Talks & travels

2023

• Agree(ment) via interaction and satisfaction. LSA institute, UMass Amherst, July 2023.

• Mayan animacy hierarchy effects: A dynamic interaction approach. WCCFL 41, UC Santa Cruz, May 2023. (with Justin Royer)

• Mayan animacy hierarchy effects: A dynamic interaction approach. WSCLA 26, McGill University, April 2023. (with Justin Royer)

• Probe-specific locality. NYI Distinguished Linguist Lecture Series / Stony Brook University, April 2023.

• Probe-specific locality. Workshop on Locality in Theory, Processing and Acquisition, University of Pennsylvania, March 2023.

• On ditransitive person restrictions in primary object languages. Colloquium, McGill University, February 2023.

2022

• On ditransitive person restrictions in primary object languages. Department Speaker Series, Georgetown University, October 2022. [remote]

• On ditransitive person restrictions in primary object languages. Colloquium, UC Berkeley, September 2022.

• On ditransitive person restrictions in primary object languages. Colloquium, Michigan State University, September 2022. [remote]

• Animacy hierarchy restrictions and dynamic interaction. Syntax and semantics circle, UC Berkeley, October 2022. (with Justin Royer)

• Uncentered attitude reports. MIT ling-lunch, April 2022.

• Interaction, satisfaction, and the PCC. Colloquium, UMass Amherst, March 2022.

2021

• Negative concord as downward Agree. NELS 52, Rutgers, October 2021. [held remotely]

• The logic of agreement: movement, morphology, and composite probes. Syntax and semantics circle, UC Berkeley, September 2021.

• Without uninterpretability. Invited talk, 23rd Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, August 2021. [held remotely]

• Agree(ment). Minicourse, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, May-June 2021. [held remotely]

• Current models of Agree. Move and Agree Forum, University of British Columbia and McGill University, May 2021. [held remotely]

2020

• Sheltering in place!

• 3-on-3 restrictions and PCC typology. NELS 51, Université de Québec à Montréal, November 2020. [held remotely]

• Interaction, satisfaction, and the PCC. Colloquium, NYU, January 2020.

• Uncentered attitude reports. Semantics Group, NYU, January 2020.

• Comments on diachronic formal semantics (as compared to formal semantic fieldwork). Formal Approaches to Grammaticalization, special session at the LSA annual meeting, New Orleans, January 2020.

2019

• Pluralization and notional mass nouns: in search of semantic variation. Workshop on number and plurality: cross-linguistic variation in the nominal domain, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, December 2019.

• Interaction, satisfaction, and the PCC. NELS 50, MIT, October 2019.

• Interaction, satisfaction, and the PCC. Colloquium, University of Toronto, September 2019.

• Uncentered attitude reports. Semantics Research Group, University of Toronto, September 2019.

• Agree, agreement and the PCC. Université Paris Diderot, June 2019.

• Person features and shiftiness. The Alphabet of Universal Grammar, British Academy, London, June 2019.

• GLOW Workshop: Anaphora at the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface in endangered and understudied languages. Oslo, Norway, May 2019. [Co-organizer]

• Dedicated de se and complement type: an argument against Uniformity. Colloquium, Princeton, April 2019.

• Interaction, satisfaction, and the PCC. Syntax and Semantics Circle, Berkeley, April 2019.

• Factivity and uncentered attitudes. Work in progress talk, Philosophy Department, UC Berkeley, February 2019.

• Relative embeddings, factivity, and propositional complementation. Colloquium,University of Maryland, February 2019.

• BLS workshop: countability distinctions. Berkeley, January 2019. [Co-organizer]

• What is good and what is possible? Searching for an interdisciplinary language. Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar, January 2019. [Invited participant]

2018

• Clausal complementation vs. "relative embedding": on knowledge and happiness in Nez Perce. Syntax and Semantics Circle, Berkeley, November 2018.

