You are invited to peruse the papers below. They are all in WinWord 7 (.doc) (Windows 95 or 98) format or Rich Text Format (.rtf). Comments welcome.
American linguistics today: a biased
sampling
Austronesian 'focus' as derivation: evidence from
nominalization
The case-marking system of Proto-Formosan
Cause and result clauses from the Ramkamhaeng inscription
to modern Thai
A dependency analysis of coordination in English and Japanese
Dependency grammar and lexicalism
Dependency grammar and monostratal transfer
Dependency theory and natural language processing
Do compounds have internal structure? A seamless
analysis
Ergativity, transitivity, and clitic coreference in four
Western Austronesian languages
The evolution of focus in Austronesian [SPQR: Starosta,
Pawley-que Reid, unabridged unpublished version; partially reformatted]
Focus as recentralisation
Generative methodology
Grammatical subgrouping of Formosan languages
Grammatical typology of Formosan languages
The great AUX cataclysm
Lexicase dependency grammar: an on-line reference manual
Lexicase grammar
Lexicase revisited
The lexicon in control
Natural language parsing and linguistic theories: can the
marriage be saved?
Off the subject [subjdown ku.rtf]
On defining the Chinese compound word: Headedness in
Chinese compounding and Chinese VR compounds: Starosta, Kuiper, Ng, and Wu 1998
[vr_cmd.doc]
The prehistory and pre-prehistory of the Austronesian
Languages: A linguistic perspective [pphst_ohp.rtf]
Proto-East Asian and the origin and dispersal of the
languages of East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific; Workshop on Perspectives on the Phylogeny of
East Asian Languages, Périgueux, France, Aug. 29-31, 2001. [Conference handout; tree_ohp1.rtf]
A seamless analysis of Micronesian noun incorporation.
[handout]
Extended abstract: Transitivity and ergativity in Austronesian languages
Transitivity, ergativity, and the best analysis of Atayal
case marking
Word order and focus in constrained dependency grammar
And for something a bit lighter:
Songs for the Cayetano education onslaught
Clammy
It won't be long
Melanesian home
Punahalls of ivy
To contact the (co-)author of these readings, please write to
stanley@hawaii.edu.