Presentations

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2016 "Social meanings in Puerto Rican Spanish: An experimental study combining sociolinguistics and semantics" (with Manuel Díaz-Campos, Gibran Delgado and Iraida Galarza), poster to be presented at NWAV, Nov. 2016.

2016 “Not a fact: A synchronic analysis of el hecho de and o facto de” (with Manuel Delicado Cantero), talk to be given at HLS, Georgetown University, October 7-9, 2016.

2016 “Language mixture, language maintenance and social identity”(with Clancy Clements and Jordan Garrett), Línguas Ameaçadas da Península Ibérica (LAPI 1),  July 1-2, 2016.

2016 “What adverbs (un)do”. Plenary talk given at OSUCHiLL, The Ohio State University, April 16, 2016.

2016 “Presupposition and semantic change: the case of pero” (with Susana Rodríguez Rosique). Paper presented at LPTS, University of Valencia, January 24-26.

2015 "Approximatives: almost more puzzling than before". Talk given at the University of Chicago, November 2015.

2015 "Semantics meets syntax: a diachronic analysis of sin embargo (de que). (with Manuel Delicado Cantero) HLS 2015, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

2015 "Pluractionality in Spanish: the verbal periphrasis vivir + gerund". Center for Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Australian National University, Canberra, July 10, 2015.

2015 "Modality, presupposition and discourse" (with Fabio Del Prete). LSRL 45, Campinas, May 2015.

2015 "(Re)drawing the boundaries among presupposition triggers" (with Chris Cummins). Workshop Redrawing Pragmasemantic borders. Groningen, March 2015.

2014 "Afinal and alla fine at the crossroads of epistemic modality" (with Fabio Del Prete). Workshop on Discourse Markers, Como, Italy. 

2014 "Presupposition triggers in Spanish: An experimental approach" (with Chris Cummins). 44th Linguistic Symposium on the Romance Languages, The University of Western Ontario, May 2014.

2014 "Theoretical and experimental approaches to approximatives". Workshop on Focus Particles (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), February 5, 2014.

2013 "Degree modification and indefiniteness: A diachronic link". HLS 2013, Ottawa, October 2013.

2013 "Linguistic hedges guide children’s inferences about category membership". (with Marisa Tice). XPrag, Utrecht, September 2013.

2013 "The internal structure of categories: Resemblances and typicality in acquisition". (with Marisa Tice). Workshop on Concept Composition, Utrecht, September 2013.

2013 "An experimental approach to M-based implicatures: Evidence from Spanish". (with Kirby Varnadoe-Russ). Paper presented at the workshop Pragmatics, Discourse, Cognition. International Conference of Linguists (ICL 19), Geneva, July 2013.

2013 "Smart as a fox: Scalar negation and comparative constructions in Brazilian Portuguese". Paper presented at the workshop Negation and polarity: Interfaces and cognition. International Conference of Linguists (ICL 19), Geneva, July 2013.

2013 "Phonetic cues in the production of aspectual periphrases". (with Meghan Armstrong and Luciana Lucente). Paper presented at the Linguistic Symposium on the Romance Languages, CUNY Graduate Center, April 2013.

2013 "The Present Perfect in a contact variety". Paper presented at the Meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Boston, January 2013.

2012 "A Neo-Gricean account of the meaning of vivir + Gerund". AMPRA, Charlotte, October 2012.

2012 "Backgrounding and accommodation of presuppositions: an experimental approach" (with Chris Cummins and Napoleon Katsos). Sinn und Bedeutung, Paris, September 2012. 

2012 “Algo”. Paper presented at the Linguistic Symposium on the Romance Languages (LSRL), Southern Utah University, April 2012.

2012 “On the pragmatics of 'vivir' + Gerund”. Paper presented at SLINKI, Wilmington, NC, Jan. 21, 2012.

2012  “'To live' as a source of pluractionality” . Paper presented at the 86th Annual Meeting of the LSA, Portland, Jan. 5-8, 2012.

2011  “On how to live and keep dying” . Paper presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS), University of Georgia, Athens, October 2011.