• A puzzle about reflexives of res movement verbs. Workshop on de se, Berkeley, October 2018.

• Third readings by semantic scope lowering: prolepsis in Tiwa. Sinn und Bedeutung 23, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, September 2018. (With Virginia Dawson)

• Vague predicates, crisp judgments. Sinn und Bedeutung 23, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, September 2018. (With Vera Hohaus)

• Compositional paths to de re. Semantics and Linguistic Theory 28, MIT, May 2018

• Vague predicates, crisp judgments. Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 10, University of Toronto, May 2018. (With Vera Hohaus)

• Covert hyperraising to object. Syntax and Morphology Circle, Stanford, April 6, 2018.

• Indexiphors: remarks on embedded indexicals, shifty agreement, and logophoricity. Colloquium, University of Connecticut, March 2018.

• Formal semantic typology. Semantics 2018: Looking Ahead, University of Massachusetts Amherst, March.

• Indexiphors: remarks on embedded indexicals, shifty agreement, and logophoricity. Colloquium, Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main, January.

• Vague predicates, crisp judgments. Ebehard Karls Universitat Tubingen, January. (With Vera Hohaus)

2017

• Shifty asymmetries: universals and variation in shifty indexicality. Colloquium, University of Michigan, November 10, 2017.

• Shifty asymmetries: universals and variation in shifty indexicality. Keynote, Sinn und Bedeutung 22, ZAS (Berlin) / University of Potsdam, September 2017.

• Shifty asymmetries: universals and variation in shifty indexicality. Colloquium, Berkeley, August 28, 2017.

• Extraction asymmetries via case discrimination: evaluating the prospects. Workshop on Quirks of Subject Extraction, National University of Singapore, August 10, 2017.

• Semantics of propositional attitudes. Course at Eastern Generative Grammar (EGG), Olomouc, Czech Republic, July 31-August 4, 2017.

• Interaction and satisfaction: a theory of agreement. Course at Eastern Generative Grammar (EGG), Olomouc, Czech Republic, July 24-28, 2017

• Dedicated de re attitude reports. First UC Irvine Workshop in Logical Semantics, May 20, 2017.

• Shifty asymmetries: universals and variation in shifty indexicality. Rutgers Semantics/Pragmatics Workshop, Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science, April 28, 2017.

• Shifty asymmetries: universals and variation in shifty indexicality. Keynote, WSCLA 22 (Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas), University of British Columbia, April 22, 2017.

• Covert hyperraising to object. Morphology and Syntax Workshop, University of Chicago, April 7, 2017.

2016

• Dedicated de re attitude reports. Ling-lunch, MIT, December 2016.

• Countability distinctions and semantic variation: toward universals of mass and count. Colloquium, Boston University, November 2016.

• Covert hyperraising to object. NELS 47, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 2016.

• Number marking and the definite interpretation of bare nouns in Teotitlan del Valle Zapotec. Sinn und Bedeutung 21, University of Edinburgh, September 2016. (With Julia Nee)

• Visiting scholar, Harvard Linguistics and MIT Linguistics, Fall semester 2016.

• Number marking and the definite interpretation of bare nouns in Teotitlan del Valle Zapotec. Definiteness across languages, National Autonomous University of Mexico / El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, June 2016. (With Julia Nee)

• Interaction and satisfaction in phi-agreement. MIT, April 2016.

• Shifty asymmetries: universals and variation in shifty indexicality. Colloquium, MIT, April 2016.

• Counting Nez Perce cases (or adpositions?). Fieldwork Forum, UC Berkeley, April 2016.

• Syntactic ergativity as case discrimination. WCCFL 34, University of Utah, April.

• Shifty asymmetries: universals and variation in shifty indexicality. Colloquium, University of Massachusetts Amherst, March 2016.

• Shifty asymmetries: universals and variation in shifty indexicality. Perspectival Expressions and the De Se Crosslinguistically, LSA annual meeting, Washington, DC, January 2016