Russell Lee-Goldman

Research interests

I am interested in semantics and pragmatics (both formal and social/interactional), and how these are related to and encoded in the morphosyntax and lexicon of languages. In my work in this vein, I have concentrated primarily on English and Japanese. I am also interested in how these parts of a language may vary among individuals, and change over time. Part of my research on Southeastern Pomo, a native California language, addresses these issues.

I am also involved in computational linguistic entriprises: from 2002 through the present I have worked at the FrameNet project (PI: Charles J. Fillmore) doing lexicographic, and now constructional, analysis within the frameworks of Frame Semantics and Construction Grammar.

I also have recently developed an interest in education, and in particular how the findings (so-called) of linguistics over the past decades can be profitably applied to the (primary and secondary) school classroom.

Productivity

Conference Presentations

2008	Ellsworth, Michael and Russell Lee-Goldman. *A Constructional Extension to Syntactic Control: Enter Semantics and Metaphor*. To be presented at the International Conference on Construction Grammar 5, University of Texas-Austin. [abstract: pdf]
	Hasegawa, Yoko, Kyoko Hirose Ohara, Seiko Fujii, Russell Lee-Goldman, and Charles J. Fillmore. *Constructions for measurements and comparison in Japanese and English*. To be presented at the International Conference on Construction Grammar 5, University of Texas-Austin. [abstract: pdf]
	Lee-Goldman, Russell. Supplemental Relative Clauses and Syntactic Generality (or: A niche of left-adjunction productivity: rethinking parenthetical as). Presented at BLS 34. [handout: pdf, slides: pdf]
	Lee-Goldman, Russell. *From motion to co-location. Source/goal ambiguity in Southeastern Pomo*. Presented at the 2008 Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Chicago, IL. [handout: pdf]
2007	Lee-Goldman, Russell. *The relative proform "as"*. Presented at GURT 2007. [handout: pdf, slides: pdf]
	Lee-Goldman, Russell and Michael Ellsworth. As--two constructions, not single preposition. Presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the LSA, Anaheim, CA, 04-07 January. [handout: pdf]
2006	Lee-Goldman, Russell. *Rhetorical questions and scales: just what do you think constructions are for?* Presented at the International Conference on Construction Grammar 4, Tokyo University. [slides: pdf]
	Hasegawa, Yoko, Kyoko Hirose Ohara, Charles J. Fillmore, and Russell Lee-Goldman. *Frame Integration, Head Switching, and Translation: RISK in English and Japanese*. Presented at the International Conference on Construction Grammar 4, Tokyo University. [paper: pdf]

Edited volumes

forthcoming

Haynie, Hannah, Thera Crane, Donna Fenton, Shira Katseff, Russell Lee-Goldman, Ruth Rouvier, and Dominic Yu (eds.) Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

Informal Presentations

2006	Parenthetical as Presented to the Syntax and Semantics Circle, UCB. [handout: pdf]
	*A typology of rhetorical questions*. Presented to the Syntax and Semantics Circle, UCB. [handout: pdf]
2005	*Lexical stratification and morphosyntactic change: the case of Japanese*. Invited talk to the fourth annual SLUgS [Society for Linguistics Undergraduates] Symposium. [handout: available on request]

Drafts, squibs, etc.

2005	*Aspects of legal narrative*. [pdf]
	*Can we put event nominals to rest?* [Syntax and Semantics pdfs]. A couple of squibs.

Longer papers

2005	*Claiming your territory: discourse strategies in Japanese.* [pdf] UC Berkeley honors thesis, linguistics department.
2004	*？「広がり中」：日本語の語種と品詞におけるカテゴリー拡張*.　[html ] 大阪外国語大学・日本語留学生センター日本語・日本文化研修留学生修了論文集６（2004年）
	*hirogari-tyuu: Category Extension in Japanese Lexical Classes and Parts of Speech. [pdf] Unpublished translation of ?"hirogari-tyuu"*, 2004.