BYRON T. AHN CURRICULUM VITAE last updated: March 30, 2014 CONTACT University of California, Los Angeles (424) 442-9766 INFORMATION 3125 Campbell Hall, Box 951543 byron@ucla.edu http://byron.bol.ucla.edu RESEARCH INTERESTS 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 EDUCATION University of California, Los Angeles 2006 - Present 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, Ithaca, NY 2002-2006 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 EDUCATION HONORS AND AWARDS LSA Summer Institute, Stanford, CA Summer 2007 LSA Summer Institute, Cambridge, MA Summer 2005 Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2011-2012 Research Mentorship, 2010
President s Fellowship, 2009-2010 Summer Institute Fellowship, Linguistic Society of America Summer 2007 President s Fellowship, 2006-2007 Summer Institute Fellowship, Linguistic Society of America Summer 2005 Travel Scholarship, Dept. of Asian Studies Summer 2005 PUBLICATIONS Ahn, B. and D. Sportiche. Forthcoming. Bind Locally Indeed. 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. INVITED 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. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 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., April 2008. WORKS IN PROGRESS ADDITIONAL MANUSCRIPTS TEACHING EXPERIENCE 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 Case of OCP Effects in Intonational Phonology. Ms., 2008. Rogue Anaphors, Themselves. Ms., 2007. (with Robyn Orfitelli) Asymmetries in Japanese Multiple Nominative Constructions: Evidence from Interaction with Nominative-Genitive Conversion. Ms., 2007. General Phonetics (Ling 103) with Kie Zuraw Winter 2014 Introduction to the Study of Language (Ling 1) with Martin Walkow Fall 2013 General Phonetics (Ling 103) with Grace Kuo Summer 2013 with Martin Walkow Spring 2013 with Hilda Koopman Winter 2013 Introduction to the Study of Language (Ling 1) with Yael Sharvit Fall 2012
Introduction to the Study of Language (Ling 1) Instructor Summer 2012 Instructor Summer 2011 with Maziar Toosarvandani. Spring 2011 with Dominique Sportiche Winter 2011 Language Development (Ling 130) with Nina Hyams Fall 2010 Introduction to Study of Language (Ling 1) Instructor Summer 2010 with Carson Schütze Spring 2010 with Hilda Koopman Spring 2008 with Marcus Kracht Fall 2007 with Ed Stabler Spring 2007 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Assistant Language Teacher JET Programme Maebashi High School, Maebashi, Japan. Jul. 2008 - Jul. 2009 Timothy Stowell, Dept. of Linguistics Jan. 2008 - Mar. 2008 Robert Weiner, Dept. of Government Jan. 2005 - Apr. 2005 John Whitman, Dept. of Linguistics Jul. 2004 - Nov. 2004 Tanya Matthews, Dept. of Linguistics Jan. 2004 - Sep. 2004 MEMBERSHIP AND SERVICE Reviewer, Syntax Vice President, Graduate Linguistics Circle Sept. 2010 - Sept. 2011 Department Web Committee, Linguistics Jan. 2007 - Jun. 2013 Abstract Committee; Web Committee, WCCFL 27 Nov. 2007 - May 2008 Talk Coordinator, Linguistics Graduate RoundTable Jan. 2007 - Jan. 2008 Member, Linguistic Society of America Sep. 2006 - present
FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE Work with three Tongan speakers. Los Angeles, CA. 2010 Work with multiple Japanese speakers. Ithaca, NY & Tokyo, Japan. 2005-2006 LANGUAGE SKILLS COMPUTER SKILLS English: Japanese: French: Tongan: Languages: Platforms: Software: Native Intermediate Intermediate Research Language LATEX, Java, Javascript, HTML, Python Windows, Mac OS X, Linux MS Office, Praat REFERENCES Professor Sun-Ah Jun Linguistics Department jun@humnet.ucla.edu 3125 Campbell Hall, Box 951543 +1-310-892-7818 Professor Dominique Sportiche Linguistics Department sportich@ucla.edu 3125 Campbell Hall, Box 951543 +1-310-869-7059 Professor Tim Stowell Linguistics Department stowell@humnet.ucla.edu 3125 Campbell Hall, Box 951543 +1-310-749-9609