Conferences, by invitation (* = invitation as keynote/plenary speaker)
"On the Diachrony and Synchrony of Modern Greek na", paper presented at MIT Colloquium on the Modern Greek Language, Cambridge, January 1980
"Methodological Problems in the Study of the Balkan Infinitive-Loss", paper presented at the 2nd Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, University of Chicago May 1980
"The Albanian Infinitive: Testing Ground for the Balkan Infinitive Loss Model", paper presented at Balkan Linguistics panel of Conference on Southeast Europe (American Association of Southeast European Studies [AASES]), Columbus, April 1981
"The Last Word on the Causes of the Balkan Infinitive-Loss", paper presented at winter meeting of American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), New York, December 1981
"Phonesthemes in Modern Greek and the Balkans", paper presented at 3rd Conference on Balkan Linguistics, Indiana University, April 1982
"Nonfiniteness", paper presented at panel on Grammatical Categories of the Balkan Languages, annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Kansas City, October 1983
"Complementizers, Particles, and Finiteness in Greek and the Balkans", paper presented at 4th Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Chicago, March 1984
"Greek Reflexivization and Reference to Multiple Levels of Syntax", paper presented at Symposium on Grammatical Relations, SUNY-Buffalo, April 1984
"I glosa ton neon, mitriki glosa, ke glosiki kodikes" ["The language of the young, mother tongue, and linguistic codes"], invited presentation at Conference on Youth and Language, Ministry of Education, Athens, Greece, May 1984
"Finiteness and Complementizers in Greek and Universal Grammar", invited lecture, Department of Linguistics, University of Reading, Reading, England, October 1984
"Der Gebrauch der lautsymbolische Elemente in der Etymologieforschung: Eine Fallstudie aus dem Alt- und Neugriechischen", paper presented at 12. Jahrestagung Österreichischer Linguisten, Vienna, October 1984
"The Preverbal Particle System of Greek and other Balkan Languages", paper presented at the Balkan Linguistics Panel of the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), Chicago, IL, December 27, 1985
"The Internal Structure of Greek Affricates", paper presented at the 5th Balkan and South Slavic Conference, Bloomington, IN, March 8, 1986
"Making Use of Iconic Elements in Etymologizing", paper presented at First Spring Workshop on Theory and Method in Linguistic Reconstruction, University of Pittsburgh, March 21, 1986
"Raising to Prepositional Object: A Curse on all Theoretical Houses", paper presented at 2nd Biennial Conference on Relational Grammar and Grammatical Relations, Ohio State University, May 1986
"A Diachronic Phonological Solution to the Syntax of Vedic Negative Particles", paper presented at Symposium on Sanskrit Syntax of South Asian Language Analysis Roundtable (SALA 8), University of Illinois, May 30, 1986
"A Greek-Bulgarian Mischsprache in the Rodope", paper presented at Panel on Bulgaria and its Neighbors of the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New Orleans, November 1986.
"Sanskrit as She is Misanalyzed Autosegmentally", (with Richard D. Janda), paper presented at the Symposium on Sanskrit Linguistics of South Asian Language Analysis Roundtable (SALA 9), Cornell & Syracuse Universities, June 1987.
