| 2021 | Same, parallelism, and presuppositions. LSA Annual Meeting, January 8, 2021. With Dan Hardt. [slides] |
| 2019 | Same and Different: A Presuppositional Account. NELS 50, October 25, 2019. With Dan Hardt. [handout] |
| 2017 | Resumption and Chain Reduction in Danish VP Left Dislocation. NELS 48, Reykjavik, October 27-29 2017. With Boris Harizanov. [handout] |
| Grammar without tears - Words. National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages, Washington DC, June 1, 2017 | |
| Creating sentences (without tears!). National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages, Washington DC, June 2, 2017 | |
| What goes postverbal in a verb-final language? Syntactic Categories, Information Structure and Headedness in Karuk. University of Texas at Austin, March 20, 2017. | |
| 2016 | Creating sentences (without tears!). Breath of Life Language Restoration Workshop for California Indians, Berkeley, June 15, 2016 |
| What goes postverbal in a verb-final language? Syntactic Categories, Information Structure and Headedness in Karuk. University of Chicago, January 14, 2016. | |
| 2015 | Creating sentences (without tears!). National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages, Washington DC, June 5, 2015 |
| Subordination, definiteness and backgrounding in Karuk. Workshop on American Indian Languages. UC Santa Barbara, May 7 2015. With Andrew Garrett. [handout] | |
| Documenting, analyzing, and teaching the grammar of direction in Karuk. 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), February 26-March 1, 2015, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. With Andrew Garrett. | |
| Punctuation is prosody: making historic transcriptions of Karuk accessible for revitalization and research. 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), February 26-March 1, 2015, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. With Clare Sandy. | |
| Exploring Karuk morphology in a parsed text corpus. Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA), January 8-11, Portland. | |
| 2014 | What goes postverbal in a verb-final language? On the interplay of prosody, information structure, and word order in Karuk. UC Santa Cruz Syntax Circle, October 24 [handout] |
| Clausal complements to N in Danish, Workshop on the North Germanic Noun Phrase, Universitet i Tromsø, May 22. [handout] | |
| Degrees of word order freedom in Karuk, University of Arizona, March 31 [handout] | |
| Developing a syntactically parsed corpus of Karuk. With Andrew Garrett, Erik Maier, and Clare Sandy. SSILA, January 3 | |
| 2013 | Developing the Karuk Treebank. With Andrew Garrett, Clare Sandy, Erik Maier, and Patrick Davidson, Fieldwork Forum, UC Berkeley, November 13. [slides] | Degrees of word order freedom in Karuk, Syntax and Semantics Circle, UC Berkeley, September 27. [handout] | Same but different. With Dan Hardt. Copenhagen Business School, August 16. | Going káruk, yúruk, sáruk or máruk? What a native language of California can tell us about its surroundings. With Kayla Carpenter and Clare Sandy. Guest lecture in "The world according to Berkeley" (Letters & Sciences 110), UC Berkeley, Feb 6, 2013. |
| 2012 | Some observations on identity, sameness and comparison, Meaning Sciences Club, UC Berkeley, October 16. [handout] | The syntax of information structure: the view from Danish, Stanford, July 12. |
| Going káruk, yúruk, sáruk or máruk? What a native language of California can tell us about its surroundings. With Kayla Carpenter and Will Chang. Guest lecture in "The world according to Berkeley" (Letters & Sciences 110), UC Berkeley, April 25, 2012. | |
| On Predication and Word Class in Karuk. SMircle, Stanford, April 3. [handout]. Also presented at GAIL (Group in American Indian Languages) in Oakland on April 24 [handout] and at UC Davis on May 16 | |
| 2011 | Er der mange agern eller er agernene mange? Bestemthedsmarkering og sætningsopbygning i Karuk. (Are there many acorns or are the acorns many? Definiteness marking and clause structure in Karuk.) Aarhus University, colloquium, September 28.[handout] | Orphans: composition or construction? Copenhagen Business School, Workshop on ellipsis and anaphora, October 24. [handout] | Verb-second structures: Evidence from Danish VP anaphora. MIT, colloquium, September 16. [handout] |
| Orphans hosted by VP anaphora. Ellips'Event, Stanford University, April 30. With Dan Hardt and Bjarne Ørsnes. [handout] | Orphans hosted by VP-Anaphora, WCCFL 29, University of Arizona, April 22-24. With Dan Hardt and Bjarne Ørsnes. [handout] |
| Verb-second structures: Evidence from Danish VP anaphora. UCLA, colloquium, April 15. [handout] | |
| 2010 | Orphans and the interpretation of anaphora. Copenhagen Business School, December 13. With Dan Hardt and Bjarne Ørsnes. [handout] |
| Orphans and the interpretation of anaphora. CUSP 3, Stanford University, October 15. With Dan Hardt and Bjarne Ørsnes. [handout] | |
| CP Complements to D. UC Santa Cruz, February 25. With Jorge Hankamer. [handout] | |
| Verb-second structures: Evidence from Danish VP anaphora. UC San Diego, January 25 [handout] | |
| 2009 | On what comes first in a verb-second language. TREND, Stanford University, May 9 [handout] |
| You and me or just us? Syntax Circle, UC Berkeley, May 5. With Milla Nizar and Jed Pizarro-Guevara. [handout] | |
| Constraints on anaphor movement. Poster at LSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 9. [abstract | poster | handout]. | |
| The structure of definite complex nominals (in Danish). LSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 11. With Jorge Hankamer. [abstract | handout] | |
| 2008 | Specification under discussion. Linguistics Alumni Conference, UCSC, September 12-13. [handout] |
| Conditions on fronting. Colloquium, UCSC, April 18 [handout] | |
