I’ll be giving three invited talks in the fall of 2014, at Georgetown (Sep. 26), Delaware (Oct. 10), and UMass Amherst (Oct. 24). For more information, see the talks & handouts page.
The role of case in A-bar extraction asymmetries: evidence from Mayan (joint work with Jessica Coon & Pedro Mateo Pedro) has been accepted for publication in the journal Linguistic Variation; see my research page for more details.
I’ve posted the handout for a talk I gave at McGill University back in 2012, “Partial agreement and the direction of valuation.”
The talk shows why the cross-linguistically common asymmetry between (richer) agreement in SV structures and (poorer) agreement in VS structures – e.g. in Romance and in Semitic – does not constitute an argument in favor of Spec-Head agreement (nor in favor of “downward valuation” more generally). I show that this pattern falls out naturally from the theory of partial agreement outlined in my 2011 NLLT paper.
Download the handout here, or go to the talks & handouts page.
A new version of the paper The role of case in A-bar extraction asymmetries: evidence from Mayan (joint work with Jessica Coon & Pedro Mateo Pedro) has been posted; see my research page for more details.
As of this summer (2014), I am joining the faculty in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland.
The Routledge Handbook of Syntax – which includes my paper with Maria Polinsky, “Case and grammatical relations” – is now available in print.
I’ve posted the handout for my recent talk, “Correlation and causation in case & agreement.” Download it here, or go to the talks & handouts page.
I gave a talk at the University of Maryland Department of Linguistics Colloquium, on Apr. 25, 2014.
I’ve posted the handout for my recent talk, “Beyond interface conditions.” Download it here, or go to the talks & handouts page.
I gave a talk at the Cornell University Department of Linguistics Colloquium, on Feb. 27, 2014.