in Linguistics

1993 University of California, Irvine

B.A. (Cum Laude) in Linguistics

Minor in Japanese Language and Literature

Teaching

2006-present Associate Professor

Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno

2001-2006 Assistant Professor

Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno

1998-2001 Lecturer

Department of Linguistics, University of California, Irvine

Lecturer

Department of English, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Grants (Internal)

2006- Grant for Web-based Course Development [with Ondine Gage-Serio]

2007 California State University, Fresno

2005- Grant for Enhancing Learning and Teaching through Digital Technology,

2006 California State University, Fresno

2002- Faculty Development Award,

2003 Office of the Provost, California State University, Fresno

Publications

Peer Reviewed

In Press:

(In press) “Second Position is First Position,” (book chapter with Chris Golston) in Festchrift for Raimo Anttila. Edited by Sheila Embleton, Giorgios Giannakis and Konrad Koerner. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

In Print:

2007 “Restructuring and Clausal Architecture in Kannada,” (book chapter 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.

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

2000 “Wh-Subjects in English and the Vacuous Movement Hypothesis,” Linguistic

Inquiry 31.4: 703-713.

2000 “Feature Attraction and Category Movement,” Glot International 4.7. [Blackwell Online]

Non-Peer Reviewed

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 36^th 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.

1998 “Chain Types and Optionality,” UC Irvine Working Papers in Linguistics 4. Irvine Linguistics Students Association.

1997 “Category Raising, Adjunction, and Minimality,” UC Irvine Working Papers in Linguistics 3. Irvine Linguistics Students Association.

1996 “Interpretation of Noun Phrases and Feature Licensing,” Proceedings of ConSOLE 4. SOLE, Leiden.

1996 “Phonological Constraints and Base-Reduplicant Non-Identity: The Case of Vietnamese,” Proceedings of the South Western Optimality Theory Workshop (SWOT II). Irvine Linguistics Students Association.

1996 “On the Interaction of Antecedent Contained Deletion and Negative Polarity Licensing: Theoretical Implications,” UC Irvine Working Papers in Linguistics 1. Irvine Linguistics Students Association.

Public Talks/Conference and Workshop Papers

2007 “PP-Splitting in Ancient Greek,” (with Chris Golston) Presented at the 35^th Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), UC San Diego, December 2007.

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

2007 Lecture series on Minimalist Syntax, Presented at Osaka University, September 2007.

2007 “Split Lexical Insertion in Parasitic Gap Constructions,” (with Masao Ochi) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Anaheim, CA, January 2007.

2006 “Restructuring Effects in Kannada,” (with Chandra Shekar), Presented at South Asian Language Analysis (SALA) 26, Kannada University, Hampi, India, December 2006.

2006 “Seemingly Non-complex Complex Predicates and Restructuring in Kannada,” (with Chandra Shekar), Rice Linguistics Symposium, Rice University, March 2006

2006 “Scattered Exponence in Ancient Greek Coordination,” (with Chris Golston) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Albuquerque, NM, January 2006.

2005 “Conditions on PF Movement,” (with Chris Golston) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Oakland, CA, January 2005.

2004 “Mapping Sentences to Sounds,” (with Chris Golston) Public talk presented at CSU Fresno, December 2004.

2004 “Clausal Restructuring and Inertness of Functional Categories,” (with Chandra Shekar) Public talk presented at CSU Fresno, November, 2004.

2004 “Move F and PF/LF Defectiveness,” (with Masao Ochi) Workshop on Minimalist Theorizing (in conjunction with Syntaxfest 2004), Indiana University, Bloomington, June 2004.

2004 “Sentences, Sentence Complexity, and the Study of the Human Mind/Brain,” Public talk presented at CSU Fresno, April 1, 2004.

2004 “An E-book for Introduction to Language and Linguistics Courses,” (with Chris Golston and Will Lewis) Public talk presented at CSU Fresno, March 26, 2004.

2003 “Accusative-Nominative Case Conversion and Complex Predicates in Kannada and Japanese,” (with Chandra Shekar) Annual Conference of the South Asian Languages Association (SALA) 23, University of Texas, Austin, October 2003.

2003 “A Sideward Movement Approach to Non-Constituent Deletion,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the 32^nd Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), University of Arizona, September 2003.

