Grant Goodall
Papers presented
“Fitting grammar into the language learning experience.” UC Consortium on Language Learning and Teaching Professional Development Workshop, UCSD, June 20, 2004.
“Grammar and language teaching.” UC Consortium on Language Learning and Teaching Professional Development Workshop, UCSD, June 19, 2004.
“The syntax and processing of wh-questions in Spanish.” 23rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, UC Davis, April 24, 2004.
“Satiation as a tool for comparative syntax: English vs. Spanish inversion.” Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, January 10, 2004
“Accounting for verb-initial clauses in Spanish.” Department of Linguistics colloquium, University of Arizona (October 2002).
“New and old types of evidence in syntax: A case study of inversion and satiation effects.” Cognitive Science Program Master Seminar, University of Arizona (October 2002).
“Technology and the problem of second language learning.” Department of Linguistics colloquium, University of California, San Diego (February 2002).
“Accounting for verb-initial clauses in Spanish.” Department of Linguistics colloquium, University of California, San Diego (February 2002).
“V-initial clauses and the categorial status of locatives and temporals.” Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco (January 2002).
“Pri la transitiveco de verboj en Esperanto.” International Symposium on Language Planning and Lexicology, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb (July 2001).
“El sujeto en español y la propiedad PPE.” Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico (November 2000).
“What Spanish can tell us about the EPP.” Tenth Colloquium on Generative Grammar, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain (April 2000).
“The position of the ‘subject’ in Czech indefinite SE clauses.” With Kristina Jarosova. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago (January 2000).
“Subjects in Spanish.” NSF Workshop on Grammatical Functions in Transformational Grammar, University of Illinois (July 1999).
“On preverbal subjects in Spanish.” 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Michigan (April 1999).
“Subject, topic, and focus in Spanish.” Linguistics program colloquium, Arizona State University (February 1999) and New Mexico State University (March 1999).
“Passives and arbitrary plural subjects in Spanish.” 28th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Pennsylvania State University (April 1998).
"θ-alignment and the by-phrase." Chicago Linguistic Society Regional Meeting 33, University of Chicago (April 1997).
"On the by-phrase in passive clauses." Seventh Colloquium on Generative Grammar, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain (April 1997).
"The external argument in passives and the syntax/argument structure interface." 20th GLOW Colloquium, Rabat, Morocco (March 1997).
"Arbitrary third-person plural subjects and the representation of external arguments." Department of General Linguistics colloquium, University of Geneva (June 1996).
"EPP and active AGR-S effects in passives." Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics colloquium, University of Leiden (May 1996) and University of Amsterdam (May 1996).
"On the representation of external arguments in passive clauses." Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics colloquium, University of Leiden (May 1996).
"EPP and nominative-preference effects in passives." Erasmus Program Syntax Workshop, University of Geneva (March 1996).
"Movement in passives." Department of Linguistics colloquium, University of Southern California (February 1995) and University of California, San Diego (February 1995).
"Arbitrary they and θ-role suppression." Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans (January 1995)
"Sujetos plurales arbitrarios en español: otra construcción pasiva." Primera Mesa Redonda de Lingüística Española, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City (March 1994)
"Why do NP's move?" Department of Linguistics and Philosophy colloquium, MIT (July 1993).
"SPEC-head agreement, case, and the motivation for NP-movement." Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics, University of California, Irvine (March 1993), and Department of Linguistics colloquium, University of Texas at Austin (April, 1993).
"SPEC-head agreement as the motivation for NP-movement." 22nd Western Conference on Linguistics, University of Arizona (October, 1992).
"Passives and Case." 15th International Congress of Linguists, Université Laval, Québec, Canada (August, 1992).
"Mandarin Chinese passives and the nature of Case-absorption." Third Annual North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Cornell University (May, 1991).
"On the status of SPEC of IP." West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics X, Arizona State University (March, 1991).
"SPEC of IP and SPEC of CP in Spanish wh-questions." Twenty-first Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of California, Santa Barbara (February, 1991).
"Subjects in Spanish wh-questions." Annual meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, El Paso (October, 1990).
"The role of grammar in language teaching." Keynote address at symposium for English teachers, Universidad Centroamericana, Managua, Nicaragua, and colloquium at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa (August, 1990).
"La universalidad del idioma Esperanto" (member of three-person discussion panel) Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias, a research unit of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Mexico (July, 1990).
"La lingüística y el racionalismo de Chomsky." University colloquium, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico (April, 1990).
"Wanna Contraction as Restructuring." Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington, D.C. (December, 1989).
"On Case absorption in the passive construction." Nineteenth Annual Western Conference on Linguistics, Arizona State University (October, 1989).
"Accounting for head/complement order without phrase structure rules." Views on Phrase Structure Conference, University of Florida (March, 1989).
"On the directionality of θ-role assignment." Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans (December, 1988).
"La lingüística y la filosofía como parte de la ciencia cognoscitiva." Presented as part of the "Semana del Humanismo" at the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua (October, 1988).
"NP-movement and Case in Mandarin Chinese." Linguistics Program colloquium, University of Utah (June, 1988).
"Principles and parameters in animal learning and in human language acquisition." Cognitive science program colloquium, University of Utah (June, 1988).
"Wanna-contraction and attainable grammars." Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language: In Honor of Professor S.-Y. Kuroda (March, 1988).
"Word order within the Verb Phrase." Department of Linguistics colloquium, State University of New York at Stony Brook (February, 1988)
"Evidence for an asymmetry in argument structure." Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco (December, 1987).
"Recent developments in generative grammar." Academia Sinica Graduate School, Beijing, and Jinan University, Guangzhou (Canton), China (June, 1987).
"On argument structure and L-marking with Mandarin Chinese ba." Second Harbin International Conference on Generative Grammar, Harbin, China (May, 1987).
"Mandarin Chinese ba and antecedent-government." Department of Linguistics colloquium, University of Texas at Austin (April, 1987).
"Coordination and phrase structure." Workshop on Syntactic Representations, University of California, San Diego (February, 1987).
"On argument structure and L-marking with Mandarin Chinese ba." North Eastern Linguistic Society Annual Meeting XVII, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (November, 1986).
"Theories of coordination and phrase structure." Conference on Alternative Conceptions of Phrase Structure, New York University (July, 1986).
"Ba constructions." Sloan Foundation Workshop on Chinese Syntax, City University of New York (July, 1986).
"Issues in the theory of coordination." Department of Linguistics colloquium, University of British Columbia (March, 1986).
"Some differences between Spanish and French causatives." GLOW Colloquium on Parametric Typology, Brussels (April, 1985).
"Case, clitics, and lexical NP's in Romance causatives." Fifteenth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Boston University (March, 1985).
"Across-the-Board movement, the ECP, and the Bijection Principle." West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics III, University of California, Santa Cruz (March, 1984).
"Across-the-Board movement in Spanish." Fourteenth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Southern California (February, 1984).
"Tough in Chinese and English." Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Minneapolis (December, 1983).
"A three-dimensional analysis of coordination." Chicago Linguistic Society Regional Meeting 19, University of Chicago (April, 1983).