D. Terence Langendoen

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  • 1997 Optimality Theory: An Overview. Oxford, UK: Blackwell (coedited with Diana B. Archangeli)
  • 1984 The Vastness of Natural Languages. Oxford, UK: Blackwell (with Paul M. Postal)
    • Review by Barbara Abbott in Language
    • Review by Steven G. Lapointe in Linguistics and Philosophy
    • Review by James D. McCawley in International Journal of American Linguistics
    • Review by James V. Rauff in Computational Linguistics
    • Review by Henry Thompson in Journal of Linguistics
    • Review by Petr Sgall in Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics
    • Review by Yorick Wilks in Times Literary Supplement
  • 1976 An Integrated Theory of Linguistic Ability. New York, NY: T. Y. Crowell (coedited with Thomas G. Bever and Jerrold J. Katz)
  • 1971 Studies in Linguistic Semantics. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (coedited with Charles J. Fillmore)
  • 1970 Essentials of English Grammar. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
  • 1969 The Study of Syntax: The Generative-Transformational Approach to the Structure of American English. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
  • 1968 The London School of Linguistics: A Study of the Linguistic Contributions of B. Malinowski and J. R. Firth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

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  • in press An OWL-DL implementation of GOLD: An ontology for the Semantic Web. Linguistic Modeling of Information and Markup Languages: Contributions to Language Technology, ed. by Andreas Witt & Dieter Metzing. Dordrecht: Springer (Scott Farrar, coauthor)
  • in press Just how big are natural languages? The Linguistic Review
  • 2008 (prepublication version) Coordinate grammar. Language 84.691-709  (published version)
  • 2006 (English version) Los paradigmas nominales de yaqui y la teoria de la estructura paradigmática. Memorias del VIII Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Tomo I, ed. by Zarina Estrada Fernández. Hermosillo: Unison (Constantino Martínez Fabian, coauthor)
  • 2006 (prepublication version) Disjunctive numerals of estimation. Style 40.46-55
  • 2005 (prepublication version) Jerrold J. Katz (1932-2002). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., ed. by Keith Brown. Oxford: Elsevier.
  • 2004  (submitted version) The semantics of markup: Mapping legacy markup schemas to a common semantics. Proceedings of the 4th workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2004), ed. by Graham Wilcock, Nancy Ide and Laurent Romary, 25-32. Association for Computational Linguistics (Gary Simons, William D. Lewis, Scott Farrar, Brian Fitzsimons and Hector Gonzalez, coauthors)
  • 2003 (prepublication version) Merge. Formal Approaches to Function in Grammar: In Honor of Eloise Jelinek, ed. by Andrew Carnie, Mary Willie and Heidi Harley, 307-318. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
  • 2003 (submitted version) A linguistic ontology for the semantic web. GLOT International 7(3).97-100 (Scott Farrar, coauthor)
  • 2003 (prepublication version) Finite-state languages. Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd ed., ed. by William J. Frawley, 3:26-28. Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • 2003 (prepublication version) The logic of reflexivity and reciprocity. Anaphora: A Guidebook, ed. by Andrew Barss, 237-263. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing (Joël Magloire, coauthor)
  • 2002 (prepublication version) Sequence structure. The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and Information into the 21st Century, vol. 2: Computability of Language and Computer Applications, ed. by Bruce Nevin and Stephen M. Johnson, 61-75. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
  • 2002 (submitted version) An ontology for linguistic annotation. Semantic Web Meets Language Resources: Papers from the AAAI Workshop (Technical Report WS-02-16), 11-19. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press (Scott Farrar and William D. Lewis, coauthors)
  • 2002 (submitted version) Bridging the markup gap: Smart search engines for language researchers. Proceedings of the Workshop on Resources and Tools for Field Linguistics. Las Palmas, Canary Islands. (Scott Farrar and William D. Lewis, coauthors)
  • 2001 (submitted version) Building a knowledge base of morphosyntactic terminology. Proceedings of the IRCS Workshop on Linguistic Databases, 150-156. Philadelphia: Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania (William D. Lewis and Scott Farrar, coauthors)
  • 1998 (prepublication version) Limitations on embedding in coordinate structures. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 27.235-259.
