Apr 272021
On May 5, 2020, I’ll be giving a (virtual) talk at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Ling Colloquium. The title of the talk is: ”Natural language without semiosis” (click for abstract).
A “vignette” on phi-agreement in syntax
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Apr 172021
A while ago, I was asked to contribute something to the upcoming Cambridge Handbook of Minimalism. My initial thoughts about what such a contribution might consist of led me at the time to write a blog post about whether I should even be considered a minimalist syntactician at all. (Short … [read more] “A “vignette” on phi-agreement in syntax”
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] “Two presentations at WCCFL 39”
Paulina Lyskawa defends!
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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] “Paulina Lyskawa defends!”
W-NYI 2021
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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] “W-NYI 2021”
Slides: “On the atoms of linguistic computation”
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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] “Slides: “On the atoms of linguistic computation””
New paper: “Taxonomies of case and ontologies of case”
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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]
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
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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] “V-NYI 2020”
Suyoung Bae defends!
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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] “Suyoung Bae defends!”