"Recent Developments in Morphological Theory and their Application to Some Persistent Problems in Balkan Morphosyntax", paper presented at 6th Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature, and Folklore, Chicago, March 23, 1988
"Some thoughts on Indo-European Adverbials", paper presented at Second Spring Workshop on Theory and Method in Linguistic Reconstruction, University of Pittsburgh, March 31, 1988
"Clitics and Inflexion in Modern Greek: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives", invited lecture presented to Department of English, University of Kentucky, April 14, 1988
"Diachronic Perspectives on Control", paper presented at MIT National Science Foundation Workshop on Control, Mar. 17, 1989
"Comments on Determinedness in the Balkans", discussion paper presented at Panel on Determinedness and Syntax in the Balkans at Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Chicago, November 4, 1989
"Reconstructing Existential Expressions in Germanic and Indo-European", paper presented at Third Spring Workshop on Theory and Method in Linguistic Reconstruction, University of Pittsburgh, April 6-8, 1990
* "Diachronic Explanation: Putting Speakers Back into the Picture", invited plenary address at Nineteenth Annual Linguistics Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April 20, 1990
"Comments on Vivianne Deprez: ‘Raising in Haitian Creole’", discussion paper presented at National Science Foundation Conference on Focus in Creole Languages, University of Chicago, May 12, 1990
"A Balkanistic Perspective on the Development of Greek óxi and Other Particularities of Greek Negation", paper presented at 7th Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature, and Folklore, University of Toronto, May 14-17, 1990
"On Arguing for Serial Verbs (With Special Reference to Greek)", paper presented at The Ohio State University Mini-Conference on Serial Verbs, Columbus, OH, May 26-27, 1990
"Sibilant Confusion in Early Indic: Sanskrit prádúr", paper presented at 13th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, University of Illinois, May 25-27, 1991
"Wackernagel Affixes: Evidence from Balto-Slavic" (with Joel A. Nevis), paper presented at Wackernagel Workshop – Focus on Clitics, University of California, Santa Cruz, July 17, 1991
"The Life of Jacob Wackernagel", paper presented at Wackernagel Workshop--Focus on Clitics, University of California, Santa Cruz, July 17, 1991
"On Some Classical Armenian Reduplicative Nouns: mamul, mamur, and mamuR", paper presented at 3rd International Symposium on Armenian Linguistics, Cleveland State University, September 14-18, 1991.
"Reconstruction of Reflexive Morphosyntax in Balto-Slavic" (with Joel A. Nevis), paper presented at Fourth Spring Workshop on Theory and Method in Linguistic Reconstruction, University of Pittsburgh, March 1992
"Methodological Issues in the History of the Balkan Lexicon: The Case of Greek vré/ré and its Relatives", paper presented at 8th Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature, and Folklore, University of Chicago, April 11-13, 1992
"On Micro- and Macro-relationships", paper presented at Ann Arbor Workshop on Reconstruction, University of Michigan, November 4, 1992
"Evidence for Rule Constellations in Morphology: Negation in Modern Greek" (with Richard D. Janda), paper presented at Workshop on Modern Greek Linguistics, 1993 Linguistic Institute, Columbus, OH, July 1993.
"Adverb Incorporation in Modern Greek: The View from Morphology" (with Jane C. Smirniotopoulos) paper presented at Workshop on Modern Greek Linguistics, 1993 Linguistic Institute, Columbus, OH, August 1993.
* "Pro-Drop and Weak Subjects in Modern Greek: Synchronic, Diachronic, and Psycholinguistic Perspectives", keynote address presented at 1st International Conference on Modern Greek Linguistics, Reading, UK, September 1993
"Introductory Remarks on Methodology", presentation at Second Workshop on Comparative Reconstruction – The Nostratic Hypothesis, Eastern Michigan University, October 1993
"Modern Greek mi(n)(-) as a Morphological Constellation" (with Richard D. Janda), paper presented at Georgetown University Round Table (GURT) Greek Linguistics Presession, Georgetown University, Washington DC, March 12, 1994
"Incorporation and Compounding in Modern Greek" (with Jane C. Smirniotopoulos), paper presented at Georgetown University Round Table (GURT) Greek Linguistics Presession, Georgetown University, Washington DC, March 12, 1994
"Greek and Albanian Modal Negators: How Many and How Old?", paper presented at 9th Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature, and Folklore, Indiana University, April 1994
"On the Creation of Weak Subject Pronouns", paper presented at Fifth Spring Workshop on Theory and Method in Linguistic Reconstruction, University of Pittsburgh, April 1994
"Subgrouping issues in Italic" (with Rex Wallace), presented at 3rd Workshop on Comparative Linguistics, Purdue University, November 1994
"Language and Cultural Identity in Greece", presentation at Descent from the Acropolis Workshop, Columbus, February 10, 1995
* "Something out of Nothing and Nothing out of Something: The Synchrony and Diachrony of Weak Subject Pronouns in Greek", invited keynote address at University of North Carolina Linguistics Colloquium, April 1, 1995
"Thoughts on a Typology of Language Change", commentary presented at Fourth Workshop on Comparative Linguistics, Amherst MA, November 1995
