CURRICULUM VITAE
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NAME: |
Paul Hagstrom |
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ADDRESS: |
Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures |
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CURRENT POSITION: |
Associate Professor Visiting Scholar Visiting Scholar Visiting Scholar |
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PREVIOUS POSITION: |
Lecturer, funded by NSF-IGERT training grant |
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EDUCATION: |
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Postdoctoral: |
Johns Hopkins University Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Cognitive Science. Lecturer (for IGERT program) Spring 2000. |
1998-2000 |
Graduate: |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D. in Linguistics, September 1998. Dissertation title: Decomposing Questions. |
1993-1998 |
Undergraduate: |
Carleton College B.A. in Physics (with distinction) and Mathematics, magna cum laude. |
1989-1993 |
PRINCIPAL RESEARCH AREAS
TEACHING / ADVISING
(All course materials available at http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/UG/hagstrom/pastcourses.html)
Boston University
Syntax I, CAS LX 522:
Syntax II, CAS LX 523:
Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory, GRS LX 700:
Semantics, CAS LX 502:
Second Language Acquisition, CAS LX 400:
Advanced Topics in Linguistic Theory: Topics in Language Acquisition, GRS LX 865:
Topics in Linguistics: Language Universals, CAS LX 500:
Topics in Linguistics: Questions, CAS LX 500:
Johns Hopkins University
Graduate Seminar: Perspectives on Focus (Spring 2000)
Graduate Seminar: The Syntax and Semantics of Questions (Spring 1999)
SERVICE:
Webmaster, Boston University Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures. Fall 2002-present. (Programming web-based database interfaces to departmental information, PHP/MySQL)
Chair, Linguistics Library Committee, Boston University Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, Spring 2000-present.
Member, Semantics Search Committee, Boston University Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, Fall 2003. Fall 2005.
Member, Phonology Search Committee, Boston University Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, Fall 2001.
Member, Admissions Committee, Boston University Applied Linguistics Program, 2000-2006.
Reviewer for the Boston University Conference on Language Development, West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics.
Faculty sponsor for the Computational Linguistics @ BU student group.
Reviewer for Language Acquisition, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Syntax, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Inquiry, Lingua, The Linguistic Review, Linguistic Variation Yearbook, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford University Press, Language Research, SSHRC, Elsevier.
Content editor for Blackwell Publisher's Linguistics Resources web page (http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/linguist/), 1996-2003.
Co-organized the RTG (Psycholinguistics) Seminar Series, MIT, 1996-1997.
Co-organized the Workshop on Optimality in Syntax at MIT, May 19-21, 1995.
PUBLICATIONS:
Referreed journal articles
Legendre, Géraldine, Paul Hagstrom, Joan Chen-Main, Liang Tao, and Paul Smolensky (2004). "Deriving Output Probabilities in Child Mandarin from a Dual-Optimization Grammar." Lingua 114:1147-1185.
Hagstrom, Paul (2003). "What questions mean." Glot International 7(7/8):188-201.
Conlin, Fran, Paul Hagstrom, and Carol Neidle (2003). "A particle of indefiniteness in American Sign Language." Linguistic Discovery 2(1):1-21.
Hagstrom, Paul (2002). "Implications of Child Errors for the Syntax of Negation in Korean," Journal of East Asian Linguistics 11(3):211-242.
Legendre, Géraldine, Paul Hagstrom, Anne Vainikka, and Marina Todorova (2002). "Partial Constraint Ordering in Child French Syntax." Language Acquisition 10(3):189-227.
Hagstrom, Paul, Joan Chen-Main, Géraldine Legendre, and Liang Tao (2001). "Default ne in child Mandarin Chinese." Journal of Cognitive Science 2(2):81-118.
Hagstrom, Paul, and Jaemin Rhee (1997). "The Dependency Locality Theory in Korean," Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 26(2):189-206.
Book chapters, edited volumes
Legendre, Géraldine, Paul Hagstrom, Anne Vainikka, and Marina Todorova (2006). "Optimality in Language Acquisition II: Inflection in Early French Syntax." In Smolensky, Paul, and Géraldine Legendre, The Harmonic Mind: From Neural Computation to Optimality-Theoretic Grammar, vol. 2, ch. 18. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 279-406. (A reprinting of Legendre, Hagstrom, Vainikka, and Todorova (2002) with minor revisions).
Hagstrom, Paul (2005). "A-not-A questions." In Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Syntax (Syncom). Volume 1, chapter 7. Oxford: Blackwell.
Hagstrom, Paul (2004). "Particle Movement in Sinhala and Japanese." In Veneeta Dayal and Anoop Mahajan (eds.), Clause Structure in South Asian Languages, Dordrecht: Kluwer. 227-252.
