Updates – Omer Preminger

Two presentations at WCCFL 39

Posted by Omer on 03/17/2021 No Responses »

Mar 172021

I’ll be giving two presentations at the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 39). One is a poster (which you can read more about here), and the other is a joint talk with Ezer Rasin & David Pesetsky (abstract available here). Both are part of the special … [read more]

Paulina Lyskawa defends!

Posted by Omer on 01/15/2021 Comments Off

Jan 152021

I am proud to announce that my student Paulina Lyskawa (co-advised with Maria Polinsky) has defended her PhD thesis! The thesis, Coordination without grammar-internal feature resolution, presents an extended argument that so-called “resolved” agreement with coordinations (in those cases where agreement doesn’t target just the closest conjunct) is actually not … [read more]

W-NYI 2021

Posted by Omer on 12/15/2020 Comments Off

Dec 152020

After the success of V‑NYI 2020, John F. Bailyn and the spectacular NYI crew are reprising their efforts with a winter edition: W‑NYI 2021! Asia Pietraszko and I will again be teaching Words and other things: what do you need to list in your head? You can … [read more]

Slides: “On the atoms of linguistic computation”

Posted by Omer on 10/14/2020 Comments Off

Oct 142020

I’ve posted the slides for a guest seminar I gave recently as part of the More Advanced Syntax graduate course at MIT. These slides represent my latest thinking (as of Oct 2020, anyway) about the question of how syntax interfaces with morpho-phonology and with semantics. For those of you who are well-versed in some … [read more]

New paper: “Taxonomies of case and ontologies of case”

Posted by Omer on 09/23/2020 Comments Off

Sep 232020

I've posted a pre-print of a paper of mine that's set to appear in an edited volume. The paper is titled Taxonomies of case and ontologies of case. It is a theoretical review paper of sorts, and it has several intertwined goals … [read more]

Talk at the TAU Linguistics Colloquium

Posted by Omer on 09/19/2020 No Responses »

Sep 192020

On October 29, 2020, I’ll be giving a (virtual) talk at the Tel Aviv University Linguistics Colloquium. The title of the talk is: Waving goodbye to Ferdinand: natural language is not composed of Saussurean signs (click for abstract).

V-NYI 2020

Posted by Omer on 07/15/2020 Comments Off

Jul 152020

The 2020 edition of the NY ‑ St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition, and Culture (NYI) will take place virtually, during the last two weeks of July! Together with Asia Pietraszko (University of Rochester), I’ll be teaching a course called Words and other things: what do you need to … [read more]

Suyoung Bae defends!

Posted by Omer on 07/03/2020 Comments Off

Jul 032020

I am proud to announce that Suyoung Bae, my second-ever PhD advisee (co-advised with Howard Lasnik), has defended her thesis! The thesis is an investigation of Korean amwu-. Suyoung shows that this negation-dependent expression is neither a Negative-Polarity Item (NPI) nor a Negative-Concord Item (NCI), but instead, a third type of negation-dependent … [read more]

Published in Glossa: “Functional structure in the noun phrase: revisiting Hebrew nominals”

Posted by Omer on 07/02/2020 Comments Off

Jul 022020

My paper, “Functional structure in the noun phrase: revisiting Hebrew nominals,” has been published in Glossa. This paper revisits Ritter’s (1991) findings about nominals in Hebrew in light of recent proposals that nominal phrases lack outer functional structure and are instead projections of the noun (Bruening 2010, 2020 … [read more]

Talk in Oslo

Posted by Omer on 09/19/2019 Comments Off

Sep 192019

In October 2019, I will be giving a talk titled The Anaphor Agreement Effect: further evidence against binding-as-agreement, at the University of Oslo. See my talks & handouts page for further information. You can download the handout here.

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