I just finished co-teaching the “Three Puzzles in Syntax and Semantics” mini-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.)
In case you are interested, here is the handout.
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.
The title of my presentation will be: “The Anaphor Agreement Effect: further evidence against anaphora-as-agreement.”
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).
For more information, see the talks & handouts page.
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 will be teaching a three-week Introduction to Syntax course, and my teaching assistant will be Paulina Lyskawa.
I’ll also be teaching the third week of the Three Puzzles in Syntax and Semantics course, focusing on the Definiteness Effect.
For more information, see my teaching page.
Class materials will be made available here.
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.
UPDATE: Course materials will be posted here each day.
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.
Applications are due by Monday, March 5th 2018.
I’ve updated my teaching page with information about the courses I will be teaching in the spring of 2018: Issues in Syntax (graduate, LING 611, w/Norbert Hornstein), and Intro to Morphology (undergraduate, LING 420).
I’ve written a new post over at Norbert Hornstein’s Faculty of Language blog. It’s titled: “Phi features, binding, and A-positions.”
You can access it here: https://facultyoflanguage.blogspot.com/2018/01/phi-features-binding-and-positions.html
(Archived version here.)
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.
The title of my presentation is: “Assessing the morphosemantic program for phi-features: the prospects of a cross-modularly stable representation.”
UPDATE: You can download my slides here.
My paper, “What the PCC tells us about ‘abstract’ agreement, head movement, and locality,” has been accepted for publication in Glossa. This is a more detailed version of work I presented in talks at NELS 46, ZAS, and Stanford. You can read more about this project on my research page.
The paper can be downloaded here.
(Backup link in case lingbuzz is down: here.)