  • 1998 (prepublication version) Linguistic theory. The Blackwell Companion to Cognitive Science, ed. by William Bechtel and George Graham, 235-244. Oxford, UK: Blackwell
  • 1998 (prepublication version) Bloomfield. The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, ed. by Robert A. Wilson and Frank C. Keil, 90-91. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • 1997 Foreword; Afterword. Optimality Theory: An Overview, ed. by Diana B. Archangeli and D. Terence Langendoen, viii-xii; 200-215. Oxford, UK: Blackwell (Diana B. Archangeli, coauthor)
  • 1996 (English version) Sobre las llamadas cláusulas relativas en yaqui. Tercer Encuentro de Lingüística en el Noroeste, ed. by Zarina Estrada Fernández, Max Figueroa Esteva, and Gerardo López Cruz, 443-464. Hermosillo
  • 1995 (HTML version) A rationale for the TEI recommendations for feature-structure markup (Gary F. Simons, coauthor). Reprinted in The Text Encoding Initiative: Background and Context, ed. by Nancy Ide and Jean Veronis, 191-210. Dordrecht:
  • 1994 Linking, segmentation, and alignment; Simple analytic mechanisms; Feature structures; Graphs, networks, and trees. Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange, ed. by Michael Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard. Chicago and Oxford: Text Encoding Initiative, 393-454, 455-474, 475-520, 605-624 (with Steven De Rose, for Linking, segmentation, and alignment; and Gary F. Simons, for Feature structures)
  • 1993 TWINCLE: The WINdowing Computational Linguistics Environment. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Symbolic and Logical Computing, ed. by Eric Johnson, pp. 193-208. Madison, SD: Dakota State University (Clinton Jeffery and Jon Lipp, coauthors)
  • 1992 Symmetric relations. The Joy of Grammar: A Festschrift in Honor of James D. McCawley, ed. by Diane Brentari, Gary Larson and Lynn MacLeod, 199-212. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
  • 1992 An environment for supporting experimental computational linguistics research. Final Report of Twelve Research Projects Funded by US West Foundation, ed. by Thaddeus Regulinski, 304-339. Tucson: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona
  • 1992 Linguistics. The College Board Guide to 150 Popular College Majors, 264-265. New York: The College Board
  • 1991 Finite state languages and grammars. Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics 2, ed. by William Bright, 12-14. Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • 1990 Views on grammatical voice from and for the '90s. WECOL 89 (Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics 2), ed. by Vida Samiian, 189-199. Fresno: California State University at Fresno
  • 1990 A new method of representing constituent structures. The Uses of Linguistics (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 583), ed. by Edward Bendix, 143-160. New York: New York Academy of Sciences (Yedidyah Langsam, coauthor)
  • 1989 Preposition-phrase attachment in noun phrases. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 18.533-548 (Dana McDaniel and Yedidyah Langsam, coauthors)
  • 1988 The status of undergraduate education in linguistics in the United States and Canada. Report of the Linguistics in the Undergraduate Curriculum project. Washington: Linguistic Society of America
  • 1987 On the phrasing of coordinate compound structures. A Festschrift for Ilse Lehiste (Ohio State University Working Papers in Linguistics 35), ed. by Brian Joseph and Arnold Zwicky, 186-196. Columbus: Ohio State University
  • 1987 On the design of finite-state transducers for parsing phrase-structure languages. Mathematics of Language, ed. by Alexis Manaster-Ramer, 191-236. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (Yedidyah Langsam, coauthor)
  • 1985 Sets and sentences. The Philosophy of Linguistics, ed. by Jerrold J. Katz, 225-248. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Paul M. Postal, coauthor)
  • 1985 Topic structures in Chinese
  • 1984 Generative generative phonology. Language and Cognition: Essays in Honor of Arthur J. Bronstein, ed. by Lawrence J. Raphael et al., 107-123. New York: Plenum
  • 1984 Word processing in freshman composition: One teacher's experience. Microcomputers and Basic Skills in College, ed. by Geoffrey Akst, 30-31. New York: Instructional Resource Center of the City University of New York
  • 1984 The representation of constituent structures for finite-state parsing. Proceedings of COLING 10, ed. by Donald Walker, 21-24. Menlo Park, CA: Association for Computational Linguistics (Yedidyah Langsam, coauthor)
