I am proud to announce that I will be the plenary speaker at the 17th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 17), to be held in August 2015 at Kyung Hee University in Seoul. I will be giving a series of lectures on case and agreement in generative grammar. […]
I will be giving an invited talk at “How to Make Things Happen in the Grammar: the Implementation of Obligatoriness“: a workshop held as part of TbiLLC 2015: the Eleventh International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation (September 2015). See the talks & handouts page. […]
This spring, I’ll be giving three invited talks, at UCLA (Feb. 13), UConn (Apr. 10), and NYU (Apr. 24). For more information, see the talks & handouts page. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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). […]
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. […]
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. […]
I’ve posted the handout for a talk I gave at McGill University back in 2012, “Partial agreement and the direction of valuation.” […]