B YRON T. A HN –C URRICULUM V ITAE – last updated: March 30, 2014 T (424) 442-9766 B [email protected] m http://byron.bol.ucla.edu

C ONTACT I NFORMATION

University of California, Los Angeles 3125 Campbell Hall, Box 951543 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543

R ESEARCH I NTERESTS

I have strong research background in theoretical linguistics, namely syntax and prosody, and also in using experimental tests and empirical data. More specifically, I am interested in the syntax of binding and reflexivity, intonational phonology, the syntax-prosody interface, verbal structure, case, and Japanese linguistics. Recent research topics include: • Empirical Basis of a New Binding Theory • Argument Structure and the Syntax-Semantics Interface • Unification of All Grammatical Voices Under VoiceP • The Syntax and Prosody of Emphatic Reflexives • DP-internal Syntax of Austronesian languages • Re-Exploring the Tonal Inventory of English

E DUCATION

University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D. in Linguistics (defense: Spring 2014) Dissertation: Giving Reflexivity a Voice: Twin Reflexives in English Sun-Ah Jun and Dominique Sportiche (co-chairs), Elsi Kaiser, Hilda Koopman, and Timothy Stowell Master’s Thesis: Not Just Emphatic Reflexives Themselves: Their Syntax, Semantics and Prosody Anoop Mahajan (chair), Sun-Ah Jun, Jessica Rett Cornell University, Ithaca, NY B.A., Linguistics, Magna Cum Laude Concentrations in Cognitive Studies and East Asian Studies Honors Thesis: Nominative-Genitive Conversion in Japanese: a Consequence of the Syntax John Whitman (advisor), John Bowers, Wayne Harbert

OTHER E DUCATION H ONORS AND AWARDS

2006 - Present

2002 - 2006

LSA Summer Institute, Stanford, CA

Summer 2007

LSA Summer Institute, Cambridge, MA

Summer 2005

Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA Research Mentorship, UCLA

2011 - 2012 2010

President’s Fellowship, UCLA Summer Institute Fellowship, Linguistic Society of America President’s Fellowship, UCLA

P UBLICATIONS

2009 - 2010 Summer 2007 2006 - 2007

Summer Institute Fellowship, Linguistic Society of America

Summer 2005

Travel Scholarship, Cornell University Dept. of Asian Studies

Summer 2005

Ahn, B. and D. Sportiche. Forthcoming. Bind Locally Indeed. UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics. Ahn, B. & Craig Sailor. 2014. The Emerging Middle Class. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 46). Ahn, B. 2012. Tongan Relative Clauses at the Syntax-Prosody Interface. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association. Ahn, B. 2012. External Argument Focus and Reflexive Syntax. Coyote Papers 20.

I NVITED TALKS

Subject-Orientation and Reflexivity: Crosslinguistic Investigations at the Interfaces. University of Southern California, Syntax Plus. April 2014. Twin Reflexives. University of Arizona, Colloquium. January 2012. Giving Reflexivity a Voice. University of California, Santa Cruz S-Circle. May 2011.

C ONFERENCE P RESENTATIONS

Modelling “Exceptional” Phrasal Stress. To be presented at ETI3. McGill University, May 2014. Reflexes of Reflexivity: Locality and the Interfaces. Presented at the 50th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. University of Chicago, April 2014. The Syntax of Phrasal Stress “Exceptions”. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the LSA. Minneapolis, MN, January 2014. Obligatory Object Gaps in Infinitival Clauses. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the LSA. Minneapolis, MN, January 2014. (with Craig Sailor) Universality and Subject-Oriented Reflexivity. Presented at ICL 19. Geneva, Switzerland, July 2013. Deriving Subject-Oriented Reflexivity. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the LSA. Boston, MA, January 2013. The Prosody of Binding: Reflexive Voice and Default Sentential Stress. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the LSA. Portland, OR, January 2012. Giving Reflexivity a Voice: Twin Reflexives in English. Presented at the NELS 42. University of Toronto, November 2011. Default Sentential Stress and Non-Exceptional Reflexives. Presented at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody 2. McGill University, September 2011. Explorations of Voice, Identity and the Self. Presented at the Parallel Domains: A workshop in honor of Jean-Roger Vergnaud. University of Southern California, May 2011.