  • 1984 English and the class of context-free languages; Comments on Pullum's criticisms. Computational Linguistics 10.177-181; 187-188 (Paul M. Postal, coauthor)
  • 1982 On a class of not ungrammatical constructions
  • 1982 The interpretation of predicate reflexive and reciprocal expressions in English. Proceedings of NELS 12, ed. by James Pustejovsky and Peter Sells, 163-173. Amherst: Graduate Linguistic Association of the University of Massachusetts (Edwin L. Battistella, coauthor)
  • 1982 The grammatical analysis of texts. Text Processing: Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 51, ed. by Sture Allén, 161-205. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell (including discussion by Christopher Habel, Hans-Jakob Schneider and Östen Dahl, and reply by author)
  • 1981 The generative capacity of word-formation components
  • 1979 On the assignment of constituent structures to the sentences generated by a transformational grammar. CUNYForum 8.1-32
  • 1979 The role of grammar in the use of language. Psycholinguistic Research: Applications and Implications, ed. by Doris Aaronson and Robert W. Rieber, 229-240. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
  • 1979 Discussion of papers by Yakov Malkiel and E. M. Uhlenbeck. The European Background of American Linguistics, ed. by Henry M. Hoenigswald, 145-59. Dordrecht: Foris
  • 1979 More on locative-inversion and the structure-preserving hypothesis Linguistic Analysis 5.421-437
  • 1979 Linguistics must be computational too. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2.158-159
  • 1978 (Speculative Grammarian link) On revising and extending wh-movement. Lingua Pranca, ed. by Thomas Ernst and Evan Smith, 34-37. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club (under the pseudonym of D. Terence Nuclear)
  • 1978 The logic of reciprocity
  • 1977 Presupposition stranding in English: A problem and a mystery. CLS book of squibs, ed. by S. Fox, et al., 64-65. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society (Geoffrey K. Pullum, coauthor)
  • 1977 On the inadequacy of type-3 and type-2 grammars for human languages. Studies in Descriptive and Historical Linguistics: Festschrift for Winfred Lehmann, ed. by Paul Hopper, 159-172. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
  • 1977 Freedom of speech in America: How free? CUNYForum 2.39-71
  • 1976 Some problems in the description of English accentuation. Studies in the Sound Pattern of English, ed. by Geoffrey K. Pullum and Didier Goyvaerts, 205-218. Ghent, Belgium
  • 1976 On the weak generative capacity of infinite grammars. CUNYForum 1.13-biguity. Testing Linguistic Hypotheses, ed. by David Cohen and Jessica R. Wirth, 111-127. Washington, DC: Hemisphere Press
  • 1975 The relation of competence to performance. Developmental Psycholinguistics and Communication Disorders, ed. by Doris Aaronson and Robert W. Rieber, 197-201. New York: New York Academy of Sciences
  • 1974 Speak and talk: A vindication of syntactic deep structure. On Language, Culture and Religion: Festschrift for Eugene A. Nida, ed. by M. Black and William A. Smalley, 237-240. The Hague: Mouton
  • 1973 Can a not unhappy person be called a not sad one? A Festschrift for Morris Halle, ed. by Stephen R. Anderson and Paul Kiparsky, 392-409. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (Thomas G. Bever, coauthor)
  • 1973 The problem of grammatical relations in surface structure. GURT 1973: Language and International Studies, ed. by Kurt Jankowsky, 27-37. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1973
  • 1973 The problem of linguistic theory in relation to language behavior: A tribute and reply to Paul Goodman
  • 1973 Dative questions: A study of the relation of acceptability to grammaticality of an English sentence type. Cognition 2.451-478 (Nancy Kalish and John Dore, coauthors)
  • 1972 The problem of grammaticality
  • 1972 The interaction of speech perception and grammatical structure in the evolution of language. Linguistic Change and Generative Theory, ed. by Robert P. Stockwell and Ronald K. S. Macaulay, 32-95. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (Thomas G. Bever, coauthor)
  • 1972 When optional copula deletion isn't
  • 1971 The projection problem for presuppositions. Studies in Linguistic Semantics, ed. by Charles J. Fillmore and D. Terence Langendoen, 55-62. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (Harris B. Savin, coauthor)
