Selected Talks & Handouts

 

(for a complete list of talks, see my CV)

  • October 2020: “Waving goodbye to Ferdinand: natural language is not composed of Saussurean signs” (abstract)
  • July 2020, with Asia Pietraszko: “Words and other things: what do you need to list in your head?”
    • mini-course at V‑NYI 2020
      • Asia and I are happy to share our slides with any interested individuals. If you are interested, drop me a line.
  • October 2019: “The Anaphor Agreement Effect: further evidence against binding-as-agreement”
    • invited talk at the University of Oslo
  • May 2019: Three talks on “Syntax & modularity”
  • October 2017: “No case for agreement (as a causer of case)”
    • special session on “the Typology of Case” at the 48th meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 48) — Reykjavík
  • February 2017: “Privativity in Syntax”
    • invited talk, 43rd annual conference of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 43) — Berkeley, CA
  • “What the PCC tells us about ‘abstract’ agreement, head movement, and locality”
    • February 2017: invited talk, Berkeley Syntax & Semantics Circle — Berkeley, CA
    • September 2016: invited talk, Stanford Workshop on Head Movement — Stanford, CA
    • May 2016: invited talk, Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) — Berlin
      • UPDATE: there is now a paper
  • October 2015: “Head movement, phrasal movement, and clitic doubling: towards a principled typology of locality conditions”
    • invited talk, 46th meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 46) — Montreal, QC
      • UPDATE: there is now a paper
  • August 2015: “Case and agreement in generative grammar”
    • plenary lectures, 17th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 17), Kyung Hee University — Seoul
  • March 2015: “Syntactic operations exceed what the interfaces can account for (or: The heartbreak of interface-driven syntax)”
    • Workshop on Alternatives to Formal Features, at the 37th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Linguistics (DGfS 37) — Leipzig
  • February 2015: “Beyond interface conditions”
    • invited talk, UCLA Linguistics Colloquium — Los Angeles, CA
  • January 2015: “Scales & Hierarchies as a Window into the Domain-Specificity Question”
    • invited talk, University of Maryland Language Science Center Winter Storm — College Park, MD
  • “The syntax (and morphology) of non‑valuation”
    • October 2014: invited talk, UMass Amherst Linguistics Colloquium — Amherst, MA
    • October 2014: invited talk, University of Delaware Linguistics Colloquium — Newark, DE
    • September 2014: invited talk, Georgetown University Department of Linguistics Friday Speaker Series — Washington, DC
  • April 2014: “Correlation and causation in case & agreement”
    • invited talk, University of Maryland Department of Linguistics Colloquium — College Park, MD
  • February 2014: “Beyond interface conditions”
    • invited talk, Cornell University Linguistics Colloquium (CLC) — Ithaca, NY
  • September 2013, with Jessica Coon: “Severing Differential Subject Marking from ergativity”
    • Workshop on Differential Subject Marking and Ergativity, at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2013) — Split (Croatia)
      • has since been written up as a paper
  • November 2012: “Partial agreement and the direction of valuation”
    • invited talk, McGill University Ling-Lunch — Montreal, QC
  • March 2012: “Syntactic ergativity in Q’anjob’al”
  • February 2012: “Agreement in Kichean and Zulu: filtration vs. strict generativity”
  • December 2011: “Against ‘crashes’: evidence from Kichean and Zulu”
    • invited talk, Ben-Gurion University Linguistics Colloquium — Beer-Sheva (Israel)
  • “The nature of syntactic computation: evidence from agreement”
    • January 2011: invited talk, LUCL Syntax Lab — Leiden (Netherlands)
    • March 2011: Polinsky Language Lab, Harvard University — Cambridge, MA
  • October 2010: “The origins of obligatoriness: evidence from agreement failures”
  • April 2008: “Breaking agreements: distinguishing agreement and clitic-doubling by their failures”
    • invited talk, CUNY Syntax-Supper — New York, NY
      • has since been written up as a paper
  • March 2008: “Long-distance agreement in Basque, locally speaking”
    • 31st GLOW (Generative Linguistics in the Old World) Colloquium — Newcastle (UK)
      • has since been written up as a paper
  • April 2007: “Perfect domains”
    • 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 26) — Berkeley, CA
  • May 2006: “Feature-inheritance at the phase boundary”
    • Edges in Syntax — Nicosia (Cyprus)
      • has since been written up as a paper
  • October 2005: “Argument-mapping and extraction”
    • poster, 36th meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 36) — Amherst, MA