External Argument Focus and Clausal Reflexivity. Presented at the 29th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. University of Arizona, April 2011. Tongan Relative Clauses at the Syntax-Prosody Interface. Presented at the 18th meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association. Harvard University, March 2011. Syntactic Configurations of Emphatic Reflexives. Presented at the workshop on Peculiar Binding Configurations. University of Stuttgart, September 2010. The Voices in our Heads: The VoiceP in English. Presented at the workshop on Morphological Voice and its Grammatical Interfaces. University of Vienna, June 2010. (with Craig Sailor) The Emerging Middle Class. Presented at the 46th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. University of Chicago, April 2010. (with Craig Sailor) The Prosody of Emphatic Reflexives in English. Presented at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody. Cornell University, April 2008. W ORKS IN P ROGRESS

Minimalist Constraints on Interfaces with Syntax. Out-Sourcing Internal Arguments. VoiceP. (with Craig Sailor) Obligatory Object Gaps in Infinitival Clauses. (with Craig Sailor) Changes to Previously Spelled-Out Material. (with Laura McPherson) Syntax-Prosody Mapping and the Tongan DP. The Prosody of Yes/No Questions in English.

A DDITIONAL M ANUSCRIPTS

A Case of OCP Effects in Intonational Phonology. Ms. UCLA, 2008. Rogue Anaphors, Themselves. Ms. UCLA, 2007. (with Robyn Orfitelli) Asymmetries in Japanese Multiple Nominative Constructions: Evidence from Interaction with Nominative-Genitive Conversion. Ms. UCLA, 2007.

T EACHING E XPERIENCE

General Phonetics (Ling 103) with Kie Zuraw Introduction to the Study of Language (Ling 1) with Martin Walkow General Phonetics (Ling 103) with Grace Kuo

UCLA Winter 2014 UCLA Fall 2013 UCLA Summer 2013

Syntax I (Ling 120B) with Martin Walkow

UCLA Spring 2013

Syntax II (Ling 165B) with Hilda Koopman

UCLA Winter 2013

Introduction to the Study of Language (Ling 1) with Yael Sharvit

UCLA Fall 2012

Introduction to the Study of Language (Ling 1) Instructor

UCLA Summer 2012

Syntax I (Ling 120B) Instructor

UCLA Summer 2011

Introduction to Linguistics (Ling 20) with Maziar Toosarvandani.

UCLA Spring 2011

Syntax II (Ling 165B) with Dominique Sportiche

UCLA Winter 2011

Language Development (Ling 130) with Nina Hyams Introduction to Study of Language (Ling 1) Instructor

E MPLOYMENT H ISTORY

M EMBERSHIP AND S ERVICE

UCLA Fall 2010 UCLA Summer 2010

Syntax I (Ling 120B) with Carson Schütze

UCLA Spring 2010

Syntax II (Ling 165B) with Hilda Koopman

UCLA Spring 2008

Introduction to Linguistics (Ling 20) with Marcus Kracht

UCLA Fall 2007

Introduction to Linguistics (Ling 20) with Ed Stabler

UCLA Spring 2007

Assistant Language Teacher Maebashi High School, Maebashi, Japan.

JET Programme Jul. 2008 - Jul. 2009

Research Assistant Timothy Stowell, Dept. of Linguistics

UCLA Jan. 2008 - Mar. 2008

Research Assistant Robert Weiner, Dept. of Government

Cornell University Jan. 2005 - Apr. 2005

Research Assistant John Whitman, Dept. of Linguistics

Cornell University Jul. 2004 - Nov. 2004

Research Assistant Tanya Matthews, Dept. of Linguistics

Cornell University Jan. 2004 - Sep. 2004

Reviewer, Syntax Vice President, UCLA Graduate Linguistics Circle

Sept. 2010 - Sept. 2011

Department Web Committee, UCLA Linguistics

Jan. 2007 - Jun. 2013

Abstract Committee; Web Committee, WCCFL 27 Talk Coordinator, UCLA Linguistics Graduate RoundTable Member, Linguistic Society of America

Nov. 2007 - May 2008 Jan. 2007 - Jan. 2008 Sep. 2006 - present

F IELDWORK E XPERIENCE

Work with three Tongan speakers. Los Angeles, CA.

L ANGUAGE S KILLS

English: Japanese: French: Tongan:

C OMPUTER S KILLS

Languages: LATEX, Java, Javascript, HTML, Python Platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux Software: MS Office, Praat

R EFERENCES

Professor Sun-Ah Jun UCLA Linguistics Department 3125 Campbell Hall, Box 951543 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543

2010

Work with multiple Japanese speakers. Ithaca, NY & Tokyo, Japan.

2005 - 2006

Native Intermediate Intermediate Research Language

Professor Dominique Sportiche UCLA Linguistics Department 3125 Campbell Hall, Box 951543 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543 Professor Tim Stowell UCLA Linguistics Department 3125 Campbell Hall, Box 951543 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543

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