Papers & Presentations
Conference proceedings
2023 . Focus on demonstratives: Experiments in English and Turkish (with Yağmur Sağ and Kathryn Davidson). In Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 33. [Link]
2023. Reference to kinds: the perspective from Bangla. In Proceedings of West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 41. [Link]
2020. Positively polar plurals: Theory and predictions (with Dorothy Ahn and Uli Sauerland). In: J. Rhyne, K. Lamp, N. Dreier, and C. Kwon (eds) Proceedings of SALT 30: 450-463. Cornell University, Ithaca. [Link]
Conference presentations
June 2024 (upcoming). Mandarin demonstratives as strong definites: An experimental investigation (with Yağmur Sağ, Jian Cui, and Kathryn Davidson). Talk at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) 3, University of Pennsylvania
May 2024 (upcoming). Mandarin demonstratives as strong definites (with Yağmur Sağ, Jian Cui, and Kathryn Davidson). Poster at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 34.
November 2023. Two types of definites – cross-linguistic experimental study. with Florian Schwarz, Agata Renans, Hasiyatu Abubakari, Dorothy Ahn, Fenna Bergsma, Nattanu Chanchaochai, Reginald Duah, Imke Driemel, Ljudmila Geist, Mira Grubic, Sampson Korsah, Suet-Ying Lam, Cecile Meier, Yağmur Sağ, Ankana Saha, Radek Šimík, and Alexandra Simonenko. Talk at Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL 2023)
May 2023. Reference to kinds: the perspective from Bangla. Talk at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 41. [Link]
May 2023. Reference to kinds: the perspective from Bangla. Poster at the Workshop on (In)definiteness and Genericity across Languages, Yale University, May 11, 2023. [Link]
May 2023. Focus on demonstratives: Experiments in English and Turkish (with Yağmur Sağ and Kathryn Davidson). Poster at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 33. [Link]
November 2023. The puzzle of kind reference in Bangla. Talk at the Southern New England Workshop in Semantics (SNEWS) 2022
April 2022. Free choice and epistemicity in Bangla. Poster at 12th Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL 12). [Link]
March 2022. Free choice and epistemicity in Bangla: A test for exhaustification based approaches. Talk at 46th annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 46).
March 2022 . Free choice and epistemicity in Bangla: A test for exhaustification based approaches. Talk at 14th Annual Western Interdisciplinary Student Symposium on Language Research (WISSLR 2022).
August 2020. Positively Polar Plurals (with Dorothy Ahn and Uli Sauerland). Poster at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 30 at Cornell University [OSF Page]. [Link]
Other presentations
Other presentations
April 2024. What does anaphora tell us about definiteness? An experimental study. Meaning & Modality Linguistics Lab, Harvard University
March 2024. Deconstructing Definiteness: Experiments in anaphora. Graduate Students Workshop, Harvard University
October 2023. Anaphoric demonstrative descriptions: the view from Mandarin. Meaning & Modality Linguistics Lab, Harvard University [Link]
April 2023. Reference to kinds: the perspective from Bangla. Meaning & Modality Linguistics Lab, Harvard University
April 2023. Focus on demonstratives: Experiments in English and Turkish (joint work with Yağmur Sağ and Kathryn Davidson), 2023 Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative Showcase, Harvard University
October 2022. The anaphoric potential of demonstrative descriptions. Meaning & Modality Linguistics Lab, Harvard University
November 2021. The typology of free choice and polarity in Bangla. Semantics Reading Group, Yale University.
September 2021. Epistemicity and free choice in Bangla. Meaning & Modality Linguistics Lab, Harvard University
July 2018. Epistemic Indefinites: A Perspective from Bangla. Poster at CreteLing 2018.
Manuscripts
July 2023. Kind reference in Bangla. Generals paper, Harvard University.
October 2023. The anaphoric potential of demonstrative descriptions: An experimental study. Generals paper, Harvard University.