I’m delighted to report that Dongwoo Park, my first ever PhD (co-)advisee, has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the Korea National Open University. […]
A large portion of my interests lately has centered around the proposition that syntactic theory has been overprivileging semantic argumentation. I’ve talked a lot, and in various forums, about why I think this is bad for syntax. Here, I’d like to say a bit about why I think this is bad for semantics. […]
I just finished co-teaching the “Three Puzzles in Syntax and Semantics” course at NYI with Asya Pereltsvaig and Daniel Altshuler, where my “puzzle” was the Definiteness Effect, and why there is no hope for a semantic account of it. (Avid readers may recognize this theme from elsewhere.) […]
I’ll be presenting at the 1st Annual Thematic Workshop of Linguistics in Gottingen (LinG1) in Germany. (This year’s theme: “Agreement and Anaphoricity.”) More details will be posted on my Talks & Handouts page. […]
Next month, I will be giving a talk at the Groningen Syntax Workshop, titled How to tell a syntactic phenomenon when you see it (click the title for the talk abstract). […]
I am delighted to announce that I will once again be a member of the faculty at the NY ‑ St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition, and Culture (NYI), in July-August 2018 in St. Petersburg (Russia). […]
I am delighted to announce that I will be teaching at the LOT Summer School (Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics), in June 2018 in Groningen. I will be teaching a one-week seminar called Person, Number, and the Architecture of Grammar. You can read more about it on my teaching page. […]
Applications are now open for the University of Maryland’s 3rd annual Summer Field School in Guatemala, from May 26th, 2018 to June 24th, 2018. The field school brings students and faculty to Guatemala for a month long trip including two weeks of intensive Kaqchikel language classes and two weeks devoted to research (primarily on Mayan languages, though opportunities for research in other fields may be available). This is an ideal opportunity for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students to study a Mayan language and conduct fieldwork. More information and a link to the application can be found on the Maryland Language Science Center’s website. […]
I’ve written a new post over at Norbert Hornstein’s Faculty of Language blog. It’s titled: “Phi features, binding, and A-positions.” […]
I’ll be presenting at the 10th Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics (BCGL 10) in Belgium. (This year’s theme: “The morphology and semantics of person and number.”) More details will be posted on my Talks & Handouts page. […]