2011  “On truth persistence”   (with Fabio Del Prete). Paper presented at LSRL 2011, University of Ottawa, May 5-7, 2011.

2011 “Sempre” (with Fabio Del Prete). Paper presented at Chronos 10, April 2011.

2011 “Learning cues to category membership: Patterns in children's acquisition of hedges” (with Marisa Tice). Paper presented at BLS 37, General session, February 2011.

2011 “Children use hedges as cues to category membership” (with Marisa Tice and Eve V. Clark). Poster presented at the 85th Annual Meeting of the LSA, Pittsburgh, January 2011.

2010 “Degree modification, aspectual structure and scalar change: the case of mal”. Paper presented at the LAGB Annual Meeting, Leeds, 1-4 September.

2010 “Children's knowledge of scales in the acquisition of almost”. Paper presented at Beyond the Words, Universitaet Leipzig, May 13-15.

2009  “Almost means ‘less than’: preschoolers’ comprehension of scalar adverbs”. Poster presented at Boston University Conference in Language Development (BUCLD) 34. Boston University, November 2009.  Poster

2009  “The puzzle of quasi prima and quasi dopo” (with Fabio del Prete). Poster presented at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 19, The Ohio State University, April 3-5, 2009.  Poster 

2009  “Almost before we start” (with Fabio del Prete). Paper presented at the 10th Semantics Fest (Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop), Stanford University, March 13-14, 2009. handout  

2009  “Detours along the Perfect path” (with Chad Howe).Paper presented at the 39th Linguistic Symposium on the Romance Languages, Parasession on Variation and Change in Romance, University of Arizona, March 26-29, 2009.

2009  “Discourse and scalar structure in non-canonical negation” (with Scott Schwenter). Paper presented at the Parasession on Negation, 35th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 14-16, 2009.

2008 “Nominal and verbal plurality in the diachrony of the Portuguese Present Perfect” (with Chad Howe). Paper presented at the Workshop on Nominal and Verbal Plurality, CNRS, Paris, November 7-8, 2008.

2008 “Using corpora to quantify contexts: The case of the Portuguese Present Perfect” (with Chad Howe). Paper presented at the Meeting of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics, Brigham Young University, March 14, 2008.

2008 “Cultural identity and the structure of a mixed language: The case of Barranquenho” (with Clancy Clements and Ana Luís). Paper presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley, February 8, 2008.

2007 “The contextual dependence of inverted approximatives” (with Scott Schwenter). Paper presented at the 8th Semantics Fest (Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop), Stanford University, March 16, 2007.

2006 “Entailment, assertion, and textual coherence: a case study”. Paper presented at SPRIK 2006: Explicit and Implicit Information in Text – Information structure across languages, University of Oslo, Norway, June 8-11, 2006.

2006 “Evidence from Sentence Processing for the Semantic/Pragmatic Properties of Approximative Adverbs”. Poster presented at Linguistic Evidence, Tübingen, Germany, Feb. 2-4, 2006.

2006 “On the semantics of almost”. Paper presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, NM, January 5-8, 2006. handout View

2005 “Almost”. Paper presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 10, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, October 13-15, 2005.

2005 “The Portuguese Perfect Puzzle and the grammaticalization of ter / haver” (with Chad Howe). Paper presented at the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, July 31-August 5, 2005.

2005 “Are Approximatives Stable? Hardly!” (with Scott Schwenter). Paper presented at the 9th International Pragmatics Conference, Workshop on “Approximatives”, Riva del Garda, Italy, July 10-15, 2005.

2005 “Approximative adverbials and the structure of events”. Poster presented at the Conference Words and the World, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, June 6-7, 2005.

2005 “Information structure and semantic change: a case study from Portuguese”. Paper presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Oakland, CA, January 6-9, 2005.

2004 “Scope ambiguity and modality in semantic change: a case study from Portuguese”. Paper presented at the 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium and 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, University of Minnesota, October 15-17, 2004.

2004 “Inferrables with Pronominal Subjects in European Portuguese: Implications for Theories of Discourse Anaphora”. Paper presented at DAARC 2004: 5th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, S. Miguel, Azores, September 23-24, 2004.