Frank, Robert, Paul Hagstrom, and K. Vijay-Shanker (2002). "Roots, Constituents, and C-command," in Artemis Alexiadou (ed.), Theoretical Approaches to Universals. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 109-137.
Pilar Barbosa, Danny Fox, Paul Hagstrom, Martha McGinnis, and David Pesetsky (eds.) (1998). Is the Best Good Enough? Optimality and Competition in Syntax, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
Hagstrom, Paul (1997). "Contextual Metrical Invisibility," in B. Bruening et al. (eds.), PF: Papers at the Interface. MITWPL 30. Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 113-181
Conference proceedings and technical reports
Hagstrom, Paul, and Svetlana McCoy (2003). "Presuppositions, Wh-questions, and Discourse Particles: Russian že." In Wayles Browne, Ji-Yung Kim, Barbara H. Partee, and Robert A. Rothstein (eds.), Annual Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Languages: The Amherst Meeting 2002, 201-218. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications.
Legendre, Géraldine, Paul Hagstrom, Liang Tao, Joan Chen, Marina Todorova, and Lisa Davidson (2001). "A Preliminary Look at the Acquisition of Aspect in Mandarin Chinese in Optimality Theory," in Lin Chen and Yan Zhuo (eds.), Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cognitive Science 2001. Beijing: Press of University of Science and Technology of China, 398-405.
Hagstrom, Paul (2000). "Phrasal Movement in Korean Negation," in Proceedings of the 9th Student Conference in Linguistics. MITWPL 36. Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
Legendre, Géraldine, Paul Hagstrom, Anne Vainikka, and Marina Todorova (2000). "Evidence for syntactic competition in the acquisition of tense and agreement in child French," in the Proceedings of the 36th annual Chicago Linguistic Society meeting. Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society, 431-443.
Legendre, Géraldine, Paul Hagstrom, Marina Todorova, and Anne Vainikka (2000) "An Optimality-Theoretic model of acquisition of tense and agreement in French," in Lila Gleitman and A. Joshi (eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Hagstrom, Paul (2000). "The Movement of Question Particles," in M. Hirotani, A. Coetzee, N. Hall, and J.-Y. Kim (eds.), NELS 30: Proceedings of the North East Linguistics Society. GLSA, Amherst, MA.
Legendre, Géraldine, Paul Hagstrom, Anne Vainikka, and Marina Todorova (1999) "Partial constraint ordering in child French syntax," Technical report #11, Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, MD.
Hagstrom, Paul (1997). "Scope Interactions and Phrasal Movement in Korean Negation," in S. Kuno, et al. (eds.), Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics VII, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Department of Linguistics
Hagstrom, Paul (1997). "Contextual Metrical Invisibility and Weak Vowels," in Proceedings of the 33rd Chicago Linguistic Society annual meeting. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
Hagstrom, Paul (1996). "Do-Support in Korean: Evidence for an Interpretive Morphology," in H.-D. Ahn et al. (eds.), Morphosyntax in Generative Grammar. Seoul: Hankuk, 169-180.
Other publications
Hagstrom, Paul (2006). Review of Grohmann 2003. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 9(3):217-228.
Hagstrom, Paul (1999). "Wiser Web Wandering," Glot International 4(1):1-9.
TALKS:
"Questions, particles, and intervention", invited talk, University of Toronto (March 7, 2008).
"Questions, intervention effects, and the division of labor between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics", invited talk, McGill University (November 16, 2007).
"Theoretical second language acquisition." Talk in the Spring 2007 Boston University Center for Excellence in Teaching series for the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (April 27. 2007).
"What do questions mean?", invited talk, Wh-fest: University of Maryland, College Park Mayfest 2005 (May 15, 2005).
"What the movement of question particles can tell us about who bought what", invited talk, State University of New York, Stony Brook (March 26, 2004).
"Connecting morphology and semantics: What Japanese particles tell us about the semantics of questions," Boston University Research Sharing Forum (December 4, 2003). Primarily based on previous talk at Swarthmore .
Paul Hagstrom and Sveta McCoy. "Presuppositions, wh-questions, and discourse particles: Russian zhe," talk given at Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 11, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (May 3, 2003).
"Attempts to reveal who remembers where I left what", invited talk, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (April 25, 2003).
"Question particles on the move", invited talk, Harvard University (March 21, 2003).
"Tracking the movement of question particles", invited talk, Yale University (February 28, 2003).
Géraldine Legendre, Paul Hagstrom, Liang Tao, Joan Chen-Main, Marina Todorova, Anne Vainikka, and Lisa Davidson. "Comparing early acquisition of temporal categories in French/Catalan and Mandarin in Optimality theory," talk given at the International Conference on Cognitive Science 2001 in Beijing, China (August 27, 2001).
"Some implications of child errors for the structure of Korean negation," invited talk, Workshop on Altaic Languages (May 17, 2001).