  • 1971 Presupposition and assertion in the semantic analysis of nouns and verbs in English. Semantics: An Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics, and Psychology, ed. by Danny D. Steinberg and Leon A. Jakobovits, 341-344. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • 1971 Linguistic practices of the Federal Trade Commission. The Linguistic Reporter 13.2.1-6<
  • 1971 A dynamic model of the evolution of language. Linguistic Inquiry 2.433-463 (Thomas G. Bever, coauthor)
  • 1970 The use of expletive 'it' in construction with expressions of place and time. Actes du Dixième Congrès Internationale des Linguistes 2, 911-918. Bucharest: Éditions de l'Académie de la République Socialiste de Roumanie
  • 1970 The 'can't seem to' construction
  • 1970 The accessibility of deep structure. Readings in English Transformational mar, ed. by Roderick A. Jacobs and Peter S. Rosenbaum, 99-104. Waltham, MA: Ginn and Company
  • 1967 Mundari verb conjugation. Linguistics 32.39-57
  • 1967 The copula in Mundari. The Verb 'Be' and Its Synonyms 1, ed. by John W. M. Verhaar, 75-100. Dordrecht: D. Reidel
  • 1966 The syntax of the English expletive 'it'. Monograph Series on Language and Linguistics 19, ed. by Francis P. Dinneen, 207-216. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press
  • 1966 A restriction on Grassmann's Law in Greek. Language
  • 1966 A note on the linguistic theory of M. Terentius Varro
  • 1964 Modern British Linguistics: A Study of its Theoretical and Substantive Contributions. Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 1963 The e/o ablaut in Greek. Quarterly Progress Report of the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics 69.202-203
  • 1963 The reciprocating cycle of the Indo-European e/o ablaut (Thomas G. Bever, coauthor). Quarterly Progress Report of the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics 69.207-211
  • 1961 Structural Descriptions for Sentences Generated by a Non-Self-Embedding Constituent Structure Grammar. S.B. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Presentations since 1998
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  • Jan 2009 Computational linguistics in support of linguistic theory. Invited plenary, Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco (with Emily Bender)
  • Nov 2008 Modals, quasimodals and pseudomodals. Invited colloquium, Department of Linguistics, Hong Kong University
  • Nov 2008 How big are natural languages? Invited colloquium, Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong
  • Jan 2008 Steps toward global interoperability for language resources. Keynote presentation, First international conference on global interoperability for language resources, City University of Hong Kong
  • Dec 2007 Elementary logic of features. Invited colloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
  • Nov 2007 Opportunities for massive extensions of linguistic annotation research and applications. Invited talk, Unified linguistic annotation workshop, University of Bergen, Norway
  • May 2007 Finite-state linguistic structure building. Invited talk, Maryland Mayfest, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park
  • Apr 2007 Just how big are natural languages? Recursion in human languages conference, Illinois State University, Normal PAPER
  • Jun 2006 An e-infrastructure for language documentation on the Web. Second international conference on e-social science, Manchester UK (with Gary F. Simons, William D. Lewis and Scott Farrar)
  • Jun 2006 Linguistics in the internet age: Tools and fair use. E-MELD workshop on digital language documentation: Tools and standards, Michigan State University (with William D. Lewis and Scott Farrar) PAPER
  • Apr 2006 Modals and quasimodals. Invited colloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of Washington
  • Jul 2005 The GOLD effort so far. E-MELD workshop on morphosyntactic annotation and terminology: Linguistic ontologies and data categories for language resources, Harvard University (with Brian Fitzsimons and Emily Kidder)
  • Mar 2005 Prefer breadth to depth in the analysis of grammatical recursion. Invited talk, 18th Annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, University of Arizona
  • Nov 2004 (English version) Los paradigmas nominales de yaqui y la teoria de la estructura paradigmática. VIII Encuentro de lingüística en el noroeste, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora (con Constantino Martínez Fabian)