"What Type of Bartholomae’s Law Can We Reconstruct for Indo-European?", paper read at 6th Spring Workshop on Linguistic Reconstruction, University of Pittsburgh, March 1996
* "Is Balkan Comparative Syntax Possible?", invited plenary address at After-GLOW Workshop on Balkan Syntax, Athens, Greece, April 1996
* "Where can Grammatical Morphemes Come From? Greek Evidence Concerning the Nature of Grammaticalization", invited plenary address at 7th Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistic Society of the Midwest (FLSM), Columbus, OH, May 1996
"Comparative Balkan Syntax: Some Case Studies", invited lecture at Workshop on Romanian Linguistics, University of New Brunswick, August 1996
* "How General are our Generalizations?", invited plenary address at 13th Annual Eastern States Conference on Linguistics (ESCOL ‘96), University of New Brunswick, August 1996
"On the Spread of Constructions in the Balkans", paper presented at 5th Workshop in Comparative Linguistics – Language Contact and Language Change, Columbus, OH, November 1996
* "On the Linguistics of Marginality: The Centrality of the Periphery", invited plenarylecture at 33rd Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, April 19, 1997
"Some Measured Comments on the Diachrony of Metrics", commentary for panel on metrics, presented at Sixth Workshop on Comparative Linguistics, Wayne State University, November 1997
"Processes of Spread for Syntactic Constructions in the Balkans", invited paper presented at International Colloquium "Linguistique Balkanique – Synchronie et Diachronie", Thessaloniki, November 1997
* "Language Change: Change in Language or What?", invited plenary paper to be presented at Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, April 18, 1998
"On the Prehistory of Bartholomae’s Law in Indo-European", invited paper presented at Tenth East Coast Indo-European Conference (ECIEC), University of North Carolina, May 29, 1998
"Crossing borders with relevant curriculum design – Linguistics for Everystudent", invited presentation at the Center for Advanced Study (University of Illinois) conference on "The Lingiustic Sciences in a Changing Context, October 29-31, 1998
"Minorities and Language – Global and Local Perspectives", invited presentation at EXANDAS conference on Arvanitika, Livadia (Greece), November 7, 1998
* "Typological Perspectives on Modern Greek", invited plenary address at 20th Annual Conference on Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Thessaloniki, April 24, 1999
"Balkan insights into the Syntax of *me: in Indo-European", invited paper presented at Eleventh East Coast Indo-European Conference (ECIEC), University of Texas, May 29, 1999
"Projecting Variation Back onto the Proto-Language", invited paper at WCL 8 (8th Workshop in Comparative Linguuistics), University of Wisconsin, October 29-31, 1999
"The Modern Greek Future: An Exercise in Forward Reconstruction" (with Panayiotis Pappas), invited paper presented at 8th Spring Workshop on Linguistic Reconstruction, University of Pittsburgh, April 1, 2000
"Weak Pronouns in Deictic Expressions in the Balkans", invited paper presented at 12th Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature, and Folklore, University of Kansas , May 5, 2000
"Towards a Characterization of ‘Word’ In Modern Greek (Or, "Do the Greeks Have an ‘It’ for ‘Word’?)", invited paper presented at International Workshop on ‘The Status of "word"’, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, LaTrobe University, Australia, August 12, 2000
"The Role of Greek and Greece Linguistically in the Balkans", invited paper to be presented at conference on "Greece and the Balkans: Cultural Encounters Since the Enlightenment", June 28-30, 2001, University of Birmingham (England)
"Where We Stand on Evidentials", invited summation to be presented at International Workshop on Evidentiality, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, LaTrobe University, Australia, August 11, 2001
"An Indo-European Idiom?", paper presented at Indo-European Round Table Meeting, March 1976, Cambridge
"On the Greek Loss of the Infinitive", invited lecture at American School of Classical Studies, January 1977, Athens, Greece
"Gramatiki sxeseon ke eliniki sindaksi" ["Relational Grammar and Greek Syntax"], invited lecture at Aristotelian University, May 1977, Thessaloniki, Greece
"Syntactic Change: Evidence from Medieval and Modern Greek", paper presented at Indo-European Round Table Meeting, October 1977, Cambridge
"Generative Diachronic Syntax and Syntactic Change", invited lecture at University North Carolina, January 1978; University of Iowa, February 1978; Brown University, April 1978; University of South Carolina, February 1979; Ohio State University, June 1979
"On Automatic Syntactic Change", invited lecture at Indiana University Linguistics Club, Bloomington, March 1980
"Nees apopsis giro apo to zitima tu aparemfatu stis valkanikes gloses" ["New Views concerning the Question of the Infinitive in the Balkan Languages"], invited lecture at Aristotelian University, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 1981
"On the Comparison of Languages", invited talk at Comparative Studies Humanities Forum, The Ohio State University, February 1982
"Greek Allolanguage--Some Implications for General and Historical Linguistics", invited lecture, Department of Linguistics, University of Reading, Reading, England, October 1984
