CV

My full CV is available here: hanson-cv.pdf.

Publications

• Kenneth Hanson (to appear) Upward Agreement and Syntactic Counterfeeding in Lubukusu. Proceedings of LSA 2025. Philadephia, PA.
• Kenneth Hanson (2025). Adjunction in (T)SL Syntax. Proceedings of SCiL 2025. University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
• Logan Swanson, Kenneth Hanson, and Thomas Graf (2025). Are syntactic categories ISL-2 inferrable? A corpus study. Proceedings of SCiL 2025. University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
• Thomas Graf and Kenneth Hanson (2025). Automata for subregular syntax: Syntax with strings attached. Proceedings of SCiL 2025. University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
• Kenneth Hanson (2025). Tier-based strict locality and the typology of agreement. Journal of Language Modeling.
• Kenneth Hanson (2024). A tier-based model of syntactic agreement. Proceedings of CLS 60. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
• Kenneth Hanson (2024). Tiers, paths, and syntactic locality: The view from learning. Proceedings of SCiL 2024. UC Irvine, Irvine, CA.
• Kenneth Hanson (2023). Strict locality in syntax. Proceedings of CLS 59. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
• Charles Torres, Kenneth Hanson, Thomas Graf, and Connor Mayer (2023). Modeling island effects with probabilistic tier-based strictly local grammars over trees. Proceedings of SCiL 2023. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA.
• Kenneth Hanson (2023). A TSL analysis of Japanese case. Proceedings of SCiL 2023. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA.
• J. Y. Chai, L. She, R. Fang, S. Ottarson, C. Littley, C. Liu, and K. Hanson (2014). Collaborative effort towards common ground in situated human robot dialogue. HRI 2014. Bielefeld, Germany.

Presentations

2025

• Thomas Graf and Kenneth Hanson (2025). Syntax with strings attached. Poster presentation. SCiL 2025, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, July 18–20.
• Kenneth Hanson (2025). Adjunction in (T)SL Syntax. Oral presentation. SCiL 2025, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, July 18–20.
• Logan Swanson, Kenneth Hanson, and Thomas Graf (2025). Are syntactic categories ISL-2 inferrable? A corpus study. Oral presentation. SCiL 2025, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, July 18–20.
• Kenneth Hanson (2025). What We Can Learn by Studying Computational Complexity. Invited talk, College of Staten Island, Apr. 21.
• Kenneth Hanson (2025). Two Steps to Parasitic Agreement in Hindi-Urdu. PLC 49, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. [ abstract | poster ]
• Kenneth Hanson (2025). On the Computational Complexity of Syntactic Dependencies. Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
• Kenneth Hanson (2025). Upward Agreement and Syntactic Counterfeeding in Lubukusu. LSA 2025, Philadelphia, PA. [ poster ]

2024

• Kenneth Hanson (2024). A Tier-Based Analysis of Parasitic Agreement in Hindi-Urdu. SYNC 2024, New York University, New York, NY. [ handout ]
• Kenneth Hanson (2024). Tiers, Paths, and Syntactic Locality: The View from Learning. SCiL 2024, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA. [ poster ]
• Kenneth Hanson (2024). The computational basis of locality in syntactic agreement. Workshop on Myopia in Grammar, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany. [ slides | handout ]
• Kenneth Hanson (2024). A Tier-Based Model of Syntactic Agreement. CLS 60, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. [ slides | handout ]

2023

• Kenneth Hanson (2023). Case domains in Japanese. SYNC 2023, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.
• Kenneth Hanson (2023). A computational perspective on the typology of agreement. NYU Syntax Brown Bag. New York University, New York, NY.
• Kenneth Hanson (2023). A Computational Perspective on the Typology of Agreement. MG+1. Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.
• Charles Torres, Kenneth Hanson, Thomas Graf, and Connor Mayer (2023). Modeling island effects with probabilistic tier-based strictly local grammars over trees. SCiL 2023. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA.
• Kenneth Hanson (2023). A TSL analysis of Japanese case. Poster presented at SCiL 2023. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA.
• Kenneth Hanson (2023). Strict locality in syntax. CLS 59. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
• Kenneth Hanson (2023). Local and long-distance dependencies in syntax. IACS Student Seminar. Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.
• Kenneth Hanson (2023). Strict locality in syntax. SYNC 23. Yale University, New Haven, CT.

2021

• Kenneth Hanson (2021). Allomorph selection in the Japanese verb paradigm. SYNC 22. CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.

Earlier Presentations

• Kenneth Hanson, Cristina Schmitt, and Alan Munn (2014). The loss of bare singular arguments and predicates in the history of English. Poster presented at DiGS 16. Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
• Kenneth Hanson, Cristina Schmitt, and Alan Munn (2014). The loss of bare singular noun phrases in the history of English. GLEEFUL 2014. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
• Kenneth Hanson (2014). Quantitative methods for the analysis of Classical Japanese poetry. MSULC 2014. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
• Kenneth Hanson (2014). Methods for tracking lexical classes in parsed historical corpora. Poster presented at MSULC 2014. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
• Kenneth Hanson (2013). CorpusExtract: A tool for analyzing syntactically annotated corpora. Poster presented at MSULC 2013. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
• Kenneth Hanson (2012). Playing a naming game with Darwin: Towards human-robot dialog. SURF 2012. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

Teaching

Professional Employment

2014–2018

Assistant English Teacher

JET Programme

University Teaching Assistantships

Stony Brook University

Fall 2023	LIN 655	Doing Subregular Linguistics	Co-taught w/ Thomas Graf
Spring 2023	LIN 311	Syntax	Supervisor: Andrei Antonenko
Spring 2021	LIN 101	Human Language	Supervisor: Mark Aronoff
Fall 2020	LIN 120	Language & Technology	Supervisor: Kalina Kostyszyn

Michigan State University

2012Sp, 2013Sp/Fa

CSE 232

Introduction to Programming II

Supervisor: Mark McCullen

Outreach

2021–2024	Instructor for SYCCL (lead in 2023, assistant in 20[21/22/24])
2021–2024	Volunteer instructor for SBU NACLO Practice Session

Departmental Service

• Student Organizer, Mathematical Linguistics Reading Group (Spring 2024)
• Student Representative (2023–2024)
• Brown Bag Organizer (Fall 2022)
• Skillz Hour Organizer (Fall 2021)
• Assistant Webmaster (2020–2021)

Other Activities

• Vice President, Secretary, and Activities Director (2012–2014)
  q Undergraduate Association for Linguistics at Michigan State (qUALMS)
• Author and Webmaster (2011–Present)
  JapaneseProfessor.com

Fellowships/Funding

• SBU IACS Junior Researcher Award (2023, 2024)
• SBU Graduate Council Fellowship (2020–2025)
• MSU College of Arts and Letters Undergraduate Research Initiative (2013–2014)
• MSU Engineering Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (2012)
• Mitsui USA/Community Scholarship for YFU Study Abroad in Japan (2009)

Awards and Honors

• SUNY GREAT Award (2023)
• MSU Board of Trustees Scholarship Award (2014)
• MSU College of Arts and Letters Outstanding Senior Achievement Award (2014)
• Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (2022)
• Michigan State Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (MSULC) Presentation Award (2014)

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