  • Jul 2004 The semantics of markup: Mapping legacy markup schemas to a common semantics. 4th Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2004), Association for Computational Linguistics, Barcelona (with Gary Simons, Scott Farrar, William D. Lewis, Brian Fitzsimons and Hector Gonzalez) PAPER
  • Jul 2004 A model for interoperability: XML documents as a distributed database. E-MELD workshop on databases for field linguistics, Wayne State University (with Ruby Basham, Scott Farrar, Brian Fitzsimons, Alexis Lanham, William D. Lewis and Gary F. Simons)
  • Jul 2004 The GOLD ontology. E-MELD workshop on databases for field linguistics, Wayne State University (with Shauna Eggers and William D. Lewis)
  • May 2004 Getting NSF funding and the NSF decision process. SBSRI Summer Grant Proposal Development Workshop, University of Arizona
  • Mar 2004 Representation of grammatical knowledge. Cognitive Science Seminar, California State University, Fresno
  • Jan 2004 A semantic web for linguistics. Conference on Modelling Linguistic Information Resources, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld, Germany (with Scott Farrar)
  • Jan 2004 Comparability of language data and analysis: Using an ontology for linguistics. Symposium on Endangered Data vs. Enduring Practice, Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, Boston (with Scott Farrar)
  • Jan 2004 Terascale linguistics: Infrastructure for research communities. Terascale Townhall Meeting, Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, Boston
  • Oct 2003 Coordinate grammar. Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno
  • Jul 2003 Markup and the GOLD ontology. E-MELD workshop on Digitizing and Annotating Texts and Field Recordings, Michigan State University, East Lansing (with Scott Farrar)
  • Mar 2003 GOLD: A general ontology for linguistic descriptions (with Scott Farrar). Cognitive Science Brown Bag colloquium University of Arizona
  • Oct 2002 Modality and quasimodality in English. Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
  • Sep 2002 GOLD: A general ontology for linguistic descriptions. Invited talk, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • Aug 2002 Sharing and browsing linguistic data. E-MELD workshop on digitizing lexical information, Eastern Michigan University (with Scott Farrar)
  • Aug 2002 An ontology for linguistic annotation. E-MELD workshop on digitizing lexical information, Eastern Michigan University (with Scott Farrar and William D. Lewis) PAPER
  • Aug 2002 An ontology for linguistic annotation. Workshop on The Semantic Web meets language resources, Annual meeting of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Edmonton (with Scott Farrar and William D. Lewis) PAPER
  • May 2002 Bridging the markup gap: Smart search engines for language researchers. Workshop on Resources and Tools for Field Linguistics, Language Resources Evaluation Conference (LREC 3), Las Palmas (with Scott Farrar and William D. Lewis) PAPER
  • Mar 2002 A common ontology for linguistic concepts. Knowledge Technology Conference, Seattle (with Scott Farrar and Will Lewis, presented by Scott Farrar)
  • Dec 2001 Building a knowledge base of morphosyntactic terminology. Workshop on linguistic databases, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania (with Scott Farrar and William D. Lewis) PAPER
  • Jun 2001 Linguistic markup. LINGUIST List Language Digitization Workshop, Santa Barbara
  • Oct 2000 Bidirectional constraints for sound-meaning pairings. SLAT Colloquium, University of Arizona
  • Aug 2000 When do we get any?, Keynote speaker, Workshop on Optimal Interpretations of Words and Constituents, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • Mar 2000 JaCLE: The Java Computational Linguistics Environment, 13th annual CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing, University of California, San Diego (poster, with William Lewis and Duffy Gillman)
  • Jan 1999 Constraints on subordination, Presidential address, 75th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles
  • Sep 1998 Human reasoning and natural selection, Cognitive Science brown bag, University of Arizona
  • May 1998 Human reasoning and natural selection, Public lecture, City University of Hong Kong
  • May 1998 Plurals and predicates, Colloquium presentations at the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong; and Institute of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong Foreign Studies University, Guangzhou, China
  • May 1998 Limitations on embedding in coordinate structures, Colloquium presentation at Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China

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