"The Greek Language from Alpha to Omega", invited lecture at College Year in Athens Junior Year Abroad Program, November 1984
"To ts ke dz sta nea elinika – sinxronikes ke diaxronikes paratirisis" ["ts and dz in Modern Greek – Some Synchronic and Diachronic Observations"], invited lecture at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Department of Linguistics, Thessaloniki, Greece, November 1984
"Sinxronikes ke diaxronikes paratirisis giro apo ti qesi ton fonon ts ke dz sti kini eliniki" ["Synchronic and Diachronic Observations concerning the Place of the Sounds ts and dz in Standard Greek"], invited lecture at the University of Athens, Department of Linguistics, November 1984
"On the Use of Iconic Elements in Etymological Investigation: Some Case Studies from Greek", invited lecture at Ottawa University, February 13, 1987
"I morfolojiki
qeoria ke i taksonomia morion ke mikron lekseon" ["Morphological Theory and the Classification of Particles and Little Words"], invited lecture at Department of Linguistics, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, November 5, 1987
"Kininio-istoriki glosolojia" ["Socio-historical Linguistics"], invited lecture at Department of French, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, November 9, 1987
"I taksonomia tu rimatiku simblegmatos sta nea elinika: A’" ["The Classification of the Verbal Complex of Modern Greek: Part I"], invited lecture at Department of Linguistics, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, November12, 1987
"I taksonomia tu rimatiku simblegmatos sta nea elinika: B’" ["The Classification of the Verbal Complex of Modern Greek: Part II"], invited lecture at Department of Linguistics, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, November19, 1987
"The Modal ‘Particles’ of Greek and Other ‘Little’ Pre-/Post-Verbal Elements", invited lecture at Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, England, November 30, 1987
"On Linguistic Categorization: The Case of the Modern Greek Preverbal ‘Particles’", invited lecture at Department of Linguistic Science, University of Reading, England, December 1, 1987
"Prosfimata, klitika, ke ta legomena moria sto eliniko rimatiko simblegma" ["Affixes, Clitics, and the So-Called Particles in the Greek Verbal Complex"], invited lecture at Department of Linguistics, University of Athens, Greece, December 14, 1987
"From Syntax to Morphology: The Fate of the Personal Pronouns in Greek", invited lecture at Harvard University, March 20, 1989
"On the Arbitrariness of Linguistic Signs", Inaugural Lecture in the Humanities, Ohio State University, May 3, 1989
"The Development of the Modern Greek Language: Internal and External Factors", invited faculty lecture, International Scholarship Program in Hellenic Studies, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece, July 1989
"From Syntax to Morphology: The Diachrony of the Personal Pronouns in Greek", invited lecture at the University of Illinois, September 7, 1989
"The Internal Structure of the Modern Greek Verbal Complex", invited presentation in MIT course on the Structure of Modern Greek, March 22, 1990
"Greek Sociophonetics", presentation at After Greece Seminar, Modern Greek Studies Program, The Ohio State University, February 20, 1993
"Siebs’ Law, the Glottalic Theory, and the Etymology of Sanskrit badva-", invited lecture at the University of Pennsylvania, November 1994
"The Diachrony of Weak Subject Pronouns", invited lecture at Indiana University, December 1995
"Is there such a thing as ‘Grammaticalization’?", invited lecture at Department of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, June 9, 1997
"The Spread of Syntactic Constructions in Contact Situations: The Case of the Balkans, invited lecture at Department of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, June 16, 1997"
"How General – and cognitively revealing – are linguistics generalizations", invited lecture at Cognitive Science Seminar, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, June 16, 1997"
"Core and Periphery in Language: Can the Periphery take center stage?" Science Prestige Lecture at Cognitive Science Seminar, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, June 16, 1997"
"Language Change as Change in Language", invited lecture at Department of English, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, March 4, 1998
"Utterance-Finality: Framing the issues"; presentation as Workshop convener at "The Rest is Silence: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Utterance-Final Phenomena", workshop held in conjunction with Fourth Biennial Linguistics and Phonetics Conference (LP ‘98), Columbus, OH, September 18, 1998
"Conference Summation: What have we learned?", presentation on behalf of Conference Organizing Committee for "When Languages Collide: Sociocultural and Geopolitical Implications of Language Conflict and Language Coexistence", conference held at Ohio State University, November 13-15, 1998
"Sociological and Pedagogical implications of Scholarship into the Typology of Greek", presentation at After Greece Seminar, Modern Greek Studies Program, The Ohio State University, February 20, 1999
"On some Developments with Negation in Greek", invited lecture given at the Department of Linguistics, University of Patras, Greece, April 26, 1999.
"Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on the Albanian Negative Marker mos", invited lecture at Albanian Linguistics Workshop, LSA Institute, University of Illinois 6/30/99
"Albanian Interjections and ‘Particles’ in a Pan-Balkan Perspective", presentation (as organizer) at Workshop on Albanian Linguistics, Ohio State University 12/4/99
"Dialect Evidence bearing on the Definition of ‘Word’ in Greek", invited paper presented at International Conference on Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory, University of Patras, October 2000
"Laryngeal before i/u in Greek", paper presented at 11th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, April 1975
"Verb Raising in Modern Greek", paper presented at 6th Annual Meeting of North Eastern Linguistic Society (NELS), November 1975, Montreal
"The Role of Derivations in Syntactic Change", paper presented at University of Michigan Conference on Syntactic Change, April 1978
"Modern Greek Relative Clauses--Their Description and Theoretical Import", paper presented at annual meeting of the Alberta Conference on Language (ACOL), Banff, Alberta, November 1978
"A Reappraisal of the Balkan Infinitive-Loss in Light of some Facts from Greek", paper presented at winter meeting of American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), New York, December 1978
"Raising to Oblique in Greek", paper presented at Fifth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 1979
"The Empirical Content of the Cyclical Theory of Grammar" (with David M. Perlmutter), paper presented at annual meeting of Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA), Saskatoon, May 1979
"Using Indo-European Comparative Mythology to Solve Literary Problems – the Case of Old English Hengest", paper presented at Ohio State University Symposium in Comparative Studies on The Interpretive Act (Directions in Folklore Research), Columbus, OH, May 1980
"Multiple Causation in Language Contact Change", paper presented at University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Symposium on Language Contact, March 1981
"On Continuity in the Greek Language", paper presented at annual meeting of Classical Association of the Midwest and South (CAMWS), St. Louis, April 1981; invited talk at Locus Classicus, OSU Classics Department, May 1981
"Indirect Object Advancement in Modern Greek", paper presented at winter meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), New York, December 1981
"Modern Greek Evidence for Multiple Syntactic Levels", paper presented at the Conference on Syntactic Theory and How People Parse Sentences, The Ohio State University, May 1982
"Lexical Relatedness, Head of a Word, and the Misanalysis of Latin" (with Rex Wallace), paper presented at winter meeting of Linguistic Society of America (LSA), San Diego, December 1982
"Preverb Reduction in Plains Cree" (with Catherine Jolley), paper presented at winter meeting of Linguistic Society of America (LSA), San Diego, December 1982
"Oscan súm: A Latinism?" (with Rex Wallace), paper presented at annual meeting of Classical Association of the Midwest and South (CAMWS), Columbus, April 1983
"Greece and Europe: A Linguistic Perspective", paper presented at Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium on Modern Greece in the European Context, New York, October 1983
"Balkan Expressive and Affective Phonology: The Case of Greek ts/dz", paper presented at Fifth International Congress of South East European Studies, Beograd, September 1984
"Reduplication in Sanskrit as Fragmented Affixation" (with Richard Janda) paper presented at ESCOL ‘85 (Eastern States Conference on Linguistics), Buffalo, NY, October 3, 1985
"Ex Oriente Lex: Intimate Loans into Modern Greek from the East", paper presented at Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium (Greece and the East), Columbus, OH, November 8, 1985
"Modern Greek ts: On Beyond Sound Symbolism", paper presented at Berkeley Conference on Sound Symbolism, University of California, January 1986
"E Pluribus Unum: the Rule Constellation as an Expression of Formal Unity Amidst Morphological Fragmentation" (with Richard Janda), paper presented at Milwaukee Morphology Meeting (Fifteenth Annual UWM Linguistics Symposium), April 4, 1986
"2b or not 2b: The How and Why of Diachronic Morphologization and Demorphologization" (with Richard Janda), paper presented at Milwaukee Morphology Meeting (Fifteenth Annual UWM Linguistics Symposium), April 4, 1986
"On the Value of Inverted Reconstruction in the Classical Languages – the Latin Contribution to the órkhis Question", paper presented at Panel on Classical Linguistics at 82nd Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS), Tampa, FL, April 17, 1986
"How Ergative is Basque?" (with Kutz Arrieta and Jane Smirniotopoulos), paper presented at ESCOL ‘86 (Eastern States Conference on Language), University of Pittsburgh, October 1986
"Is Raising to Prepositional Object a Possible Rule of Grammar?", paper presented at annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York, December 1986.
