2025. The Spanish PYTA Morphome Dissolved. Talk given at MorphoMO, UQAM, May 2, 2025. [sister paper draft on the preterito grave]
2025. (Ousmane Cissé and) Neil Myler. Mandinka Causatives. Talk given at the NYU Syntax Brown Bag, March 14, 2025.
2025. Romance Conjugation Class Features could be Syntactic (and on certain assumptions must be). Invited talk given to the CRISSP Seminar on Theme Vowels, Categories, and Categorization (TCC), KU Leuven, Feb 20, 2025 [Debriefing Video].
2025. Attributive Possession and the Contributions of Roots: Part-Whole Relations and the Morphosyntax of Noun Phrases. Talk given remotely at the Part-Whole Structure and its Reflection in Natural Language, Université Côte d'Azur, Jan 24. 2025.
2024. Ash Asudeh, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Frances Dowle, Neil Myler, Daniel Siddiqi, and Lisa Sullivan. Fusional morphology, metasyncretism, and secondary exponence: A morphemic, realizational approach to Latin declension. (Talk given at the Lexical Functional Grammar Conference 2024, University of Accra, August 23, 2024)
2024. Ash Asudeh, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Frances Dowle, Neil Myler, Daniel Siddiqi, and Lisa Sullivan. Metasyncretism and Secondary Exponence in LRFG. (Talk given at the Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Meeting, Carleton University, June 17, 2024)
2024. Imagining Life without Rules of Exponence and the Elsewhere Condition. [companion handout (long version)], [fragment], [counter-fragment 2.0] (Talk at the Workshop on Morphology at Princeton, March 23, 2024)
2023. The Princess and the P. (Colloquium Talk, University of Maryland, Oct 13, 2023)
2023. MaS versus Metasyncretism: The Case of Latin Noun Declension. (Talk at Morphology as Syntax 3, Sept 16) [fragment]
2023. The APPL of my i: Another Look at Causative-Applicative Interactions. (Remote Colloquium Talk, University of Arizona, Mar 31, 2023)
2023. Causatives and High Applicatives: 2 Problems, 1.5 Solutions. (Colloquium Talk, University of Rochester, Mar 3, 2023)
2023. One-replacement, binary branching, and micro-comparative syntax. (Talk given at LingLangLunch, Brown University, Feb 8, 2023)
2022. Nuevos hallazgos en morfosintáxis quechua: aplicativos, reflexivos, y las marcas del objeto (Remote talk given to GELYS, Santiago del Estero, Argentina, Sept 6, 2022)
2021. Three Approaches to Mirror Principle Violations and their Typological Predictions. (Oxford University General Linguistics Seminar)
2021. Neil Myler and Zoliswa Mali. Accounting for the Mirror Principle and its Exceptions in Causative-Applicative Interactions: The case of isiXhosa. Talk given at 50 ans de Linguistique à l'UQAM, Friday, April 23rd.
2021. Three Approaches to Mirror Principle Violations and their Typological Predictions. (Princeton Symposium on Syntactic Theory)--Handout superseded by the Oxford University General Linguistics Seminar handout of the same title.
2021. Causative~Applicative Interactions and the Nature of Appl: The Case of isiXhosa [based on joint work with Zoliswa Mali]. (IGRA Lecture Series, Universitaet Leipzig.)
2020. Commentary. Panel Presentation at the Syntactic Approaches to Morphology Workshop, NYU, Saturday, Dec 5th. [video]
2020. Estructura, Significado, y Variación en las lenguas Quechuas del sur: el caso de los sufijos –ku, -chi, y -pu. Remote talk given to the Linguistics Summer School, Bolivia, Thursday, Sept 3rd. [video]
2018. Neil Myler and Zoliswa Mali. isiXhosa Causatives: A Puzzle for Theories of Argument Structure. (Talk given at the 49th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Michigan State University, March 23, 2018)
2018. Attributive Possession and the Contributions of Roots. (Talk Given at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft [DGfS], Stuttgart, Germany, March 8, 2018)
2018. Some Puzzles in isiXhosa Causatives [based on joint work with Zoliswa Mali]. (Colloquium Talk, University of Connecticut, March 2, 2018)
2018. Some Puzzles in isiXhosa Causatives [based on joint work with Zoliswa Mali]. (Invited Talk Given at the Morphology and Syntax Workshop at the University of Chicago, February 9, 2018)
2016. Complex Copula Systems as Suppletive Allomorphy. (Talk Given at Between EXISTENCE and LOCATION: Empirical, Formal, and Typological Approaches to Existential Constructions. Universität Tübingen, December 2, 2016) [Note: Appendix 1 of this handout was updated on 05/15/17]
2016. Complex Copula Systems as Suppletive Allomorphy. (Talk Given at the 47th North East Linguistics Society (NELS) Conference, UMass Amherst, October 16, 2016)
The handout from this talk is superseded by the presentation given in Tübingen listed above. Send me an email if you want the older version for some reason.
