Slides & video from Abralin talk
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Sep 152021
In September 2021, I'll be giving three invited talks: … [read more]
Sigwan Thivierge defends!
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Jul 192021
I am proud to announce that my student Sigwan Thivierge (co-advised with Maria Polinsky) has defended her PhD thesis!
The thesis, Phasehood and phi-intervention, presents a novel syntactic analysis of the Georgian agreement system. While this system has been the topic of a great deal of research in recent decades, … [read more] “Sigwan Thivierge defends!”
New paper: “A re-evaluation of Arad’s argument for roots” (w/Ezer Rasin & David Pesetsky)
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Jul 102021
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]
Rodrigo Ranero defends!
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Jul 082021
I am proud to announce that my student Rodrigo Ranero (co-advised with Maria Polinsky) has defended his PhD thesis!
The thesis, Identity conditions on ellipsis, argues for a new perspective on the identity requirement underpinning ellipsis in natural language. Specifically, it argues that identity under ellipsis is irreducibly syntactic – at … [read more] “Rodrigo Ranero defends!”
Three talks in September
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Jun 062021
In September 2021, I'll be giving three invited talks: … [read more]
V-NYI 2021
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May 252021
The 2021 edition of the NY ‑ St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition, and Culture (NYI) will take place virtually (just like V‑NYI 2020, and W‑NYI 2021!), during the last two weeks of July.
I’ll be teaching the Introduction to Syntax course (which I had the privilege of teaching in person … [read more] “V-NYI 2021”
Slides: “Natural language without semiosis”
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May 172021
I’ve posted slides and other materials from my May 2021 guest lecture in Rajesh Bhatt’s class at UMass Amherst. (The contents are very similar to the contents of the talk I gave at the Göttingen Ling Colloquium one week earlier.)
These slides represent my latest thinking – as of right now, anyway – about how syntax interfaces … [read more] “Slides: “Natural language without semiosis””
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”