A phrase structure syntax for comparative clauses. LAGB , Sussex, Autumn 1979.
Remarks on surface grammar. Workshop on Base Generation, Semantic Interpretation, and Interpretive Filtering: the Case of Comparatives, Sussex, Summer 1979.
Presuppositions under negation. Possibilities and Limitations of Pragmatics conference, Urbino, Summer 1979.
The phrase structure of the English auxiliary system [with G.K. Pullum & I.A. Sag ]. Syntax Workshop, Summer Linguistics Institute, University of Texas at Austin, Summer 1979.
English as a context-free language. Syntax Workshop, Summer Linguistics Institute, University of Texas at Austin, Summer 1979.
Coordination without Coordination Reduction. LAGB , Hull, Spring 1979.
Node admissibility conditions, rule schemata, ... and coordination. Syntax Workshop, LSA Institute, Urbana-Champaign, Summer 1978 [also presented to NSF grant seminar, Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, Summer 1978].
The semantic autonomy hypothesis. Pragmatics Workshop, LSA Institute, Urbana-Champaign, Summer 1978.
Leaking plugs and faulty filters. LAGB , Lancaster, Spring 1978.
A solution to the projection problem. Workshop on Formal Semantics, Tubingen, Winter 1977.
Heavy parentheses wipe-out rules, okay? LAGB , University College, Autumn 1977.
Quantifier contraction [with B. Butterworth ]. LAGB , Walsall, Spring 1977.
How to formalize context-sensitive transderivational constraints [with E.H. Klein ]. Third Groningen Round Table Conference, Mathematical Linguistics: Semantics for Natural Language, Groningen, Summer 1976.
Truth-functional connectives in natural language [with G.K. Pullum ]. LAGB , Edinburgh, Spring 1976.
Theory-determined data. LAGB , York, Autumn 1975.
Implicature and presupposition. LAGB , Nottingham, Spring 1975.
Formal models for natural language conversation. LSE Sociolinguistics Colloquium, London, Spring 1974.