"On the Origin of Latin sum and Oscan súm" (with Rex Wallace), paper presented at annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York, December 1986.
"On Generalizations as Linguistic Categories: Of Rules, Redundancy-Rules, Meta-Rules, Rule- Conspiracies, and Rule-Constellations" (with Richard D. Janda), paper presented at the Conference on Linguistic Categorization (16th Annual University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium), April 1987.
"Diachrony and Linguistic Competence – The Evidence from Morphological Change", paper presented at Conference on the Theory and Practice of Historical Linguistics, University of Chicago, April 27, 1988
"Pronominal Affixes in Modern Greek: The Case Against Clisis", paper presented at 24th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, April 28, 1988
"On the Unity of Sanskrit Aspiration" (with Richard D. Janda), paper presented at Sixth International Phonology Meeting, Krems, Austria, July 1, 1988.
"On the Benefits of Morphological Classification: On Some Apparently Problematic Clitics in Modern Greek", paper presented at 3rd International Morphology Meeting, Krems, Austria, July 8, 1988
"Towards a Nonphonological Account of Sanskrit Aspiration Alternations" (with Richard D. Janda), paper presented at ESCOL ‘88 (Fifth Eastern States Conference on Language), University of Pennsylvania, October 1, 1988
"Greek ts/dz as Internally Complex Segments" (with Gina M. Lee), paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, December 28, 1988
"Diachronic Fragmentation in Morphology: Sanskrit Aspiration Alternations" (with Richard D. Janda), paper presented at 9th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Rutgers University, August 14, 1989
"Standard/Nonstandard and Native/Nonnative as Linguistic Dimensions of Power: Evidence from the Greek Context", paper presented at Panel on Language and Power, Language and Freedom in Greek Society, Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium on Power and Freedom in Greece, Minneapolis, October 20, 1989
"Problematic f/h Variation in Faliscan" (with Rex E. Wallace), paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington, December 28, 1989
"Wackernagel’s Law in Morphology: The Lithuanian Reflexive" (with Joel A. Nevis), paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington, December 29, 1989
"Morphologization of Wackernagel’s Law: the Lithuanian Reflexive" (with Joel A. Nevis), paper presented at 12th Conference on Baltic Studies, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, June 20-3, 1990.
"Is Faliscan a Local Latin Patois?" (with Rex E. Wallace), paper presented at Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, San Francisco, December 28, 1990.
"Hittite andurza ‘inside, indoors’ and the Indo-Hittite Hypothesis", paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, January 4, 1991.
"Morphological Constellations, Hyperanalysis, and ‘Elsewhere’ Violations in Modern Greek" (with Richard D. Janda), paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, January 5, 1991
"I analisi tis morfosindaksis tu rimatiku sinolu sta nea elinika" ["The Analysis of the Morphosyntax of the Verbal Complex in Modern Greek"], paper presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, April 18-20, 1991.
