Invited talks and lectures

2023

Sept. 2023: Why "we" can be sloppy - Indexical binding, agreement and presuppositions. Beijing Language and Culture University, China. Slides.

Feb. 2023: Appealing to superlative clauses (or how to split the scope of superlative adjectives across intensional verbs). LINGUAE lectures. Paris ENS/DEC/IJN/LSCP. Slides.

Jan. 2023: "Pronoun meanings in elided sentences - Illustrating research in formal syntax and semantics". MBALL special lecture. Gyeongsang National University, Korea.

2022

Dec. 2022: "On superlative clauses". Seminar Speaker Series. Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London.

Nov. 2022: "Le sens du silence. Que révèle l'interprétation des énoncés fragmentaires sur notre capacité linguistique ?". Questions de recherche, Faculté des Lettres, Université de Genève. Présentation.

Oct. 2022: "On self". University of Padua, Department of Linguistics. Slides.

Oct. 2022: "Perspectives linguistiques". Leçon inaugurale, Université de Genève. Présentation. Enregistrement.

Apr. 2022: " “Je t’aime. – Moi aussi (je t’aime).” Supersloppiness from a French perspective." Workshop on Romance Languages: Recent contributions to linguistic theory. Slides.

Mar. 2022: "Ce n'est jamais moi qui te quitterai. Indexicalité et rigidité". Séminaire de recherche en linguistique française, Université de Lausanne. Présentation.

2021

Dec. 2021: "A linguistic approach to music and dance cognition: a case study about rhythmical structure. Psycholinguistics seminars, University of Geneva. Slides.

Nov. 2021: "Dance and Music Rhythms: Similarities, Differences and Interactions". 15th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication. Syntax and semantics of music and dance: Formal and experimental approaches. University of Latvia.

Nov. 2021: "The self-same analysis of intensifiers (and reflexives)". IGRA colloquium series. Institute of Linguistics, Leipzig University. Slides.

Oct. 2021: "The identity of intensifiers (and reflexives)". Center for Research in Syntax, Semantics and Phonology (CRISSP) seminar.  KU Leuven.

Mar. 2021: "Moving to the Rhythm of Spring - A Case Study of the Rhythmic Structure of Dance". Motion and Meaning Lecture series. Center for Gesture, Sign, and Language, University of Chicago. 

Jan. 2021: "Picture Noun Reflexives - Locality, Logophoricity and Subjecthood." Linguistics Speaker Series. University of Pennsylvania.

2020

Sept. 2020:  "Je t’aime. – Moi aussi. Indexicaux et rigidité". (“I love you. – I do too.” Indexicals and rigidity). University of Geneva.

Feb. 2020: "Disentangling the Binding Knot: Locality, Logophoricity and Subjecthood in Picture Noun Anaphors." Linguistics Colloquium. UCSC, Santa Cruz.

2019

Nov. 2019: "Indexicals as Bound Descriptions." YYC Pronoun Workshop 2019. University of Calgary, Canada. Slides.

2018

Oct. 2018: "Being a judge in your own c(l)ause: Perspectival effects in causal clauses." Linguistics Circle, Harvard University. Slides.

Jul. 2018: "Syntax of Dance". Workshop on Linguistic Explorations beyond Language: Music, Dance and Visual Narrative. Second Crete Summer School of Linguistics. Rethymno, Greece.

Apr. 2018: "Do Anaphors Compete with Anything?". Workshop on Pronouns in Competition. UC Santa Cruz. Slides.

Apr. 2018: "Adjunct Attitudes". Syntax Plus, USC.

Feb. 2018: "Height changes Perspective: the Case of because- and since-clauses". Colloquium talk. Linguistics Department, NYU. 

2017 

Dec. 2017: "Independence from Perspective: French (Exempt) Anaphora". Colloquium talk. Linguistics Department, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Dec. 2017: Syntax Winter School in Jerusalem. Five 90-minute lectures on Binding Theory. Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) and Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel.

Jun. 2017: "Linguistic Perspectives in Causation." Workshop on Linguistic Perspectives on Causation. Language, Logic and Cognition Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. 

2016

Dec. 2016: "Logophoricity in Adjunct Clauses." Colloquium talk. Linguistics Department, UMass Amherst.

Nov. 2016: "Perspectival Effects in Circumstantial Subordinates." Colloquium talk. Linguistics Department, Rutgers University. 

Oct. 2016: "Dance your Mind." LaMERG Distinguished Lecture Series. Stony Brook University's Language, Music and Emotion Research Group.

Oct. 2016: "Causes for Judges". Frontiers Talk Series. Linguistics department, Stony Brook University.

Sept. 2016: "Steps towards a Grammar of Dance". Language and Cognition group. Harvard University. 

May 2016: "Dance Analysis: Units and Transitions". Workshop on Music and Movement. NYU.

Mar. 2016: "First Steps towards a Theory of Dance Cognition". LANGUAGE seminar. Linguae group, IJN-ENS-CNRS, Paris, France.

2015 and before

Apr. 2015: "Auxiliary Alternations in French passé surcomposé". BU Linguistics Program (Department of Romance Studies, CAS). Slides.

Feb. 2015: "Point of View on Condition A". NYU Syntax Brown Bag.

Nov. 2014: "Perspectives on Binding and Exemption". MIT Ling Lunch.

Nov. 2013: "How Perspective is encoded in the Grammar". New Faculty Lunches, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University.

Apr. 2012: "Evaluation expérimentale d’hypothèses syntaxiques : trois exemples" (‘Experimental Examination of Syntactic Hypotheses: Three Examples’). Department of Linguistics, Paris 7-Diderot.

Feb. 2012: "Binding and Focus: what propre (own) reveals". Department of Linguistics, Harvard University.

Nov. 2011: "On French possessive son propre ('his own'): Scalarity and Locality". ZAS, Berlin.