2003 “Accusative-Nominative Case Conversion in Kannada and Japanese: A Preliminary Investigation,” (with Chandra Shekar) Poster at the 32^nd Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), University of Arizona, September 2003.

2002 “The Trouble with Wh-Subjects,” Presented at the Workshop on Wh-Movement, Univ. of Leiden and Univ. of Utrecht, The Netherlands, December 2002.

2002 “Wackernagel’s Law in Hittite,” (with Chris Golston) Presented at the 14^th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, UCLA, November 2002.

2002 “Non-Constituent Deletion and Directionality,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Pasadena, CA, October 2002.

2002 “From Theory to Practice: Making the Connection in the Pedagogical Grammar Course,” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Saroyan Chapter of CATESOL, California State University, Fresno, April 2002.

2002 “Wackernagel Clitics in Hittite and the Syntax of ‘Second Position’,” (with Chris Golston) Presented at the University of California, Irvine, January 2002.

2002 “EPP Asymmetries,” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), San Francisco, January 2002.

2002 “Not to be Pseudogapping,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), January 2002.

2001 “How do Children Acquire the Morphology of English?,” Presented at California State University, Fresno, April 2001.

2001 “Verbal Deletion—A Moving Experience,” Presented at California State University, Fresno, April 2001.

2001 “Pseudogapping: ATB Movement, not Verb Phrase Ellipsis,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the Fourth Annual High Desert Linguistics Society Conference (HDLS), March 2001.

2001 “Moving Away from Deletion,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), January 2001.

2000 “Pseudogapping and Gapping: The Same, but Different,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the 29^th Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), California State University, Fresno, October 2000.

2000 “An Implicational Typology of ‘Deletion’ Phenomena,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics, University of California, Irvine, May 2000.

2000 “Unifying Left-Peripheral Deletion, Gapping and Pseudogapping,” (with Ed Zoerner) Presented at the 36^th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS), University of Chicago, April 2000.

2000 “Two Types of Optionality,” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), January 2000.

1998 “The Locality and Optionality of Scrambling,” Presented at the 29^th Conference of the North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS), University of Delaware, October 1998.

1998 “Optional Movement and Feature Attraction,” Presented at the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), Arizona State University, October 1998.

1997 “Generalized Pied-Piping and Island Effects,” Presented at the 28^th Conference of the North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS), University of Toronto, October 1997.

1997 A Theory of Category Movement and its Applications: Some Notes on the Architecture of Small Clauses in Chinese and English,” (with Sze-Wing Tang) Presented at the Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics, University of California, Irvine, May 1997.

1997 “A Theory of Category Movement and its Applications,” Presented at the 9^th Student Conference in Linguistics (SCIL), Eastern Michigan University, May 1997.

1996 “Phonological Constraints and Base-Reduplicant Non-Identity: The Case of Vietnamese,” Presented at the 2^nd South Western Optimality Theory Workshop (SWOT), University of California, Irvine, May 1996.

1995 “Interpretation of Noun Phrases and Feature Licensing,” Presented at ConSOLE 4, University of Paris 10, France, December 1995.

1995 “Feature Licensing and the Theory of Phrase Structure,” Presented at the Workshop on Clausal Architecture: Aspectual and Verbal Projections, University of Bergamo, Italy, November 1995.

Books/Volumes Edited

2007 Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) 2007, Volume 17, with Erin Bainbridge. Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno.

2004 Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) 2003, Volume 15, with Vida Samiian and Benjamin Tucker. Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno.

2003 Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) 2002, Volume 14, with Paivi Koskinen and Vida Samiian. Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno.

1997 Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 15, with S.-W. Tang. Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, Calif.

1996 Proceedings of the South Western Optimality Theory Workshop (SWOT II), with N. Harada. Irvine Linguistics Students Association.

1996 UC Irvine Working Papers in Linguistics 1, with K. Takeda and S.-W. Tang. Irvine Linguistics Students Association.

Research Collaborations with Students

2004 “On the Relationship between Extraction and Selection,” with Carrie Westphal (MA in Linguistics, 2005)

2003 “Derived SOV Structures in Marathi,” with Aarti Nayudu (MA in Linguistics, 2003. Winner of Distinguished International Graduate Student Award and Outstanding International Student Award. Currently a Ph.D. Student at the University of Durham, England)