Steve Wechsler
The University of Texas
Steve Wechsler (Stanford University PhD 1991) serves on the faculty of the University of Texas Department of Linguistics, where he works in syntax and semantics. Topics of past research include the syntax-semantics interface, self-reference by means of personal pronouns and egophoric verb marking systems, grammatical agreement systems, and the language modeling frameworks Lexical functional grammar (LFG) and Head-driven phrase structure grammar. He is a co-author of a leading textbook on LFG, Lexical-Functional Syntax (Bresnan, Asudeh, Toivonen & Wechsler 2016). In recent years he has turned his attention to usage-based and evolutionary approaches to explaining grammatical systems.