| Specification under discussion. 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 8-10. (Advertised under the title "Coherence and congruence in overinformative answers to polar questions".) [handout] | |
| 2007 | Same but different: VP anaphors in Danish and English. Sixth Annual SLUgS Symposium, UC Berkeley, November 18 [handout] |
| Two VP anaphors in Danish. Stanford Syntax Workshop, January 23. [handout] | |
| 2006 | A puzzle about belief reports (or why Tanya wouldn't say what she believes). Fifth Annual SLUgS Symposium, UC Berkeley, December 3. [handout]. |
| Specificational copular clauses. Colloquium, Kobe Area Circle of Linguistics, Kobe Shoin Women's University, November 22. [handout] | |
| Danish verb phrase anaphora: Deep or surface? Poster session at WECOL 06, California State University, Fresno, October 27-29. With Michael Houser, Ange Strom-Weber and Maziar Toosarvandani. [abstract | poster]. | |
| Verb phrase anaphora in a verb second language. Syntax Group, University of Massachusetts Amherst, October 12. [handout] | |
| Gøre support in Danish. 21st Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, UCSC, March 31 - April 2. With Michael Houser, Ange Strom-Weber and Maziar Toosarvandani. [abstract | handout]. | |
| Verb phrase anaphora in a verb second language. Linguistics at Santa Cruz, March 4. [abstract | handout] | |
| Definiteness marking and the structure of Danish partitive constructions. LSA Annual Meeting. Albuquerque, January 8. With Jorge Hankamer [abstract | handout] | |
| Object shift in copular clauses. LSA Annual Meeting. Albuquerque, January 6. [abstract | handout] | |
| 2005 | Specificational clauses and clefts. 27. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Sprachwissenschaft. Cologne, February 23-25 [abstract | handout] |
| 2004 | What's special about specificational clauses--Part II. Syntax Circle, UC Berkeley, November 19. [handout] |
| What's special about specificational clauses. Third Annual SLUgS Symposium, UC Berkeley, November 14. [handout] | |
| Existentials: from Angst to Harmony. (With David Beaver, Itamar Francez, Ivan Garcia, and Dmitry Levinson.) Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop, Stanford University, October 21. [abstract] | |
| Specificational clauses at the interfaces. Stanford Syntax Workshop, Stanford University, January 27. [abstract | handout] | |
| Reexamining Higgins' Taxonomy: A split in the Identificational class. LSA Annual Meeting. Boston, January 10. [Abstract in ps format | handout in ps or pdf format] | |
| A puzzle about PPs in Danish definite DPs. LSA Annual Meeting. Boston, January 9. With Jorge Hankamer. [Abstract in ps format | handout in ps or pdf format] | |
| 2003 | Kopulasætninger og deres subjekter -- bidrag til en formal karakteristik. (Copular clauses and their subjects -- contributions to a formal characterization) Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of Aarhus, November 7. [handout] |
| Kopulasætninger og deres subjekter -- bidrag til en formal karakteristik. (Copular clauses and their subjects -- contributions to a formal characterization) Seminar on formal and computational linguistics, co-organized by the Linguistic Circle at the University of Copenhagen and the CMOL group at the Copenhagen Business School. Copenhagen Business School, November 3. [handout] | |
| Danish names and the Duke of York. Ninth Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC9), University of Buffalo, April 25-27. With Jorge Hankamer. [abstract | handout] | |
| 2002 | Specificational clauses and semantic types. Existence: Semantics and Syntax. University of Nancy 2, France, September 26-28. [abstract] |
| Hvem er hvem og hvad er hvad? -- om copula-konstruktioner i dansk. (Who is who and what is what -- on copular constructions in Danish.) Department of Computational Linguistics, Copenhagen Business School, September 23 | |
| Specificational copular clauses. Grammatikseminar (colloquium), Department of Nordic Languages, University of Lund, Sweden, September 19 | |
| Two types of definite description subjects. 7th ESSLLI student session, 14th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information. Trento, Italy, August 6. [handout] | |
| Towards an understanding of specificational structures. Stanford Syntax Workshop, Stanford University, April 23. | |
| 2001 | Ambiguous copula sentences in Danish: evidence against the inversion hypothesis. 32nd Conference of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 32). CUNY Graduate Center and New York University, October 20. [handout] |
| A morphological account of definite nouns in Danish. Seventh Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC7). University of Calgary, Banff, April 22. With Jorge Hankamer. [abstract | handout] | |
| 2000 | Constraints on definite and indefinite subjects in Danish. Institut für Linguistik/Germanistik, Universität Stuttgart, December 14. |
| Reanalyzing the definiteness effect: evidence from Danish. Stanford-UCSC Workshop on Optimal Typology, Stanford University December 8. | |
| Expletive subjects in subject relative clauses. 15th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop. University of Groningen, Holland, May 27. [abstract | handout] | |
| Reanalyzing the definiteness effect: evidence from Danish. Workshop on OT Approaches to the Nordic Languages, 18th Scandinavian Conference on Linguistics. University of Lund, Sweden, May 18. | |
| 1999 | Danish syntactic noun incorporation: a case study in grammatical interfaces. 6th International Conference on HPSG, University of Edinburgh, August 4. With Ash Asudeh. |
| Schwa assimilation in three Danish dialects. Workshop on Scandinavian Phonology, U.C. Santa Cruz, May 22. | |
| Noun incorporation in Danish. University of Montana at Missoula, March 25. | |
| Definiteness marking in Danish. University of Montana at Missoula, March 24. |