"Meta-Templates and the Underlying Unity of Reduplication in Sanskrit", (with Richard D. Janda), paper presented at ESCOL ‘91 (Eighth Eastern States Conference on Language), University of Maryland-Baltimore, October 13, 1991
"Socially Determined Variation in Ancient Rome" (with Rex E. Wallace), paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Philadelphia, January 10, 1992
"The Morphosyntax of the Modern Greek Verbal Complex as Morphology and Not Syntax" (with Jane C. Smirniotopoulos), paper presented at Annual Meeting of the LinguisticSociety of America, Philadelphia, January 11, 1992.
"Systematic Hyperforeignisms as Maximally External Evidence for Linguistic Rules", (with Richard Janda and Neil Jacobs), paper presented at 21st Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium (On the Reality of Linguistic Rules), April 10-12, 1992
"Pseudo-Agglutinativity in Modern Greek Verb Inflection and ‘Elsewhere’" (with Richard Janda), paper presented at 28th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, May 1992
"Deictic Verbs and The Pro-Drop Parameter in Greek", paper presented at Workshop on Balkan and Slavic Syntax, University of Ottawa, October 15, 1992
"On the Absolute Nature of the Pro-Drop Parameter", paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, January 6, 1993
"The Sociophonetics of Nasal Suppression in Greek: Sound Change in Progress" (with Amalia Arvaniti), paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, January 6, 1993
"Ancient Hyperforeignism and Modern Hyperarchaism" (with Richard D. Janda and Neil Jacobs), paper presented at 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), Los Angeles, August 1993
"The Contributions of Historical Linguistics to Balkan Linguistics and Vice-Versa", paper presented at Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Honolulu, November 1993
"Proto-Indo-European Voiced Aspirates in Italic: A Test for the Glottalic Theory" (with Rex Wallace), paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, January 6, 1994
"Negation in Greek and the Balkans and its Interaction with Tense and Argument Marking", paper presented at Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, PA, November 1994
"A Contrastive Analysis of Topic Continuity in Egyptian Arabic and American English Newspaper Articles" (with Amany Kassem), presented at International Conference on Arabic Linguistics, Cairo, December 1994
"Incorporation andCompounding in Modern Greek" (with Jane C. Smirniotopoulos), paper presented at Second International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Salzburg, Austria, September 1995
"Language and Ethnic Identity in Greece", paper presented at Roundtable on Language, Ethnicity, and Identity in the Balkans, annual meeting of American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington DC, October 1995
"Language, Dialect, National Identity, and the History of Greek", paper presented at panel on Linguistic Perspectives on Modern Greek Studies, at Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium, Cambridge MA, November 1995
"On the Diachrony of Weak Subject Pronouns: Evidence from Greek", paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, January 8, 1997
"The Modern Greek Negator mi(n)(-) as a Morphological Constellation" (with Richard D. Janda), paper presented at Third International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Athens, Greece, September 24, 1997
"Introductory Linguistics – The Institutional Perspective from a Large Research University", presentation as part of "Bridging the Gap – Introductory Linguistics and the Non-Major" Symposium at Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York, January 8, 1998
"What gives with es gibt ? Some typological and comparative perspectives on existentials in German, in Germanic, and in Indo-European". Paper presented at GLAC 4 (4th Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference), Ohio StateUniversity, Columbus, April 17, 1998
"Evaluating Semantic Shifts: The Case of Indo-Iranian *muc-" (with Catherine Karnitis). Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, January 9, 1999
"consider-Sentences Re-considered in the Light of Evidence from Greek". Paper presented at Annual English-Greek Contrastive Linguistics Conference, Department of English, University of Thessaloniki, April 23, 1999
"The Greek Future System: Setting the Record Straight" (with Panayiotis Pappas). Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Nicosia, Cyprus, Spetember 17-19, 1999
"Language Contact and the Development of Negation in Greek and the Balkans". Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Nicosia, Cyprus, September 17-19, 1999.
"Linguistics and Comparative Studies". Paper presented at the Symposium on Linguistics and Related Disciplines in the Undergraduate Curriculum, at Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, January 7, 2000
"On Modern Greek Evidence for [+SELF/+R] Anaphoric Expressions". Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, January 8, 2000
"Oscan sim, South Picene sim" (with Rex E. Wallace). Paper to be presented at Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, San Diego, December 2000
"Sound Change: Phonetics, phonology, sociology, or all of the above?". Paper to be presented at Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington, DC, January 6, 2001