2016. Variation in the Syntax and Semantics of Predicative Possession in Quechua. (Talk given at the 21st Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas, Université du Québec à Montréal, April 1-3, 2016)
2015. Microvariation in the Andes: Two Case Studies. (Invited Talk at the University of Pennsylvania, November 19, 2015)
2015. The Grammar of some Rootless Structures. (Talk Given at the 4th Roots Workshop, New York University, July 1, 2015)
2015. Some Advantages of not Taking Wordhood too Seriously. (Keynote address given to the 12th Annual Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium)
2015. A Long, Hard Look into the Mirror. (Talk Given at the NYU Syntax Brown Bag, March 12, 2015)
2015. Neil Myler and Andrew Nevins. Inalienable Possession and the Morphosyntax of 'Brown-Eyed'. (Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Perugia, February 15 2015)
2014. A Brown-Eyed Girl: a generative approach to "predicativization". (Talk given at the Polinsky Lab Meeting, Harvard University, November 12 2014)
2014. Neil Myler, Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, and Jim Wood. Predicative Possession Builds on Top of Attributive Possession: Evidence from Icelandic. (Talk given at the GLOW Semantics Workshop on Understanding Possession, April 5 2014).
2014. Predicative Possession and the Theory of Argument Structure. (Talk given at Syntax Supper, Graduate Center CUNY, April 1 2014)
2014. Predicative Possession and the Theory of Argument Structure. (Colloquium Talk, Stanford University, February 11 2014)
The handout for this talk is superseded by the one from the CUNY talk. If you want the older version, send me an email.
2014. What's silent syntax, and what's semantics by itself? Two Case Studies from English dialects. (Syntax Seminar talk, Stanford University, February 10 2014)
2014. Crack words, and you crack grammar, what morphology has to teach us about the language faculty. (Colloquium talk, Boston University, February 3 2014)
This talk is pitched at a mixed audience of faculty and post-intro undergraduates.
2014. How to turn a (not-yet-)possessed DP into a predicate nominal in Cochabamba Quechua. (The 88th Annual Meeting of the LSA, Minneapolis MN)
2013. Predicative Possession via Predicativization of the Possessee.
(Talk given at the NYU Syntax Brown Bag, Dec 6 2013)
2013. Predicative Possession in Cochabamba Quechua: Syntax and Interpretation. (NELS 44, UConn, Oct 18 2013)
2013. Building and Interpreting HAVE Sentences in (mostly) English. (Ling-Lunch, MIT, May 9 2013)
2013. Building and Interpreting Possession Sentences in Cochabamba Quechua. (Syntax Square, MIT, May 7 2013)
2013. Josef Fruehwald & Neil Myler. "I'm done my homework."- Case assignment in a stative passive. (The 37th Penn Linguistics Colloquium).
2013. Stephanie Harves & Neil Myler. Licensing NPIs and Licensing Silence: Have/Be Yet To in English. (The 37th Penn Linguistics Colloquium).
2013. Exceptions to the Mirror Principle and Morphophonological "action at a distance.": The role of "word"-internal phrasal movement and Spell Out. (Distributed Morphology Symposium, the 87th Annual Meeting of the LSA, Boston MA)
2013. Karlos Arregi, Neil Myler & Bert Vaux. Number marking in Western Armenian: A non-argument for outwardly-sensitive phonologically conditioned allomorphy. (Distributed Morphology Symposium, the LSA Annual Meeting, Boston MA).
2012. Stephanie Harves & Neil Myler. Licensing NPIs and Licensing Silence: Have/Be Yet To in English. (Syntax/Semantics Brown Bag, NYU, November 9 2012)
2012. Cliticization Feeds Agreement: A View from Quechua. (Poster Presentation at NELS 43, CUNY).
2012. On Coming the pub in the North West of England: Accusative Unaccusatives, Dependent Case and Preposition Incorporation. (The 27th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, Yale University)
2012. Exceptions to the Mirror Principle and Morphophonological "action at a distance: The role of "word"-internal phrasal movement and Spell Out. (Exploring the Interfaces: Word Structure, McGill University, May 7 2012)
2011. "Word"-internal Phrasal Movement, Spell Out and Exceptions to the Mirror Principle (Syntax/Semantics Brown Bag, NYU, October 14 2011)
2011. Light verbs, hidden relatives and control: the case of derived nominals. (JeNom4, the 4th Workshop on Nominalizations, University of Stuttgart, June 2011.)
2010. Light verbs, hidden relatives and control: the case of derived nominals (Syntax Supper, Graduate Center CUNY, November 23 2010)
2010. Come the pub with me and I'll give it you there: motion verbs, double object constructions and silent prepositions in West Lancashire English (and beyond) (SyntaxLab, University of Cambridge, June 28 2010)
2010. A Phrasal Derivational affix: the case of -yoq in Quechua (Georgetown Linguistic Society Conference, Georgetown University, February 2010)
2009. Opacity and Optionality in the Morphology-Syntax-Phonology Mapping: The Case of ni- insertion and -lla displacement in Quechua. (Speedpaper given at LFG 2009, University of Cambridge).
2009. FOFC and Morphology. (SyntaxLab, University of Cambridge, June 2009)
2009. Semantically-Vacuous Variable Affix Placement in Cajamarca Quechua. (the 4th Newcastle Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical Linguistics)