"The movement of question particles," Boston University Research Sharing Group (March 20, 2001). Primarily material from NELS 30 talk with a couple of additional pages.
Géraldine Legendre, Paul Hagstrom, Anne Vainikka, and Marina Todorova. "An Optimality-Theoretic model of acquisition of tense and agreement in French," Cognitive Science Society annual meeting (August 13-15, 2000).
Géraldine Legendre, Paul Hagstrom, Anne Vainikka, and Marina Todorova. "Evidence for syntactic competition in the acquisition of tense and agreement in child French," Chicago Linguistic Society annual meeting 36 (April 29, 2000).
"Predicting how optional infinitives really are," invited Linguistics talk, Boston University (February 28, 2000).
"What kids can tell us about negative sentences in Korean," invited MFLL talk, Boston University (February 28, 2000).
"The movement of question particles," invited talk, Oakland University (February 17, 2000).
"The movement of question particles" (poster), North East Linguistic Society 30, Rutgers University (October 24, 1999)
"Decomposing Questions," invited talk, Georgetown University (April 26, 1999).
"Connecting morphology and semantics: What Japanese particles tell us about the meaning of questions," invited talk, Carleton College (April 12, 1999)
Robert Frank, Paul Hagstrom, and K. Vijay-Shanker. "Roots, Constituents, and C-Command," Generative Linguistics in the Old World 22, Berlin (March 29, 1999)
"Some consequences of knowing who bought what," invited talk, University of Pennsylvania (March 3, 1999).
"Connecting meaning and structure in questions: Some consequences of knowing who bought what," invited talk, University of Connecticut (February 26, 1999).
"Connecting morphology and semantics: What Japanese particles tell us about the meaning of questions," invited talk, Swarthmore College (February 11, 1999).
"Q-movement (Toward a syntax for wh-in-situ)," invited talk, University of Delaware (December 3, 1998).
"Q-movement," Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles (January 10, 1999).
"The Pieces of Questions," invited talk, Johns Hopkins University (May 20, 1998)
"Questions and crosslinguistic evidence for covert movement," invited talk, Carleton College (April 24, 1998)
"Attraction of General Features and Intervention Effects in Japanese," Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting, New York (January 9, 1998)
"Contextual Metrical Invisibility," Bay-and-Berkshires Phonology Workshop, MIT (October 4, 1997)
"Scope Interactions and Phrasal Movement in Korean Negation," Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics VII, Harvard University (July 11, 1997)
"Phrasal Movement in Korean Negation," Student Conference in Linguistics 9, Ypsilanti, Michigan (May 10, 1997)
"Contextual Metrical Invisibility and Weak Vowels," Chicago Linguistics Society Annual Meeting 33, University of Chicago (April 18, 1997)
"Contextual Metrical Invisibility in Mohawk and Passamaquoddy," Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg (March 22, 1997).
Paul Hagstrom, Jaemin Rhee and Edward Gibson (poster). "The Dependency Locality Theory in Korean," Tenth Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Santa Monica (March 20, 1997).
"Contextual Metrical Invisibility in Mohawk and Passamaquoddy," Phonology Circle, MIT (March 14, 1997)
"Do-Support in Korean: Evidence for an Interpretive Morphology," invited talk, Kanda University, Chiba, Japan (July 10, 1996)
"Do-Support in Korean: Evidence for an Interpretive Morphology," Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar 1996, Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul (July 3, 1996)
Paul Hagstrom and Jaemin Rhee. "Differences between Korean and Japanese Processing Overload," Ninth Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York (March 21, 1996)
"Object Shift in Korean Negation," Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting, San Diego (January 5, 1996)
OTHER EXPERIENCE:
Graduate Resident Tutor, East Campus, 4E. Lived in undergraduate dorm as a local resource and administrative liaison for about 40 undergraduates (1996-1997).
Creation and maintenance of the "Linguistics Resources" site on the Blackwell Publishers web site (1996-2003) (URL: http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/linguist/).
(Volunteer) Programming (VBscript/ASP/SQL/Access/Javascript), co-designing, and technical maintenance of "HoleCity.com" site (2000-2003) (URL: http://holecity.com).
Maintenance the MIT Working Papers in Linguistics web site (1996-1998) (URL: http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/).
Database programming, International Motor Vehicle Program (MIT) (1995-1997).
Database programming, freelance (1989-1995) (Clients include Fundraising and Communications Services, Minneapolis, MN; Old City Foods, St. Paul, MN; MicroAssist Inc., Northfield, MN; Technology Resource Group, Boston, MA).
Computer consultant, Carleton College Computer Center (1990-1991).
Microcomputer laboratory assistant, Carleton College Computer Center (Macintosh lab 1989-90, NeXT lab 1992-1993).
Database and general programming, Lowell Inn, Inc., Stillwater, MN (1986-1993).