I’ve updated my teaching page with information about the courses I will be teaching in the spring of 2015: Issues in Syntax (graduate, LING 611, w/Norbert Hornstein) and Syntax II (undergraduate, LING 312).
Jan 242015
Jan 092015
I’ve posted a new paper (jointly written with Maria Polinsky), titled: “Agreement and semantic concord: a spurious unification.” See my research page for more details.
Jan 092015
My paper with Ted Levin, “Case in Sakha: are two modalities really necessary?” has been published in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory; see my research page for more details.
Dec 162014
On December 16-18, I participated in a joint workshop with the linguistics department at Tel Aviv University (the same department where I got both my bachelor’s and master’s degrees!). The workshop had two “tracks” — the one I participated in was about resumptive pronouns: their syntax, their processing, their production, their acquisition, and how they are affected by various language impairments. The workshop also had a particular focus on how the contrasting linguistic properties of Hebrew and English can be used to shed light on these issues.
Nov 042014
I’m delighted to announce that I have been invited to speak at this year’s “Winter Storm” at the University of Maryland (organized by the Maryland Language Science Center).
Sep 042014
I’ll be giving three invited talks this fall, at Georgetown (Sep. 26), Delaware (Oct. 10), and UMass Amherst (Oct. 24). For more information, see the talks & handouts page.
Aug 232014
The role of case in A-bar extraction asymmetries: evidence from Mayan (joint work with Jessica Coon & Pedro Mateo Pedro) has been accepted for publication in the journal Linguistic Variation; see my research page for more details.
Jul 202014
I’ve posted the handout for a talk I gave at McGill University back in 2012, “Partial agreement and the direction of valuation.”
The talk shows why the cross-linguistically common asymmetry between (richer) agreement in SV structures and (poorer) agreement in VS structures – e.g. in Romance and in Semitic – does not constitute an argument in favor of Spec-Head agreement (nor in favor of “downward valuation” more generally). I show that this pattern falls out naturally from the theory of partial agreement outlined in my 2011 NLLT paper.
Download the handout here, or go to the talks & handouts page.
Jun 192014
A new version of the paper The role of case in A-bar extraction asymmetries: evidence from Mayan (joint work with Jessica Coon & Pedro Mateo Pedro) has been posted; see my research page for more details.
Jun 062014
I’ve updated my teaching page with information about the course I will be teaching in the fall of 2014: Linguistic Field Methods (graduate, LING 659).